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This could be you during an air plane crash Among all means of transportations, air planes are relatively tremendously safe. Only problem though, unlike being a car driver, once the plane is launched, you don't really choose your speed or to fly safely. It's all going fast and high. IF something wrong happens, you're very likely to die. I find this unacceptable to not push safety to its extremes when it ...

Suite au succès incontestable du Coca-cola zéro, une version infecte et pleine de chimie d'un produit déjà pas très bon (pour la santé) mais bon quand même, le public a été jusqu'à créer un groupe Facebook (Pour la création du "Nutella Zero)suppliant Ferrero de mettre au point un Nutella Zero. Tout le plaisir du Nutella sans les calories, est-ce vraiment possible ? Voyons ça de plus près : FAISABILITÉ Nutella is ...

Having lately been utterly hooked to the series of speeches on TED.com, I bumped into this speech titled "What's wrong with what we eat". It depicts the history of food consumption in the United States, which in fact is exactly the same as in most "developed". In this field the US indeed played a precursor role in developping the food industry. Anyone who's done the minimum 4-hour reading on nutrition ...

It's interesting sometimes to project oneself in what we think the future will be and try to foresee what it will allow. Predicting the future is however not the easiest task but there is a few predictions that have a very high probability of happening. Among them, and it will deeply change the way we do things, the WEB OF DATA (or semantic web) is likely to be one ...

Ça faisait longtemps, je vous le concède. L'activité du blog est proportionnelle à 3 choses : Le temps que je perds tous les jours à lire des tonnes de flux RSS Le temps d'éveil qui n'est pas passé à travailler sur la thèse L'inspiration Pourquoi j'écris aujourd'hui ? Aucune de ces trois raisons bizarrement, je suis un peu en avance sur mon programme de la journée et vous êtes plusieurs à avoir demandé ...

In real life, this kind of superman usually scares people. Indeed, people don't like to be proven that humans (just like them) can do incredible things when (unlike them) they strongly believe in it and aren't afraid of failure. Tim Ferris is this superman. This guy is probably going to remain my biggest inspiration for 2009 for mainly 2 reasons. #1 : THE ART OF DECONSTRUCTING SKILLS This man's strength is ...

Neither fundamentally innovating nor world-changing, this business idea doesn't go however without getting my support. It's about offering not products or services, but experiences, the meaningful kind. French Entrepreneur Nicolas Ronco started in Manhattan a napping salon. Now you have an alternative to maintain a flexible lifestyle if your job application for Google was rejected. For 12 USD, you get to take a nap in a very comfortable long chair, ...

I want to applause with four hands that I don't have the speaker in this video. Dennis Wixon (Microsoft Surface) brings in this video an approach to predicting the future of any technology. His field of expertise is Human Machine Interaction, but the scientific approach he uses to foresee the coming technologies is really universal. Select a field, look deeply at the evolutions in the past that brought to the the ...

Many foreigners coming to live in Singapore sooner or later complain about Singapour being a boring island with nothing to do in it. No wonder the multiplicity of Singapore's cultural events is a funny joke for a Parisian or a New Yorker. Yet there is a few non-cultural activities one can do on evenings or week ends that will just spice up the daily routine. Among them, water sports ...

Après plus d'un an sur ce petit point rouge du planisphère, je souhaite revenir sur les premières impressions exprimées l'an dernier dans "Singapour - Premières impressions" pour donner une image un peu plus terre-à-terre de la vie à Singapour. Cout de la vie Je reste sur ma position, Singapour offre un pouvoir d'achat sensiblement plus important que celui de la France. La vie ici est plus simple et confortable qu'en ...