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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

...become a highly creative and adaptable language, incorporating a range of new words, notably from the Francophone world. For example, a recent addition to the Petit Larousse dictionary is the Cameroonian import ‘faroter’, meaning to bribe someone to obtain a job. In December 2022, the French Ministry of Culture published a first report containing 10 new terms to refer...
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The navigation apps that help the visually impaired
Society, Politics & Law

The navigation apps that help the visually impaired

...becoming integrated into the ways our cities work. It offers city dwellers day to day conveniences, like the GPS navigation apps which direct us around rather than through traffic jams. It generates data that cities could use to make spaces better too – for instance, that same traffic data that helps you avoid a tailback might in future help planners to improve road and...
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After Manchester: The strength of the city
Digital & Computing

After Manchester: The strength of the city

...becoming increasingly apparent is that many of the dead and injured will be children. Young girls mainly, out for a treat on a school night – lives cut cruelly short. There are still dozens of teenagers missing and the desperate voice of Charlotte Campbell, pleading for anyone with news of her 15-year-old daughter Olivia, will haunt all who heard her. Breaking down...
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Has footballer price inflation run out of control in the Premier League?
Money & Business

Has footballer price inflation run out of control in the Premier League?

...become more severe in recent years, but it is not new in football. Total spending by Premier League clubs has increased by approximately £1 billion since the 2006-07 season and has grown continuously since 2011-12. When, then, can this relentless trend be expected to stop? In short: it will stop when the money supply dries up. The hyperinflation of the football transfer...
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Ecology and economy under the fig tree in South Asian Cities
Society, Politics & Law

Ecology and economy under the fig tree in South Asian Cities

...become their economic lifeline with which to feed themselves and their families in their new urban home. It is not uncommon for penniless entrepreneurs to quickly find an occupation, whether it’s preparing street food or selling flowers or even providing services such as polishing people’s shoes or giving them haircuts. Surprisingly, the large urban trees provide...
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The impact of Jacob Zuma on the ANC and South Africa
Society, Politics & Law

The impact of Jacob Zuma on the ANC and South Africa

...become just another African country. The beginning of the end The meltdown of the ANC should not have come as much of a surprise given events over the past 20 years, and the inevitable decline of liberation parties. Pointers to the inglorious direction the country was headed in were evident in the corruption around the arms deal (1999), the fight over Mbeki’s refusal to...
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What sort of Victoria Sponge would Queen Victoria have eaten?
History & The Arts

What sort of Victoria Sponge would Queen Victoria have eaten?

...become common in cakes until some decades later. [The Conversation]I was curious as to how well Mrs Beeton’s version would rise. The batter puffed up enthusiastically, but unevenly, and an extra five minutes in the oven was not enough to prevent the cake from being what my Austrian grandmother would have called “mürbig”, or underbaked. No plaudits from the Bake Off...
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Horror and politics
History & The Arts

Horror and politics

...painting The Nightmare, with its impish demon squatting on the chest of a sleeping woman, comes to life; as does Percy Bysshe Shelley’s vision of a woman with eyes in place of her nipples. Thus it is that the sexual licence which drove Shelley’s philosophy becomes, in the story world of the film, a source not for legal or moral upheaval, but emotional anarchy....
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