Friends of African Village Libraries (I post regularly here)- Sortie d’animation avec la Bibliothèque Mobile Pénélope à l’école B de Houndé
- Ghana librarians do a group reading session
- Organisation d’une séance de mots croisés et d’une séance de dessin à la bibliothèque de Karaba
- Appréciations des livres CMH par professeurs du CEG de Maro
- Animation d’une séance de lecture guidée à la bibliothèque de Karaba
- Animation de l’animateur de ABVBF à la bibliothèque de Béréba, Burkina Faso
- Encouragement des élèves de l’école Sainte Thérèse de Houndé à la lecture
- Organisation d’une séance de lecture à voix haute à la bibliothèque de Koho
- Visite du coordonnateur et de l’animateur de ABVBF à la bibliothèque Lumière pour enfants à Houndé
- Une sortie d’animation de la BMP à l’école E de Houndé
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Best song and video about being a guttersnipe… Bhi Bhiman
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Elechi Amadi Sunset in Biafra
He is such a good writer, his omissions can be forgiven, maybe? I loved reading the book. It is short, sentences are well-crafted, anecdotes from his experiences told with gusto. He experienced awful stuff. But the omissions… I loved this … Continue reading
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Soundtrack for reading about gender inequality in education
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Great Ted Chiang story, “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling”
One of my favorite authors. And now he proves he could be writing for Harpers… a science fiction story in the style of an extended essay. And you learn more about how to think about the technology of writing than … Continue reading
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John Cochrane podcast… worth a listen
A nice interview with John Cochrane from University of Chicago on Economic Rockstars. He has good sensible things to say about all sorts of subjects, and you learn he is an avid glider pilot. Wow! Highly recommended, but for me … Continue reading
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Libraries pass the Pritchett postulates of development test with flying colors!
From Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution:. After promoting women’s groups in West Bengal as a route to development a West Bengali woman asked Lant Pritchett: You all are from countries that are much richer and doing much better than our … Continue reading
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The Real Cool Killers by Chester Himes
Got The Real Cool Killers by Chester Himes from the library after reading a Burkinabè author cite him as an influence. I was like, “Who is this guy?” Fascinating and sad story. The fiction is exactly as advertised: lurid hardboiled … Continue reading
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Grammar Girl : “On Accident” versus “by Accident”
I still cringe when my children say “on accident” but I do not correct them… Barratt’s study is dead on, is my personal experience. According to Barratt’s study, use of the two different versions appears to be distributed by age. … Continue reading
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Take 15 minutes to watch The Six Dollar Fifty Man
The Six Dollar Fifty Man Sukie and I had watched it several times some years ago. We just watched it again. Wow, great job, Directors – Mark Albiston & Louis Sutherland, Writer – Louis Sutherland, Producer – Wendy Cuthbert
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Why use R instead of Excel or SPSS, for quantitative archaeology or any social science for that matter!
For a long time archaeologists had few options to deal with these problems because there were few alternative programs. The general alternative to using a point-and-click program is writing scripts to program algorithms for statistical analysis and visualisations. Writing scripts … Continue reading
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China Mountain Zhang by Maureen McHugh
I had recently read a short story and then Nekropolis by McHugh, so I ordered China Mountain Zhang. Great novel. But not what you think it will be. As numerous commentators point out, it is an ambitious sci-fi novel about … Continue reading
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Michael, can you recommend some fiction podcasts?
Funny you ask, yes I can. I love going on a long run and listening to someone read and short story and then discuss. This week I heard three. Richard Ford reading Raymond Carver’s “The Student’s Wife”. Pretty sad. OK … Continue reading
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Something I need to remember…
reading a 100M csv file into R, read.csv takes 61s, and with read_csv in readr just 3s. That’s amazing. #rstats @hadleywickham a great job via Hadley Wickham (@hadleywickham) | Twitter.
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Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
Found this in the university library. Realized I had never read Dick. All books, or just this one, use abbreviated sentences? Makes for interesting style. Noted. Light rain falling in San Jose. Just south of setting of novel. San Francisco … Continue reading
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A glib take on whether Puerto Rico can fix economy from The New Yorker
Surowiecki a bit glib, if you ask me. Does he have any evidence that the government has not been supporting the tourism sector? Has the Dominican Republic strategy perhaps generated a lot of environmental spillovers? DR also is five times … Continue reading
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My sister Bridget Kevane reviews and interviews Thomas McGuane
BECAUSE I LIVE IN MONTANA and because I have always heard Montanans talk about Thomas McGuane, I set myself the task of reading all of his work: 10 novels, several books of essays, and three collections of short stories, including … Continue reading
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Wait, what? Really? This is what an “acclaimed” show does?
PG: One of your most memorable moments is Sally’s sleepover at a friend’s house. She’s watching TV and starts masturbating to an actor on “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” The friend’s mother catches her and sends Sally home to her mother, … Continue reading
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Economists being useful
Go James Stock! CONGRESS long ago established a basic principle governing the extraction of coal from public lands by private companies: American taxpayers should be paid fair value for it. They own the coal, after all. Lawmakers set a royalty … Continue reading
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Michael Kevane 