Latina in NASA floreat

This week’s New Scientist notes that millions of people, including people at NASA, are learning Welsh with Rosetta Stone software. But it’s not just Welsh that’s thriving. The same site notes:

Rosetta Stone is self-contained and intuitive to use. There are no complicated lists to memorize or handbooks to read. With Dynamic Immersion™, you can start learning immediately. Join NASA, Fortune 500® executives, U.S. diplomats and millions of learners worldwide in discovering the fastest way to learn Latin.

But it’s not just about reading Latin. Sign up for the online tuition and they’ll also offer “Speech recognition for accent perfection“.

Seen elsewhere, there’s also a story on Varnam about some texts that could be the Buddhist equivalent of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Their value will be limited though as they were illicitly excavated and smuggled out of Afghanistan.