For the past ten years or so that I have been a faculty member at the University of British Columbia I have been dabbling in different aspects of educational technology, both for my classes and also in education myself. In the past couple of years I have started to think about what ‘d...
Honestly, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at this buffoonery. I read in the news recently that the Government of India is concerned about the large number of inoperative bank accounts in the country. With the huge number of Jan Dhan deposits, the mind boggles at the thought of ...
Alongside other 3D projects, I believe I now have the abilities to take on such a challenge, and handle both the art production and programming as a fallback as I do not expect to be able to easily find collaborators early on. In February 2021 I wrote a game deck listing 3 ideas I w...
filed in: Liftshare | tags: aberdeen, aberdeenshire, active travel, angus, borders, continue reading QUIZ: Do you know what these road signs from around the world mean? Travelling around the world can at times be quite a culture shock, but there’s always reminders of home. Traffic and...
“It was like a gag.” Of course, it was in response to Sunil Grover’s act on the show, but this rapid clarification has cast a shadow of doubt over Alia adding the Kapoor surname to her name. However, without making things awkward, Alia said, ...
"I Am The Walrus" Sign Up Below for ourMONTHLY BEATLES TRIVIA QUIZ! “I AM THE WALRUS” (John Lennon – Paul McCartney) “Epstein (The Beatle-Making Prince Of Pop) Dies At 32.” So read the headline in Britain's “Daily Mirror” magazine in late August of 1967. Beatles managerBrian...
He was regarded as a loner by many of his colleagues but he was fascinated by his young aide, quizzing her constantly about life in America. She in turn came to idolise him. Pederson said: 'David had a childlike curiosity, an innocence that made no detail too small for him. I cam...
ʿAbbās I was the viceroy of Egypt under the Ottomans from 1848 to 1854. Despite his relatively peaceful and prosperous reign as viceroy of Egypt, ʿAbbās was largely vilified as selfish, secretive, cruel, and a reactionary. Nevertheless, some scho
Britannica Quiz Famous Poets and Poetic Form In 1913 his father underwrote the publication of his first slim volume of verse,Kamen(Stone), to be followed by larger volumes with the same name in 1916 and 1923. The title was emblematic of the Acmeists’—and especially Mandelshtam’s—identif...