The phone sang as I was looking over the defense’s motion to dismiss. “It’s the universal ring,” my law clerk Bysshe said, reaching for it. “It’s probably the defendant. They don’t let you use signatures from jail.”
http://www.e-reading.club/bookreader.php/71143/Willis_-_Even_the_Queen.html
Ms. Yousafzai, the 20-year-old Pakistani-born activist who is the world’s youngest Nobel laureate, on Thursday tweeted a screenshot of her acceptance to the university.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/world/europe/malala-yousafzai-oxford.html
“Her wounds came from the same source as her power,”Adrienne Rich wrote in her sublime tribute to Marie Curie (November 7, 1867–July 4, 1934). The first woman to receive the Nobel Prize, Curie remains the only person ever awarded a Nobel in two different sciences. But, unbeknownst to most, she was also a humanitarian hero of unparalleled vision, determination, and courage.
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/12/14/marie-curie-ambulance-little-curies/
Scientists in the U.S. and India have found an inexpensive treatment that could possibly save hundreds of thousands of newborns each year.
The teenage kids hanging out at my machine shop didn’t know why I wanted a telephone. A plug-in phone, with wires hanging out of it, was a joke to them. They’d never seen a fax machine in their lives.
https://medium.com/@bruces/the-landline-by-bruce-sterling-6ccdc34f6efd
Historic Ottoman architecture was designed to accommodate more than its human inhabitants. Birds, in their own unique way, were welcomed to the ornate structures with their own avian-sized palaces that look just like miniature versions of the larger thing. Projecting from the façade of concrete buildings, the feathered friends would enter multi-story mansions complete with balconies on which to survey their world at large. Some of these amazing homes even included water troughs or “runways” fit for takeoffs and landings.
https://mymodernmet.com/ottoman-architecture-birdhouse-designs/
During a group photo of world leaders, he shoves aside the prime minister of a much smaller country to get into the first row, then buttons his jacket with an unironic scowl.
Is New York taking a page from Europe’s education playbook?
Starting this fall, undergraduate students who attend a two or four-year public college will be eligible for free tuition if their families earn no more than $100,000 a year. Tens of thousands of students are set to benefit.
https://money.cnn.com/2017/04/10/pf/college/free-college-tuition-new-york-europe/index.html
Dutch journalist Rutger Bregman, whose bestselling book Utopia for Realists was influential in generating interest and support in basic income in The Netherlands, spoke on basic income at TED2017, held April 24-28 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
What interests teenage boys? You’re smirking, but this is a question that occupies many of us in the field of young people’s literature. It’s well-documented that girls are reading more than boys, a statistic of increasing concern.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/29/opinion/sunday/want-teenage-boys-to-read-easy-give-them-books-about-sex.html?_r=0
Hubert, Etc was too old to be at that Communist party.
After watching the breakdown of modern society, Hubert Vernon Rudolph Clayton Irving Wilson Alva Anton Jeff Harley Timothy Curtis Cleveland Cecil Ollie Edmund Eli Wiley Marvin Ellis Espinoza—known to his friends as Hubert, Etc
https://www.tor.com/2017/03/20/excerpts-cory-doctorow-walkaway-chapter-1/
Every teacher tussles with what’s the best way to reach a kid – to have them digest and remember what they’re learning. Even parents struggle with that.
One New York City-based company had a wild idea — teach kids through rapping.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/flocabulary-educational-hip-hop-schools/