Banality and Online Videos

[eHealth and online videos for health promotion].

Millones de personas buscan a diario información sobre salud n los miles de sitios web dedicados específicamente a este tema. or ello, no es de extrañar que Internet se haya convertido en a principal fuente de información en salud1,2, y que incluso esté eemplazando a los médicos en esta función3. De entre todos los itios web, servicios y plataformas online disponibles, las redes ociales están s...

The banality of tobacco deaths.

Flipped Classroom Strategies Using Online Videos

The basic principles of a flipped classroom teaching method are to deliver instruction online and to move active learning into the classroom. There are many strategies for delivering the instruction online, such as, preparing online lectures by the course instructors, wrapping the course around a MOOC, and collecting online videos from various sources. There are also many strategies for includi...

Let's Dance: Learning From Online Dance Videos

In recent years, deep neural network approaches have naturally extended to the video domain, in their simplest case by aggregating per-frame classifications as a baseline for action recognition. A majority of the work in this area extends from the imaging domain, leading to visual-feature heavy approaches on temporal data. To address this issue we introduce “Let’s Dance”, a 1000 video dataset (...

Terrorism : The Banality of a Global Evil #

The ubiquity of contemporary terrorism defines the evilness of banality. A typical terrorist profile does not exist; it’s atypical character of this vile phenomenon that chills human rationality. This article briefly unravels the dynamics of terror and its implications. Un-separated terrorism and counter-terrorism destroy the climate for civil transformation. Our counterproductive interventions...