October 28, 2022: Pets and Children

A new phenomenon is taking hold across the world – “shrinkflation”. This is when companies reduce the size of their products or range of services while maintaining prices.

Why do we lie? And how often are you lied to? Well, sorry to break it to you, but it’s probably more than you think. People lie to avoid punishment, for personal gain or because they get a kick out of it. Basically there are lots of reasons that people lie (and everybody does it).

A 104-year-old woman from Kerala, India has passed a state literacy test. Her name is Kuttiyamma and she only learned to read and write last year.

I like this because it’s genuinely useful information for everyone, not only English language learners. I’m probably going to edit it down to the most important parts. It’s OK if you don’t understand 100% of the language. That’s normal. This is a video for learning English in a classroom. This is OK for beginner level…

All of us from a very early age are told how to live our lives. We’re given stories about what the perfect life looks like and some of those stories work for some people some of the time but not all of us all of the time. There’s no checklist that each of us should tick off in order to live a perfect life.

Digital devices are increasingly dominating our lives these days. Many, if not most of us are addicted to them.