DAVID BROOKS
The following column, written by David Brooks, a conservative in the traditional sense of the word, appeared in the New York Times last week. I …
PARIS
Cars have been banned from more than 100 streets in Paris. Tens of thousands of parking spots have been eliminated. Hundreds of miles of bike …
FRIEDMAN
I thought that this article by Thomas Friedman of the New York Times was an important analysis of the current political situation in the U.S. …
EDUCATION AND DEMOCRACY
The relationship between education and democracy and the education levels of the electorate could not have been brought into sharper focus the political events of …
QUEENSTOWN
Queenstown, New Zealand, has an audacious goal to become the first tourist destination on Earth to have a completely carbon-zero visitor economy by 2030. If …
MALAMA
The roots of malama run deep. Hawaii is the most isolated archipelago on Earth, a volcanic cluster of eight main islands, marooned 2,390 miles south-west of …
ELEPHANTS HATE BEES
Did you know that elephants hate bees? Around the world, spreading farmland is increasingly overlapping with elephant habitats, often resulting in dangerous interactions, as …
60 Minutes
The “60 minutes” program on CBS TV channel has been an icon of news reporting for over 40 years. It consistently has superior ratings, and …
BREATH OF FRESH AIR
Earlier this week my partner and I had a “breath of fresh air” experience of the type that seems to come along very rarely these …
ENGLISH EXAM IN 1913
Three people sat the first Cambridge English exam in 1913. It is now taken by more than a million people a year all around the …