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Cities, Culture, Education, Tours, Travel, Videos

Travel Tours: What It’s Like To Grow Up In Prague (DW)

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DW Euromaxx (November 23, 2024): Prague – a city straight out of a fairytale, with its cobblestone streets, iconic red rooftops, and famed Czech beer. But beyond the picture-perfect image, what is life really like in the capital of the Czech Republic?

CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 00:46 Living arrangements 02:36 Getting around 03:18 Roza’s work as a greenfluencer 04:56 Cost of living 05:37 Studying in Prague 06:24 Social life

Is it still as magical for locals as it is for tourists? We follow 21-year-old student Rozárie to find out.

#Prague #Czechia #dweuromaxx

Analysis, Economics, Education, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

Analysis: ‘The American Economy’ (Oct. 19, 2024)

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Special reports: The envy of the world

The Economist SPECIAL REPORTS (October 15, 2024): The latest special report features “The American Economy” – The envy of the world…

The envy of the world

The American economy has left other rich countries in the dust. Expect that to continue, argue Simon Rabinovitch and Henry Curr

The American economy has left other rich countries in the dust

American productivity still leads the world

Is higher inequality the price America pays for faster growth?

The shale revolution helped make America’s economy great

Why the American stockmarket reigns supreme

China’s yuan is nowhere close to displacing the greenback

What can stop the American economy now?

Architecture, Buildings, Education, Tours, Videos

History & Design: Central Park In New York City

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Architectural Digest (September 19, 2024) – Michael Wyetzner of Michielli + Wyetzner Architects joins AD in New York as he returns to Central Park to explore the thousands of years of history found there.

Video timeline: 00:00 Intro 00:28 Columbus Circle 01:55 Glen Span Arch 03:44 Cleopatra’s Needle 05:45 The Blockhouse 06:41 The Arsenal 08:23 McGown’s Pass 10:40 Strangers’ Gate

Although Central Park itself would not have existed 200 years ago, you can track the use of the land back 13,000 years. From ancient Native American trails to billion-year-old rocks, take an in-depth look at the thousands of years of history housed inside this iconic park.

Education, Reviews, Travel, Videos, Views

Lifestyles: Living On A Narrowboat In England

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DW Euromaxx (September 7, 2024): Paul and Anthony Smith-Storey sold their house to buy a narrowboat and travel the canals of North West England full-time.

Has radically changing their surroundings made them truly happier, and what can we learn from them? You’ll find out in our new series ‘Living Differently.’

CHAPTERS: 00:00 Intro 00:55 Inside Paul and Anthony’s narrowboat 02:36 How much does it cost them? 04:21 Tips for a lifestyle change

#DWEuromaxx #LivingDifferently #Narrowboat

Education, Reviews, Travel, Videos, Views

Reviews: What Life Is Like At Cambridge University

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DW Euromaxx (August 10, 2024): Studying at the world-famous University of Cambridge is a dream for many international students. So, what’s it like to study there? How much does it cost? And do Cambridge students have time for fun?!

CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 00:24 Facts & figures 00:43 Application process 01:24 Fees & finances 03:15 Housing & accommodation 04:47 Student life 06:09 Tips & challenges

Euromaxx reporter Clare Trelawny-Gower takes you to her alma mater to give you the lowdown on how YOU could study at Cambridge. #DWStudyinginEurope #DWEuromaxx #Cambridge

Architecture, Buildings, Education, Tours, Videos

Architecture: A Tour Of College Campus Styles

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Architectural Digest (August 9, 2024) – Michael Wyetzner of Michielli + Wyetzner Architects returns to AD, this time breaking down four of the most common styles of college campus. Universities have been around for almost a thousand years and in that time have seen their designs evolve through the generations.

Video timeline: 00:00 Intro
01:29 Colonial
04:51 Collegiate Gothic
08:10 Modernism
11:49 Brutalism

From the collegiate gothic halls of Yale to modern and brutalist buildings later added to the campuses of Harvard and UPenn, Wyetzner takes an in depth look at some of the most famous styles of college architecture to look out for this semester.

Analysis, Economics, Education, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

Education: “Schooling’s Stagnation” – July 13, 2024

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Special reports: Must try harder

The Economist SPECIAL REPORTS (July 8, 2024): The latest special report features “Schooling’s Stagnation” – Must try harder…

Must try harder

Schools in rich countries are making poor progress. They need to get back to basics, argues Mark Johnson

Schools in rich countries are making poor progress

Hanging on to the best of them is getting harder

The rich world’s teachers are increasingly morose

Will artificial intelligence transform school?

Efforts to teach character bring promise and perils

England’s school reforms are earning fans abroad

Education, Magazines, Previews, Reviews, Technology

Preview: MIT Technology Review – May/June 2023

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MIT Technology Review – May/June 2023: How AI is transforming the classroom. Surveilling students. Teaching the biliterate brain to read. What we’ve learned from “learning to code.” Plus keyboard obsessions, wildfire resilience, and shroom speak.

Teachers in Denmark are using apps to audit their students’ moods

surveillance on playground concept

Companies say the software can help improve well-being, but some experts worry it could have the opposite effect.

How AI is helping historians better understand our past

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The historians of tomorrow are using computer science to analyze how people lived centuries ago.

It’s an evening in 1531, in the city of Venice. In a printer’s workshop, an apprentice labors over the layout of a page that’s destined for an astronomy textbook—a dense line of type and a woodblock illustration of a cherubic head observing shapes moving through the cosmos, representing a lunar eclipse. 

Culture, Education, Magazines, Opinion, Previews, Society, Stories

Covers: New York Times Magazine – Sept 11, 2022

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The 9.11.22 Issue – The Education Issue

In this Education Issue, Sarah Viren on a campus clash in a multicultural center that became a viral nightmare for Arizona State University; Daniel Bergner on a superintendent in northern Michigan who spoke up about race in a politically divided school district; Erika Hayasaki on book bans in Texas town; Charley Locke on the $190 billion Covid windfall for schools; and more.

Education, Engineering, Technology, Videos, Views

MIT Engineering: The Design Of Living Things

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In MIT class, 2.788 Mechanical Engineering and Design of Living Systems students explore how mechanics, structure, and materials intersect with biology by studying butterflies at every stage of their metamorphosis. Associate Professor Ming Guo and Associate Professor Mathias Kolle take a cross-disciplinary approach to introduce students to the engineering behind biological systems.