Commisceo is a British organisation and a website that offers help with understanding different cultures. The website gives you lots of information about cultures all over the world and some quizzes and questions to test your cultural knowledge. Check it out!
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A phone to feel good about?
Since we were talking about sustainable product design last week, discussing the need for longevity and repairability as well as social and environmental values becoming a natural part of doing business, there seems to be a cell phone accomplishing theses issues: the Fairphone 2. It’ s a modular phone, ethically produced, open and build to last.
The only point to raise questions is why the developers have chosen Android 5.1 Lollipop with Google Apps and Google Play Store as operating system. Sure there would have been alternate solutions…
The weird world of numbers
Last week we did some maths, trying to compute the side length of a cube that would contain our average yearly per-capita oil consumption in the Western countries.
If you’re more deeply interested in how mathematics work in English, I can recommend a wonderful series of videos by the wonderfully enthusiastic Dr James Grime and his colleagues. Here’s an example:
Go and check out the rest at their YouTube channel, Numberphile.
More about Google
For those who are interested, National Public Radio and The New York Times are continuing the debate about Google, and their website even gives you a transcript. Times have never been better for learning English!