Now even my husband is on twitter, though he says he just wants to be left alone. Hey, Helmut, this is 2009. Noone can have it all, social networks with the latest news AND privacy. You have to choose. Are you going to be the last man standing when everyone else is running? It all […]
Podcasts are better than lectures
Students have been handed another excuse to skip class from an unusual quarter. New psychological research suggests that university students who download a podcast lecture achieve substantially higher exam results than those who attend the lecture in person. Podcasted lectures offer students the chance to replay difficult parts of a lecture and therefore take better […]
Mashup: 15 steps & take 5
Now, that is jazz. Dave Brubeck would have liked this.
Song for Bayern-München
This Smokey Robinson and the Miracles song is for those lazy boys who showed that they can play as a team when they stop being d…heads and follow the philosophy of their brilliant trainer: “it’s my philosophy that… If you can want, you can need & if you can need, you can care If you […]
What is work?
When does work start, when does it end? Is life compartmentalized into “work” and “play”? I mean, apart from private “downtime”, of course, which is nobody’s business. But what about thinking, reading, talking, surfing? When I’m surfing, am I doing so as a private individual or as a business woman? This blog is a product, […]
Learning English with The Wrestler
I really like “The Daily English Show”, presented by Sarah, a New Zealander based in Niseko, Japan. It has its own blog (Englishlernen online: Daily English Show). The latest edition features “The Wrestler”, or rather that nice scene where he breaks down her defenses and they have a beer together. The focus of the lesson […]
We are stardust
Joni Mitchell is my favorite songwriter. She and Bob Dylan wrote the lyrics that, when I was a teenager trying to make sense of the world, made me love English for being both evocative and concise. Playful. Evolving every day. This image of us, mankind, as stardust, caught in the devil’s bargain, trying to get […]
