Saturday, February 18, 2012

Independence Day (Gambia)

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop." H. L. Mencken


TODAY IN HISTORY:
Pedro Lascurain
Snow in Sahara

  • 1913 Pedro Lascurain becomes President of Mexico for 45 minutes, the shortest term to date of any person as president of any country.
  • 1954 The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles, California.
  • 1979 Snow falls in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the only time in recorded history



FOOD FOR THOUGHT:
The human brain?
We'll start today with an interesting talk about an interesting organ: the human brain. Click here to watch a CNN presentation by Ted Jones. And talking about the brain, have you or anyone around you had suicidal thoughts? Follow this link to watch an interview with Dr. Goebert via Yahoo.
Today is Whitney Houston's final farewell. Listen to this NPR report describing the diva's funeral.
February is certainly the month of love, and there are many ways to propose, aren't there? Well, watch this Time's video featuring wedding proposals the world over.
What? A computer on your wrist? According to this USA Today report, now you can wear a smart watch that looks... super smart.
Do you remember the Concordia? Reuters has this update on the infamous Italian shipwreck.
Finally, a report about a wonderful Mexican site. Click here to watch a BBC report describing Santiago del Pinar.

4 comments:

elly gu said...

wow i can´t belive about the brain is amazing history, I can´t wach more the video, but is very interesting as the others historys :)

rocio dominguez said...

hi this article of the brain is very nice, this very interesting and also that of knowing who is suicidal and p I think if we could know who has those ideas would be easier to treat.

Karen penguin said...

hello teacher!!
ok since i'm studying psychology it's very interesting for me the human brain because its the most complete organ but no one cant use it at all in 100%.
yeah i listened about of Whitney Huston farewell well the truth is that i only listened 1 song of her in all my life and yeah... its the one of the movie =b hahaha

Lety Araujo said...

Hello teacher, was released the shortest period of office in the country which had not much information because it was too short