Torna la Sherman amb un pack on compareixen Víctor Català, robots txecs, el Sistema Estratègic de Defensa, La Trinca i els germans Wright.

Has anyone ever asked if a cat had your tongue? Perhaps someone has had you engage in a fun (or, at time, annoying) activity to "break the ice". Well, in this episode i review some of the origins and emanings of phrases like these. Enjoy!Music: 'The Things That Keep Us Here' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au'Clarion' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au

What a phenomenal musical output Bur Bacharach had! Over 1,000 songs, countless number 1s and top Billboard hits for artists from Tom Jones to Cilla Black, Dionne Warwick to The Carpenters, in every decade since the 1950s, with contemporary musicians like Doja Cat sampling his work. His incredible body of work and the story of his life will be celebrated by the Everyman Sunday Songbook team on April 7th in a night full of Magic Moments! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

Avui rebem el còmic Marc Sarrats per conèixer el seu debut narratiu, "Tot el que no sigui morir-se" (La Magrana), un conjunt de contes hilarant al voltant dels rituals que acompanyen la mort. Adolf Beltran llegeix el nou dietari "La dansa dels dies", d'Àlex Susanna (Proa). Míriam Cano recomana "L'habitació d'en Giovanni", de James Baldwin (Trotalibros). I torna la Sherman amb un pack on compareixen Víctor Català, robots txecs, La Trinca i els germans Wright.

Today we’re discussing romantic fiction and reality — inspired by Laura’s week-long battle with Elif Batuman’s novel “The Idiot.” A Pulitzer Prize finalist book about youth and first love, Stephen and Laura are inspired to chat about love interests in literature (shoutout to “Conversations with Friends” by Sally Rooney), and how love works in real life. Assessing romantic “types” and their accompanying “gimmicks,” we’re getting real about romance. Let’s get into it!Follow us on your favorite

LibriVox recording of One Act Play Collection 019 by Various. Read in Multilingual by stepheather; ToddHW; Greg Giordano; Larry Wilson; Elijah Fisher; redrun; Anna Shirey; Alan Mapstone; Estefanía Vidal; Tomas Peter; oogiesragdoll; Jenn Broda; Inkell; Cat Sadler; karmaemmings; Agnes Robert Behr; Ra....This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio.This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps MP3, 64Kbps MP3, Archive BitTorrent, Item Tile, Metadata, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

L'Eva té una vida normal i corrent, o sigui plena de fantasies i frustracions, temptacions i ansietats. Alba Dedeu narra les seves turbulències interiors a "La conformista", la seva primera novel·la. L'ha publicada L'Altra Editorial i la mateixa autora l'ha traduïda al castellà per a Sexto Piso. A l'Adolf Beltran se li ha enganxat l'olor de pollastre a l'ast de la botiga de la protagonista, de tant que li ha agradat el llibre.

A priest, a scribe, and a whore walk into a pub— but none of them is in the mood for a joke.Read Now in Mythaxis Magazine Issue 17! About the Author Emma Burnett is a researcher and writer. She has had stories in Apex Magazine, Radon, Utopia Magazine, MetaStellar, Milk Candy Review, Elegant Literature, The Stygian Lepus, Roi Fainéant, Rejection Letters, and more. Website Bluesky About the Narrator Hannah Knight is an artist, cat lover, and mother to a rambunctious toddler.

The Daily Quiz - Science and NatureToday's Questions: Question 1: What is the name of the type of iron which is sometimes known as "Fool's gold"? Question 2: What Is Alicante A Variety Of? Question 3: What would you call a male manatee? Question 4: Which Insect Has A Pair Of Prominent Pincers At The Tip Of It's Abdomen? Question 5: A male cat is known as what? Question 6: Which gland produces insulin? Question 7: Which German Chemist Won The Nobel Prize For Chemistry In 1944 For Discovering

Avui presentem un llibre necessari, el volum "¿Así es la muerte?", escrit per Ellen Duthie i Anna Juan Cantavella i il·lustrat per Andrea Antinori (ed. Wonder Ponder). Un volum amb 38 preguntes sobre la mort (seleccionades entre més de 600 que van formular nens i nenes de tot el món) i contestades amb rigor, naturalitat i esperit didàctic. En parlem amb una de les seves autores, l'antropòloga i prescriptora Anna Juan Cantavella. I Adolf Beltran conversa amb Alba Dedeu de la vida i les angoixes de

In today’s show, Barbara Blackburn shares about the concept of rigor in education. We discuss how rigor is not about making things harder for students, but about setting high expectations and providing support to help students achieve those expectations. Barbara also explores specific examples of rigor in math, literature, writing, science, and history, emphasizing the importance of going beyond the text and providing evidence to demonstrate understanding.We, as teachers, can focus on the process of

“What has a head like a cat, feet like a cat, a tail like a cat, but isn’t a cat?” Answer: a kitten! A 1948 children’s joke book has lots of these to share with kids. Plus: an easy explanation for the difference between immigrate with an i, and emigrate with an e. And: The ancient Greeks revered storks for the way they cared for each other. They even had a legal requirement called the Stork Law, which mandated that Greek adults look after their elderly parents. Much later, the same idea inspired a

LibriVox recording of The Black Cat Vol. 04 No. 01 October 1898 by Various. Read in English by Shannon Sullivan; Greg Giordano; Sonia; Chris Pyle; Sonrisa Jones; Julie Burks The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastic....This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio.This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps MP3, 64Kbps MP3, Archive BitTorrent, DjVuTXT, Djvu XML, Item Tile, JPEG, JPEG Thumb, LibriVox Apple

A short story about much more than a lost cat. Produced for International Women’s Day 2024. Originally performed at Deptford Lounge 2019

Boris Karloff and Béla Lugosi. Dracula and Frankenstein togther? In one film? Need we say more about one of the first talkie horror films? The United Nations of Horror is a Podcast about ALL THINGS HORROR! From thrillers of yesteryear to today's modern-day horror, we are here to present fun and intelligent conversation about the genre films we love! Join us and please help spread the word about the United Nations of Horror Podcast and Video Cast to horror fans across the globe! Be sure to join

After a couple of real bummer weeks, the boys tackle some stories guaranteed to lighten hearts and tickle sides:A series of delightful super heists starring Marvel’s own Catwoma… I mean, Black Cat! A reality (and fourth-wall) shattering adventure featuring everyone’s favorite anthropomorphic animal sendup of an established big-name superhero, Spider-Ham!

We dig up some unreleased fragments of our conversation with Chilean writer, editor and academic Macarena García, which we couldn’t include the first time around. Macarena talks about her interest in observing and analysing how processes and consensuses in culture, society, ethics and politics are put to the test in the field of childhood studies. She focuses on artistic expressions such as the case study of children’s literature, and more specifically scrapbooks. We also chart a brief genealogy of

Avui rebem l'escriptor Antoni Veciana per parlar de "Nicolau" (ed. La Segona Perifèria), una novel·la en la millor tradició rondallística amb un personatge-peix i un lèxic marítim antològics. Adolf Beltran ens porta "Les arts xineses de l'ebrietat", de Manel Ollé, una selecció poètica comentada i d'alta graduació que ha editat Vibop. I Àlex Gutiérrez fa una tria de cançons sobre criatures marines.

We have our first ever special guest on the pod! It's our good friend JD! We talk about almost everything. With a story in the middle.JD recommends: Mort, by Terry Pratchett, and Harrow the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Host Meg Wolitzer presents two humorous stories about marriages not made in heaven.  In James Thurber’s classic “The Breaking Up of the Winships,” a long-married couple fall out over Donald Duck. The reader is Kristine Nielsen. And in Louise Erdrich’s “The Big Cat,” read by Keir Dullea, two powerful wives, a bemused husband, and a symphony of bone-jarring snores.   The program also features an interview with Erdrich.