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/