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Happy Birthday WWW

Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the Web in 1989, invites people to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Web, and also to join the activities organized by the World Wide Web Consortium (w3.org) and World Wide Web Foundation (webfoundation.org) in 2014 and beyond to address some of the threats to the future of the Web. As Berners-Lee says, "Together we have built an amazing Web. But we still have a lot to do so that the Web remains truly for everyone." For more information about Web25 activities, visit webat25.org.

http://www.webat25.org

Arab Women in Architecture

Whether i agree with this video on Arab Female Architects or not it's a good share, Enjoy =)

Published on Feb 23, 2014

"Arab Women in Architecture" is a documentary that has been produced as part of the activities of the 2013 sixth cycle of the Omrania | CSBE Student Award for Excellence in Architectural Design. It features stories on the experiences, challenges, and achievements of Arab women architects.

The full film was screened for the first time during the Award's sixth cycle ceremony, which took place on January 7, 2014 at the German Jordanian University's Othman Bdeir House for Architecture and Design in Amman, Jordan.

Additional information regarding the Award and the films produced through it is available at:

Websites:
www.csbe.org
www.omraniacsbeaward.org

Facebook:
www.facebook.com/csbe.org
www.facebook.com/Omrania.CSBE.Student.Aw­­ard

Twitter:
www.twitter.com/CSBE_Jordan
www.twitter.com/graduateaward

For inquiries, please contact us at 0096264615297 or send an email to info@omraniacsbeaward.org

The World Wide Web and the Next 25 Years by Tim Berners Lee

The World Wide Web and the Next 25 Years by Tim Berners Lee
Via Qatar Computing Research Institute

Picks from the 99U

Selected Talks from Behance event 99U
Tina Seelig: The 6 Characteristics of Truly Creative People from 99U on Vimeo.

Gretchen Rubin: The 4 Ways to Successfully Adopt New Habits from 99U on Vimeo.
Original at https://vimeo.com/99u/videos
Josh Reich: Design Is Not a Department from 99U on Vimeo.

Joe Gebbia: Executing Your Idea Starts With a Single Step from 99U on Vimeo.

Brené Brown: Why Your Critics Aren’t The Ones Who Count from 99U on Vimeo.

Simon Sinek: Why Leaders Eat Last from 99U on Vimeo.

new Courses at EdX

New online Courses on EdX
Effective Thinking Through Mathematics: Learn tools of effective thinking through puzzles and the world of mathematics around you in this fun and fascinating course.


About this Course
A wondrously romantic belief is that brilliant thinkers magically produce brilliant ideas: Einstein jostles his hair and relativity falls out. We can enjoy these fanciful visions of leaps of genius, but we should not be fooled into believing that they’re reality. Brilliant innovators are brilliant because they practice habits of thinking that inevitably carry them step by step to works of genius. No magic and no leaps are involved.
Professor Starbird will discuss how habits of effective thinking and creativity can be taught and learned through mathematics. Anyone who practices them will inevitably create new insights, new ideas, and new solutions. Join us for puzzles and discussions prior to the course on Twitter (@StarbirdThink) and Facebook
https://courses.edx.org/courses/UTAustinX/UT.9.01x/1T2014/info


The Science of Everyday Thinking
Learn how to think better, argue better, and choose better.

About this Course
We will explore everyday thinking: why people believe weird things, how we form and change our opinions, why our expectations skew our judgments, and how we can make better decisions. We discuss and debate topics such as medical diagnosis, paranormal phenomena, placebos, miracles, and more. You will learn how to evaluate claims, make sense of evidence, and understand why we so often make irrational choices. You will begin to rely on slow, effortful, deliberative, analytic, and logical thinking rather than fast, automatic, instinctive, emotional, and stereotypical thinking. The course provides tools for how to think independently, how to be skeptical, and how to value data over personal experience. We will examine the mental shortcuts and rules-of-thumb that people use and misuse, and apply this knowledge to everyday situations to help make better decisions.

The Think101 team has travelled far and wide to film conversations with some very clever people including: Daniel Kahneman, who won the Nobel in economic science; Elizabeth Loftus who pioneered the study of false memories; and even the MythBusters about testing claims and distinguishing between fact and fiction. We met 21 leading thinkers from across the world and combined hundreds of hours of conversations, demonstrations, and assessment into short episodes on how to evaluate claims, learn and remember information better, and improve everyday thinking.
https://www.edx.org/course/uqx/uqx-think101x-science-everyday-thinking-1185

Architecture is listening

Jean Nouvel

Architecture is listening

Following is a short interview with Jean Nouvel on his works and views on #Architecture
#Recommended