“Margie and
I hate being homeschooled. We don’t understand why you would choose to be
homeschooled. Wouldn’t you have more fun and friends in a school? Also, wouldn’t
you learn more?
Several
people believe that homeschooling is not a viable alternative because it
does not allow students to improve their knowledge nor to make more friends. However,
this is one of the many misconceptions about homeschooling. Undoubtedly, homeschooling
provides students several benefits. For instance, since I started working at
the local Natural History Museum, I have improved my knowledge. I am saying
this because I have learned a lot of interesting things related to Biology. As
you can see, children learn best without textbooks, schedules, and tests. Furthermore,
I have met a lot of people with whom I interact all the time. Sometimes I play basketball with a
homeschooled team. Not only that, but also I began running in community races
at age 13 in order to keep my body in shape. I hope the number of homeschooling
teenagers continues increasing.
In thisvideo, David Byrne presents his ideas on the interrelationship between music and architecture. David Byrne has played in many nice places like the Disney hall and places like that. They have been very exciting, but sometimes those halls didn't seem suited to the music he had made.
He thinks that he wrote his songs for specific rooms. Furthermore, he explained how the nature of the romantic words could make the songs better. Most of the Republican songs that we know have a big part of its roots in West Africa. Besides, he mentioned that in Africa, the instruments, the intricate rhythms, the setting,and the contest are all perfect. So, the music works perfectly.
Carnegie hall became popular and the halls got bigger Carnegie hall’s fair size and it is largerthan some of the other symphony halls.
Because of the reservation in those rooms like Carnegie hall, the music had to be a little less with making a little more textural.
Jazz band started to improvise new melodies and a new form of music was born. This band played on riverboats and clubs.
Thomas Frank assumed that if voters hear something that sounds sincere and is more passionate, is more authentic. So, if somebody can fake sincerity, if they can fake passion, they stand a better chance.
MY PERSONAL REACTION
Maybe, people who are interested in music could enjoy this speech given by David Byrne. However, this video seems to me so nice. I agree with him when he says that a lot of songs are created for a particular context, specifically clubs, dancing, and social music events. Furthermore, creativity is what we need if we want to compose good songs for a specific place that we have in mind.
In this video, Adam Savage is talking about some famous scientists. He focuses on three examples: Feynman’s childhood inspiration from observing a ball in a wagon, the discovery of the circumference of the earth, and Fizeau’s ingenious device for measuring the speed of light. He says that their curiosity changed the way people thought about the world, and thus it changed the world.
Richard Feynman solved the Challenger disaster, and he ended up winning the Nobel Prize in Physics for his Feynman diagrams describing the movement of subatomic particles.
Eratosthenes is most remembered for began in a letter that he received from the town of Swenet. The letter included this fact that stuck in Eratosthenes’ mind, and the fact was that the writer said at noon on the solstice, when he looked down this deep well, he could see his reflection at the bottom, and he could also see that his head was blocking the sun.
Eratosthenes understood that the sun was directly above the city of Swenet, because looking down a well, it was a straight line all the way down the well, right past the guy’s head up to the sun. He knew that a stick stuck in the ground in Alexandria at the same time and the same day, at noon, the sun’s zenith, on the solstice, the sun cast a shadow that showed that it was 7.2 degrees off-axis. In fact, he invented the word geography.
Aristotle noticed that every time you saw the Earth’s shadow on the Moon it was circular and the only shape that constantly creates a circular shadow is a sphere.
Armand Fizeau was an experimental physicist in Paris. His speciality was actually refining and confirming other people’s results. He was familiar with Galileo’s experiments in trying to determine whether or not light had a speed. So, Galileo had worked out this really wonderful experiment. He assumed that light was roughly 10 times as fast as the speed of sound.
Fizeau was aware of this experiment. He lived in Paris, and he set up two experimental stations, roughly five and a half miles distant, in Paris. And he solved this problem of Galileo’s, and he did it with a really relatively trivial piece of equipment.
Most people think of science as a closed, black box, when in fact it is an open field. And we are all explorers. The people that made these discoveries just thought a little bit harder about what they were looking at, and they were a little bit more curious.
MY PERSONAL REACTION
In my opinion, this talk was so fascinating and it allowed me to improve my knowledge. It is important to mention that those scientists were so intelligent, and their curiosity allowed them to discover many important things related to science. Inreality, we don’t need to be like Feynman or Einstein, but if we incorporate just a little of our curiosity and sense of wonder about the world, we might continue making the world a better place to live. Of course, all of these discoveries are made possible by technology that’s been developed in the last few decades.
Google is considered the best company to
work for in The United States. Many people are having so much fun working in
this company and they have been in the news with record profits huge
acquisitions. Fortune magazine thinks that this company is the best place to
work in America for several reasons:
. There are eleven gourmet
restaurants in the offices and all the food is free.
. You can find a free fitness center and a
barber shop.
. There are pool tables and lap pools for
exercise.
. Employees can take their pets to work.
. You can find massage stations there.
. There are five doctors and they
are all free, too.
. It gives its employees five thousand
dollars.
. Engineers can spend 20% of time on
independent projects.
Furthermore, this company is posting
record profits with huge margins and growing so fast.
MY PERSONAL
REACTION
Google is the most wonderful and amazing place to work! If I had the opportunity to travel to The United States, I would like to work for this big company.
I think that all the companies should try to be like Google. As you can see, nowadays, there are a lot of people who feel stressed because they must work for many hours. So, companies should provide massage stations to the coworkers. And not only that, In my opinion, employees should get some facilitates and receive a good salary with the purpose of having a good lifestyle. They need to be motivated, too.
In this amazing video, Simon Sinek describes how it is that great leaders inspire action, and why some people are able to achieve things, when others are not.At first, he explains a new way of looking at how people approach what they do. Then, he discusses the Law of Diffusion of Innovation, and weaves it all together with several brilliantly told examples.
A few years ago, Simon Sinek discovered a pattern that he found in all the great leaders (individuals and companies). He called it the “Golden Circle”. It explains why some leaders are able to inspire when others aren’t.
How in the center, surrounded by Why, surrounded by a larger circle What.
Everybody knows What they do. Some know how they do it. But, very few people or organizations know Why they do it. As you know, inspired organizations and people think, act, and communicate from the inside out. However, people don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it. After all,the goal is not just to hire people who need a job, but it is necessary to hire people who believe what you believe.
If you hire people who just need a job, they will work for your money. But, if you hire people who believe what you believe, they will work for you with blood, sweat and tears. One example of this could be Wright Brothers. Nowadays, when you ask why people fail, they always give you some permutation of the same three things:
1. Undercapitalized
2. The wrong people
3. Unfavorable market conditions
People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it. if you talk about what you believe, you will attract those who believe what you believe. For example, Microsoft sells the What, and sometimes the How, but Apple sells the Why.
THE LAW OF DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION
The law of diffusion of innovation shows that the adoption curve can be segmented out into the following sections:
1. Innovators
2. Early Adopters
3. Early Majority
4. Late Majority
5. Laggards
The early majority will not try something, until somebody else tries it first. These early guys are comfortable doing that, living intuitively, based on what they believe about the world (The Why), not just what is available (The What).
MY PERSONAL REACTION
Without a doubt, this talk given by Simon Sinek is one of the most amazing videos I have ever watched in my life, and I could not agree more with him.Getting people to buy your beliefs and values definitely will create success.
In my personal opinion, it is important to be innovators if we want to become successful people. Furthermore, we shouldn't lose our sense of curiosity. Reading is a good way to connect with others and understand them. Lastly, keep an open mind that not everyone is going to think like you. In doing those things, you will always be an innovated leader.
I liked how Simon Sinek demonstrated the success and failure of some products, and companies. I think many people buy into the "way" a company operates and communicates its "way" to the world. However, there are so many other factors besides marketing to get right.
As you
can see, a boom in car sales has caused traffic in
many cities.Nowadays, there is a big concern on top of urban transportation. Many
planners don’t know how to speed up the traffic: putting more buses on the road
will jam the roads, and building more subway is costly and time consuming.
Well, I think that the straddling bus is a cheaper, greener and fast
alternative.
It will have an important
effect in the society because it will reduce traffic jams by 25 to 30 percent
on main routes. As you know, there is a lot of traffic and noise pollution in
China, so Beijing is eager to reduce carbon emissions. Without a doubt, the straddling bus
will provide a solution. I hope the Chinese Company starts the operation in
many countries as soon as possible.
