Friday 30 March 2012

Steedley Wills in "Il Piccolo Rick" - "Il Piccolo Rick" è stato selezionato per Short Stories!

Andrà in onda su Coming Soon Television martedì 10 aprile alle 19:20.

Sono previste, inoltre, le seguenti repliche:

- mercoledì 11 aprile alle 06:00 ed alle 13:20;

- sabato 14 aprile alle 09:20.

Nei prossimi giorni sarà comunicata la messa in onda anche nella pagina Facebook della trasmissione (https://www.facebook.com/shortstoriescomingsoon) , con la locandina e la scheda tecnica del corto.


Wednesday 28 March 2012

Urbino - Science 28/3/12

Food that lasts forever
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2108051,00.html

marshmallow Directorate
corn syrup rations
amber moisture
pool mold/mould
shelf life salting
chewy seeping
barring tucking
sticky wad wrapping
life span sealed
pudding chamber
springy handle
concocted oysters
throw out crispness
Vacuum-seal canning
Spam boundaries
imperishable coins
Palate-wise cobbler
standard bearer texture
edible extrapolating
longevity rot and decay

Which foods are supposed to last forever
Who is a major patron of research into food preservation
What needs to be controlled to preserve food
How do ancient preservation techniques work
5 advantages of food preservation

Wednesday 21 March 2012

Urbino Science 21/3/12

DNA Computing
http://www.economist.com/node/21548488

advent
Free-floating
propagate
Sticky
soup
tab
giant
detach
base pair
culminate
Velcro
threshold
bind
weight
strand
match
rung
loop
network
trigger
linked
Tic-tac-toe
route
destroy
test tube
piggyback
task
classifier
a far cry
tricked
prompted
hijack
pattern
pathway
disease
model
signature
debug
pioneer
behaviour


workbench

How many bases in a gene?
Can the Qian circuit fit in all cells?
What underlies the natural circuit controlling gene activity?
What was the solution to the travelling salesman problem?
What are the advantages of DNA computing?
What are the disadvantages ?

Wednesday 14 March 2012

Universita Urbino - Nice to meet you all in Sogesta and Fano

For those that need to learn more - and faster - find something that interests you
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/
http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/

if you only have 3 minutes try
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohJCdihPWqc

Fano - Biotechnology English

The basis for the BioTech exercises:
http://exchanges.state.gov/englishteaching/resforteach/ejournals/language-and-life-sciences.html

The video from today:
http://www.khanacademy.org/science/biology/v/parts-of-a-cell

Sunday 4 March 2012

Scientific English - Urbino - Body Shock

Getting ready for Scientific English
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120302-body-shock-the-energy-inside

Thursday 1 March 2012

Uni Macerata - Faculta Economia

This weeks article - Fixing Inflation!
http://www.economist.com/node/21548229

Vocab:
Bouts
Spot
Dump
Stoked
Overheat
Survey
Faced with
Resorted
Conceal
Shoot Up
Parted ways
Mere
Pick-and-mix
Tweaking
Sophistry
Sheer
Omit
Round
Compound
Shed light
Wage
Unrepentant
Boost
Holders
Underhand
Cap prices
Mandated
Spike
Aware of
Pick through
Discern
Inflation linked bond
Pattern
intriguingly
fines
harassment
tricker
trim
subsidies
wheeze
vanish
undermine

and from the class:
Fear of Flying
Brewery
Industrious
Outsource
Sole – Heel
Slave Labour
FOB
EXW
CIF
Garment
Time Value Money
Reliability
Net Present Value