THE PREPOSTEROUS BOLLOX OF THE SITUATION
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She has such an interestingly beautiful face
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Rose Leslie by Rebecca Miller for Bust
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Carice van Houten by Janey van Ierland
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Drew Barrymore
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Léa Seydoux
Q 18: The next time someone says the earth is billions (or millions) of years old, what can you say?
A: Were you there?
And the next time someone says the earth was created in six days by God… what can you say?
“Ninety-seven per cent of pupils will be black or Asian. It depends what type of Asian. If they’re Chinese they’ll rise to the top. If they’re Indian they’ll rise to the top. If they’re Pakistani they won’t.
“There are certain nationalities where hard work is highly valued. There are certain nationalities where they are uncertain what this hard work is all about.
“If the children are not allowed out of the site then it will make them want to escape into the forest – it will be a sexual volcano.
John Cherry, Conservative county councillor for Midhurst, on the news that the Durand Academy in Brixton (a high-performing London school whose leadership has been repeatedly praised by education secretary Michael Gove) plans to open a second site in Stedham, West Sussex where pupils will be housed Monday to Friday in a disused school building.
Via School dominated by black and Asian pupils will lead to a “sexual volcano”, warns Tory councillor
(via loveyourchaos)
(via loveyourchaos)
“This is the estimated number of entries in a standard dictionary for which you know at least one definition.
“Thanks for taking the test! Based on over 200,000 participations so far, we’ve got some initial statistics already. Most Native English adult speakers who have taken the test fall in the range 20,000–35,000 words. Click here for a full breakdown by age (opens in new tab/window).
“And for foreign learners of English, we’ve found that the most common vocabulary size is from 2,500–9,000words. Click here for the full distribution (opens in new tab/window).
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“Red Pepper explains the United Kingdom’s new “studio schools,” under which teenagers spend half their day performing menial jobs for corporate sponsors for little or no pay, with the (accurate) purpose being to prepare them for the real world…
“Predictably, these sponsor firms only pay the minimum wage – and that’s only for their over-16 students. Under-16s must work at least four hours a week for local sponsors unpaid. It is perhaps ironic that a system that is supposed to teach children what it is like to work in the real world does not pay them to do a job.”
“In September 2011, the BHA launched the ‘Teach evolution, not creationism’ campaign, supported by individuals such as Sir Paul Nurse, Sir David Attenborough and Prof Michael Reiss, and organisations such as the British Science Association and the Association for Science Education. The campaign called for new rules to prevent schools teaching creationism and intelligent design as scientifically valid, and for every school to be required to teach evolution, including Free Schools and primary schools…”
By Esther Inglis-Arkell
This was an actual experiment. And the results of it showed that the Tetris Effect - the fact that those who played Tetris for long periods of time tend to fit shapes together in their dreams and in the rest of their life – is a learning tool.
“What happens if you give a thousand Motorola Zoom tablet PCs to Ethiopian kids who have never even seen a printed word? Within five months, they’ll start teaching themselves English while circumventing the security on your OS to customize settings and activate disabled hardware…”
“The implication is that owning “anarchist” literature is enough to indicate to the FBI that one is a criminal – even if that person happens to be a student studying political thought. Or maybe particularly if you are a student – the FBI document states that anarchists are “educated persons of various backgrounds, often students.”
“What even counts as anarchist material? Given the vitriolic US political rhetoric of anti-socialism, you might think a book by Karl Marx or about Tommy Douglas would count. What about someone like Shulamith Firestone? Hell, what about Walt Whitman?”
Hunter Spanjer says his name with a certain special hand gesture, but at just three and a half years old, he may have to change it.
“He’s deaf, and his name sign, they say, is a violation of their weapons policy,” explained Hunter’s father, Brian Spanjer.
“This website is for those who want to remove the apostrophe from the English language, on the basis that it serves only to annoy those who know how it is supposed to be used and to confuse those who dont.”
(via Kill The Apostrophe)
If you like to dont, or even if you know someone who donts, this website is for you. Also, for illiterates and dullards.
