Articles tagged with 'the-world-in-words' — 2 found
I’d like to buy the world a Coke…
Delivering peace, one Coke at a time… “What the world wants today” is both that elusive peace, and a Coke, as the commercial famously puts it. Buying a Coke is one form of peace, I guess; but how else do we define it? War, in the name of peace… The thought is bewildering, paradoxical, and [...]
March 4th, 2010Things you didn’t know about Wikipedia
Lately, I’ve been learning a lot about the world’s languages and the way language and words mingle throughout cultural relations and our modern lives. It all comes out in the weekly podcast “The World in Words,” available free from the same people who do “The World” broadcast on NPR. The half-hour show is filled with [...]
April 13th, 2009