Day: 30 October 2018
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The Expert: Wrong Angle
Lauris Beinerts (YouTube)
Do you remember The Expert, that video from 2014 that had engineers around the world laughing and crying in equal measure? Turns out that, earlier this year, a trio of sequels were made! This is the first of them. -
The Story of Scgary
In the early 2000s, as a volunteer trainer at Aberystwyth Nightline, I invented a roleplay scenario which drew upon anecdotes from my childhood and young adulthood... which eventually lead to a collision of worlds for Ruth and JTA when they, former volunteers, MET the person behind many of those anecdotes...
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Grenfell Tower: The fires that foretold the tragedy
On 14 June 2017, televisions across the country showed a west London tower block burn. For some, this was history repeating itself - as if five similar fires had simply not been important enough to prevent the deaths of 72 people in Grenfell Tower.
Catherine Hickman was on the phone when she died. It … -
Linda Liukas, Hello Ruby and the magic of coding
Linda Liukas's best-selling Hello Ruby books teach children that computers are fun and coding can be a magical experience.
BBC News
See the original article to watch a great video interview with Linda Liukas. Linda is the founder of Rails Girls and author of a number of books encouraging children to learn computer programming (which …