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  1. VT Tip o' the Week

     Settings Panel: Relationships
    premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers Mon Mar 31 00:00:00 EDT 2008

    The Relationships sub-panel allows you to control the types of relationships displayed in the Visual Thesaurus and filter your results by hiding certain relationships. This panel lists the 16 categories of relationships between words and meanings that the VT can display.

  2. Lesson Plans

     Science Words with Multiple Meanings
    Wed Jan 09 00:00:00 EST 2013
    How can the Visual Thesaurus help students learn some interesting and polysemous science words?

  3. Blog Excerpts

     A "Hot Dog" Special for the 4th of July
    Mon Jul 04 00:00:00 EDT 2011
    On the 4th of July, there's no better time to dig into the origins of the term "hot dog." Visual Thesaurus editor Ben Zimmer recently took a look at the earliest known evidence for "hot dog" from Paterson, New Jersey. You can read his Word Routes column on the subject here, and you can hear him talking about the latest research today on NPR's Morning Edition.

  4. Wordshop

     Prefixes: Windows into Unfamiliar Words
    Wed Oct 03 00:00:00 EDT 2012
    As teachers begin to grapple with the demands of the Common Core State Standards, they may be overlooking a discrete language standard living in the shadows of those major shifts.

  5. Edulinks

     Summer Reading: Thinking Outside the Book
    Wed Jun 09 00:00:00 EDT 2010

    The New York Times Learning Network is offering students an alternative to the run-of-the-mill summer reading lists that are being stuffed into backpacks across the nation this time of year. The Learning Network's "Student Challenge" asks students to read The New York Times over the course of the summer and to identify something that either piques their interest or catches their eye. Bonus: the Learning Network plans on featuring the best student submissions on their blog!

    Read more about the Student Challenge here.

  6. Word Count

     Power to the Universal People!
    Mon Nov 05 00:00:00 EST 2012
    In his fascinating book (and 1994 best-seller) The Language Instinct, Stephen Pinker argues convincingly that we humans are born with an instinct to communicate with our voices. How humans in China form and arrange their communicative vocal sounds differs markedly from how humans in Finland do, but, Pinker asserts, beneath the many world's languages lies one universal language, an inborn ability to spin webs of words much as spiders spin webs of silk and beavers build dams of tree trunks and branches.

  7. Word Count

     Beat Writer's Block Now!
    Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 EDT 2007
    You know the feeling. You really, really, really don't want to write. You're blocked. You've hit the wall. The words just won't come. You're bereft of inspiration. But your writing project needs to be finished (or started!) So what can you do? Well, I have an idea. Twenty of 'em, actually?

  8. Evasive Maneuvers

     Full-Contact Experiences with Malarkey
    premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers Thu Nov 12 09:00:00 EST 2020
    Here are some euphemisms to help you get through the rest of this year's "human hibernation."

  9. Candlepower

     Marketing Podcasts: Tap Your Inner Broadcaster
    Mon Jul 30 00:00:00 EDT 2007
    When my client, a Boston cosmetic dentist, asked me to produce podcasts promoting her dental practice, I said sure. I'm always game to learn new things. Although I was vaguely aware of podcasts, I really had no idea how they were put together or why a company would use them.

  10. Announcements

     Introducing the International Edition Beta Program
    premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers Mon Jan 24 00:00:00 EST 2005
    For a limited time, we're providing access to the beta version of the upcoming Visual Thesaurus International Edition free to all of our online subscribers.
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