Weekly newsletter
Five articles for your weekend
Five articles I thought were worth sharing this week:
- Latina Fatale is right on the money in her article about how to talk to little girls without resorting to telling them how darn cute/ pretty/ beautiful/ well-dressed/ well-manicured/ well-coiffed they are. This is from 2011, but new to me — and well worth a read by any parent of young girls.
- The Economist has an interesting piece as its leader this week exploring how to make a good teacher: The premise that teaching ability is something you either have or don’t is mistaken. A new breed of teacher-trainers is founding a rigorous science of pedagogy. The aim is to make ordinary teachers great, just as sports coaches help athletes of all abilities to improve their personal best. Done right, this will revolutionise schools and change lives.
- Does power really corrupt? 1843 Magazine delves into the question of whether powerful people behave better or worse than others. Here’s one anecdote — though the data isn’t all as clear cut as this: Mercedes drivers were a quarter as likely to stop at a crossing and four times more likely to cut in front of another car than drivers of beaten-up Ford Pintos and Dodge Colts. The more luxurious the vehicle, the more entitled its owner felt to violate the laws of the highway.
- Want to try the world’s best red wine? For less than a fiver? Liz Conner at the Evening Standard shares the details on the £4.37 Asda red wine that has been named the best in the world by industry experts. The company’s La Moneda Reserve Malbec from Chile, which costs a wallet-friendly £4.37, emerged as the surprise winner of a blind taste test of of 16,000 wines, winning the illustrious Platinum Best in Show title at the industry awards.
- In her latest post on motherhood Lisa Maltby gets raw and real, delving into the question of how long it takes to lose the baby weight: I’m tired of hearing the crap about how women should look after giving birth. I’m tired of seeing celebrity mums in Heat magazine a month after giving birth with their flat little stomachs.
That’s it for this week — thanks for reading!
– Sam
Notes
I shared the first edition of this on Friday last week but I’m thinking I’ll send this out, like today, on Saturday’s moving forward. I hope it will be an interesting collection of articles to read over the weekend.
