Discussion with my computer students about statistics. "When we say 'Sales have picked up', what does that mean? Are sales going up or down?" "Miss, 'pick up' means 'ramasser' in French." "Right, and when we pick something up, what do we do with it?"...

Last Sunday, we did a very touristy and rather stupid thing. We decided to go up the Mount Choungui, known as M'lima Choungui. We'd seen it plenty of times from a distance, we have friends who've gone up it, and it was starting to seem as though everybody...