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1989. Quite the year. Aren’t they all? The 200th anniversary of La Republic. Springtime saw my first visit to Paris. So terrific, I returned at Summer’s end. Staying around the adjacent Latin Quarter often, the ancient cathedral a constant presence in your peripheral vision. Today it stands in

The ablutions inside The Ivy restaurant in central Birmingham contain this little marvel. There’s a saying I do like to use: > we put a man on the moon before we put wheels on a suitcase (Here expanded to extol anew video conferencing early-’19 by the ever reliable

There’s a green initiative throughout England promoting reusable vessels to refill with café provided tapwater. Birmingham, which has some of the finest tapwater on the planet as piped in from pristine crystal Welsh lakes, recently launched their push. On a local tv news website organiser Michael Addison was first

This post features three phrases I’ve heard over the past week around Friday gone’s one-time EU/UK B-Day for its title. Each has its own interesting sales objection and their prevention parallel. Fantasy Brexit refers to the fact that the UK’s lawmakers are failing to coalesce around

Another way you can leverage the blanket media Brexit coverage. Thankfully, one you can deploy without taking sides. Nicely avoiding the problematic alienation of half your audience. When spin creates so many different options, where no single one garners a 50-percent-plus-one majority, how on earth do you coalesce behind a

Shamefully, Google’s auto-suggest AI offered only two thoughts here. ‘There’s no monopoly on common sense’ is most irritating to hear. ‘There’s no monopoly on good ideas’, less so. Especially in a business setting. Even more bizarrely, look what happened when, a few minutes later, I re-typed: Magically

> #flextension The latest Brexit buzzword. Proving yet again that those eurocrats are canny negotiators. This week’s output provides not one deadline date, but two. Each conditional on certain actions. The main aim (Plan A) acceptance delays to the farther horizon. Failure, and the closer one takes over instead.

Birmingham University tested 400 schoolchildren [https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/latest/2019/03/chatterpies-haggisters-and-ninuts-could-help-children-love-conservation.aspx] . The aim; find the best way to teach children about the importance of wildlife. “Does the type of information affect the attitudes to that species and its conservation?” Two types of lesson focused on

The wonders of stem cell therapy are spreading across all sorts of new areas of remedy. Once fatal conditions are now getting cured yet there appears a potential brake on treatment. I caught that one first-time donor, who’s contribution directly saved a particular leukemia patient, revealed that many in

🔖2 min read (or is it 3?) I learn Facebook recently wanted their staff concentration levels better matched to task attentions required. They employed psychologists to observe how their current workforce navigate their day. I did wonder on echoes of the (in)famous Hawthorne experiments. An Aussie professor called Elton