Zapping through the channels at 6 a.m., I landed up on a documentary about why French people couldn’t learn other languages, especially Germanic languages on which the documentary was at first concentrated, before going more globally, on languages, and more importantly dialects which are little by little disappearing. Why I was watching TV at this time… I am currently spending some times at my Uncle’s house, without Internet, before now and the TV was my only resort, and I managed to watch the whole BBC news, France24 and the local news as well.

The first thing that got me hooked up on the programme was the fact they had been giving scientific reasons for this problem, not that I wouldn’t have watched it if they were giving only social and psychological reasons. Frequency is very important when it comes to languages, not surprising, when frequencies are somewhat related to sounds. From what I understood, since I did not manage to catch the whole documentary from the beginning, words correspond to frequencies in languages, so, in brief different languages correspond to different frequencies.

The French-speaking it would seem, are “short-sighted” when it comes to hearing. And lazy, I’d add. They are tuned on only one frequency as compared to others, who are able to learn other languages more easily. During the documentary, a few students from different age groups had been interviewed to support these facts. The ones who had been studying the language (Germanic one) for about twelve years were still having problems on the basics, while pre-school students were already fluent in the language… and eager as well.
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Tags: evolution, languages

August 2007: The beginning of Doomsday, a subprime crack is found in the US housing market.

2008: The nightmare begins. The crack widens across the global financial landscape, causing the collapse of major banking institutions, falls on stock markets across the world and credit freeze, the shockwaves triggering a full-fledged economic crisis, with the more sophisticated countries already in recession and the outlook of developing countries deteriorating rapidly.

2009: The world economy finds itself in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.

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Tags: conference, economic crisis, Mauritius, politics, recession

No, I’m not talking about those tiny animals you see about everywhere, though I believe it should be easier to explain how earthworms eat the soil and excrete part of it to dig their holes and find their way underground. Well, for now, we aren’t really going “underground” but rather above ground, far in space where man still hopes to find his greatest discovery.

So back to our topic: wormholes. The word itself sounds creepy enough, making you think of those little digging creatures (again) who use these holes to travel. Our wormhole has the same use, technically, for it provides a “tunnel’ connecting two different points in space-time. Of course, if it were such a simple thing as tunnel, it wouldn’t be such a fascinating phenomenon for all physicists. These tunnels allow the bending of space-time in such a way that a trip through them would take far less time than it we were to go the normal way. Well, I guess I should be finding a wormhole to take me to Pluto rather than dying in a spaceship before actually reaching there… Why Pluto? I’ve always wanted to go to Pluto to see if there were any dogs there… Keep reading…

Tags: Blackholes, Physics, Relativity, Science, Whiteholes, Wormholes

It sounded a bit weird at first, but I’m kinda getting used to it, though I still do not believe I accepted tutoring my little cousin. Not that I was given a choice; my mom and aunt practically forced it onto me, making all the decisions without considering the concerned person here, i.e. me. The reason for my reluctance had more to do with my cousin than with the tutoring. It had always been mutual dislike between us; maybe it had to do with the age difference. An 8-years gap can be quite a lot for 2 kids living under the same roof, especially when both are only child to their parents. Anyway, it seems that the “dislike” has completely disappeared for now and for good, I’m hoping; these past years I had been so busy with school and other stuffs that I barely gave any attention to the persons living in my house. Keep reading…

Tags: family, tutoring