I’m not sure I entirely believe in what is being called “The Girl Effect,” but this is a mean Flash video: You’ll find the original on Girleffect.org. The idea is that investing in education of, specifically, girls rather than boys is the best way to improve the economies of developing countries (and so make the […]
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The Girl Effect
December 13th, 2008 · No Comments
Call Me Don John
December 10th, 2008 · No Comments
Found on Overheard Everywhere (I run the feed from Overheard in the Office on the Whittle It page, but I love them all, even if many of the entries sound more scripted than accidentally eavesdropped on): The Best Apples Don’t Go Into Applesauce. Or Teaching English teacher (about Don Pedro in Much Ado about Nothing: […]
Fry and Laurie on Language and the Word “Gay”
December 10th, 2008 · No Comments
Absence from the UK meant I had never seen Fry and Laurie until I caught a post on Jill Sommers’ blog, Musings from an Overworked Translator (here’s a hint, Jill – ease up). She posted the following language-related Fry and Laurie YouTube video which made me laugh out loud even though I don’t know who, […]
Restart
November 10th, 2008 · No Comments
The world has caught up with me. I used to be more or less singular, and now I am… What? Myriad? I have just found this out courtesy of the Elcano Institute, a Spanish thinktank, which has a working paper on the net on immigrants into Spain from the E11 (that’s the E12, the EU […]
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