Language

Visit http://beginnersfrenchlessons.com/ for your next French lesson. In lesson 2 you’ll learn how to ask, “What is your name?” and how to say, “My name is” in French. To ask what is your name to a stranger or somebody older than you ask, “Comment vous appelez-vous?”. For somebody your own age or younger than you ask, “Comment tu t’appelles?” To answer, say “Je m’appelle + Your Name. So, I’d say, “Je m’appelle David.”

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com

The lack of clean drinking water is a major problem worldwide. The World Health Organization says more than one billion people live in areas where renewable water resources are not available. The problem is especially serious in Asia and the Pacific.
A United Nations report says water availability in that area is the second lowest in the world, after Africa.
Nearly seven hundred thousand people in Asia and the Pacific lack safe drinking water. The U.N. report notes that the world’s poorest countries are also the ones that use the most water for agriculture. Agriculture uses about eighty percent of the water in the Asia-Pacific area. There has also been an increase in water used for industry. China and India more than tripled their industrial water use between nineteen ninety-two and two thousand two.
The lack of clean drinking water around the world forces millions of people to drink unsafe water.
This leads to an increase in diseases like diarrhea, the second leading cause of death in children under five. Floods, droughts, pollution and
climate change have created
even more problems.
The Millennium Development Goals
for two thousand fifteen call for a
fifty percent decrease in the number
of people without safe drinking water
and basic sanitation.
Scientists, governments and aid organizations around the world are increasing their efforts to meet these goals. Still, the U.N. says there is much work to be done. During its yearly World Water Day observance in March it called on the international community to work together to solve the water crisis. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are doing just that.
The American and South Korean researchers are investigating a new technology for turning sea water into drinking water. The new technology is called ion concentration polarization. The process uses electricity to
help separate electrically charged
salt particles from water to
make it drinkable.
The researchers tested their desalination process on a computer chip the size of a postage stamp.
The chip removed ninety-nine percent of the salt and other harmful substances from water samples.
So far the method purifies only small amounts of water. But the researchers say it may someday be available as a personal water purification product.
And that’s the VOA Special English Development Report.

(Adapted from a radio program broadcast 05Apr2010)

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http://www.edge-online.com/blogs/the-power-tangential-learning

Episode Three in my series of video “lectures,” made in association with Edge.

I’m pleased to introduce game designer James Portnow, cofounder of Divide By Zero Games. He and I will be partnering up to bring you these lectures from here on.

Loosely modeled after Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw’s Zero Punctuation reviews. For the first time, NOT made to be presented on screen in the classroom.

I can be reached at floydo_animation at yahoo dot com.
James can be reached at jportnow at gmail dot com.

Like the intro/outro music? Download the full tracks here!

Penguin Cap

http://www.carbohydrom.net/music/CarboHydroM_-_Penguin_Cap.mp3

Walk on Water
http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01527/

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http://commoncraft.com A short explanation of RSS and how it helps you save time reading the web.
This video comes in an unbranded “presentation quality” version that can be licensed for use in the workplace.
http://www.commoncraft.com/store-item/rss_plain_english

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Basic Information about Brazil (location, language, population, discover, independence etc.)

Some regions, states and cities (more to come…) are mentioned and commented.

Content Areas: Geography, History and Social Sciences in general

Designed for all non-Brazilians who want to learn more about the country

I hope you keep following the series and end up knowing more about my country!

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Professor Daniel Willingham describes research showing that learning styles are a myth

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Watch how education can change the world.

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