NASA says Arctic cyclone played "key role" in record ice melt
Sept. 21 - Weather data collected by NASA suggests that this summer's record Arctic ice melt may have been partially due to a powerful cyclone that scientists say "wreaked havoc" on ice cover during the month of August. Rob Muir reports.
The Most Powerful Objects in the Universe
All across the immense reaches of time and space, pace, energy is being exchanged, transferred, released, in a great cosmic pinball game we call our universe. How does energy stitch the cosmos together, and how do we fit within it? We now climb the power scales of the universe, from atoms, nearly frozen to stillness, to Earth's largest explosions. From stars, colliding, exploding, to distant realms so strange and violent they challenge our imaginations. Where will we find the most powe
Dr. Christian Marois - "Celebrating 400 years of the telescope..."
"Celebrating 400 years of the telescope with the first image of another Solar System"
Dr. Christian Marois - NRC, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics
Are there Earth-like planets orbiting other stars? Is there life elsewhere in the Universe? Humanity has been waiting for more than 2,000 years for an answer to these questions. With his invention, the telescope, Galileo Galilei saw for the first time another "mini" planetary system -- it was Jupiter and its moons. After 400 years of technological
The Myth of the Failure of Capitalism [This essay was originally published as "Die Legende von Versagen des Kapitalismus" in Der Internationale Kapitalismus und die Krise, Festschrift für Julius Wolf (1932)[1]] The nearly universal opinion expressed these days is that the economic crisis of recent years marks the end of
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戦略的ディベートの実践
戦略的ディベートでは，フォーマルな方法に基づいて，賛成派，反対派のチームに分かれ，自らの意見をまとめ，説得力のある方法で述べ，また相手側に対して反論をすることにより，ディベート術を実践的に学習することを目的とする。本科目は，平成19年度後学期に開講した「英国式ディベートの実践」の名称を変更したものであるため，「英国式ディベートの実践」
Lunch and Learn: John Geer
Watch video from the September 21 Lunch and Learn event with John Geer. John Geer, chair of political science, spoke on “Negativity and the 2012 Presidential Campaign: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.” This presidential campaign will be the most negative in modern history. Geer argued why that is true and why that developmentkeep reading »
Political analysis of the politics of justice
Part 1, Panel 2, Day 2 of the Way of Knowing After Atrocity colloquium. Part of the Ways of Knowing After Atrocity: A Colloquium on the Methods used to Research, Design and Implement Transitional Justice Processes (Hosted by Oxford Transitional Justice Research in collaboration with the Transitional Justice Data Base Project) 28-29 June 2012, St. Antony's College, Oxford. Please see http://www.csls.ox.ac.uk/OTJRColloquiumNew.php
UT participates in 5 Lakes Economic Conference
The University of Toledo is helping spur international development in northwest Ohio by partnering with 5 Lakes Global and the Regional Growth Partnership to bring a group of international business development leaders to Toledo.
Read more: http://utnews.utoledo.edu/index.php/09_25_2012/economic-forum-brings-international-investors-to-toledo
Anders Hejlsberg: Introducing TypeScript TypeScript is a programming language that makes it easier to write cross-platform, application scale, JavaScript that runs in any browser or in any host. Microsoft Technical Fellow Anders Hejlsberg explains how TypeScript, which is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to idiomatic (normal) JavaScript, can dramatically improve your productivity by enabling ri
Khan Academy Mapped to South African Curriculum Numeric has mapped the Khan Academy videos and exercises to the South African CAPS curriculum.