This Google Manager Shares His Secrets for Building an Effective Team Matt Sakaguchi is a site reliability manager at Google. Learn why he believes that a team of all stars doesn’t always lead to an all-star team. Psychological safety. This is the idea that you can take a personal risk, and it won’t be held…
What Is a Preposition? “Vampires! Zombies! Werewolves!” “Where?!” “Behind you!”Thank goodness for prepositions. Imagine not knowing where the danger lay…Prepositions tell us where or when something is in relation to something else.Prepositions often tell us where one noun is in relation to another (e.g., The coffee is on the table beside you- Кофе на столе…
A new, expanded Tolstoy Theater Festival will take place in Yasnaya Polyana on July 4-7. Yasnaya Polyana is the ancestral estate of Leo Tolstoy, which is now a museum that has kept everything exactly as it was in 1910, the year of the writer’s death. Tolstoy’s house, in a beautiful setting not far from Tula,…
Today’s Word of the Day is: “cordial” (adj.) Transcription: [ˈkɔː.di.əl] Russian Translation: радушный, теплый Definition: friendly, but formal and polite Example: The talks were conducted in a cordial atmosphere. Synonyms: welcoming, friendly