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☆ Richard Branson champions dyslexic education with new university
  + stars: | 2024-09-29 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Chloe_Melas.Jpg | Chloe Melas | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +3 min
Richard Branson, the billionaire founder of Virgin Group, has turned his money and focus toward a very personal new project: DyslexicU, the first free online university for dyslexic thinkers. Branson said that while he wasn’t interested in school subjects such as geometry and applied mathematics, dyslexia helped him focus on his strengths. “If you’re a dyslexic person, you can go on and take one of the courses and learn more about how incredibly successful dyslexic people have used their dyslexic thinking to turbocharge their careers,” Branson’s co-founder Kate Griggs told NBC News. Whereas schools should be places to go and find out what’s going on in the world,” Branson said. “Find out one thing that really interests them and let them put their energy behind that,” Branson said.
Persons: Richard Branson, Branson, “, ”, I’ve, Kate Griggs, Olga Fedorova, ” Branson, Muhammad Ali, Steve Jobs, Pablo Picasso, ” Branson’s, you’re, who’ve Organizations: Virgin Group, NBC News, University of Life, Virgin, Branson, “ Locations: blackboards
☆ Bette Nash, American Airlines: World’s longest-serving flight attendant, dies at 88
  + stars: | 2024-05-27 | by ( Karla Cripps | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +6 min
CNN —Bette Nash, holder of the Guinness World Record for longest-serving flight attendant, has died at the age of 88, according to statements from American Airlines and the Association of Professional Flight Attendants. “She started in 1957 and held the Guinness World Record for longest-serving flight attendant. Fly high, Bette.”The Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA), the union representing flight attendants in the United States, posted its own tribute to Nash on Facebook. She started in 1957 and held the Guinness World Record for longest-serving flight attendant. CNN Bette Nash (third from left) — "I wanted to be a flight attendant from the time I got on the first airplane," says Nash.
Persons: Bette Nash, “, Bette, Nash, ”, pic.twitter.com, Boston Logan, CNN Bette Nash, Guinness, Dina Rudick, ‘ Organizations: CNN, Guinness, American Airlines, Association of Professional, Airlines, Professional, Facebook, Eastern Airlines, Reagan Washington National, Reagan National, TWA, CNN Technological, Canadian Colonial Airways, Hulton, “, ABC News, Boston Globe Locations: United States, Washington ,, Reagan, Washington
☆ How West Africa Can Reap More Profit From the Global Chocolate Market
  + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Patricia Cohen | More About Patricia Cohen | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Fairafric, which buys beans from roughly 70 small farmers in the eastern region of Ghana, goes further, paying a premium for its organically grown beans — an additional $600 per ton above the global market price. Farmers harvest the ripe yellow pods by hand, and then crack them open with a cutlass, or thick stick. Attendance is down, the principal said, because the school has not been included in the government’s free school feeding program. Fairafric also installed a free canteen so all the factory shifts can eat breakfast, lunch or dinner on site. But “if you want to get the full benefit,” he said, “you have to go beyond just selling beans.”
Persons: Fairafric, Marmon, Halm, ” Organizations: Farmers Locations: Ghana, Budu
☆ Is There a Crisis in Cosmology? - The New York Times
  + stars: | 2023-09-02 | by ( Adam Frank | Marcelo Gleiser | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
A potent mix of hard-won data and rarefied abstract mathematical physics, the standard model of cosmology is rightfully understood as a triumph of human ingenuity. It has its origins in Edwin Hubble’s discovery in the 1920s that the universe was expanding — the first piece of evidence for the Big Bang. Over the past 60 years, cosmology has become ever more precise in its ability to account for the best available data about the universe. Cosmic inflation is an example of yet another exotic adjustment made to the standard model. There is nothing inherently fishy about these features of the standard model.
Persons: Edwin Hubble’s, can’t
☆ A Ukrainian School Grapples With the Legacy of Russian Occupation
  + stars: | 2022-12-16 | by ( Matthew Luxmoore | Photographs Virginie Nguyen Hoang Huma For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
KHERSON, Ukraine—When teacher Halyna Shapiro returned to her school four days after Russian forces abandoned this city in southern Ukraine last month, she found textbooks on Russian history and literature, published in Moscow, lying on teachers’ desks. The Russian alphabet was pinned to blackboards in classrooms where Russian wasn’t previously taught. Students’ notebooks were full of poems extolling Russia’s virtues.
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