Leigh McDowell

TESOL professional, regular runner, and occasional baker.

[Leigh McDowell @leighmcdowell]

“The Democratic Republic of Harry Kane progress to the last 16 of the World Cup.” https://t.co/LLsErMMVCn

[Snoopy @snoopyb047]

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[Leigh McDowell @leighmcdowell]

@maxrushden God I love the World Cup!

[SethOfficial🇵🇹 @UTD_Seth001]

🚨 Carlo Ancelotti on why he did not celebrate wildly after Gabriel Martinelli’s late winner for Brazil against Japan:

🗣️ “People asked me why I didn’t celebrate, but football is also about respect. Yes, we were happy to win, but I looked across and saw a Japanese team that had given absolutely everything. They fought with incredible courage, and I know exactly how painful a defeat like that can be.”

“Of course I celebrated inside because my responsibility is to Brazil and qualifying was our objective. But I’ve been in football for many years, and I’ve experienced both victory and heartbreak. Sometimes the best way to respect your opponent is to remain humble in your biggest moments.”

“Japan made us suffer for ninety-five minutes. They deserved our respect, not exaggerated celebrations. Brazil are through, but we know we must improve. Tonight we celebrate the qualification, but tomorrow we go back to work because the World Cup only gets more difficult from here.”

{@FoxNews }

[Leigh McDowell @leighmcdowell]

Interactive version: brilliant!

[Paul Noble @paul__ux]

Here's an interactive version. Make your own bracket predictions.

→ https://t.co/xBjyZX5Oec

[Leigh McDowell @leighmcdowell]

@malaysiansteve @FIFAWorldCup Totally agree. I’ll add Australia vs Turkey because I’m Aussie and thoroughly enjoyed the mogging, but yer in terms of open play, goals, and excitement, those three would be my pick.

[Leigh McDowell @leighmcdowell]

@paulg Slight tweak if I may. Children don’t need to “learn to think”. That what people do: they think. They need to not be taught to not think.

[Leigh McDowell @leighmcdowell]

“Constipation-ball” (>_<)! https://t.co/siNAvQ9drr

[Leigh McDowell @leighmcdowell]

@ConceptualJames Keep up the good fight @ConceptualJames

[Lu₭₭e @Lukketex]

Me crucé con esto, Messi está casi 6 desviaciones estándar por encima de la media de delanteros de grandes ligas en cuanto a goles y asistencias en 90 minutos. Estadísticamente es prácticamente imposible que vivas para ver a alguien así

[Leigh McDowell @leighmcdowell]

@Socceroos Those meals look amazing.

[Leigh McDowell @leighmcdowell]

@zifauzim @FootyHumour Excellent

[Leigh McDowell @leighmcdowell]

Oh my Messi 🔥 🇦🇷 🐐

[Leigh McDowell @leighmcdowell]

Accurate

[Footy Humour @FootyHumour]

Netherlands vs Japan

[Leigh McDowell @leighmcdowell]

Passive aggressive

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

I read Zinsser (together with every other major style manual) while writing The Sense of Style, and his book is indeed very good. (It's the only one that advises on how to get one sentence to flow into the next, which differentiates smooth and coherent from choppy prose.) But like every manual that is innocent of linguistics, it botches the obligatory advice to avoid the passive, and like Orwell and Strunk and White, it can't help but use the passive in its own advice to avoid the passive ("what is being perpetrated").

[Leigh McDowell @leighmcdowell]

Riveting

[haruka no yume【はるかのゆめ】 @haruka_no_yume]

🇯🇵 This incredible video outlines what the Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo could possibly have looked like from 500 BCE.

It starts from the Jomon era and then moves into the modern day. Really stunning.

(vidsrc: history-timeline-max)

[Leigh McDowell @leighmcdowell]

Error correction

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

🧠 Smarter people are better at ditching old habits for better ideas.

A new study found that individuals with higher intelligence are significantly more likely to switch to novel solutions, especially when those new approaches are superior to what they already know.

[Leigh McDowell @leighmcdowell]

@wataru0209 LegENDO

[CommBank Socceroos @Socceroos]

If you need another reminder 🗓️😅

📱💻📺 Live on SBS & SBS On Demand

#Socceroos #FIFAWorldCup

[Karl Popper Quotes @QuotePopper]

"There is no better synonym for “rational” than “critical”. (Belief, of course, is never rational: it is rational to suspend belief.)

—Karl Popper, Unended Quest.