The story behind neknomination

Here's a short video about the origins of the new controversial trend on facebook, the neknomination:

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26049977

As Technology Gets Better Will Society Get Worse

Hello all,

Here's an article I found in the NewYorker that tries to answer the question: is technological evolution more important to humanity’s near future than biological evolution ?
I found it interesting and that it raised pertinent questions.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2014/02/as-technology-gets-better-will-society-get-worse.html

creativeLIVE: Photoshop Week 2014

creativeLIVE: Photoshop Week 2014:



"PHOTOSHOP WEEK 2014
5 DAYS, 40 CLASSES, 60 HOURS"

Free streaming workshops!

Everything you wanted to know and never dared ask about PhotoShop and Lightroom!

Do you
know the creativelive online workshops? Their real-time (free) broadcasts are
in the evenings and nights here in France, and are rebroadcast (streamed for
free) for a day or two after the workshop. (Their business model is to encourage you to buy them to watch whenever you want.)

Do you use PhotoShop or Adobe Lightroom? This
week's workshop program might "enlighten" you to new features or
workflows...  (On channel B he's showing advanced image retouching at right this minute...)



Hope all is going well for you! Looking forward
to seeing you soon.

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Harvard Arab Weekend 2013

Harvard Arab Weekend 2013 | HAW Talks | Harvard Law School

Hello

Here is the video I've talked about in the last class. It's the the First edition of an Arab event in Harvard. Please have a look at least to this video.

Enjoy

The Sochi effect

And here is an article of The New Yorker that I found interesting about the Sochi Winter Olympics Games and corruption.
Among other things it explains the short term and long term impact that government's corruption has on a country's economy.

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2014/02/10/140210ta_talk_surowiecki

Where we run: maps of cities using public running data

Hey !

Here is an article showing maps of where we run the most in big cities. I found the idea original and the result is quite beautiful ...

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/the-running-blog/gallery/2014/feb/07/where-we-run-maps-of-cities-using-public-running-data-in-pictures

Volvo Trucks

Hey !

This is one of the advertisments I actually like :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7FIvfx5J10


But some of you may prefer the "parody"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dndHQzZPH0Q
with Chuck Norris, for thoses who like him :)


See you soon

5 Funny Doritos Commercials - YouTube

5 Funny Doritos Commercials - YouTube: "5 Funny Doritos Commercials"



Here are a few other famous superbowl commercials from the Doritos people....



a comment?  how about a commercial you like????

james



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hello....  there's something funny in the state of Mongolia...
Could one of you please check the settings and see if you can make me an "admin" again...

I've lost access to the settings!  :-(

Also Marwa needs to be invited again as she doesn't have access to the blog....

see you tomorrow
james