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13 décembre 2020 7 13 /12 /décembre /2020 12:00

Click on the wheel and let it decide what you must say in English !

Entraîne-toi oralement, de manière aléatoire...

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28 février 2014 5 28 /02 /février /2014 18:03

THE IDEA OF PROGRESS

The Daily Telegraph TECH news reporter Miranda Prynne tells us about the top emerging technologies : a top ten list has been composed by the WEF (World Economic Forum) : each innovating technology was selected for its actual "positive impact on the world".

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http://media.caspita.ch/media/40201/telegraph_couv.jpg

(26 Feb 2014)

Here's the full list of the top 10 emerging technologies :

 Brain-computer interfaces

Mining metals from desalination brine

Nanostructured carbon composites 

Grid-scale electricity storage

Body-adapted wearable electronics 

Nanowire lithium-ion batterie:

Screenless display

Human microbiome therapeutics

RNA-based therapeutics

 

Quantified self (predictive analytics) 

Would you reorder the ten technologies differently ?

Which one would be your #1 ? Which one would be your #10 ? Why ?

Explain your answers.

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14 février 2014 5 14 /02 /février /2014 19:06

Human lungs are currently being grown in a lab in Texas

and here's how :

http://www.pdclipart.org/albums/Medical/normal_lungs_diagram.png

The video below presents two researchers from the University of Minnesota working on the same issue :

 

2 related articles from :  

NY Daily News (Feb. 15, 2014) :

« Scientists in Texas 'grow' uman lungs in a lab » by Victoria Taylor

Medical Daily (Feb. 14, 2014) 

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15 septembre 2013 7 15 /09 /septembre /2013 11:02

"Where do good ideas come from ?"

Watch the animation closely : you'll get useful vocabulary in the semantic field of progress, creativity and innovation :

 

"  Where do good ideas come from ?" was written

by Steven Johnson

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