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Simple Meditation!

Posted by Nick on April 15, 2010 at 13:28 pm

If you want to feel more calm, centered, and less anxious, this is a great video on a quick and simple meditation, which works! Enjoy!

The Crisis of Credit – How Recession Started!

Posted by Nick on April 13, 2010 at 19:24 pm

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

Here’s an informative and well designed video that explains the crisis of credit and therefore the recession that we are currently experiencing. This video is pretty simplified, there are many factors that are left out, and the crisis is indeed a little more complicated than this. However, for someone who is asking, “How did we get into this crisis in the first place?” this video will help out quite a bit. Enjoy!

Google: The Beast That Rules Us?

Posted by Nick on March 19, 2010 at 10:17 am

Do you doubt that Google will emerge as the world’s next superpower? Check this excellent video by Australian’s ABC1 comedy news show! It makes you think, doesn’t it?

THE BEAST FILE: GOOGLE (‘HUNGRY BEAST’, ABC TV) from Hungry Beast on Vimeo.

The World Is Flat by Thomas Friedman

Posted by Nick on September 17, 2009 at 23:37 pm

About The Lecture

Chances are good that Bhavya in Bangalore will read your next x-ray, or as Thomas Friedman learned first hand, “Grandma Betty in her bathrobe” will make your Jet Blue plane reservation from her Salt Lake City home. In “Globalization 3.0,” Friedman contends, people from far-flung places will become principal players in the marketplace.

In his latest book, The World is Flat, Friedman describes the unplanned cascade of technological and social shifts that effectively leveled the economic world, and “accidentally made Beijing, Bangalore and Bethesda next-door neighbors.” Today, “individuals and small groups of every color of the rainbow will be able to plug and play.” Friedman’s list of “flatteners” includes the fall of the Berlin Wall; the rise of Netscape and the dotcom boom that led to a trillion dollar investment in fiber optic cable; the emergence of common software platforms and open source code enabling global collaboration; and the rise of outsourcing, offshoring, supply chaining and insourcing. Friedman says these flatteners converged around the year 2000, and “created a flat world: a global, web-enabled platform for multiple forms of sharing knowledge and work, irrespective of time, distance, geography and increasingly, language.” At the very moment this platform emerged, three huge economies materialized — those of India, China and the former Soviet Union –“and three billion people who were out of the game, walked onto the playing field.” A final convergence may determine the fate of the U.S. in this final chapter of globalization. A “political perfect storm,” as Friedman describes it — the dotcom bust, the attacks of 9/11, and the Enron scandal — “distract us completely as a country.” Just when we need to face the fact of globalization and the need to compete in a new world, “we’re looking totally elsewhere.”