It’s all in a picture: last weekend, voters around here went to the polls to elect new local governments, and although being naturally ineligible to vote in Germany, I couldn’t help but make my own decisions based largely on the atrocious pictures many of the candidates chose for their all-over-town …
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It all begins at 30 …
Or so my email inbox has been telling me this week as my 30th birthday came and went. Scarily, a Google search on “turning 30” spat back hundreds of thousands of hits (for some reason, significantly more than “turning 40” did). Perhaps more worrying is that most of these hits concentrate on things …
Role reversal
An interesting experiment played out in my class of teenagers earlier this week. My nine-member group of 19-year-old engineers-to-be are an intelligent but rowdy bunch, and the list of “deals” we’ve made to get them speaking English for the full 90 minutes gets longer by the month: no homework, …