Kategori: English

What has Changed?

In a winter day of 2009 a new president was walking to the White House. People were screaming for him. They had the hope for ‘change’. Nothing was the same anymore. The union was iminant. People...

Man as Industrial Palace

“Man as Industrial Palace” is a nicely executed animation project by Henning Lederer. What’s the main idea? Well, its name pretty much implies that. You will look at the human body with the eyes of an...

How to say “2010”?

Say the year “1810” out loud. Now say the year “1999” out loud. See a pattern? It’s been easier, faster, and shorter to say years this way for every decade (except for the one that just...

Keeping Track of Cabinet Members’ Cellphones

Waow. That was interesting. You know, press mentioned the name of the US President Obama nearly always with his “Change” campaign last year and his administration’s way of using social media have been praised. But what...

Eid-al Adha!

Wow!.. It was Eid-al Adha again. In Turkish words “Kurban Bayrami”, which means “Festival of Sacrifice”. Eid al-Adha annually falls on the 10th day of the month of Dhul Hijja and it lasts for four days....

Social Media: Is it really a good thing?

US president Barack Obama answered questions at a Virginia high school yesterday. And a sentence of him about social media is worth to mention: Asked by one student how he could become President someday, Obama issued...