From a Star Trek scriptwriter who talks elastic thinking and creativity… to how healthy eating can boost our mood — here’s a smorgasbord of events in or near London. Also vying for our time: how artificial intelligence keeps us from flagging in an art exhibition … or an event about the future, or otherwise, of the… Read more »
Three months into the working year, you may already feel like you’ve been fired out of a cannon. So perhaps some rest and relaxation is planned — or at least, wished for — over the Easter holidays as you catch up with family and friends. Whether you’re excited for or about the religious and cultural… Read more »
You arrive in a country, thinking you have a fair grasp of the language. Then along comes a word or expression that bamboozles, confuses — or perhaps just delights… Grab a magic carpet, prick up your ears and join us for a whistle-stop tour of eight linguistic lovelies. Botswana / Botswana: reetsa It’s a command that… Read more »
Whatever sound and fury at the moment with Brexit bickering back and forth, the election’s second round in France at the weekend is, as they might say, incontournable. No treatise here on Macron vs Le Pen and politics outre-Manche. Rather a brief meander, in no particular order, around things French and language. (Excuse the lack of French… Read more »
