Nerd Nite Liberia: June 12, 2012
Nerd Nite Liberia: June 12, 2012
The second edition of Nerd Nite Liberia will be held on Tuesday June 12, 2012 at Jamal’s Boulevard Cafe in Sinkor, Monrovia (14th St and Tubman Blvd.). Presentations to begin at 8pm.
Presentations:
How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse in Liberia – by Guillaume Foutry
A Movable Fufu: The Hemingway In All of Us – by Jessi Hanson
An economist’s view of the World Cup and the European Championships: You don’t have to be a rich country to win, but it definitely helps. – by Michael Nicholson
Music courtesy of TBA
Full info on the presentations and presenters:
How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse in Liberia – by Guillaume Foutry
Description: You think you know how to survive an earthquake or a hurricane, but have you ever prepared yourself for a zombie apocalypse? Rated by the CDC as the most extreme type of natural disaster, it would certainly wipe out most of mankind (and surely most of Liberia). Be ready for it, or be prepared to become the next item on the menu.
Coming from France and arrived in Liberia 6 months ago, Guillaume has the highest nerd qualifications: he loves literature, Internet, social media and comics. He launched the website LIBERIA101 and currently works for a local IT company. His best nerd moment of all-time: meeting and shaking hands with Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO. He has not washed his right hand since.
A Movable Fufu: The Hemingway In All of Us – by Jessi Hanson
Description: An overview of Ernest Hemmingway, one of the greatest ex-pats in history. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and Author of: Old Man in the Sea, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Moveable Feast, and The Sun Also Rises. Not only famous for coining the term ‘the Lost Generation’, he also is famous for making living abroad a way of life, his foreign crew coined the term ‘expat’. A hard-core drinker, womanizer, war hunter, journalist, writer, and traveling adrenaline junky. The ultimate man that we as Liberian expats can learn from! And with a theortical analysis of Hemmingway in Liberia had he lived here today.
Jessi Hanson is Programme Advisor for the Forum for African Women Educationalists, Ed.M International Education Policy, B.A. English Literature & Language
An economist’s view of the World Cup and the European Championships: You don’t have to be a rich country to win, but it definitely helps. – by Michael Nicholson
Description: When Drogba dropped that last penalty shot to clinch the UEFA Cup for Chelsea, did he also also help England’s chances in the upcoming European championships? Has the economic crisis in Greece destroyed it’s own hopes of reclaiming the title? We answer these questions with some cold, hard numbers. Why bother watching the tournament? The results of our two-stage least-squares regression analysis incorporating (k-1) instrumental variables to identify the structural equation will tell you all you need to know. Hello! magazine reports that it puts a potential Holland-Spain championship rematch to shame.
Michael Nicholson, a native of Kentucky, has spent most of the past decade traveling the world in the name of development economics. He recently arrived in Liberia to work with USAID and has discovered that it tends to rain a lot here. His dark secret is that he loves math more than soccer, but in his defense he loves basketball far, far more than both of them combined. He’s known around Monrovia as “that guy with the hot wife.”
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