วันอังคารที่ 24 ธันวาคม พ.ศ. 2556

The American dream of knowledge in one click

The American dream of knowledge in one click


This is a Christmas story to the U.S. . Hal Plotkin , a small Californian penniless, became adviser to President Barack Obama, is inventing post- MOOC . With him, the massive open online course ( massive online education), we thought the educational horizon, is already in the past .

Teenager, Mr. Plotkin leaves the school. "My mother raised us alone, my sister and me. The 707.15 dollars monthly bills to pay for the house were too much for his salary , " he says . Direction pizza bar next door and $ 1.75 Hourly for young Plotkin and sister.


Controversy surrounding the art schools , accused of tolerating sexist practices

Controversy surrounding the art schools , accused of tolerating sexist practices

Art schools they tolerate sexist behavior , homophobic or sexist ? The question gives rise to a skirmish between the National Association of forty-six graduate schools of art ( Andea ) and Senator (PCF) Brigitte Gonthier -Maurin . In its report on the role of women in the field of culture, presented in October to the Minister of Culture , Aurélie Filippetti , parliamentary denounced " an outrageous seemingly widespread practice : the trivialization of sexist behavior " in art schools . On 16 December, the Andea replied in a statement: " One of the challenges of our association is to take the measure to promote greater equality between the sexes, to ensure parity. "

The Andea however, has not always defended this position. Thus, in 2012, the association had supported the director of the Ecole Supérieure d'Art d'Avignon , Jean- Marc Ferrari, challenged by fifteen students and endorsed by three complaints , one for harassment

Middleweight Sport-Touring Shootout


We pit the BMW F800GT against the Ducati Hyperstrada and KTM SM-T in a battle of middleweight sport-touring motorcycles.

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Of Monsters and Men - Little Talks


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Amazing T-Rex Illusion!


I created the song in this video. A download link for the song will be available shortly.
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Song name: The last sun.

Thank you to my friend Kath for creating the T-rex design!

I've included a link for you to print out your own. The trick looks best through a camera. If you close one eye and move back and forth it works pretty good too.

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Pungesti the Romanian village that resists shale gas

Pungesti the Romanian village that resists shale gas


 At the end of the fence surrounding the farm Constantin Spiridon at Pungesti , white and red flag flutters in the wind : " Stop Chevron " proclaims the banner installed by the former mayor of the village. Since October, the town, located 200 km north -east of Bucharest, the rhythm of the resistance against shale gas .

Nothing predisposed hamlet lost in the rolling hills of Moldova Romanian an uphill struggle against the American giant that tries to install a platform drilling . However, the images of its inhabitants - including many seniors - standing up to the police in riot gear have toured the Romanian Internet .


" The Wolf of Wall Street ' splendor and misery brokers

" The Wolf of Wall Street ' splendor and misery brokers


Hear ye, hear ye ! The great Scorsese is back! This is "the" good news of the end of this year: the director as remarkable as film Mean Streets , Goodfellas and Casino has not finished with his uncompromising exploration of the American dream . The Wolf of Wall Street, his new album is in its way a sort of quintessence of obsessions " scorsesiennes ." It contains most of his favorite themes : money , sex and drugs, but also more hidden than usual , suffering , sin and death.


Chinese banks on the brink of crisis

Chinese banks on the brink of crisis


China is it in terms of a major financial crisis? The tensions in recent days between Chinese banks, such as the strong reaction of the People's Bank of China ( PBOC ), the central bank, leaving some observers fear .

Thursday, December 19 , it announced that it had conducted injections of short-term liquidity in the markets , without specifying the amount .

Objective: off soaring interbank rates , those at which banks lend money , revealing that they are no longer trusted . The risk that the most vulnerable can no longer finance itself. This is called a liquidity crisis (cash crunch in English ) .


Teaching is a science

Teaching is a science


For anyone who knows that " the child is the future of man " PISA is a real shock . Tells us the Programme for International Student Assessment Monitoring OECD ? More unequal than ever, the French National Education manages the elite , but fails to give disadvantaged children the minimum baggage they need to understand a newspaper article or an arithmetic problem. To the second generation , a family of immigrant displays school results is lagging behind .


วันพฤหัสบดีที่ 5 ธันวาคม พ.ศ. 2556

Innovation: 101 youth projects awarded the trio Granjon - Niel- Simoncini

Innovation: 101 youth projects awarded the trio Granjon - Niel- Simoncini


Among the winning projects in the competition , a platform linking to send someone to your market, an application to retrieve its business or an ad student accommodation in Paris site. | AFP / MARTIN BUREAU

These are 101 projects led by young people under 25 who were rewarded Tuesday, Dec. 3 , at night, by Jacques -Antoine Granjon (Sales -privees.com ), Marc Simoncini (founder of dating site Meetic ) and Xavier Niel (Free and shareholder individually World ) . With EUR 25 000 for each winner , as equity contribution , the total budget allocation of over € 2.5 million.
Among the winning projects in the competition , a platform linking to send someone to your market, accompanied by a location tag to find his business or a site specializing in student housing listings from the application individuals to Paris and the Paris region .

London will sell its stake in Eurostar

London will sell its stake in Eurostar


The British government will announce Wednesday, December 4 , the sale of its 40% stake in Eurostar , the high speed train from London to Paris and Brussels. | AFP / Leon Neal

The British government will announce Wednesday, December 4 , the sale of its 40% stake in Eurostar , the high speed train from London to Paris and Brussels. UK hopes to withdraw hundreds of millions of pounds from the sale of its shares in the rail operator , conducted as part of a privatization transaction .
Vice Minister of the British Treasury , Danny Alexander , has to reveal Wednesday the new National Infrastructure Plan , which will determine how to privatize 20 billion pounds ( 32 billion dollars, 24.1 billion euros) of financial and social assets over the next six years. In total, comprehensive plan should enable the British government to make public investment 375 billion pounds and private 2030.

The rail operator the Channel recently announced a 10% increase in revenue and 5% of the number of passengers , compared to the same period last year.

Ligue 1 : PSG lose its first game of the season

Ligue 1 : PSG lose its first game of the season


Paris Saint- Germain suffered , Wednesday, Dec. 4 in the field of Evian, its first defeat of the season at the 16th day of Ligue 1 ( 2-0). Classification , the champions of France , unbeaten in 36 matches in all competitions and whose last defeat in Ligue 1 dates back to a trip to Reims early March , have one point ahead of the surprising Lille , who dominated Marseille on Tuesday and two on the AS Monaco .
Knocked out in the last quarter of an hour against two attacks, the first concluded by Nsikulu Clark (75 ), the second by Modou Sougou ( 87th ) , Parisians fell against the High Savoyards who had already disposed of Coupe de France last season. This result is explained by both the right match Evian and bad PSG , much more disorganized than in his previous outings, including last Sunday against Olympique Lyon (4-0) .

Three days after this demonstration, coach Laurent Blanc has blown some of its executives and given playing time to others, as Lucas Digne and Christophe Jallet on the side of the defense, or Adrien Rabiot the middle.