VIDEO. La loi Veil, le Pape, Sarkozy et des pets au chocolat: Alexandre Astier commente l'actu Il prétend vivre dans une grotte et ne s'intéresser à l'actualité que pour nourrir ses fictions. Et encore, avec du recul. Mais, de passage dans les locaux de 20 Minutes, Alexandre Astier a participé à la vie de la rédaction le temps d'une réunion et a accepté de commenter l'actu du jour. De l'accès à l'IVG alors qu'on célèbre les 40 ans de la loi Veil au retour de Nicolas Sarkozy ou la saison du PSG, en passant par l'affaire Gayet-Hollande ou l'invention de la pilule qui parfume les pets au chocolat, le comédien et réalisateur a livré son sentiment. Alexandre Astier détaille son rapport à l'actualité, et le recul qu'il entend prendre avec les événements qui la font Vidéos: Jonathan Duron
Animated Information Graphics: Using Data and Motion to Reveal the Story In this class you'll learn how to create information graphics that use data and reveal stories through animation. You'll learn how to go from data/reporting to an engaging and animated information graphic. What You'll Learn An overview of the approach to starting with a set of data and assetsFiguring out the story and whats important or interesting about the dataCreating hierarchy of interesting elements and an organizational schemeWriting a scriptCreating the final storyboard We'll also cover things like best practices and some tips to keep in mind as you work on your project. What You'll MakeStudents will make a storyboard for an animated information graphic. Who This Class is ForThis class is for anyone is interested in data, information graphics, animation and telling compelling stories.
Patrias de nailon | La Historia se acelera Patrias de nailon, no me gustan ni los himnos ni las banderas. Mario Benedetti. Decía el recientemente fallecido Alcalde de Bilbao, Iñaki Azkuna, que las banderas han traído muchos problemas en este mundo y que, en general, han sido motivo de confrontación más que de unión. Me vienen estas palabras a la memoria estos días en que la Diputación guipuzcoana gobernada por Bildu erige en el centro de San Sebastián una enorme ikurriña en señal de protesta por la decisión legal de que la enseña española presida las balconadas de todas las instituciones. Siempre me ha angustiado la idea de verme atrapado bajo una de esas grandes banderas que en ocasiones los hinchas despliegan en las gradas de los campos de fútbol. Algunos nacionalismos, sobre todo los anclados en una visión romántica de la nación, viven de su retroalimentación y tienden a despreciar a quienes no nos alineamos en ninguno de los bandos de su particular litigio. Me pregunto qué nos une a los vascos. © 2014 Kioskoymas. Me gusta:
Transmogrification Shaman Mail Sets Guide (WoD 6.2) - World of Warcraft Table of Contents The aim of this guide is two-fold. First, we want to show you the item sets created for Shamans: tier sets, PvP sets, BoE items meant to be worn together, craftable sets, etc.. Second, we want to show you the models of all the items that a Shaman can wear so that you can design your own sets or complete sets found on our site or elsewhere. This page tackles our first objective (item sets). Below, you will find many sets that are still available in the game and that can be used for Transmogrification. The guide ends with a More Sets section that redirects to The Visual Roleplay Gear List, which is a great resource where you will find many more sets. To take the screenshots of the item sets, we used the model viewer from Wowhead. 1. 2. 3. The Visual Roleplay Gear List is a great reference if you want to take your Transmogrification experiences further, as they have many original sets that we do not cover here.
Research Trends: Special Focus, The Arts & Humanities The Arts & Humanities include a diverse range of subjects, including many of the oldest intellectual pursuits such as Philosophy, Religion, Music, History, Art, Theatre and Literature. These disciplines, along with fields such as Language, Linguistics and the History of Science, share a common concern with humanity and culture. This mutual interest means that we can expect much of the research in the Arts & Humanities to bridge disparate fields, in much the same way as modern scientific research increasingly links traditionally separate disciplines. One method for investigating this multidisciplinarity of research is to look at the citation links formed between journals when a paper published in one journal makes reference to a paper published in another. The Arts & Humanities landscape The Arts & Humanities as a subject area is only rarely the focus of bibliometric analyses, due to a common emphasis within the bibliometric community on citation analysis. Mapping journal context
Why Nerds are Unpopular February 2003 When we were in junior high school, my friend Rich and I made a map of the school lunch tables according to popularity. This was easy to do, because kids only ate lunch with others of about the same popularity. We sat at a D table, as low as you could get without looking physically different. My stock gradually rose during high school. I know a lot of people who were nerds in school, and they all tell the same story: there is a strong correlation between being smart and being a nerd, and an even stronger inverse correlation between being a nerd and being popular. Why? The key to this mystery is to rephrase the question slightly. One argument says that this would be impossible, that the smart kids are unpopular because the other kids envy them for being smart, and nothing they could do could make them popular. In the schools I went to, being smart just didn't matter much. If someone had told me that at the time, I would have laughed at him. Nerds don't realize this. Why?
Notre plus grand ennemi à tous? Notre zone de confort... - Express [FR] [PICTURE|sitecpic|lowres] Comment pouvons-nous produire du changement ? En théorie, c’est simple: il faut trouver ce que l’on veut changer, mettre au point un plan d’action et le mettre en œuvre. Nous ne voulons pas économiser une centaine d’euros, mais un million. La seule manière d’obtenir le changement est donc de déplacer cette zone de confort et de renoncer à certaines habitudes. Mais si vous ne quittez jamais votre zone de confort, vous ne prendrez jamais les habitudes que vous avez besoin de prendre pour réussir. Mais lorsque vous avez réussi à changer les habitudes qui vous empêchaient de vous réaliser, vous pouvez commencer à prendre les nouvelles habitudes qui vous permettront de pousser votre succès encore plus loin. Les idées, les concepts et les objectifs ne suffisent pas pour nous motiver. Chaque fois que vous recommencez à devenir paresseux, chaque fois que vous voulez renoncer, ou prendre une pause superflue, reprenez-vous.
Visual Literacy in an Age of Data Statistician Hans Rosling inserts himself into charts during a TED talk and creates a narrative around the data. Shazna Nessa explains visual literacy and why it’s critical for data visualizers to take it seriously. It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. Data visualization work in journalism has been flourishing over the past few years both to find and analyze data for investigative purposes and to present information to the public. Data Visualization and Journalism The word “visualization” once more readily described the act of creating a mental image in one’s mind, whereas today it’s far more likely to mean the graphical representation of information. Julie Steele of O’Reilly categorizes visualizations into three buckets, which can be a useful framework to keep in mind: Infographics use a small data set and significant manual design, such as this National Geographic graphic.Data visualizations use a large data set with less manual design; it’s algorithmic. Start Here
Nuestros hijos no son superfantásticos - El Blog de las Matemáticas El otro día hubo entrega de medallas en el Patronato deportivo de la ciudad donde vivo. Se hizo larguísima la ceremonia. Hubo medallas para todos. Ganadores y perdedores. A uno de mis hijos le tocó ganar. La escritora, psicóloga de profesión, se da cuenta de que llegan a su consulta veinteañeros desdichados y tira de manual. Cuenta la autora que, pese a los estilos pendulares de educar de distintas generaciones, los padres siempre han querido hijos felices. Ahora que a los adultos nos bombardean con la necesidad de ser resilientes, de saber afrontar las dificultades, no puede ser que les ahorremos todas a nuestros hijos. En EEUU, ese afán porque el niño sea feliz, ha llegado a que en algunos campamentos de verano se diga que “no son competitivos”, no vaya a ser que el niño se traumatice si no gana la medalla. Por todo esto, en el método Smartick nos gusta, primero, que el niño lo haga SOLO. Libros citados: The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement, por Jean M.
True Detective's Yellow King: A Daring Alternative Theory - The Atlantic I had barely finished my 2,000-word-plus deconstruction of how the finale of True Detective might play out—complete with freeze-frame screen captures and tons of what Marty Hart would rightly dismiss as "conjecture"—when it suddenly hit me. I was re-watching the series' penultimate episode, and there it was, right up on the screen. As Hart had promised more than once, the solution was right there under my nose—under all our noses. Let's begin with what we already know about the elusive, mythical central villain of the show, the Yellow King. Well, there's the obvious: He's a king, and he's yellow, the latter possibly being a synonym for blond. But why should the blond hair and the crown have to be one and the same? Are you with me yet? So what else do we know about the Yellow King? Still not there? But what if—and this is the leap you have to make with me—the Yellow King could be under our noses without having actually appeared on True Detective? April can't come soon enough.
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) Home Page On “Geek” Versus “Nerd” | Slackpropagation To many people, “geek” and “nerd” are synonyms, but in fact they are a little different. Consider the phrase “sports geek” — an occasional substitute for “jock” and perhaps the arch-rival of a “nerd” in high-school folklore. If “geek” and “nerd” are synonyms, then “sports geek” might be an oxymoron. In my mind, “geek” and “nerd” are related, but capture different dimensions of an intense dedication to a subject: geek - An enthusiast of a particular topic or field. Or, to put it pictorially à la The Simpsons: Both are dedicated to their subjects, and sometimes socially awkward. Do I have any evidence for this contrast? “You shall know a word by the company it keeps” ~ J.R. To characterize the similarities and differences between “geek” and “nerd,” maybe we can find the other words that tend to keep them company, and see if these linguistic companions support my point of view? Data and Method (Note: If you’re neither a geek nor a nerd, don’t be scared by the math. where in this case Results
Solar has won. Even if coal were free to burn, power stations couldn't compete | Giles Parkinson Last week, for the first time in memory, the wholesale price of electricity in Queensland fell into negative territory – in the middle of the day. For several days the price, normally around $40-$50 a megawatt hour, hovered in and around zero. Prices were deflated throughout the week, largely because of the influence of one of the newest, biggest power stations in the state – rooftop solar. “Negative pricing” moves, as they are known, are not uncommon. That's not supposed to happen at lunchtime. The influx of rooftop solar has turned this model on its head. The impact has been so profound, and wholesale prices pushed down so low, that few coal generators in Australia made a profit last year. Tony Abbott, the prime minister, likes to say that Australia is a land of cheap energy and he’s half right. The problem for Australian consumers (and voters) comes in the cost of delivery of those electrons – through the transmission and distribution networks, and from retail costs and taxes.