New research helps explain why learning a second language is easier for some adults than others. Language learning success or failure has to do with differences in the strength of connections between certain areas of the brain, according to the study published Jan. 20 in the Journal of Neuroscience.…

Almost every newspaper, magazine I open nowadays has an agony aunt dishing out advice to sobbing youngsters, housewives and middle aged men who have no business to be doing what they are doing. "Dear Aunty" cries the letter writer, or is it Dear Diana or Dear Aunt Agony!  Today however…