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“I am in terrible ignorance of everything. I know not what my body is, nor my senses, nor my soul, not even that part of me which thinks what I say, which reflects on all and on itself, and knows itself no more than the rest (...) " Blaise Pascal

Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are. Jim Henson

Sugar 'not necessary' for a good cuppa

Sugar 'not necessary' for a good cuppa Cutting it out does not affect people's fondness for tea, according to new research.

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20190418-the-fatalistic-phrase-that-every-culture-has

What does しょうがない　stand for ?

The fatalistic phrase that every culture has “Shou ga nai” is a Japanese phrase that can be depressingly fatalistic on one hand. But could it — and the many phrases like it — be weirdly freeing on the other?

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20190219-how-to-learn-a-language-in-an-hour-a-day

How to learn a language in an hour a day Being bilingual has vast benefits – but getting there needn’t be a lifelong slog.

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p06y5hmn/rent-a-sister-coaxing-japan-s-young-men-out-of-their-rooms

Rent-a-sister: Coaxing Japan’s young men out of their rooms - BBC Reel At least half a million young men in Japan are thought to have withdrawn from society, and refuse to leave their bedrooms. They’re known as hikikomori. Their families often don’t know what to do, but one organisation is offering “sisters for hire” to help coax these young men out of their is...

FROM US TO U

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180207-how-americans-preserved-british-english

How Americans preserved British English Americans today pronounce some words more like Shakespeare than Brits do… but it’s in 18th-Century England where they’d really feel at home.

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