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Takeaway university

In Wikipedia, the definition for take-out (takeaway) is “food purchased at a restaurant for the purpose of being eaten elsewhere. The restaurant may or may not provide table service.” So what would that make a Takeaway University?
Is it a university where the education is purchased for the purpose of being consumed somewhere else, [...]

10 movies that you may not have watched, but might want to hunt down

When I watched “The Stoning of Soraya M.” yesterday, I thought to come up with another 9 movies to create a list of movies that you may not have watched, but might want to hunt down.
You will notice a strong Indian theme in my selection. When I lived in Munich, it was very easy to [...]

My future of education

Dave Cormier and George Siemens requested help in determining the future of education. In my vision brainstorm I produced the following video response.
[HD quality available on the YouTube page]
I used the song “Learn to Fly” by Josh Woodward. It is one of my favorite songs, and I think it fits quite nicely in this context [...]

Slow-moving, solitary, but adaptable

Bob Reuter drew my attention to the Web Behaviour Test that can be found on the BBC site. I created an account and took the test. My answers revealed that I am a web bear who has the following characteristics:

Slow-moving: Web Bears like you browse the internet at a leisurely pace – just like real [...]

Losing the monopoly

A few days ago I learned that this building will be torn down soon.
Delhaize, the Belgian supermarket chain that currently resides in this building will tear it down to construct a new one. Though the old name of the store was not taken down when Delhaize moved in, this supermarket chain did not have [...]