Rupinder Sidhu on culture, community work and Hip Hop
Komagata Maru: Continuing the Journey -- Rupinder Sidhu on culture, community work and Hip Hop. More: http://www.komagatamarujourney.ca
ESD.801 Leadership Development (MIT)
Students in ESD.801 Leadership Development work in a seminar environment to develop leadership capabilities. Readings, assignments and class discussion explore the topics covered in this class. In addition, students participate in an Outward Bound experience and participate in "leadership lunches" with global leaders.
Ten Tallest Buildings
This short video features images of these buildings and their heights. Would be a good project for art or math classes.
Who wrote Shakespeare?
This 3:38 minute video is about Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro examining and debunking the notorious "controversy" over the authorship of Shakespeare's plays. This video helps students understand how research is done as well as the importance of doing research to refute falsehoods.
Mark Behrens
Professor Mark Behrens reviews in more detail and touches on key elements of his research that the students in video (Student Presentation #5) discussed. In describing his work, Behrens offered "think of looking through color filters." The filters eliminate any unnecessary or unforeseeable data, and when you combine all the filters together, the yield reveals amazing overlaps and patterns.
Ten Fastest Land Animals
This short video shows the fastest land animals and how fast they run. This would be a good project for science, math, or art class. (01:23)
Seminar 17- USAWC Distance Education Class of 2011
One more challenge faced the senior officers as they celebrated completion of two years of internet-based studies at the Army War College's distance education program. The largest graduation class in college history received their diplomas on a day of record-breaking heat, July 22, at historic Carlisle Barracks.
What is a Physical Therapist?
Using the Windows Azure Access Control Service in iOS Applications The Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS provides an easy and convenient way to leverage services within the Windows Azure Platform from an iPhone or iPad. In this video, Vittorio Bertocci—Principal Program Manager at Microsoft—explains how to use the latest release to leverage the Access Control Service from within an iOS application. Starting with version
Dead Man Walking
Rotating around the Tharsis Rise (True Color)
Push in and spin around Tharsis rise on a flat map of Mars MOLA topography with Viking true color
8.1 Loose ends Before moving into a discussion of the missing element of the rich picture, I want to direct your attention to all the thoughts and ideas I have encouraged you not to put into your rich picture. I imagine you might have collected quite a list of loose ends. The next activity will involve some of these. Expect to take about half an hour to do the next activity. 7.5 Summary I hope that, by now, you have a rich picture you are pleased with. This is a considerable achievement because, despite the informality of the rich picture's style, a rich picture that effectively captures the complex situation takes a lot of effort to achieve. It depends crucially on being prepared to enter into the experience of the situation of interest and to interrogate that experience thoroughly. Noticing is not enough. Each feature of the situation has to be carefully captured by repres Lido Ramadan on Advice to Burgeoning Leaders Putting the Country Back on Gold I have recently completed a study guide to Ludwig von Mises's classic work, The Theory of Money and Credit. (The PDF of the guide is available right now, and the physical book should be ready soon.) In The Theory Lauren Greenfield's "Girl Culture" at Penn's Arthur Ross Gallery David Randall: The Role of Clouds and Water Vapor in Climate Change IDS336 Session 12 Summer 2011 Tip of the Week: the New SIB Bioinformatics Resource Portal Islam Faith Guide
Lido Ramadan (MBA '02)
President of Censeo Consulting Group
Lauren Greenfield's "Girl Culture" is on display through July 24 at the University of Pennsylvania's Arthur Ross Gallery. This photography exhibit features girls and young women from an array of ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds across America. As a photojournalist and artist, Greenfield explores the relationships girls have with their bodies and the images that are portrayed through popular culture. "Girl Culture" stimulates conversations that address issues young women face every day such a
The Role of Clouds and Water Vapor in Climate Change
David Randall: Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
This lecture is part of SFU's 2011 global warming seminar series "Global Warming: A Science Perspective".
Regardless of one's perspective the effects of global warming are a quantifiable set of environmental results. That is why the SFU Dean of Science Office invited some of the world's leading scientists to present results of thei
IDS336 Human Rights - Session twelve 07/26/11 Emily Magruder
For more information about this resource see our blog post at URL http://blog.openhelix.eu/?p=9185. In this movie I'll introduce you to the newly expanded ExPASY resource, which is now the new SIB (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics) Bioinformatics Resource Portal.
Islam Faith Guide
