Take a look at these recent statistics published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on how men and women in different countries spend their time when they’re not working.
World Book Day
28/02/2014 by Leave a Comment
It’s World Book Day on Thursday 6th March, a celebration of authors, illustrators, books, and most importantly of reading. Designated by UNESCO, the World Book Day is a worldwide celebration, marked in over 100 countries all over the world.
World Cancer Day
04/02/2014 by Leave a Comment
CLEW honours those who are fighting, those who survived, those who didn’t survive, those who fear, those who lost a loved one, those who continuously work to find cures, and those who continuously work for even more awareness. We all have somebody to stand up for. For more awareness, go to http://www.worldcancerday.org
The first selfie
29/12/2013 by Leave a Comment
The Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2013 is “selfie”, and selfies are upon us in all their lip- and cleavage glory. But the idea is more than a hundred years old. The Oxford Dictionaries’ definition of a selfie is “a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam […]
All I want for Christmas is a book or two
17/12/2013 by Leave a Comment
Books are easy to put on the wish list, easy to buy and usually welcome. There’s a bookworm or two among the CLEW contributors as well, and this is what they suggest Santa brings for Christmas.
A Cinderella story unlike any other
26/11/2013 by Leave a Comment
Just another Tuesday, with snow in the air. But for a young lady named Lisa, this November Tuesday is anything but ordinary. This is the day her wish will come true. Lisa is the fourth wish child of Make-A-Wish ®Luxembourg, an organisation granting the wishes of children with life threatening conditions. Esch-sur-Alzette, 11.00: A stretched […]
Where everybody knows your name
19/11/2013 by Leave a Comment
Many of us love to meet for a cup of coffee and a chat, or bring our book and enjoy the background buzz of a nice, warm café. We live in a café society. In the brand new book Café Society, sociology professors Tjora and Scambler present research on café culture. They feel the café […]
Lou. In memoriam.
29/10/2013 by Leave a Comment
Rock legend Lou Reed died from liver disease Sunday in New York at the age of 71. Lead singer for the Velvet Underground in the 60s and solo artist since, Lou’s songs highlighted the language and lives of city folk who huddled on the margins of society. In that way, Lou Reed reshaped the musical landscape. […]
And so it wasn’t the end of the world
23/10/2013 by Leave a Comment
The US government shutdown finally ended last week after sixteen days of interparty squabbling. However, considering there is no debt ceiling in place, there is the potential for another shutdown come February of next year. Even so, what’s it all mean to the regular folk who punch the proverbial clock day in and day out? […]
Favourite or outsider?
08/10/2013 by Leave a Comment
And the answer was none of the below. The Nobel Literature Prize 2013 went to the much beloved Canadian writer Alice Munro. A victory also for the short story as a genre. Munro writes about ordinary people in a deeply human and touching way, If you haven’t read Munro short stories before, there’s no reason […]
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