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52 Things I Learned In 2024

Tom Whitwell | 1st December 2024

Anticipated annual list, always worth reading. A few highlights: China maintains registries of haunted apartments. In the US, table saws cause around 4,300 amputations per year, more than all other tools put together. Swimming to work is a popular means of commuting in Switzerland. Ozempic is changing the secondhand clothes market. Mongolians rave on horseback (1,500 words)

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Women Of A Certain Age

Debbie Cameron | Language: A Feminist Guide | 6th December 2024

Academic linguist examines the nuances of an off-the-cuff insult to so-called "women of a certain age". In a literal sense, everyone alive is "of a certain age", but historically this idiom has been applied to middle-aged women and men. It is not necessarily negative, either: as life expectancy has lengthened and attitudes to ageing shift, it can signify one who "lives with zest and elan" (2,100 words)

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