23 1/2 Hours: How Half an Hour of Exercise Makes Life Better
Physician Mike Evans presents how exercise can drastically improve the lives of humans. His presentation of different studies of exercise interventions show how patients saw lower rates of diabetes, anxiety, depression, knee arthritis, and an overall quality of life enhancement. Watch as he explicitly points out the science behind this common sense idea. (09:19)
Who Wears These Shoes?: Group Activity--Building Comprehension by Making Inferences (Virtual Tour)
Students build skills essential to reading comprehension by inferring who wore a given pair of shoes and providing evidence to support their ideas.This is a great resource to help enhance literacy instruction in the classroom. (1:11)
The Daily Five: Fostering Literacy Independence in Third and Fourth Grade (Virtual Tour)
The Daily Five is described and how each component is used in the classroom. Selecting Good Fit books are discussed. Students use word collectors to record new words and use them in their writing. This is a great resource to help enhance and to expand literacy instruction in the classroom. (2:03)
Monkeys Travel to Space
On May 28, 1959, in an experiment that would lead the way to manned space flight, the United States launched two monkeys to an altitude of 300 miles. In this video clip, A Voice of America news report details the travels of the two primates who survived the space flight and were the first in history to return safely to Earth. (2:00)
Viking 1 Lands on Mars
On July 20, 1976, NASA's Viking 1 becomes the first spacecraft to send back detailed pictures from the surface of Mars. A NASA control room recording captures the excitement of the moment. (0:20)
MIT Forum - US Competitiveness and the Case to Reshore Harry Moser - Founder and CEO, Reshoring Initiative
MIT Forum - Opening Remarks Dr. William Killingsworth - Director, MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation
IPL: Professor Hugh Campbell – Food: Old Ruptures and New Politics
Professor Hugh Campbell of the Department of Sociology, Gender and Social Work presents his Inaugural Professorial Lecture on the topic of “Food: Old Ruptures and New Politics”. 10 July 2012.
Seminar 13 Army War College Class of 2012 distance education program.
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Spacecraft Docks Under Six Hours After Launch
Traveling about 250 miles above the Pacific Ocean and just west of the South American coast, the unpiloted ISS Progress 48 Russian cargo ship docked at 9:18 p.m. EDT Aug. 1 to the Pirs docking compartment of the International Space Station. The craft is delivering 1,962 pounds of propellant, 110 pounds of oxygen and air, 925 pounds of water and 2,817 pounds of spare parts and experiment hardware for a total of 2.9 tons of food, fuel and equipment to be delivered to the six crew members on the or
ISS Update - August 2, 2012
The International Space Station video update for August 2, 2012.
Introducció a la Lingüística
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What to expect at Queens' Admitted Students Day
Class of 2016, don't miss Admitted Students Day at Queens on Saturday, February 18, 2012! Register online at http://www.queens.edu/ASD.
Why Germany has Stable Policy Incentives and the U.S. Does Not
By: icamp2012school Frank Laird, University of Denver
Interfacial Control in OPV Devices
By: icamp2012school Dana Olson, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Super Yoga Plans- Plotting Points - Khan Academy
Visualizing the relationship between sessions attended and total cost. (05:46)
Super Yoga Plans- Solving Systems by Substitution
Sal Khan continues his Yoga Plan debate by determining where the lines representing the two plans intersect. (08:14)
Khan Academy Vision - Khan Academy
This video is an overview of what Sal Khan hopes Khan Academy can help catalyze. (07:34)
Civil Engineering at Clemson University - Proving Hope for the Future
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