1. We should probably all read This Is What Happens To Your Brain When You’re In Back-To-Back Meetings from HuffPost  https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/meetings-breaks-office-brain-study_l_638e4f82e4b06fdc9d907e03

2. Something a little different: The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance edited by Stephen Boucher, Carina Antonia Hallin and Lex Paulson https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003215929/routledge-handbook-collective-intelligence-democracy-governance-stephen-boucher-carina-antonia-hallin-lex-paulson

PDFs of both whole book (NB! big file) and preface only below, plus Geoff Mulgan’s chapter on Imagining government as a shared brain (which might give some people a headache).

“Illustrated by a collection of inspiring case studies and edited by three pioneers in the field, this handbook serves as a unique primer on the science of collective intelligence applied to public challenges. It seeks to inspire public actors, academics, students, and activists across the world to apply collective intelligence in policymaking and administration to explore its potential, both to foster policy innovations and reinvent democracy.”

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3. Nicky Partridge, the founder of Peartree Languages in Cardiff – get it? I didn’t, not straightaway anyway! – was on Teachers Talk Radio last Wednesday talking about the Democratisation of Learning with Harry Waters https://teacherstalkradio.podbean.com/e/democratisation-of-learning-the-wednesday-twilight-show-with-harry-waters/

The full show archive is here https://teacherstalkradio.podbean.com/

4. And here’s another podcast, the last in the current series of Express Publishing’s Teacher’s Coffee, with Penny Hands talking about non-native and native speakers in ELT publishing https://youtu.be/nLNzQIznJ7Y

41 more episodes here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlrKvETH-3277V5BEwB68nMvlB4WaKmDV

5. And, finally and perhaps surprisingly compassionately, another side of hardman footballer Graeme Souness https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/jun/11/graeme-souness-we-all-take-things-for-granted-ill-try-and-be-a-better-person