Hello from Inside!

First of all, Insider has good news for you…  iUniv has recently been upgraded and the version we’re using now is Ver1.0.1.  With this new version, the modification on the YouTube playlist is immediately reflected on iUniv, which means that we can deliver newly found wonderful contents as soon as we find them.  We hope this enhances your iUniv experience! :-)

On our top page we featured some contents related to Turkey, in the wake of the recent earthquake.  Our hearts go out to those people who have suffered and who still are, and we pray for their earliest restoration.  Turkey has a long history of being friendly to Japan.  Perhaps that has something to do with the fact that both countries have experienced many major earthquakes over the years (especially this year!).

The earthquake-safe plans have been studied at many universities including Purdue.  They made a proposal video of a new city plan of Istanbul:

PURDUE UNIVERSITY
Research at Purdue
Proposed new city of Istanbul premiers in animated video
http://iuniv.tv/top/episode/eid/23696/pid/1884

Turkey is also known as one of the countries that are aiming for membership in the EU. 

Cornell University
Burning Topics!- I
Turkey’s Accession: An E.U. Challenge
http://iuniv.tv/top/episode/eid/5027/pid/401

The above mentioned video is a panel discussion regarding issues related to the possible membership.  Insider was not knowledgeable enough and he/she was thinking the major issue was the religion difference (as many EU countries are Christian-oriented and Turkey is Islam-oriented) but that does not seem to be the ‘major’ case.  It is a very interesting video to see, especially when there are more new and potential member countries of the EU.