Tuesday, December 16, 2008

DOES SCIENCE MAKE ROOM FOR ALIENS?

RESEARCHERS ARGUE THAT NEW THEORIES BETTER THE ODDS

See the following "Fact file" and article here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6826412/

Monday, December 15, 2008

Third World...

In the forum below, you’ll find a thread on the expression « Third world country ».
See the last three posts at the bottom of this page one. You’ll find examples of the use of that expression.
http://www.englishforums.com/English/ThirdWorldCountry/hbmjm/post.htm

Here, you can read the article by Alfred Sauvy, written in 1952. This is where he uses, for the first time, both expressions : « Troisième monde » and « Tiers Monde. »

http://www.homme-moderne.org/societe/demo/sauvy/3mondes.html

And here, you can read more about him

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Sauvy

http://www.bibliomonde.net/auteur/alfred-sauvy-2251.html

Sunday, December 14, 2008

William Blake


"To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour."
-William Blake




http://www.tate.org.uk/learning/worksinfocus/blake/gothic/index.html

Saturday, December 13, 2008

E-TWINNING


I've just registered our high school to E-Twinning, the community for schools in Europe. It is a website dedicated to creating contacts through coopearative projects between European schools.

Oral Comprehension

Another great comprehension exercise resource:
Lots of short and varied audio documents to listen to.
REMEMBER:
IF YOU LISTEN TO A LITTLE BIT OF ENGLISH EVERYDAY,
YOU'LL IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH !
http://www.audio-lingua.eu/spip.php?rubrique2

Books make great gifts

ET phone home ... SETI listening for ETs


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/12/tech/cnettechnews/main4665555.shtml?tag=topHome;topStories

Night Owl

[O.o]
/)__)
-"--"-

Monday, December 01, 2008

Thanksgiving... thanks Marika!


http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=282998282&blogID=450947648

Monday, November 24, 2008

Have you heard of Jose Gonzalez?



Here are the lyrics:
DOWN THE LINE
I see problems down the line
I know that I’m right.
There was a dirt upon your hands
doing the same mistake twice
making the same mistake twice

Come on over and be so caught up
its not about compromising.

I see problems down the line
I know that I’m right
I see darkness down the line
I know its hard to fight.
There was a dirt upon your hands
doing the same mistake twice
making the same mistake twice.

Come on over
be so caught up its all about compromise.

I see problems down the line
I know that I’m right.

Don’t let the darkness eat you up (8x)

Friday, November 21, 2008

And now, your moment of Zen.

CHENEY INDICTED



U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney was indicted (prononcer /indaitid/ = mis en examen)
At the beginning, Jon refers to Vice-President Dick Cheney's troubles with a friend of his while they were hunting quails. (des cailles...) He, Dick the VP shot his friend in the face... (petits plombs: small shot). The funniest part of that story was that the friend had apologized for being shot at and at the time, Jon Stewart had made us Laugh Out Loud (lol).

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Barack Obama's speech in Chicago after the results

WATCH IT HERE:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/stateupdates/gGxLhV

HISTORIC MOMENT... HISTORIC CHOICE...

OBAMA will be the next U.S. president in january 2009.
Here is his wonderful speech in Philadelphia, March 18th about the necessity to wipe the racial divide... I guess we can say the Americans have done just that.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/convention2008/barackobamavictoryspeech.htm

Sunday, November 02, 2008

PRANK = trick = practical joke

From CBS NEWS:
"Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin was prank called [...] by a comedy duo from Quebec, who convinced the Alaska governor that she was speaking to French President Nicolas Sarkozy."

She was prank-called= they played a prank on her on the phone.
They told her she was going to speak to N. S. and she believed it.
If you listen to the recording, you'll find the prankster told her many things that could have helped her understand this was a prank... but she just giggled each time the prankster said something ludicrous.


READ ALL ABOUT IT AND LISTEN TO IT!!
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/11/01/politics/horserace/entry4563022.shtml?tag=rightRail;rightRailInner

Friday, October 24, 2008

Palin clothing ... Bling Bling or grifter?

To grift (U.S.): : to obtain (money) illicitly (as in a confidence game)
(http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grifter)

It seems Mrs Sarah Palin has spent $ 150,000 (a hundred and fifty thousand dollars)
ON CLOTHES...
Listen to Jon Stewart, the anchor to my favourite fake news show: "THE DAILY SHOW" making fun of it and asking a simple question:

"How does someone who's just spent more on clothing in six weeks than most Americans make in two years show that she can still relate to the common folk?"


Wednesday, October 22, 2008

PINK GLOW OVER LONDON

WOW ! I wish I had been in London to see THAT beautiful pink light!



From thisislondon.co.uk:
Londoners were left baffled today when a strange pink light appeared over the capital.
Read the article here:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23575796-details/U.F.Glow:+Mysterious+pink+light+over+London/article.do

Monday, October 20, 2008

Sunday, October 19, 2008

You need to register to vote...



Leonardo DiCaprio, will i. am, Tobey Maguire, and Forest Whitaker have created public service announcements to encourage American youth to register to vote. The non-partisan PSAs, produced by DiCaprios Appian Way, were created to engage and inspire young people to register and vote and participate in the upcoming election. Celebrities appearing in the PSAs include: Amy Adams, will.i.am, Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Bacon, Halle Berry, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Connolly, Courteney Cox, Ellen DeGeneres, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, Jonah Hill, Dustin Hoffman, Anthony Kiedis, Ashton Kutcher, Adam Levine, Laura Linney, Eva Longoria, Tobey Maguire, Demi Moore, Natalie Portman, Giovanni Ribisi, Ethan Suplee, Kyra Sedgwick, Michelle Trachtenberg, Usher, and Forest Whitaker.

Friday, October 17, 2008

A former astronaut who walked on the moon says aliens exist.

Watch and listen to the interview and post a comment, even anonymous, to say what you make of that? And if you want to know more about

Obama is wearing his sunday best at Al SMith

M. B.H.Obama has a witty sense of humour.
It's 13 minutes long but quite frankly, 13 minutes of laughter as M. J.S.McCain had announced seconds earlier in his own less funny but not utterly dull speech at the same traditional event: The "Al Smith's dinner".

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

NEW YORK CITY




Many thanks to Leena G. for her beautiful pictures.

Tuesday, October 07, 2008

In an op-ed, (what is an op-ed? It is an opinion-editorial),Columnist,(journalist, editorialist) Eugene Robinson writes the following pun (a play on words) which is quite to the point. Don't you think?

If we in the media really believe what we say about serving the public interest, we have a duty to avoid being turned into instruments of mass distraction.

You can read the whole op-ed here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100602637.html

No comment

Thursday, October 02, 2008

Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Sunday, September 28, 2008

You want to improve your English?

As you already know, there are many sites that can help you.
Some of those are on the left column of this blog.
So, if you say to yourself:"I want to improve my English."
well... Just do it! 15 mn a day would be great.
I really hope you can take advantage of those sites.
Here is a new one:

http://www.manythings.org/

Monday, September 22, 2008

About the LHC...

I love the Internet and I'm fond of science.
That's why I enjoyed watching this video.
Watch it and tell me if you did.

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Sharing


HISTORIA DE UN LETRERO (THE STORY OF A SIGN)

LHC is out of order

http://www.tsr.ch/tsr/index.html?siteSect=200001&sid=9752554

The CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) *a.k.a. Black Hole Maker
started out so well, that the scientists could actually not believe it.

Now about 10 days into operation the LHC is 'kaputt' for at least 2 months.
[...]

*a.k.a. = Also Known as
= alias

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Other headlines...

CBS: Another Wall Street shocker
ABC: Another Devastating Day. Stocks Dive on Economic Concerns
MSNBC: Dow Plunges Nearly 450 Points
The NY Times: Bailout Fails to Stem Global Stock Slump
Chicago Tribune: Markets Take Another Nosedive: Dow Down 450
The International Herald Tribune: Europe and Asia see U.S. as no longer practising what it preaches.
The Guardian: £12 billion HBOS Takeover Fails to End Global Panic
The Times: Fears of Further Financial Casualties Abound
Telegraph: Biggest Rescue Deal in UK Banking History

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

A few headlines about the financial crisis

CBS: Asian Markets Stumble Over Lehman Loss
ABC: Meltdown in US Finance System Pummels Stockmarket
NBC: Dow Falls 500 Points in Worst Day Since 2001
NY Times: Wall Street Posts Worst Loss Since 2001
The Chicago Tribune: What to Do With Your Money? Stick With Plan
International Herald Tribune : Global Shares Fall After Deeper Wall Street Losses
The Guardian: Nightmare on Wall Street
The Times: Asian Markets Dive as Wall Street Panic Spreads
Telegraph: UK Stock Index Drops Again as Market Crisis Continues
ad libitum....

Septembre 15th ... Pink Floyd In Mourning. Richard Wright is dead.


Time
(Mason, Waters, Wright, Gilmour)

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.

Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time.
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over,
Thought I'd something more to say.

By Pink Floyd. From The Dark side of the Moon album


Saturday, September 06, 2008

If you could vote for the U.S. presidential election...

Well, you can!!

I don't want to influence you but I sure voted for Obama!

http://www.myvirtualvote.com/Default.aspx

How the sun really works.

Our sun hasn't produced many spots these days as shown in the post below.
The sun, our star.
Maybe you want to know more about it.
And more about SUN SPOTS... even though they seem to keep puzzling the top rank scientists.

So I thought you'd be interested in watching this video. Enjoy!

SPOTLESS SUN

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/
archive/2008/05/31/the-deniers-our-spotless-sun.aspx


http://www.greenpacks.org/2008/09/03/spotless-sun-contributes-to-climate-change/

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

From a former U.S. president.

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.

-Harry S. Truman, 33rd US president (1884-1972)

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Pictorial history of the women's suffrage movement



The song is entitled "Bread and Roses". It was written about 1912 by James Oppenheim in response to a women's textile worker strike. Here are the lyrics:

As we go marching, marching, in the beauty of the day,

A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill lofts gray,

Are touched with all the radiance that a sudden sun discloses,

For the people hear us singing: Bread and Roses! Bread and Roses!

As we go marching, marching, we battle too for men,

For they are women's children, and we mother them again.

Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;

Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses.

As we go marching, marching, unnumbered women dead

Go crying through our singing their ancient call for bread.

Small art and love and beauty their drudging spirits knew.

Yes, it is bread we fight for, but we fight for roses too.

As we go marching, marching, we bring the greater days,

The rising of the women means the rising of the race.

No more the drudge and idler, ten that toil where one reposes,

But a sharing of life's glories: Bread and roses, bread and roses.

Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;

hearts starve as well as bodies; bread and roses, bread and roses.

Monday, August 25, 2008

BACK TO SCHOOL NEXT WEEK.... SUMMER HOLIDAYS ARE OVER
Improve your English with this speech by a U.S. senator!
1) Open the video in a different window by right clicking on the link here:
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=6bVHNdwypiE&eurl
2) Watch it and listen to it carefully
3) Read the parts of its script below.
4) Fill in the blanks in the parts of the script below.



Senator Bernie S.............
From the state of V.................

" And we ................... talk about this terribly much. I guess it's something we're not supposed to be mentioning but the reality is that according to the latest analysis,
in 2005, the top 1% of earners made more money than the bottom 50% of Americans.
..................... % earned more income than the bottom .........................% which translates into the top ................... earners making more money than the bottom ............................million (earners)
.............................making more money than the bottom ........................... million.
While the top earning, 1/100 of 1%, received an average income increase of more than
.................................. million in 2005, the bottom 90% saw their average income decline by about $172.
So what we're looking at is, tens of millions of Americans working hard, they're seeing their healthcare costs go up, they're seeing their housing costs go up, they're seeing education costs go up, they're seeing the price they're paying for a gallon of gas to put into their car to get them to work going up, or heating oil going up, basics of life going up, and at the end of the year, they have less money than they did the previous year. But the people on top are making out like bandits.
[•••]
The top ........ wealthiest individuals saw on average a ....................................million dollar increase per person
[•••]
The United States has an ...........%, the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country on Earth. ..............% of our kids are living in poverty.
[•••]
Almost one in five children in this country lives in poverty
[•••]

Friday, July 04, 2008

Thursday, July 03, 2008

INGRID BETANCOURT IS FREE TONIGHT

Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he. -Johann Gottfried Seume, author (1763-1810)



Tonight, we're told she's free.
Or is she? In another kind of jungle? The political jungle?
How free? Debriefing doesn't sound like freedom to me. And I'm afraid she'll have to go through it.
But Mrs Betancourt is strong. She has proved that much. Surviving with dignity "out of her outward circumstances"... in the Amazonian jungle,
She's also very wise. She's had time to think of it... She's been a prisoner since february 2002.
Here are the last words of her first speech after her release, or extraction...
"LET US ALL HAVE COMPASSION FOR OUR ENEMIES"
Now, I hope the media will give her the free time she deserves...
And now that she's not trapped in the jungle anymore, let's see what she does. And what she doesn't.

For your information, this cbsnews article, and if you're too lazy to read it all, some extracts...
in case you were told otherwise... the U.S. did play a part in the whole event.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/02/world/main4228714.shtml
"Colombia freed Ingrid Betancourt and three U.S. military contractors from leftist guerrillas on Wednesday after military spies tricked rebels into giving them up without a single injury, the defense minister said. "...

...CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports that the release of the hostages and Ms. Betancourt was carried out by Columbian military forces, working closely with United States intelligence. Currently, Martin is told, the hostages are being taken by the military to Brook Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. ...

"This was primarily a Colombian operation," one U.S. official told CBS News correspondent Bob Orr. "They did all of the heavy lifting and deserve the lion's share of the credit."

..."The rescue came as U.S. presidential candidate John McCain was visiting Colombia. When news of its success reached McCain on his campaign plane, he said he and two other U.S. senators traveling with him - Joe Lieberman and Lindsay Graham - had been told about it in advance by Uribe"


Most of us are free. And have been for quite a while. How free are we?

And let's see what we all do with our endangered but still palpable freedoms in Europe at least. Free to come and go, free to look for "fair and balanced" information, free to meet the ones we love and all the ones with whom we share values and hopes, free to talk to them and on the web to express ourselves and be as creative as we can, free to fight for our rights, free to fight for peace, free to believe and free to challenge the others with respect, free to look for truth and peace.
May we all prove worthy of those freedoms and ready to fight for them if need be and have compassion, even for our enemies.

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Fist Bump

Michelle Obama and the new "high five".
When Woopy refers to the "chest bump", she is refering to a scene that lately took place between McCain and a military. They bumped their chests to greet each other.

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Friday, June 06, 2008

A MUST SEE... UNBELIEVABLE... AMAZING...SCARY...EXHILARATING...

Here is the comment added by the person who Utubed the video .
"We tried but didn't make it...maybe only with phone brands or models ???"




THIS IS FOR REAL AND IT WORKS IN FRANCE TOO ??????????????
TRY AND DO THIS AND REPORT YOUR RESULTS IN THE COMMENTS...



REALLY SCARY ISN'T IT ??
WE MIGHT HAVE TO THROW OUR PHONES AWAY...
OH... AND WHAT IF IT WORKED ONLY WITH GMO CORN ?!!!

Sunday, June 01, 2008

Clever exercises

I particularly enjoy the one on September 11th, 2001
for its exercises about Oral comprehension exercise and
Airport Vocabulary


http://pagesperso-orange.fr/michel.barbot/hotpot/cohome.htm

Saturday, May 24, 2008

SAVE THE "PALAIS DE LA DECOUVERTE"!

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN THERE? GREAT SCIENTIFIC STUFF.
I'LL ALWAYS REMEMBER THE PI ROOM...

http://www.sauvonslepalaisdeladecouverte.fr/
Sign the petition!

Un moyen mnémotechnique populaire (mais peu pratique) est le poème :
Que j'aime à faire apprendre un nombre utile aux sages !
Immortel Archimède, artiste, ingénieur,
Qui de ton jugement peut priser la valeur ?
Pour moi ton problème eut de pareils avantages.
Jadis, mystérieux, un problème bloquait
Tout l'admirable procédé, l'œuvre grandiose
Que Pythagore découvrit aux anciens Grecs.
Ô quadrature ! Vieux tourment du philosophe
Insoluble rondeur, trop longtemps vous avez
Défié Pythagore et ses imitateurs.
Comment intégrer l'espace plan circulaire ?
Former un triangle auquel il équivaudra ?
Nouvelle invention : Archimède inscrira
Dedans un hexagone ; appréciera son aire
Fonction du rayon. Pas trop ne s'y tiendra :
Dédoublera chaque élément antérieur ;
Toujours de l'orbe calculée approchera ;
Définira limite ; enfin, l'arc, le limiteur
De cet inquiétant cercle, ennemi trop rebelle
Professeur, enseignez son problème avec zèle

Le nombre de lettres de chaque mot correspond à une décimale, sauf pour le chiffre "0" dont le codage correspond à un mot de 10 lettres.

En 2005, un japonais de 59 ans, Akira Haraguchi, a réussi à aligner par cœur 83 431 décimales de π en 13 heures. Il réitéra son record un an plus tard en 2006 en mémorisant et récitant publiquement 100 000 décimales pendant 16 heures. Cet exploit a été homologué par le Livre Guinness des records

Thursday, May 22, 2008

The CANS Festival

http://cansfestival.com/
The CANS Festival Leake street, London
Some people are calling it the greatest stencil art show that has ever taken place in a tunnel underneath Waterloo Station


Thursday, May 15, 2008

I'm watching live on cbsnews.org...

Barack Obama is speaking in Grand Rapid, Michigan with John Edwards.
Mr Edwards, another democrat, has also been competing in the democratic primaries
but he quit 4 months ago.
He didn't say who he would endorse (support).
He didn't say whether he would support Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.
He is a popular man, well-known for his honesty and his concern for poverty and health care and his determination towards peace and freedom.
Well, tonight, John Edwards is declaring that he endorses Obama.
Obama Obama OBAMA OBAMA

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

This week Time cover

The election of the president of the United States is very different from the French presidential election.

The American elections are MUCH MORE complicated !
The US president will be chosen next November by delegates. (indirect suffrage)
So before the "general election", each great party, organizes elections called "primaries" or "caucuses" to choose the one who will compete with the 4-year-presidential mandate which is a competition between two men... well, two human beings!

Former democratic presidents backwards: Clinton, carter, Johnson, Kennedy, Truman, Roosevelt ...
Former republican presidents onwards: ... Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, G.H.Bush, G.W.Bush
See the succession here: http://mistupid.com/history/presidents.htm

So: Right now ! The Democratic primaries are still taking place among the Democrats to select the candidate who will face the Republican candidate who has been chosen through the Republican primary elections : John McCain.

For now, Barack Obama has 1882 delegates, selected during the different elections that have been taking place successively in the different states.
See the calendar here: http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/primaries/democraticprimaries/index.html Youl'll notice that the race is soon over.
Well, it is not because Hillary Clinton has 1711 delegates and she says she can still win the primaries against Obama... She could quit but she says she can still win.
2025 delegates are needed to secure the nomination.
See the evolution of the democratic primaries here http://election.cbsnews.com/campaign2008/index.shtml

So, the next US Presidential elections in November 2008 will be a race between

EITHER Barack Obama versus John McCain

OR Hillary Clinton versus John McCain

Well, this week's Time cover believes Obama will run for president against John McCain.
And I hope they're right.
Not that I wouldn't like a woman for the US presidency, but I like Obama's vision better. And after all, Clinton has already been in the White House as a first lady...
I believe new politicians are needed. Read about his life here:
http://www.barackobama.com/learn/meet.php

Divers Find Ancient Bust Of Caesar Near Arles


and other wonderful works of art. Read about them here:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/14/tech/main4094913.shtml

Monday, May 05, 2008

LEONARDO DI CAPRIO

His movie, "The 11th Hour", deals with environmental issues and our responsibility.

Thursday, May 01, 2008

PANGEA DAY ...

Can your film save the world?
http://www.planete.tm.fr/dossiers/template/page.html?PAGE_ID=1372&AFF_SS_PAGE=
oui&FOLD_ID=110&PAGE_LEFT_TEMP=10&PAGE_RIGHT_TEMP=11


Here are the lyrics by David Byrne:
Like Humans Do Lyrics

For millions of years, In millions of homes
A man loved a woman, A child it was born
It learned how to hurt and it learned how to cry
Like Humans Do

Chorus:
I'm breathing in
I'm breathing out
So slip inside this funky house
Dishes in the sink
The TV's in repair
Don't look at the floor
Don't go up the stairs
I'm achin'
I'm shakin'
I'm breakin'
Like Humans Do
I'm achin'
I'm shakin'
I'm breakin'
Like Humans Do

I work and I sleep and I dance and I'm dead
I'm eatin, I'm laughin and I'm lovin myself
I never watch TV
Except when I'm stoned
Like Humans Do

[Repeat Chorus]

I'm breathing in
I'm breathing out
So slip inside this funky house
Wiggle while you work
Anybody can
The rain is pourin in on a woman and a man

I'm achin'
I'm shakin'
I'm breakin'
Like Humans Do
I'm breathing in
I'm breathing out

PANGEA DAY for WORLD PEACE


Samedi 10 mai à 20h00, première édition du "Pangea Day" en direct depuis le Caire, Kigali, Los Angeles et Rio de Janeiro.

Pour la France c’est PLANETE qui a été choisie pour participer à la diffusion de cet événement Planétaire.
Et l'on pourra le suivre sur le site même de Pangea Day. Vous pouvez d'ores et déjà y trouver des videos sur les motivations de l'organisatrice de cette initiative.
http://www.pangeaday.org

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

THE ORIGINS of SAGGY "DROOPY" PANTS...

... You know, the pants some boys wear these days, below the waist, or far below...
Their origin:
The style is believed to have started in prisons, where inmates are issued ill-fitting jumpsuits but no belts to prevent hangings and beatings. The look was popularized in gangster rap videos.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/22/ap/strange/main4034947.shtml

Sunday, April 20, 2008

The Milgram experiment

This psychological experiment was conducted between 1961 and 1963 by 28-year-old Stanley Milgram, then a recent graduate with a Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard's department of social relations.
It was conducted on Yale's campus. Learn more about it and discuss it in the comments.

http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/milgram%2B/
video/x1f85l_presentation-de-lexperience-milgram_events

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Boston Legal

Boston legal is a series broadcast in the U.S. Thanks to onegoodmove for the link.
http://www.boston-legal.org/
Here is an extract against the war in iraq. Aren't Americans incredible!

Here is about the series' main actor, James Spader, who won the Emmy award for best lead actor in 2007 for his role as the lead character in the show.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Spader

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

LOANS...


And here's a 16th century song about paper money...

  Rags make paper
Paper makes money
Money makes banks
Banks make loans
Loans make beggars
Beggars make rags!

http://jack.rusher.com/BookPathology.html


Monday, April 14, 2008

A nugget from one of my favourite site

You know, on the left column, my favourite sites... 
Among them, there is Wordsmith.org by Anu Garg
another word lover, another logophile ;-)
Anu, if you subscribe to his newsletter or visit his website,
gives you a new word each day with its definition, its origins and a quote or two containing that word.
But there's a bonus, the "cerise sur le gâteau", it's a quote, a random quote. 
Well, not so random.. Anu must be a wise man for the quotes he chooses are always full of wisdom.
I thought i'd send you today's "cherry quote". Translated into English by a famous Frenchman:

Having been unable to strengthen justice, 
we have justified strength.
Blaise Pascal. Mathematician and philosopher. 1623-1662


Thursday, April 10, 2008

Peter Watkins

Here is Peter Watkins' website:
http://www.mnsi.net/~pwatkins/
in which you must particularly read this:
http://www.mnsi.net/~pwatkins/part2_home.htm

Here is Peter Watkins' filmography:
The Forgotten Faces (1960),

Culloden (UK, 1964),

The War Game (UK, 1965).

Punishment Park (USA, 1970)

Edvard munch (Norway, 1973)

- The Journey (a global peace film, 1983-86)

The Freethinker (Sweden, 1992-94)

La Commune (France, 1999) -
Listen towards the end of this first extract about the difference between communication and "mass communication"... Indeed, "Mass communication" is NOT communication.




Thursday, April 03, 2008

TOEIC

TEST OF ENGLISH FOR INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION

http://www.fr.toeic.eu/
http://www.fr.toeic.eu/?gclid=CNCmw6af5JICFR8-ZwodAFNrcw
http://www.u-picardie.fr/CRL/toeic.htm

Quand passer le TOEIC à Reims:
https://www.fr.etseurope.org/store/advanced_search_result.php?os
Csid=6b205cdb6ac444108ea009d97630d99d&step=2&appointments_id=&test_types_id=
TOEICListeninga&test_city_id=
REIMS&dfrom=03%2F04%2F2008&dto=03%2F10%2F2008

Monday, March 31, 2008

Philippe Starck

His English is terrible but i'm sure you'll understand everything he says!
And enjoy his site: http://www.philippe-starck.com/

Quite a speech!

18 minutes with an agile mind

Monday, March 24, 2008

NEIL DE GRASSE TYSON : "ARE WE ALONE?"

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

History of the "Baccalauréat"

The "Bac' is 200 years old!

http://www.france24.com/fr/20080317-vie-mouvementee-baccalaureat-200-ans-aujourdhui-1

A forgotten word in the first sentence of the article.

Friday, March 14, 2008

Everything you've ever wanted to know about...

SPACESUITS !

A GREAT VIDEO WITH SUBTITLES.
http://www.nasa.gov/mov/196845main_069_Spacesuits.mov

Wow! Placebo story

View Dan Ariely: Predictably Irrational on FORA.tv

View Dan Ariely: Predictably Irrational on FORA.tv
View Dan Ariely: Predictably Irrational on FORA.tv

Your new English teacher ;-)

Everyday English... for sure!

It's a shame! This video contains too many spelling mistakes... like it should have been "incompetence" and not incompitance...




and to make it complete, a funny Dutch TV commercial for an English language institute...

Thursday, March 13, 2008

WOW! A DREAM HOUSE !

24h: A Swedish architect agency designed this marvel in Dragspelhuset, Lake Övre Gla, Sweden

A dream come true! ...I want one just like that...And it is retractable!


Extract from its description: :
During the summer the building can change its form or, like a butterfly, unfold its wings for extra shelter during rainy days.
The addition is for a house from the year 1800, located on the banks of Ovre Gla Lake in the Swiss nature reserve of Glaskogen.
Regulations limited the amount of construction that could be done on the exterior of the building and proscribed a 4.5 meter green space around the stream that encloses the area. 24H came up with a telescoping cabin, adding to the usable surface and arching out over the stream. This accentuates the organic shapes of the design, which emulates the rustic surroundings.


Isn't the inside as fantastic as the outside?


See much more of it here:
http://www.dragspelhuset.com/
and here:
http://arkinetia.com/Articulos/Art350.aspx

Another Problem With Biofuels?

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1721693,00.html

SANTIAGO CALATRAVA

For all the future architect assistants and civil engineers: the official website of M. Santiago Calatrava

http://www.calatrava.com/main.htm



http://images.google.fr/images?hl=fr&q=calatrava&btnG=Recherche+d%27images&gbv=2

Sunday, March 09, 2008

An American Poet: Walt Whitman




WALT WHITMAN

http://www.pierdelune.com/whitman2.htm

Can you believe it ??? Teenagers, beware!!!

How to get rid of "unwanted gatherings of teenagers and anti social youths"


http://www.compoundsecurity.co.uk/teenage_control_products.html


... and on the same site: I can't believe it:
"the phone call your teacher can't hear"...

http://www.compoundsecurity.co.uk/deterrent_news_164.html

Wednesday, March 05, 2008

General Knowledge

A Depressing Survey of What High Schoolers don't know ...
http://www.slate.com/id/2185486/entry/2185487/
Take the test yourself!
http://commoncore.org/wwd.php

Obama... still ahead of Clinton.

Democrats / 2,025 Needed to Clinch
OBAMA 1,512 delegates
CLINTON 1,423 delegates

EDWARDS 26 delegates

And the winner will have to beat the Republican John McCain
Republicans /1,191 Needed to Clinch
MCCAIN 1,205 1,205 delegates

HUCKABEE 231 231 delegates
ROMNEY 149 149 delegates

Waiting for the results in Ohio & Texas...

A mixed-race democratic president for America, land of the free, home of the brave.

OBAMA! OBAMA !



Bush Clinton Bush Bush Clinton?

Sunday, March 02, 2008

INACTUELLES

Visit this music blog by my colleague:

http://inactuelles.over-blog.com/



Thursday, February 28, 2008

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Barak Obama

Probably the next democratic presidential candidate...
http://election.cbsnews.com/campaign2008/

Friday, February 15, 2008

In French, about a piece of news.

I thought you might be interested in listening to
"Georges Bensoussan, historien et auteur de Histoire de la Shoah"
about our president's latest decision.

http://www.lemonde.fr/web/son/0,54-0@2-823448,63-1012080@51-861150,0.html

Byeee and enjoy your holidays!
Special hello to VivnNyfa!

Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Banksy's manifesto

http://www.banksy.co.uk/manifesto/index.html

copy / paste the address in a new window... Blogger doesn't seem to work properly tonight.

Monday, February 04, 2008

STEPHEN COLBERT

The king of irony...

Sunday, February 03, 2008

Strange Fruit

In 1937 Abel Meeropol, a Jewish schoolteacher from New York, saw a photograph of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith. Meeropol later recalled how the photograph "haunted me for days" and inspired the writing of the poem, Strange Fruit.
Meeropol, a member of the American Communist Party, using the pseudonym, Lewis Allan, published the poem in the New York Teacher and later, the Marxist journal, New Masses.

After seeing Billie Holiday perform at the club, Café Society, in New York, Meeropol showed her the poem. Holiday liked it and after working on it with Sonny White turned the poem into the song, Strange Fruit. The record made it to No. 16 on the charts in July 1939. However, the song was denounced by Time Magazine as "a prime piece of musical propaganda" for the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP).

Meeropol remained active in the American Communist Party and after the execution of Ethel Rosenberg and Julius Rosenberg he adopted their two sons. He taught at the De Witt Clinton High School in the Bronx for 27 years, but continued to write songs, including the Frank Sinatra hit, The House I Live In.


Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit

Strange Fruit

Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Pastoral scene of the gallant south,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.

Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter cry.

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

The quagmire in Iraq

Jon Stewart ... Now you tell us.

Monday, January 21, 2008

Sunday, January 20, 2008

A QUIZ about MLK


http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/quiz/mlkquiz.html


A good comprehension exercise. to answer the questions, you'll visit the web sites whose links are given.

DON'T FORGET the RIGHT CLICK: Open in a new tab
or with a Mac: CMD+click

Monday, January 14, 2008

A glossary of grammatical terms

http://englishplus.com/grammar/glossary.htm

I guess this will be useful for those who don't see any difference between "their" and "theirs" or between "this" and "his"... :-(

Sunday, January 13, 2008

HISTORY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

POLITICAL COMPASS

Test your political views : Left..... Right and Authoritarian...... Libertarian?
A clever list of questions you have to answer to know where you stand.
http://politicalcompass.org/test

Compare your results with the American Presidential candidates:
http://politicalcompass.org/usprimaries2008

And with other famous people:
http://politicalcompass.org/analysis2

Friday, January 11, 2008

in Venice

a well

Carbon footprint

A Carbon Footprint is a measure of the impact human activities have on the environment in terms of the amount of green house gases produced, measured in units of carbon dioxide.

Find out what sort of polluter you are...

with the Carbon Footprint Calculator.

http://www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx

Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Monday, January 07, 2008

Tuesday, January 01, 2008

A GREAT 45 mn MOVIE About SHARING

STEAL THIS FILM II ...

Happy New year all. And sharing with you, thanks to onegoodmove.org :

http://stealthisfilm.com/Part2/

or here on Google video

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3636669624532830059

This is about :
-History of the printed word which was seen as the unholy work of the devil ...in France!
... a must see for you French pupils.

- And other subjects... Here are some quotes to give you an idea of the content:

Lawrence Liang, Alternative law forum, Bangalore: "Sharing is at the heart of..., in some sense, of existence. Communication, the need to talk to someone is an act of sharing. The need to listen to someone is an act of sharing."

Felix Stalder, media theorist: "Why do we share cultures? Why do we share language? Because we imitate each other. What keeps us together is that we copy from each other."

"We need to ask a little bit more about Utopia. We need to really figure out what kind of world we'd like to live in.

Brewster Kahler: "Let's build a world that we're actually gonna be proud of. Not just a profitable world for a few very large media."

Hope it makes you want to WATCH........... STEAL THIS FILM II.