Duolingo’s gamification made Spanish lessons fun—and helped bridge the gap with my tween. https://media.wired.com/photos/6328de9762435d269fdbdb84/master/pass/How-My-Daughter-and-I-Learned-to-Speak-the-Same-Language-GettyImages-1385416081.jpg
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What We Learned About Film History From The Venice Film Festival
Most giant film festivals are all about the present — and future — of cinema by their very nature. Audiences assemble to see premieres of the latest films that will come to define the upcoming months and discover new talent who will make their mark on the form. But given the collective cinephilia of the […]
What we learned driving VW’s new electric ID Buzz
Enlarge / Volkswagen won’t reveal the US-spec ID Buzz for another year, but it invited us to drive the European version, which it has just launched. (credit: Jonathan Gitlin) Volkswagen provided flights from Washington, DC, to Copenhagen and back, plus two nights in a hotel so we could drive the ID Buzz. Ars does not […]
TV Mom Memories: Michael Learned on How The Waltons Healed Her, and the Episode That Moves Her to This Day
To celebrate Mother’s Day 2020, TVLine is catching up with iconic TV moms from well-remembered series of the past. First up is The Waltons‘ Michael Learned, who as Olivia Walton lorded over a brood of seven kids, with husband John (played by Ralph Waite), in Earl Hamner Jr.’s TV adaptation of his novel Spencer’s Mountain. […]
Succession Recap: That’s a Lotta Skulls — Plus, Who Learned Shiv’s Secret?
RELATED STORIES This Sunday on HBO’s Succession, the assorted Roys started to come to terms with their world’s new order, in which Kendall is the blackest of sheep, Roman’s star is (theoretically) rising and Shiv is secretly on track for great things. Who this week seized a chance to flex for daddy dearest, and who […]
The Hills: New Beginnings Premiere: Everything We Learned, Including Why Pamela Anderson Moved to France
RELATED STORIES New beginnings began anew on Monday with the premiere of The Hills: New Beginnings, MTV’s long-awaited (and bizarrely edited) revival of its classic reality soap opera. We entered New Beginnings with two burning questions: First, will any characters discuss The Hills‘ original finale, which revealed the entire series to have been scripted? And […]
Game of Thrones Season 8: Who Finally Learned Melisandre’s Big Secret?
The following post contains spoilers for Sunday’s episode of Game of Thrones. As Game of Thrones hurtles toward its very final hour, Sunday’s episode of the show at last revisited an old secret — quite literally, at that. In the latest installment of the HBO drama, which brought the dreaded Battle of Winterfell to fruition, […]
The CEO who took over Burger King at age 32 learned that any major problem at work usually boils down to one of 3 reasons
Business Insider/Jessica Tyler As the CEO of Restaurant Brands International, Daniel Schwartz oversees Burger King, Tim Hortons, and Popeyes. Schwartz started as CFO at Burger King in his late 20s before becoming CEO at 32. He said the most important management lesson he learned was to realize that in business, bad execution is the result […]
The CEO who took over Burger King at age 32 learned that any major problem at work usually boils down to one of 3 reasons
Business Insider/Jessica Tyler As the CEO of Restaurant Brands International, Daniel Schwartz oversees Burger King, Tim Hortons, and Popeyes. Schwartz started as CFO at Burger King in his late 20s before becoming CEO at 32. He said the most important management lesson he learned was to realize that in business, bad execution is the result […]
The things I learned taking public transport the entire length of Africa
This was the only moment when my decision to travel the length of Africa overland, Cairo to Cape Town, using only public transport, seemed like a dumb idea. Six and a half months, 10,000-plus kilometers, and precisely 317 pieces of public transport—every wired-together taxi, listless ferry and curmudgeonly camel given its own stolen-pen stroke on […]
