English Conversation Course

For decades masses of Poles have been leaving Poland in search for a better world. Although directions of the migrations have been changing, the most popular target countries remained: Germany, UK, USA, France, Australia, Brazil, Canada and Norway. Statistics say that up to 35.5% of all Poles in the world live outside Poland and in the USA alone there are 10 million of them. In many factory-based countries, Poles are majority of the employees. For instance, Swedish Tacx which produces top notch cycle trainers and rollers employs almost exclusively Poles. What is more, Poles work also at the shipyards in Norway, where citizens complain about losing jobs to the immigrants.                                                            The reasons to leave Poland are quite obvious, but do you think is it hard to leave homeland? Are...

The future is closer than you think. Modifying humans genetically has been debated by scientists all over the world and it's a very hot ethical issue.  Working on genes either to create a superior kind of people or simply to choose one visual trait over the other still raises a lot of questions. In the 90's about 30 healthy babies were born with a genetic material from three people and they will pass on their "mutation" to the next generations. These children were born to women who had problems conceiving. Extra genes from a female donor had been inserted into their eggs before they were fertilized to help the mothers to conceive. Nowadays in some countries there already is a way to choose the gender of a child (called preimplantation genetic diagnosis) which involves implanting only male or female embryos. But of course some people have a problem with not using all the embryos created. So there is a new technique that is also getting more popular which uses ...

I would like to show you an interesting group and their projects that I've found. PanGenerator is a new media art group that was founded in Warsaw in 2010 by four guys - Krzysztof Goliński, Jakub Koźniewski, Piotr Barszczewski, Krzysztof Cybulski. Their projects can be seen in galleries, museums and art festivals. They create both very large, impressive installations and small yet innovative gadgets. Regardless of their size, they both always stand out by being highly interactive and expressive. They almost always try to engage their audience and make them become an active part of creating art and use new technologies to find new ways of looking at art world. CONSTELLACTION Video:  http://vimeo.com/76479685 This installation was made in 2013 for the Copernicus Science Center. It's an interactive project that contains 400 blocks. Every one reacts to light (and lack thereof) by lighting up for a short time and making a sound. If there is another block nearby it ca...

Video mapping is a part of VideoArt. Video mapping also known as projection mapping,   mapping, video mapping 3d, spacial augmented reality- they all mean the same. What is the definition of „mapping”? It’s a projection technology, which uses videoprojectors. The projection is displayed on an object. Of course an object must be mapped earlier. It is mapped for a better effect. Simply “the display of an image on an arbitrarily complex surface”. This phenomenon consists of art and technology. Vizualization whitch will be displayed must be matched with the object well. Then the effect is amazing. A flat surface can become space as well. Additionally, the cooperation of light and music is really important in this technique. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX6JcybgDFo This is amazing mapping. It’s one of the best mapping which I’ve ever seen. Many people created this project: programmists, motion designers and many others. „The first known instance of pr...

Internet television is a hot topic nowadays. It appears everywhere: in the traditional TV (“Hey, just after my program go to www.something and watch the rest of the episode”), in ads in magazines:“New episode of …. TV premiere: This Sunday. Watch today on www.somethingelse ”. http://findingmyinnerbombshell.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/img_0933.jpg I believe everyone with the Internet access did already watch some kind of TV show on the Internet. In my opinion we will be soon trying to get rid of TV and everything you want to watch will be available on the Internet, from legal sources, of course.

What do you think about people who teach other people how to live, how to be successful? I used to think that it’s some kind of a joke. How can another person even think that he can teach me a better life? http://www.studiohajo.nl/wpcontent/uploadedImages/2012/11/nextcoachcover.gif However , observing that “coaches” are earning more and more (source: http: //www.forbes.com/sites/russprince/2012/12/03/howlifecoachesbecomeverywealthy / ) and becoming popular people, I have decided to give this topic another look. In the past I only heard about coaches from across the ocean. Surprisingly, this ‘fashion’ came to Poland and we have our own coaches like Mateusz Grzesiak. He’s 34 years old and he teaches people how to be successful. Sounds weird? I did also think that it’s some kind of scam, just the way to make people pay money. He’s only 34. He’s just a little bit older than me and you. Well, maybe he remembers communism but… did he learn anything special living in ‘old times’?...

As I have noticed, many of you are active and like sports. I'm sure that you have heard about marathons, but have you heard about ultramarathons ?     The word of marathon comes from ancient times, from a Greek messenger -Pheidippides. The legend of this messenger said that he was sent from the battlefield of Marathon back to Athens. He was supposed to deliver a victory message to announce that the Persians had been defeated. After running 42.195 km without stopping, right before his death he exclaimed 'we have won'. The current idea of marathon was presented by Michel Breal for the purpose of the first modern Olympics in 1896.     Ultramarathons are something more than the mythical marathon. Ultra distance run is any event which involves running, walking on distances longer more than the distance of a regular marathon. The most common distances are 50km and 100km, but there are many far longer. Ultramarathons are often held in very harsh conditions, e....