Many paintings and statues are of nudes - people with no clothes on.
So why did they start covering their naughty bits with fig leaves, which is a really BAD idea?
("Naughty bits" - I will leave you to your imagination as to what they are. There are also hundreds of words to describe them, from biological terms to very weird slang expressions!)

The Social Evolutionary

Why do naked people in art wear fig leaves? It's scary!

1. Work harder
2. think in English from the start
3. time doesn't Make success  
4.  "play"
5. 21-day schedule
6. set up a tiny little goal

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Intermediate Chinese Listening：迎接2026，新年快乐！Welcome 2026，Happy New Year！

Intermediate Chinese Listening

Nick looks at a number of reasons to help answer this question for the IELTS test. 

IELTS with Nick - World Knowledge 

Why do some adults read books written for children?

L’horloge
Charles Baudelaire
Horloge ! dieu sinistre, effrayant, impassible,
Dont le doigt nous menace et nous dit :  » Souviens-toi !
Les vibrantes Douleurs dans ton coeur plein d’effroi
Se planteront bientôt comme dans une cible,
Le plaisir vaporeux fuira vers l’horizon
Ainsi qu’une sylphide au fond de la coulisse ;
Chaque instant te dévore un morceau du délice
A chaque homme accordé pour toute sa saison.
Trois mille six cents fois par heure, la Seconde
Chuchote : Souviens-toi ! – Rapide, avec sa voix
D’insecte, Maintenant dit : Je suis Autrefois,
Et j’ai pompé ta vie avec ma trompe immonde !
Remember ! Souviens-toi, prodigue ! Esto memor !
(Mon gosier de métal parle toutes les langues.)
Les minutes, mortel folâtre, sont des gangues
Qu’il ne faut pas lâcher sans en extraire l’or !
Souviens-toi que le Temps est un joueur avide
Qui gagne sans tricher, à tout coup ! c’est la loi.
Le jour décroît ; la nuit augmente, souviens-toi !
Le gouffre a toujours soif ; la clepsydre se vide.

Tantôt sonnera l’heure où le divin Hasard,
Où l’auguste Vertu, ton épouse encor vierge,
Où le repentir même (oh ! la dernière auberge !),
Où tout te dira : Meurs, vieux lâche ! il est trop tard !  »
Charles Baudelaire, Les fleurs du mal

The clock
Ye clock! Sinister, frightful, stone-faced god
whose hand threatens us and says "Remember!
Pulsating pains will soon pierce
your heart filled with fright,
 the nebulous pleasure will flee to the horizon
like a sylph disappearing in the backstage.
Every momenty bites off a bit of the delight
granted to every man for all his life."
 Three thousand six hundred times per hour, the Second
whispers "Remember!". Quickly, with its insect
voice, it now says "I am bygone times
and I sucked your life with my vile proboscis!
 Remember! Souviens-toi! Prodigue! Esto memor!
(My metal throat speaks all languages)
Ye frisky mortal, minutes are gangues
you shan't drop without extracting the gold within!
 Remember, time is a greedy player
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𝗗𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗔𝗞 𝗙𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗔𝗜𝗦 ? 😉

" 𝐋'𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐞 " 𝐝𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐁𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞 ( 𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐆𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐫 ) 

Here the second part of how to ask and give directions in the streets when in Italy!
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Set in 1940s New York, Capote tells the story of one of literature's most-infamous characters, the fabulous and complicated Holly Golightly, as seen through the eyes of her occasional acquaintances.

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Different ways to say 'I don't like it'.

Often times we don't want to 'sound the same', therefore, It's good to have few alternatives for that.

Listen to the audio and get some ideas.

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