Thang Nguyen 555

Cultures on Collision Course

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With some short-term relief work in Asia/Africa and long stint in Telecom, Thang also earned a B.A. at Pennsylvania State University. M.A. in Communication at Wheaton Graduate School, M.A. in Cross-Cultural Communication at Gordon-Conwell Seminary, Boston. In addition, he earned a CELTA – classes taken in Hanoi for cultural re-immersion.

Tag: Detroit

  • Un-Detroiting

    While video recording and taking photos (time lapse) of our Electric Vehicle Tech session, I couldn’t help thinking about Detroit. You see, these students have sat through 10 weeks of theory. Now they have a go at “degutting” the Internal Combustion Engine, to essentially make a “glider” (shell) for Electric components. The intended end-product is…

  • mass innovation

    We got into this mess (housing bubble and derivative fallacy) en mass. Are we going to suffer in isolation? No way! With crowdsourcing, virtual forum, email, cloud etc.. we got enough in our arsenal to reverse the course. Technology (the way) and the will. That’s all we need. And a little bit of love (courtesy of…

  • churning, down the river

    The foreclosure process has still been at work, churning homes back on the market in CA or FL. Behind the statistics are people bewildered and shattered. As a nation and the world, we are faced with two choices: – pretend it never happened, and rush out to shop – acknowledge that it happened, and rush…

  • tale of a survivor

    A Canadian lady, back from visiting her family in India, was aboard the flight to Detroit on Christmas day.http://www.thecanadianpress.com/english/online/OnlineFullStory.aspx?filename=p122649A&newsitemid=27268234&languageid=1 She recalled vivid details of near-miss explosion, the terror and the bravery of passengers and crews. We cannot control some events, but we can control our reaction (10/90 rule). As far as stats , the chance…