Giant portrait of toddler peers over US-Mexico border wall

A photo of a giant toddler stands in Mexico and peers over a steel wall dividing the country from the United States.

The boy appears to grip the barrier with his fingers, leaving the impression the entire thing could be toppled with a giggle.

A French artist who goes by the name JR erected the cut-out of the boy that stands nearly 65 feet (20 metres) tall and is meant to prompt discussion of immigration

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/09/giant-portrait-of-toddler-peers-over-us-mexico-border-wall#img-1

Cambridge considers typed exams as handwriting worsens

The increasing illegibility of students’ handwriting has prompted Cambridge University to consider ending 800 years of tradition by allowing laptops to replace pen and paper for exams.

Academics say that students are losing the ability to write by hand en masse because of their reliance on laptops in lectures and elsewhere.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/sep/09/cambridge-considers-typed-exams-as-handwriting-worsens

Artist donates part of BP prize money to Greenpeace in oil sponsorship protest

Henry Christian-Slane, an artist from New Zealand, won the BP young artist award at the National Portrait Gallery for a painting of his partner Gabi. The high profile prize, which was chosen out of 2,580 entries, came with £7,000 prize money, which was presented by BP’s chief executive Bob Dudley.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/08/artist-donates-part-of-bp-prize-money-to-greenpeace-in-oil-sponsorship-protest

Film review: Victoria and Abdul

Judi Dench returns as Queen Victoria in a comedy about the monarch and her Indian servant that is commercial and unchallenging.

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170905-film-review-victoria-and-abdul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT2Ph_9bGPs

Teachers ‘£5,000 a year worse off under Tories’

With millions of children returning to school this week after the summer holidays, teaching unions said the marked decline in salaries was one of many factors causing an ever more serious recruitment crisis .

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/sep/02/teachers-5000-pounds-a-year-worse-off-under-tories-claims-labour#img-1

As flood waters rise, is urban sprawl as much to blame as climate change?

Climate scientists agree that extreme rainfall will increase as the world warms. Other researchers argue that poor urban infrastructure and the rapid, unchecked sprawl of cities on to marshlands and other places that usually absorb excess rainwater have led to flooding.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/02/flood-waters-rising-urban-development-climate-change