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Week 8 [11.05 - 17.05] The Wonders of The Molecular World

Our body consists of the smallest elements - molecules, that we couldn’t ever see even using the most powerful light microscope. So how can we deal with it? How can we analyze the way our immunity or DNA works and how can we understand and improve it? In the video below is described the process of molecules animation and how it helps to understand and change these processes. Questions: 1. Are you interested in genetics? 2. Do you like the video? What are your impressions? 3. Do you think changing the genome will be as commonplace as treating a cold?

Week 8 [11.05 - 17.05] Red Kangaroo

In the aridest region of Australia lives one the most enduring species of our planet - big red kangaroo, the largest marsupial in the world. His abilities are formed by millions of years of evolution. Those creatures are amazing in their adaptation to such harsh conditions. While thousands of animals died because of dehydration and hunger, big red kangaroos are strong enough to survive in these terrible conditions. So let’s find out how they do that. Source:  https://www.pinterest.com/pin/34621490870442152/ First of all, you need to know about the area of living of big red kangaroos. Australia is the oldest continent on the Earth and ¾ of its territory is desert. In the center of the mainland, only 13 cm of precipitation falls per year. The temperature here can rise up to 43 degrees Celsius. In Australia, there are no typical season changes, only the vagaries of nature. Source: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-largest-deserts-in-australia.html Males of large red ...

Week 8 [11.05 - 17.05] What Is the Spotify Sound?

What Is the Spotify Sound? The music we listen to is constantly evolving, one factor in this evolution is the medium through which we consume it.  The modern pop artists trying to reach a bigger audience need to adapt to the invisible rules that Spotify and other  streaming services impose on them. Minor sound changes might make a big difference in how much the artists makes  money from the streaming or even if their song lands in a popular Spotify playlist at all. The hosts of the sound field show on Youtube take a closer look of that phenomenon.  1. Do you use Spotify or an analogous streaming service for consuming music? Do you prefer it to the old medium of CD or Vinyls or even downloadable mp3s?  2. Are you a person that tends to listen to playlists or do you listen to albums from beginning to end?   3. Do you think that the way Spotify pays the artists is fair to them?    

Week 8 [11.05 - 17.05] Kowloon Walled City

Kowloon Walled City https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/KWC_-_Night.jpg Throughout the world there are a great number of cities and slums within them, where people find themselves  in crowded and tight living conditions carving out a life for themselves and their families, when crime and drug  abuse run rampant. None of these places however are as unique as Kawloon Walled City was. Although the city  was demolished in 1993, pictures and videos can still remind us of the dilapidations that people can live with  and their incredible ability to adapt to their surroundings. At its time it was the place with the  highest population density in the whole world, reaching almost 2 million people in a square kilometer. It's like  the whole Warsaw population would live in 1/15 area of just the Srodmiescie district. https://static.designboom.com/wp-content/dbsub/383563/2014-03-28/img_12_1396028304_2d7bd8058c5e5e517418654f16e...

Week 8 [11.05 - 17.05] Elon Musk’s Starlink, the future internet

Musk speaks: public beta satellite Internet will begin in 3~6 months! This will subvert not only 5G, but also "6..7 ... 8 ... 9" G Just this week, with the successful launch of 60 Starlink satellites, SpaceX’s Starlink has 420 satellites in orbit. According to Musk ,   who is the founder of SpaceX, their mission is to replace optical fibers and provide high speed, stable and cheap internet connections to the world. (Source: https://thumbs.gfycat.com/GrouchyNegativeKagu-small.gif ) In this magnificent blueprint, 12000 such satellites are needed, but the current process is only 3.5% completed (420). However, Musk is a genius of innovation and has courage to break the routine, so with the current 420 satellites, Musk hopes that the satellite internet will allow some people to use it first in these 3 months. What kind of crazy idea is this? Let's present the Starlink plan first. Musk’s ambitions for this plan are as large as his other projects. I also menti...

Week 8 [11.05 - 17.05] Jerzy Górski - a champion with many weaknesses, which became his greatest strength

Jerzy Górski was born on December 4, 1954 in Legnica. He is a Polish triathlete, world champion in double Ironman from September 3, 1990. He grew up at the turn of the 1960s and '70s. It was sad, gloomy, difficult years. As the master says, he used drugs out of stupidity but also out of boredom. Before drugs appeared in his life, cigarettes were first. He tried the first one when he was 12 years old, then smoked up to 100 a day. He was intoxicated with Tri fluid, glue, morphine. When he was on drug craving, he stole from pharmacies. Later, he began to produce the so-called compote, Polish heroin created from poppy straw. Poppy straw for the production of "Polish heroin". Jurek had a break in drugging in prison and also in psychiatrists. To break free, he made "swallowings" - he tied sharp objects with a thread, which he later drained down the esophagus. Later he went to the doctors to ask for release to the hospital. He reached the peak of madness when he...

Week 8 [11.05 - 17.05] SECRETS OF SUCCESS

Success … How hard it is to define this word. It probably means something different for each of us, although the overtone is one - it is a kind of victory. You can achieve success on a professional, family or personal level. But how to achieve it? What leads to success? Are there any tips, rules or principles to follow to be a successful person? I think the following material will help us understand a lot. 1. What is success and what leads to success for you? 2. Will any of these tips help you on your path to success? 3. Who is a "person of success" for you and why?

Week 8 [11.05 - 17.05] Funeral dancers

Recently, the Funeral dancers are very popular, I believe everyone also recognizes this fashionable group which has been conquering the world today, but I didn’t know this video was actually filmed by the BBC 2 years ago. I read a comment with the most "likes" in the video "A person is dead, but a meme is born." Why is there such a phenomenon? This is worth considering. (source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvWXwVWJiq4 ) questions: 1. Would you like to have this kind of funeral? or be a funeral dancer if it has a high salary? 2.What is your opinion of such perception of death and funeral by people in Ghana showed in the video? 3. Do you think such a funeral would be acceptable in other societies?

Week 8 [11.05 - 17.05] Four horsemen of apocalypse

Four horsemen of apocalypse… no, this is not some kind of motorbike gang, what I’m about introduce to you are prophecies relates to the famous Four Horsemen   , which are described in second part of Bible in the last book of the New Testament, which is called the Book of Revelation ( in  Greek , the word for Revelation is Ἀποκάλυψις or Apocalypse) , written by John the Theologian of Patmos. There is a chapter which relates to us the story of a doomsday revelation. The most common interpretation of this chapter is the description of a period in history when a large part of earth’s population would perish through a combination of wars, diseases, and hunger. In the Bible, these hardships are described as horsemen, riding in succession at the behest of  Jesus , in the form of the Lamb of God. Just before the four horsemen appear  the chapter begins by describing a God sitting on the throne and holding in his right-hand divine scroll seal...