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'Smart' furniture heralds a future with light touch

Jan. 21 - A collaboration between Spanish engineers, cupboard makers, and electronics manufacturers is offering homeowners a future without manual electric switches. Participants in the Wood Touch project have created various items of wooden furniture which can switch on lighting systems with a single swipe of the hand. Jim Drury has more.

Lower Beginner #2 - Which Famous Tokyo Tower is That?

Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! When your friends tell you in Japanese that they’re taking you to lunch and to the sky tree, you start to shake a little. After all, you’re terribly afraid of heights! Even going to your hotel room on the fifth floor in Japan makes you feel queasy. When you try to [...]

21.01.2013 – Langsam gesprochene Nachrichten

Trainiere dein Hörverstehen mit den Nachrichten der Deutschen Welle von Montag – als Text und als verständlich gesprochene Audio-Datei. *** Bei den Landtagswahlen in Niedersachsen haben die Bürger für einen Machtwechsel gestimmt: Nach dem am späten Sonntagabend veröffentlichten Endergebnis kommen die beiden bisherigen Oppositionsparteien SPD und Grüne zusammen auf 69 Mandate. Auf die Regierungskoalition aus CDU und FDP unter Ministerpräsident David McAllister entfallen 68 Sitze. Der

Green Gown Award for sustainability in teaching and learning

The University of Nottingham was highly commended in the learning skills category at the Green Gown Awards 2012. Watch this video to find out more.

Think a Minute: Are Numbers Real?

Ben Curtis explores whether numbers are real or not in under 60 seconds.

IPL: Jorg Frauendiener: "Sightseeing in Einstein's World"

Professor Jorg Frauendiener's IPL describes how what we see is affected when the viewer travels at close to the speed of light. There are a number of visual distortions that occur, due to Einstein's special theory of relativity. These include Lorantz' contraction, aberrations that appear to bend straight lines, and the doppler effect which shift the colours seen down the spectrum towards the blue end.

NonfictioNow 2012 - David Shields

Keynote David Shields NonfictioNow 2012 Keynote Address by David Shields Reality Hunger: A Manifesto which was named one of the best books of the year by more than thirty publications; The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead, a New York Times bestseller; Black Planet: Facing Race during an NBA Season, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity, winner of the PEN/Revson Award; and Dead Languages: A Novel, winner of

10 Things: Your Child Needs Every Day

Children are experts at telling their parents what they want. They demand new toys, new video games, and new cell phones. Sadly, young children can rarely tell the parent exactly what they need. This video speaks to the language of play between children and parents.(2:01)

The End of Everything

Hank gives us an inclusive overview of how everything in the universe is thought to have begun, and how cosmologists predict it will all come to an end. (10:52)

Dr. MLK, Jr. Remembered

Thanks to the efforts of a humble Baptist preacher, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the law is bound to uphold equal rights for all people across the country, regardless of race, color, or creed. (02:35)

20130108 - Protein Prediction 2 - Burkhard Rost - Predict protein interactions 1

By: rostlab Date: 20130108 Course: Protein Prediction 2 Title: Predict protein interactions 1 Speaker: Burkhard Rost

Breakingviews: Rio's Rushed Reshuffle

Jan. 17 - Rio Tinto's new CEO, Sam Walsh, is experience and capable, but the decision to replace Tom Albanese immediately looks rushed, says Breakingviews.

SuperUROP project titled: Image De-blurring Despite JPEG Artifacts, presented by SuperUROP student A

MIT EECS - Qualcomm Undergraduate Researdch and Innovation Scholar Aakanksha Sarda presented her SuperUROP project titled "Image De-blurring Despite JPEG Artifacts" at the DEc. 6, 2012 SuperUROP poster session in the MIT Grier Room, 34-401. Aakansha Sarda's advisor is EECS professor Fredo Durand.

Cálculo Avanzado de Procesos Químicos (2013)

Métodos numéricos para la resolución de problemas en Ingeniería Química descritos por ecuaciones diferenciales ordinarias o parciales: transferencia de materia, transmisión de calor, cinética de reacciones químicas, modelado de reactores.

The Stateless Equilibrium

The stateless market society—a peaceful social arrangement based on voluntary relations among individuals in which the state is not present—is not a popular idea. Many people believe that this society would lack the capacity to define and enforce property rights, and that this would result in chaos, tyranny of the rich or in a reversal to a

Lesson 05 - One Minute Romanian

In lesson 5 of One Minute Romanian you will learn to say that you're learning Romanian. Remember - even a few phrases of a language can help you make friends and enjoy travel more. Find out more about One Minute Romanian at our website - http://www.oneminutelanguages.com. One Minute Romanian is brought to you by the Radio Lingua Network and is ©Copyright 2008.

Lesson 03 - One Minute Romanian

In lesson 3 of One Minute Romanian you will learn to say that you can speak a little Romanian. Remember - even a few phrases of a language can help you make friends and enjoy travel more. Find out more about One Minute Romanian at our website - http://www.oneminutelanguages.com. One Minute Romanian is brought to you by the Radio Lingua Network and is ©Copyright 2008.

Erik Meijer, Immo Landwerth, and Andrew Arnott: Immutable Collections for .NET

Erik Meijer interviews .NET team PM Immo Landwerth and Software Developer Andrew Arnott. The topic is Immutable Collections, a new set of immutable types for .NET. You can play around with these today as part of a preview release (NuGet link below). Tune in!

John Siegfried: “Better Living Through Economics”

Watch video of “Better Living Through Economics”, part of the Osher Lifelong Learning Lecture Series presented by Vanderbilt Professor of Economics John Siegfried, who has written a book with the same title. Siegfried will focus on various case studies to demonstrate how economic research has improved societal conditions over the past 50 years by influencing public policykeep reading »

Future justice for sexual assault: Future Justice Award presentation

Distinguished Professor John Braithwaite discusses rape law reform while receiving his 2012 Future Justice Award on 12 December 2012. Rape law reform has not made a large contribution to reducing the incidence of rape. Two of many reasons are that there is a sexual assault enforcement swamping problem and a charging down problem that also leaves victims dissatisfied. Nevertheless, it is argued that feminist politics in our lifetimes has made a large contribution to protecting future generations

GAUSS FINAL3

The GTRI Airborne Unmanned Sensor System (GAUSS) is shown during testing and described by researchers Mike Brinkmann and Mike Heiges. The aircraft is used to evaluate sensing devices in airborne testing.