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Tuesday, 23rd June (Cambridge)

1. A piece by Gal Beckerman for The Atlantic, The Theory That Explains Trump’s UFC Fight https://tinyurl.com/3ar6zjz3 Bo Nickal, his face shiny with Vaseline, had just finished pounding the nose and eyes and ears of his opponent, Kyle Daukaus, who … Continue reading

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Tuesday, 16th June (Cambridge)

1. Global Englishes: Research agendas and tasks in English as a lingua franca by Will Baker, Fan Fang & Telma Gimenez has just been made available open access by Cambridge University Press https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/language-teaching/article/global-englishes-research-agendas-and-tasks-in-english-as-a-lingua-franca/9D8CABD3D9DEFBC5B45AB7D66237052A PDF below. Global Englishes, and within that … Continue reading

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Thursday, 11th June (Cambridge)

1. Pride of place today to the ‘personal passion project’ that Chris Sowton has been developing over the last few months, Teach Any Class https://teachanyclass.org/ It’s a wonderfully rich resource, covering Professional Development, Classroom Activities, Skills Development, Important Concepts, Great … Continue reading

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Tuesday, 19th May (Cambridge)

Blog version: https://roycross.blog/ 1. Here’s one I put aside a while back and lost sight of, a piece in University World News, Huge progress on widening HE access globally since 2000, which looks in some detail at higher education in … Continue reading

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Tuesday, 12th May (Cambridge)

1. Radio 4’s Book of the Week this week is Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe by Katja Hoyer https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002w5pm Katja Hoyer’s ‘Weimar – On the Edge of Catastrophe’ – is informed by the meticulous diary of Carl Weirach … Continue reading

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Thursday, 7th May (Cambridge)

1. Here’s Michael Feldstein’s latest post on his eLiterate blog, Claude Interviews Me About How AI Works https://eliterate.us/claude-interviews-me-about-how-ai-works/ It’s a long read for the weekend, I suggest. Feldstein’s Claude has learnt (from Feldstein) to be very articulate. I’m returning (says … Continue reading

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Tuesday, 28th April (Cambridge)

1. Since the beginning of this year, The Rest is History podcast has covered, often in considerable (enjoyable, enlightening) detail, an extraordinary range of subjects: Joan of Arc; The Nazis at War; Horatio Nelson; Walt Disney; Queen Elizabeth 1; Jack … Continue reading

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Tuesday, 21st April (Cambridge)

1. A TED talk by Peter Steinberger on his creation, Open Claw https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_steinberger_how_i_created_openclaw_the_breakthrough_ai_agent OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger takes us back to the transformative moment he let his AI agent loose on the internet, igniting one of the world’s fastest-growing open-source … Continue reading

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Thursday, 9th April (Cambridge)

1. First up today, Li Wei in conversation with Zeinab El-Khateeb on The power of language, identity and education https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2026/mar/power-language-identity-and-education-academia-et-al This conversation traces Professor Li Wei’s path from classroom teacher to Director and Dean of the UCL Institute of Education, … Continue reading

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