According to Public Health England (PHE), more than 900 deaths occurred during the heat waves of July and August 2019. In the last four years, over 3,400 people have died as a result of climate change. This phenomenon and the factors responsible will be up for debate on 26 February. […]
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Talking about… other languages
On 14 June, NATECLA (the National Association for Teaching English and Community Languages to Adults) will hold a seminar about learning languages that are written and read from right to left. The conference will attempt to open a debate between different linguistic professionals about the use, the investigation and […]
Fifty years watching the girl from Ipanema
The “Girl from Ipanema” allowed one of the smoothest and most influential styles of Latin-American music to go global: the bossa nova. It is the 50 year anniversary of the creation of the song.– – Miriam Valero – It was the summer of 1962 in Río de Janeiro. At the […]
Permission to speak freely
My friend just gave birth. Which is, if you think about it, pretty amazing. I’ve never even given blood. It got me thinking about all the lessons you’re obliged to teach a new human, and later, conflicting lessons. Erica Buist You teach a child to always tell the […]