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Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve. Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that…
ďalej...bicykel naopak: Sheila Kizinger zomrela …she said: “The romantic image of a radiant mother, a beautiful baby in her arms, her golden hair lit by the sun’s rays, displayed on the jackets of many birth books is far removed from reality. “New mothers are often unhappy. This major life transition is made incredibly difficult by poverty, poor housing, overcrowding, and…
ďalej...please hush, little baby I’d had enough of this bedtime gone awry. I was done with singing. Done with cuddling. Done pointing out the same red boots on the same picture of the same board book for the thousandth time. And I was done with my reckless, chattering child. My fraught web of emotions reminded me of something Adrienne Rich described almost…
ďalej...čo sa deje v žilinskej nemocnici: časť 1 a časť 2 the facts of death (Neil Gaiman o Terrym Pratchetovi) raising teenagers A writer friend comes round. She brings her son, who is the same age as my older daughter. Once we carried these children in our arms; at other times we pushed them in strollers, or led them by the hand. Now he…
ďalej...mojej sesternici vyšla knižka v sobotu večer sme s Mišom pri živej hudbe popíjali vínko u bývalého Mišovho spolužiaka: nie sú lacní, ale bolo to veľmi príjemné tak a po týchto reklamách očakávané linky: výzva pre slovenských novinárov I don’t know how she does it (táto veta aj mňa dosť vytáča) I don’t know how she does it. I don’t know…
ďalej...keď prasknete vzduchový balón pod vodou: a balón s vodou na vzduchu: (zaujímavé, že chvíľku trvá, kým gravitácia “zafunguje”) A Sydney mother’s stand against homework Free play is usually the first activity to be pushed down the priority list. It’s infuriatingly unstructured. It can’t be scheduled within neat half-hour blocks. It relies on the alchemy of a couple of kids,…
ďalej...100 famous artists and their studios pri príležitosti včerajšieho matematického sviatku: The most amazing thing about domino chain reactions O mesiac bude v Zagrebe konferencia Human rights in childbirth a hľadá sa prekladateľka, ktorá by mohla ísť tlmočiť slovenským pôrodným asistentkám (konferenčný poplatok by neplatila a časť cestovných nákladov by jej preplatila Slovenská komora sestier a pôrodných asistentiek). V prípade záujmu…
ďalej...a history of skis druhý diel rozhovoru, ktorý som na jeseň robila s austrálskou profesorkou Hannah Dahlen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M66jSIsVNJg Zakladateľ Artfora: Knihy sa dostávajú na úroveň jogurtov Stop trying to save the world – treba prečítať ako vyzerá datacentrum Astronomers watch a supernova and see reruns A star might die only once, but with Einstein’s telescope, if you know where to look,…
ďalej...snehové vločky rastúce pod mikroskopom why schools are failing our boys The lack of movement and rigid restrictions associated with modern schooling are killing my son’s soul. moja kamarátka Zuzina to po štyroch rokoch zabalila v Ugande, vybrala sa na pár týždňov do Argentíny, potom zavítala aj na Slovensko (to, že sme skoro do druhej v noci klábosili pri vínku…
ďalej...Lego mašinka, ktorá postaví papierové lietadielko a potom ho vystrelí (to vystrelenie som si musela pozrieť znovu, lebo na prvý raz som ho akosi nezbadala): ako vyzerá 200 kalórií Ten Simple Rules for Effective Computational Research homeward The consensus is in. Birds are living dinosaurs why moms get nothing done
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