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Design as a Problem Solving Tool from IBM Design on Vimeo.

For part three, we’ll hear from three design educators who work with aspiring designers in all different phases of their professional design journey—from high school, to college, to the workplace. They’ll discuss design practices and topics they teach and utilize in their spaces around design and design thinking to solve wicked, human problems, all while inspiring students and colleagues to have fulfilling careers in the field of design.

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TUTORIAL: 2 MIN STORIES from Jeremy Waite on Vimeo.

How do you tell a compelling story about a complex topic in 2 MINUTES? Here's my quick breakdown of a superb story told by IBM CTO Andy Stanford-Clark to show how he did it, and how you can use a similar structure to tell better stories.

QUANTUM STORYTELLING from Jeremy Waite on Vimeo.

A rare look behind the scenes at my notes, showing how one of IBM's biggest announcements in 110 years came to life recently, via an impressive presentation by IBM Research SVP Dario Gil.   Every now and again you hear a brilliant talk, or find yourself captivated by a great presenter, but it's not often that you get a brief look at what made the speech SO good and why it worked. I hope you find this brief analysis of Dario's talk interesting and useful. Maybe you'll even pick up a few ideas for the next important presentation you need to give.

usatoday

Dubke's resignation was first reported by Axios

He’s been on the jobs for three months.

usatoday

More young people are staying with their folks, but one experience doesn't describe all of them, the report's author cautions.

There is nothing new about comments on how “kids these days” are different from the generations that came before them. In the case of Millennials, the U.S. Census Bureau has some data to back those observations up.

“Today’s young adults look different from prior generations in almost every regard: how much education they have, their work experiences, when they start a family, and even who they live with while growing up,” says a report from the Census Bureau released Wednesday.

The report looks at changes in social, economic and demographic trends among young American adults, defined as ages 18 to 34, over the past 40 years.

Me: *listening to a song in my target language*

Me: *happens to understand a single word*

Me: Ah, yes, fluency. So this is the divine feeling of proficiency. Today, a new height has been reached. All of my labor has finally come to fruition

#done

useless-italyfacts-blog

There’s no such thing as “pepperoni” in Italy, even though it is a corruption of the Italian word “peperoni” (sweet peppers). The most similar Italian food is “salame piccante” (spicy salami).

tedywestside

Then how do i order a pepperoni and pineapple pizza next time I’m in Italy?

itsjaneshepard

@tedywestside your pepperoni pizza is “pizza con salame piccante” and pinapple pizza is “ho bisogno di andare in chiesa a confessare i miei peccati pizza”

linguistisch

memoriasedesmemoria

😂 povo criativo com pizza merece o purgatório!

#pizza #italianpizza

me: *opens duolingo*

me: *has 25 skills to strengthen*

me: *closes duolingo*

limbile

Little fact about French because I just learned that

The accent circonflexe (^) exists in French words to replace the “s” that no longer exists but used to be there in older French.

For example: fenêtre used to be fenestre

It is still possible to see the “s” at times in family words like “défenestrer”.

culmaer

knowing this, « être » becomes much more regular :

être → estre (es, est, sommes, ê[s]tes, sont ; ser-)

some French derivations become clearer :

fenêtre → défenestrer → L. fenestra

fête → festival

hôpital → hospitaliser (E. hospital, ise)

intérêt → intéressant (E. interest, -ing)

ancêtre → ancestral (E. ancestor, -ral)

arrêt → arrestation

épître → épistolaire (E. epistle)

some English cognates become more obvious :

hôtel → hostel (E. ‘hotel’ borrowed from French)

forêt → forest (tipp to remember ^ goes on the ‹e›)

bête → beast

côte → coast

honnête → honest

pâte, pâté → pasta, paste

quête → quest

enquête → inquest

tempête → tempest

vêtements → vestments (ie. clothes)

baptême → baptism

sometimes, the acute replaces the circumfex for phonetic reasons :

ḗcole → escole → L. schola (E. school)

ḗtranger → estrangier (E. stranger)

ḗtudier → estudier (E. study)

dḗgoûtant → desgoustant (E. disgusting)

dḗbarquer → desembarquer (E. disembark)

rḗpondre → respondre (E. respond)

rḗpublique → L. res publica

Also, where « c → ch » (eg. cantare→ chanter) :

château → castel (E. castle)

pêcher → L. piscare

and « w → gu » (eg. war→ guerre ; warden→ guardian) :

guêpe → E. wasp ! (this is my n° 1 favourite cognate)

bonus etymologies :

tête → L. testa

fantôme → L. phantasma (E. ‘phantom’ borrowed from French)

Pâques → Gk. pásxa → Am. pésaḫ (E. Paschal)

Also just be aware that the circumflex has some other uses too, like distinguishing « sur — sûr » or « dû » and the vowel quality in « âge »

hayley-studies

Where was this post when I was doing A-Level French! This is actually a really interesting language change called “syncope” (the loss of a medial segment within a word) and what makes it even more interesting to me is that not only was the -s- dropped post vocalically and largely before voiceless stops, but that the circumflex was (unnecessarily but coolly) adopted as an orthographic marker of the lost -s-. Even more interesting is that syncope usually occurs in vowels. I love this.

memoriasedesmemoria

Très utile!