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What the 2024 Paris Olympics can tell us about French language policy today
Education & Development

What the 2024 Paris Olympics can tell us about French language policy today

...du Bellay wrote a treatise explaining, amongst other things, that translations from other languages should be curtailed because France didn’t need imports. Instead, French writers should focus on imitating foreign literature and writing in French to stretch and develop the national language. Over the years, this ideology, backed by political and military power, went a...
Milano Cortino Winter Olympics 2026 – let the slipping and sliding commence!
Health, Sports & Psychology

Milano Cortino Winter Olympics 2026 – let the slipping and sliding commence!

...by Bruce Mouat won silver. Now with Eve Muirhead retired, she is acting as Team GB Chef du Mission, it is up to her teammate Jennifer Dodds and the team nicknamed ‘Jen and the kids’ to match her success. This might be too much to ask for as the teams from Switzerland and Canada are particularly strong. However, Team GB’s men’s team will go into the event as favourites. The last figure skaters to win a medal were Jayne ......
Insights into Policing and Racism in the UK – a collection
Education & Development

Insights into Policing and Racism in the UK – a collection

...is Race?: A Resource Book on Race, Culture and Biology. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press. Sampson, R., Wilson, W.J. and Katz, H. (2018) Reassessing Toward a theory of race, crime, and urban inequality: Enduring and new challenges in 21st century America, Du Bois Review, 15(1), pp. 13-34. Read on to find out more about the differences and similarities in UK and US policing......
Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...du temps au petit pour accepter cette nouvelle vie et la perte des liens affectifs avec les personnes qui l’ont élevé. Que pourrait imaginer l’institution scolaire pour aider ces enfants ? En Finlande, l’école a obligation d’organiser des cours de langues pour les migrants dès qu’ils sont trois issus du même pays. On en est loin ! Supposer qu’un enfant...
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Breaking bad: The science of flatulence
Health, Sports & Psychology

Breaking bad: The science of flatulence

...Le Petomane", a late 19th Century French music hall artist whose act consisted of musically breaking wind. Is it time for a post about drugs and farting? Of course it's time for a post about drugs and farting. Drugs do many, many things. Some of these we want, others not so much. The latter get called side effects. One of the less-desired yet relatively benign side...
The quiet contender of Switzerland hosts Euro 2025
Health, Sports & Psychology

The quiet contender of Switzerland hosts Euro 2025

...Le Low, 2025). While the country is steadily investing in its football infrastructure, player development, and opportunities for women on and off the pitch, progress is slow. Beyond the pitch Crucially, the game plays a powerful role off the field. In a country where over 25 per cent of the population is made up of foreign nationals, football has become a vital tool for...
Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish
Languages

Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish

...les hablas de la money” Dedo índice “Ves, hacerse, sí lo hacemos” Manos en puño “Coges la puerta de tu casa” Palma de las manos “Siendo un poquito manitas” Brazos “Compramos la pizza, llegamos a casa, abrimos el microondas” Cabeza y brazos “No lo comparemos con el cocido” Cara “Estoy superorgulloso de ser carpintero” Cabeza, dedos y brazos...
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi a rôl y dorf mewn canfyddiadau o hunaniaeth gerddorol Gymreig
History & The Arts

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi a rôl y dorf mewn canfyddiadau o hunaniaeth gerddorol Gymreig

...du ôl i gysgod rygbi. Cafodd canu angerddol cefnogwyr Cymru yn Ffrainc lawer o sylw yn y wasg, tra bod y ffordd yr oedd y chwaraewyr yn canu’r anthem yn brawf i’r ffordd y gwnaeth cerddoriaeth sicrhau llwyddiant y brand #GydanGilyddYnGryfach. Mae cerddoroldeb yn dal i fod yn elfen ganolog ar syniadau am hunaniaeth Cymru, y tu fewn i Gymru a thu hwnt. Y dorf yn canu...