5 examples of how the languages we speak can affect the way we think

http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/19/5-examples-of-how-the-languages-we-speak-can-affect-the-way-we-think/

Coming and Going

I heard a Brazilian iron-ore magnate speaking on a BBC news program about how he had become so rich, and he said that at one point “the price of iron ore came from $10 a ton to $180 a ton.” I realized that there was a subtle mistake in English usage here: Even if the price is still $180 now, we do not say that the price came from $10 to $180; we say the price went from $10 to $180. But why?

http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2014/02/19/coming-and-going-2/?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en 

My life in London's houseboat slums

Where do you live if you cannot afford London's soaring rents? I took the only home I could find: a tiny, mouldy room in a freezing barge on the Thames. And there are many desperate people in the same situation

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/23/london-houseboat-slum-rents-barge?CMP=fb_gu 

12 Hilariously Revealing U.S. Maps You Won’t Find in a Textbook

http://time.com/10850/12-hilariously-revealing-u-s-maps-you-wont-find-in-a-textbook/

10 Very Useful, Specific Words That Don’t Exist In English

But they should

Have you ever tried to express a complicated feeling or situation, but just couldn’t find the word you needed? Sometimes English just kind of falls flat when you need a really specific but succinct way to describe something.
This infographic shows 10 words that exist in other languages that we totally wished existed in English too.

http://time.com/14894/10-words-that-dont-exist-in-english-infographic/ 

Little Kids Aren’t Impressed with Rotary Phones

To these kids’ credit, they all recognize that what they’re looking at is a phone of some type. They don’t, however, know it’s called a rotary phone. Many of them don’t know how to dial with it. Most of them have no concept of the busy signal. Some get duped into trying to explain how to send a text message from a rotary phone.
Watch and feel old. Or young. Choice quote from one of the kids: “This was awesome like 20 or 10 years ago, and look how technology advanced! Now people don’t even know what this is!”

http://time.com/16120/kids-rotary-phones/ 

London's best walks

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/uk/london/10615191/Londons-best-walks.html