Music: Lenny Kravitz (@lennykravitz) Honored By French Government With Their...
Like many Black artists of bygone eras, musician Lenny Kravitz had to travel overseas to get the kind of acclaim he deserves … France has paid tribute to Grammy winner Lenny Kravitz with its highest...
View ArticleCulture: Five Year Old Speaks Seven Languages & Plays Six Instruments...
Are your kids Komplicated? Mabou Loiseau, a home-schooled child in Queens, New York is. The five-year-old speaks French, Creole, English, Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic, and Russian. Her mom didn't stop...
View ArticleScience: Researchers Guide Lightning With Lasers [@akilshohen]
Sounding similar to a something a villain from Captain Planet would do, scientists have discovered a way to steer lightning with lasers. A team of French scientists have been able to do this in a lab,...
View ArticlePosterity: The Father of Reinvention
Thaddeus Howze discusses both the obstacles and extraordinary rewards of raising a child with autism. I am a father of a beautiful seven-year old son. He is autistic. You can absorb that while I tell...
View ArticleAre French Dudes Better Dads?
Pamela Druckerman’s new book “Bringing Up Bebe,” catalogs her observations about why French children seem so much better behaved than their American counterparts. She talks with WSJ’s Gary Rosen about...
View ArticleBike Share in Boston, Revisited
This piece appeared on the cover of The Boston Globe Magazine three years ago almost to the day. With the bike share program now in full swing, it’s time to look back on how it all started. ◊♦◊ I...
View ArticleMaybe Old Dad Wasn’t All Bad
Should loving fathers come on a little stronger about their sons’ grades? The reasons for it, and what it means, remain open to debate, but that boys have fallen behind girls in schools is a fact....
View ArticlePolice and COPS: The Vasectomy Files 7
Jonathan Stack’s scary—but funny—experience with being nearly arrested in Guinea leads to a revelation. Years of making films abroad and still, it’s always exciting to go somewhere new. I have covered...
View Article“Tasting the Tour” Very Simply: Baguette Full-On!
For an easy, flavorful meal, try this baguette recipe straight from France. The 100th Tour de France continues on at a blistering pace along a route that stretches 245 km (152 miles) from Givors to...
View ArticleBourj el-Barajneh
Bourj el-Barajneh Beirut is burning but all eyes turn to la tour Eiffel, thirty years older than mandates leaving French to echo through Lebanon’s streets. Echoes like bomb blasts screams...
View ArticleFather of Mine: Grandpa
Dads Throughout History Series – Part 1 Great-Great Grandfather: Dad’s Dad’s Dad’s Dad Growing up in my extended family, there was a lot of emphasis on keeping our paternal last name alive. I was one...
View ArticleIntroducing Eap in Other Languages: French, Spanish and Arabic Webinars
— We would like to receive good, focused applications from as many parts of the world as possible. We recently put on a series of webinars to introduce the Programme and discuss how to make the best...
View ArticleEAP Webinar: Completing a Successful Preliminary Application
— The first live EAP webinar “Completing a Successful Preliminary Application” took place on 2 November 2018. Over 40 participants from around the globe took part in an online Q&A session, where...
View ArticleWhat to Do With Those Thanksgiving Leftovers? Look to the French
— By Samantha Presnal, Amherst College It’s the day after Thanksgiving, the tryptophan has worn off, and there are towers of Tupperware filled with turkey, stuffing and potatoes in your fridge. If you...
View ArticleWhat Is Astonishing About Your Business?
There is a French construction company that uses an ‘astonishment report’. They ask all new employees to complete the report at the end of their induction period. The employee must list anything they...
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