Basic French: Ratounet sings Comment tu t'appelles
Ratounet, your French tutor, sings "comment tu t'appelles" in French, lyrics at http://frenchspanishonline.com/beginnersfrench/freefrench.html
Projectes en xarxa. Experiències. Geocating. Projecte cooperatiu de geolocalització
Durada: 9 min. VÃdeo. Generalitat de Catalunya (Departament d'Educació).
Activitat cooperativa de geolocalització realitzada amb alumnes de cicle superior de primà ria de l'Escola Montserrat de Sant Salvador de Guardiola.
S'emmarca en el projecte GeoCATing del grup Lacenet. L'objectiu és que l'alumnat sigui capaç d'orientar-se Author(s):
Neo. The cloning process
Durada: 4 min. VÃdeo. UAB (ICE- Àrea de Comunicació i de Promoció).
UAB is the first scientific institution in Spain to obtain the first cloned mice. A total of five females born from a research project studying new substances which could improve the efficiency of the cloning process carried out by researchers from the Author(s):
Nutrition and Medicine
Only 25% of US medical schools have a required nutrition course. Tufts provides such a course with 25 hours of instruction as lectures and small group activities. The course spans the theoretical to the clinical aspects of nutrition. The student learns to obtain information and knowledge, develop the ability to interpret and evaluate current nutrition research, and develop critical thinking skills on the use of nutrition in medical care. Small group assignments include: making a personal dietary
Projectes en xarxa. Mirades pedagògiques. La revista. Una proposta de periodisme digital a ESO
Durada: 9 min. VÃdeo. Generalitat de Catalunya (Departament d'Educació).
La Montse Vila, professora de Llengua i Literatura Catalana a l'IES Isaac Albeniz de Badalona, ens presenta el periodisme virtual en xarxa, com a recurs per treballar amb els adolescents els diferents gèneres literaris.  Author(s):
Second Officer
Artist in residence
How to present your work
The U.S. and the World’s Recession
Roberto Rigobon somehow makes his audience laugh while summarizing preliminary research on worldwide inflation and recession, data that bring some grim tidings about our global economic state of health. (NB: Argentina and France get knocked about a bit in this talk.)
By pulling favors with friends at cen
Opportunities in Building More Sustainable Supply Chains
When a global corporation implements sustainability standards, it pays to work closely with supply chains, as these panelists attest.
From his research, Richard M. Locke knows that the traditional methods of achieving decent labor conditions don’t work well. When Locke examined years of records gathered by Nike a
The Second Law and Energy
This Nobel Prize-winning scientist admits to staying up late the night before his talk to bone up on thermodynamics. He puts his research to good use, discussing the history and application of the laws of thermodynamics, which have served as “the scientific foundation of how we harness energy, and the basis of the industrial r
Three More For The Road
In a trio of mini-talks, Arnold Barnett applies statistical analysis to some of society’s most confounding challenges. He first takes up the minority achievement gap -- the apparent under-performance of black and Hispanic students on standardized tests in comparison to white and Asian students.
In his own work i
The Craft of Science Fiction
Joe Haldeman provides a sneak preview of an upcoming novel whose story plays out in MIT’s past, present and distant future. In his conversation with Henry Jenkins, Haldeman admits that he has “a lot of fun with the sociology of being in this joint.†He also discusses the history of his genre, and his own literary approa
The Second Law and Cosmology
In spite of its old age, the Second Law of Thermodynamics “is alive and kicking,†says
Max Tegmark, stimulating research on “really, really big puzzles.†In Tegmark’s case, “big†encompasses the cosmos, and investigating the entropy of the universe offers one path into understanding “how we started out.â€
Leading an Environmentally Sustainable Enterprise
Climate change poses perhaps the premiere threat to coming generations, says Martin Madaus, but to avoid its worst impacts, we must confront the issue now. To that end, Madaus exhorts business leaders to focus immediately on building environmental sustainability into their operations, as he has begun to do at Millipore.
The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution to the Healthcare Crisis
Don’t believe everything you learn in business school, cautions Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen. “It’s the principles of good management we teach that cause successful companies to fail.†In this meaty lecture, Christensen distills several books’ worth of research describing ho
An Evening with Vikram Chandra
In the tradition of his favorite childhood writers, Dickens, Thackeray and the “curiously forgotten James Hadley Chase,†Vikram Chandra explores the seamier sides of human relations. In Chandra’s latest, sprawling novel, Sacred Games, his backdrop is Bombay, a city steeped in corruption from head to toe. Reading three s
The OpenCourseWare Initiative: A New Model for Sharing
Since making its “proof of concept†debut in the Fall of 2003, MIT’s OpenCourseWare (OCW) Initiative has racked up some impressive numbers. This project makes
course materials used in MIT undergraduate and graduate subjects available on the Web, free of charge, to any user anywhere in the world. So far, OCW has translated for the w
Egyptian economy and non-royal women: their status in public life
The online version of a lecture given 21 June, 1995, at Brown University, by William A. Ward deals with the status of women in ancient Egypt society. Although pharaonic Egypt was in most respects a male society, with men holding positions in public life while women dominated the private life, Ward points to the fact that there is plenty of evidence that women, throughout ancient Egyptian civilisation could own, bequeath and inherit land. Furthermore women seem to have been able to hold positions
Humania del sur : revista de estudios Latinoamericanos Africanos y Asiáticos
Humania del sur : revista de estudios Latinoamericanos Africanos y Asiáticos is a journal from the Centro de Estudios de Ãfrica y Asia “José Manuel Briceño Monzillo” at the Universidad de Los Andes dedicated to the study of three continents: Latin America, Africa and Asia. It is interdisciplinary by nature and covers history, politics, literature, sociology, art, philosophy and religion. The journal is formed by five sections. The Debate section publishes essays and articles by distinguis
