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How to make clear a scientific concept
Number of Comments » 2When you are a researcher in a scientific field, there are many ways to make people understand what you are working on: the classic way is to teach them the phenomenon in a class, but of course it is only aimed for students. For a larger public, you can make a conference, but the problem [...]
The last summary!
Number of Comments » 0Hello,
I’m unhappy to tell you this will be the last English lesson summary of this semester.
So last time, we read an article from the Chemistry World written on February 2008. It was about a new reactor invented by researchers at a laboratory situated in New Mexico: they made a successful process to recycle carbon dioxide [...]
A new way to travel!
Number of Comments » 1A friend of mine decided two years ago to create a Tour Operator specialized in motorcycle tours in India. He went to this country for his third year with his Ecole de Commerce, and there discovered many nice places.
Before going to India, he never made any motorcycle in his life. Because he found in this [...]
The beauty of old english movies…
Number of Comments » 0I really want here to introduce you an English movie I saw yesterday night: it’s called “The Picture of Dorian Gray”. It was produced on 1945: I know the year is a bit frightened because you all think black & white movie, no interesting music, unknown actors and a very strange way to dress… But [...]
About Internet secrets and statistics…
Number of Comments » 3This post will be about international and national website statistics: who doesn’t want to know which is the most popular website in the world or in his country? So many questions about website statistics are interesting but very difficult to answer!
I found out few months ago a very nice website which moves aside my curiosity: [...]
The end of streaming websites?
Number of Comments » 2 One of the most popular French websites, “Chacal Stream” have just closed down during the last days! Two months ago, on Monday 29th of January, his French admin was arrested by the French police.
Popular American films and series are used to be downloaded everyday by 38.000 people and about 280.000 connections [...]
For guitar amateurs!
Number of Comments » 3Hello everyone!
I’m sure you all like watching guitar video everynight before going bed… For those who play and those who love listening to incredible and original guitar music, the video is for you! Just have a look on what follows
He is making what guitar players call “tapping”: he just hit on the guitar [...]
How to make clear a scientific paper…
Number of Comments » 2We saw during the last english lesson the better way to make an abstract easier to understand. In fact, if you want to be clear in your explonations, you may follow this typical order when you write an abstract:
Start with some background information
Explain the principal activity of the study and its scope
Expose some information about the [...]
What about new technology?
Number of Comments » 2During this lesson, we read an article taken from the website newscientist.com. It was about a device designed to generate power while people walk. The idea consists in a backpack you carry and it generates a power of 7 watts, taken from the ordinary motion of our bodies. It contains fibres that produce a voltage [...]