the best technology of the olympics isn’t high tech

Liked Maybe Not the Sports Technologies You Were Expecting by Audrey WattersAudrey Watters (Second Breakfast)

As a writer about and critic of education technology, I was often asked "what's your favorite piece of ed-tech" – some sort of "gotcha" question, I reckon, in which I was supposed to confess that, in fact, I hate everything. I'd answer "the window," which is, no doubt, some sort of "gotcha" response – even though, in truth, it is one of the most significant pieces of technology in a classroom and, no lies, truly one of my favorites. If you've ever taught or learned in a space without windows, yo

this mentions windows, a clean (enough) river, and no smart watches in triathlon.

Olympic hairstyles I liked

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Ordinary human failings

Read Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan

It’s 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the « peasants » – ordinary people, his readers, easy tabloid fodder. His star looks set to rise when he stumbles across a scoop: a dead child on a London estate, grieving parents loved across the neighbourhood, and the finger of suspicion pointing at one reclusive family of Irish immigrants and « bad apples »: the Greens.

At their heart sits Carmel: beautiful, otherworldly, broken, and once destined for a future beyond her circumstances until life – and love – got in her way. Crushed by failure and surrounded by disappointment, there’s nowhere for her to go and no chance of escape. Now, with the police closing in on a suspect and the tabloids hunting their monster, she must confront the secrets and silences that have trapped her family for so many generations.

Ordinary human failings is a sad and painful exploration of everything that can go wrong in a poor immigrant family. It takes place in 1990s London and follows an Irish family, after the youngest child, a ten-year-old girl, is taken into custody for possibly killing a toddler from the same neighbourhood. Points of view alternate…