December 2010
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Collating my #2010was tweets
#2010was begun in sludge, fogged, burned, turned ash, pulled solid and buffed glass by the first frost. It was a mess. It made good things.
#2010was the year I hiked 21 miles in borrowed boots. Couldn’t walk the day after but great location & raised some quid for @MSF_UK.
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Unions - a variation on a joke
The workers are on strike. The union leadership goes to negotiate with the bosses.
The steward comes back to speak to the workers. He tells them they’ve managed to persuade the bosses to agree to better working hours. No, say the workers, and send him to negotiate again.
He comes back to tell the workers they’ve managed to get the better working hours and no pay cut. Not good enough,...
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Thrive (not just survive) - At the Bluecoat,... →
Thrive tells a story of how culture and creativity can reignite the spark of aspiration and help us truly learn what it is to thrive and not just survive. Thrive is about the way we feel when we connect, be active, take notice, keep learning and give.
An exhibition of art and performance created by people from communities across North Liverpool working with artists and arts organisations from...
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Top 10: Steps to a better brain - life - 04... →
It doesn’t matter how brainy you are or how much education you’ve had - you can still improve and expand your mind. Boosting your mental faculties doesn’t have to mean studying hard or becoming a reclusive book worm. There are lots of tricks, techniques and habits, as well as changes to your lifestyle, diet and behaviour that can help you flex your grey matter and get the best...
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Shapes in the snow: a winter's walk in Yorkshire... →
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Got me on the frontline - LEX IS MORE →
Great #dayx3 piece from Alex Macpherson.
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Interactive: The complete Jane Bown: a lifetime in... →
Shaped by War: Photographs by Don McCullin | The... →
Including video interview with McCullin.
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The week in wildlife | guardian.co.uk
Photograph: Angela Plumb/PA
Photograph: Ian Kington/AFP/Getty Images
Photograph: Damir Sagolj/Reuters
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What the tuition fees issue is about
This is not about whether or not graduates can work their fee and loan repayments into their monthly budgets along with rent and energy and food and everything else. This is about the ideology of the markets further infecting our education system and the effect that this will have on provision, teaching and learning. This is about our very understanding of higher education being perverted to suit...
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“Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.”
– James Russell Lowell (via iambesala) (via teachingliteracy) (via booklover)
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November 2010
29 posts
