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About Me
- Barend Lutz
- Cape Town, South Africa
- I am currently employed as a political risk analyst and digital media manager at the British public company, red24, a leading global crisis management assistance company. In 2013 I graduated cum laude from the University of Stellenbosch with a master’s degree in International Studies. During my studies, I was a member of the MIH Media Lab, measuring public sentiment on democracy through Twitter. As part of my university studies, I took part in academic exchanges to the Sciences-Po grande école in Paris and the University of Hong Kong. Prior to my master’s degree, I finished my bachelor’s degree in Value and Policy Studies in 2010. I see myself as a global citizen.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
A Free Education!
Bored of doing nothing? Do you want to learn something new from some of the best educators on earth? Then Read on.
Growing tired of the hours upon hours of monotonous stuffing of information into my already bursting frontal lobe I decided to do something fun. Jumping from one youtube video to the next, I found this weird Atlantis video you see below. I also found an amazing channel that offers you a world class education for free.
The Yale University Courses Channel is what I found. This channel provides full seminars recorded in actual classes. I was elated at this discovery.
Classes like these on the internet will probably not mean the end of university, but I find it quite amazing that you can get this level of education for free!
I am still looking for more of these channels, so if you find some, post the link in comments please. I will also keep searching.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Friday, May 21, 2010
It's the end of the world as we know it.
The world has been ushered into a new epoch of synthetic biology. From the people that brought us the first unraveled DNA sequence in 1995 comes the all new Creation of Life. As man strive to reach the pinnacle of its existence and tries to crawl closer to the image of God, along the way the creation of life was inevitable. Some would argue that this reduces the wonder of creation, but I feel that this shows the exact opposite in revealing the great potential bestowed onto man.
The awesome part about this is that in the future, if 2012 does not happen :), man will be able to create customized life forms. And with this power think of the possibilities...
There are fears that computer virus like entities might arise with the power to self replicate. Others fear that new super weaponised animals will change the face of war forever. The future will show weather this advance will bring forth new nightmares of the human consciousness or help us realize our greatest dreams. I for one cant wait to create my very own Pokemans!
If you want to know more:
And Man Made Life
Genesis redux
The awesome part about this is that in the future, if 2012 does not happen :), man will be able to create customized life forms. And with this power think of the possibilities...
There are fears that computer virus like entities might arise with the power to self replicate. Others fear that new super weaponised animals will change the face of war forever. The future will show weather this advance will bring forth new nightmares of the human consciousness or help us realize our greatest dreams. I for one cant wait to create my very own Pokemans!
If you want to know more:
And Man Made Life
Genesis redux
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Friday, April 30, 2010
Somali Pirates, Seacom Cables, Angolan Oil Pipelines and Stellenbosch University
Now the most inquisitive among you have probably, just by reading the heading of this bog entry, already figured out the correlation between these words and will soon get back to saving the world, sex with models or whatever important things you do. Still I am going to indulge myself and continue to explain the obvious. But enough Meta text let us get down to the facts.
As if Angola does not have enough problems the local marine life has decided to launch a violent coup against the oil pipelines. The fish must have noticed that these pipes are slowly desolating and de-fouling their precious Atlantic aquatic existence. Some marlins have decided that the sword is mightier than the pen and viciously launched themselves against the pipes, penetrating them with their sword like appendages and sacrificing their lives for the cause.
Noble as this might sound the ramifications of this revolution has surly affected, not only Angola, but also the rest of Africa. At the University of Stellenbosch new undersea fibre optic cables (Seacom cables) have recently helped to upgrade the overall internet connection. Unfortunately, this week the connection was disturbed, causing wide spread panic and a malfunction in “THE INTERWEB”.
Allegedly the East coast sword fish have decided to join their underwater brethren and attack the monstrous cables that are invading their habitat. Witnesses have claimed that they saw militarised groups of swordfish all along the east coast of Africa in the past weeks. Gashes and various marks have been found by Seacom workers on some of their cables, but it has not yet been confirmed that the swordfish are responsible for this.
The situation has been enflamed even further by malicious groups of Somali Pirates who are enraged by the aquatic revolt. They claim that their cause is legitimate and that these new militant groups of fish are pulling attention away from the real problems. Undercover journalists in the ranks of the pirates have confirmed that the pirates will temporarily stop attacking ships and focus their rage on the marine life.
The question on all lips now is what Angola will do to fix this horrific situation that they have clearly ushered Africa into. A delegation of Students from the University of Stellenbosch will be sent to Cambinda to host negotiations between the Angolan government and the Cabindan Forum for Dialogue and Peace. It is believed that both these factions will be needed to find a solution for the problem.
As if Angola does not have enough problems the local marine life has decided to launch a violent coup against the oil pipelines. The fish must have noticed that these pipes are slowly desolating and de-fouling their precious Atlantic aquatic existence. Some marlins have decided that the sword is mightier than the pen and viciously launched themselves against the pipes, penetrating them with their sword like appendages and sacrificing their lives for the cause.
Noble as this might sound the ramifications of this revolution has surly affected, not only Angola, but also the rest of Africa. At the University of Stellenbosch new undersea fibre optic cables (Seacom cables) have recently helped to upgrade the overall internet connection. Unfortunately, this week the connection was disturbed, causing wide spread panic and a malfunction in “THE INTERWEB”.
Allegedly the East coast sword fish have decided to join their underwater brethren and attack the monstrous cables that are invading their habitat. Witnesses have claimed that they saw militarised groups of swordfish all along the east coast of Africa in the past weeks. Gashes and various marks have been found by Seacom workers on some of their cables, but it has not yet been confirmed that the swordfish are responsible for this.
The situation has been enflamed even further by malicious groups of Somali Pirates who are enraged by the aquatic revolt. They claim that their cause is legitimate and that these new militant groups of fish are pulling attention away from the real problems. Undercover journalists in the ranks of the pirates have confirmed that the pirates will temporarily stop attacking ships and focus their rage on the marine life.
The question on all lips now is what Angola will do to fix this horrific situation that they have clearly ushered Africa into. A delegation of Students from the University of Stellenbosch will be sent to Cambinda to host negotiations between the Angolan government and the Cabindan Forum for Dialogue and Peace. It is believed that both these factions will be needed to find a solution for the problem.
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