The Daily's Double Shot - 02/04/2011
The student journalists of The Daily take a behind the scenees look at UW's Suzallo Library and investigate the rate books and collections available for viewing. The show takes a sci-fi turn with a visit to the Rapid Prototyping lab, where computers create plastic, 3-D models of objects. You'll also hear about the students involved with HusKEYS, an ad hoc a capella group, and get to sit in on a recent concert. These stories and more, plus a trip behind the presses at The Daily of the University
The President's Own Dumb Rules While red tape is rising under his watch, President Barack Obama promised recently in a Wall Street Journal op-ed to undertake a grand review of economic regulation in the United States and get rid of rules that "are not worth the cost, or that are just
GSF 2011 – Maternités chez les jeunes filles, une catastrophe sanitaire
1 nouveau né sur 10 nait de mère adolescente, Soit 1000 accouchements chaque heure , 70 000 morts maternelles , 1 000 000 d’enfants morts chaque année .
Les Objectifs du Millénaire pour le Développement (OMD)
• établissent des buts visant à mesurer les progrès réalisés dans le développement humain.
• 2 des 8 OMD sont directement liés à l’amélioration des soins dispensés aux adolescentes enceintes.
• Obj 4:réduction de la mortalité i
Oil backs down
Summary of business headlines: Oil prices fall as Libyan peace proposal emerges; U.N. food index hits record high; U.S. economy growing despite inflation scare; Stocks rally ahead of jobs report.
Virtual storybook sells kids style
Ralph Lauren is launching the latest installment of its shoppable online children's storybook, where viewers can click to buy the clothing in the story.
Credit concentration delays recovery: CEO Richard Hendrix
Mar 2 - FBR Capital Markets CEO Richard Hendrix explains how credit concentration in the U.S. is delaying economic recovery and making U.S. capital markets less competitive.
STS-133 Daily Mission Recap - Flight Day 7
A video recap of flight day 7 of the STS-133 mission of space shuttle Discovery to the International Space Station.
21A.219 Law and Society (MIT)
Law is a common and yet distinct aspect of everyday life in modern societies. This course examines the central features of law as a social institution and as a feature of popular culture. We will explore the nature of law as a set of social systems, central actors in the systems, legal reasoning, and the relationship of the legal form and reasoning to social change. The course emphasizes the relationship between the internal logic of legal devices and economic, political and social pro
Beginner Lesson 38: Listen to me with your eyes
Learn Spanish with Spanishpod101.com! How well read are you in Spanish literature? Well, if you’re not, then pay attention to this lesson. Join Alan and Lisy as they discuss perhaps one of the most celebrated poets of the Americas, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Just who is she? Well, click that button and find [...]
Lesson #039, Thursday ricevere = to receive vivere = to live chiedere = to ask sentire = to hear, to feel (1st form of 'ire' verbs) servire = to serve (1st form of 'ire' verbs) spedire = to send (2nd form of 'ire' verbs) STOP THE PODCAST - conjugate each of these verbs out loud. Then start the podcast again and I'll give you the answers. Io ricevo Tu ricevi Lei/lui/lei riceve Noi riceviamo Voi ricevete L
Leaders meet to save wild tigers
Forum begins in Russia to find ways of saving the world's threatened tiger population. Jane Ross reports.
Inside PennSound
All the poetry you care to download is free for the asking at PennSound, a project of the University of Pennsylvania. From an office in Kelly Writers House www.writing.upenn.edu/~wh/, co-founders and co-directors Al Filreis and Charles Bernstein take viewers inside PennSound www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/. Listen to them on the PoemTalk blog www.poemtalkatkwh.blogspot.com/. Al Filreis' web log is at www.afilreis.blogspot.com/. Charles Bernstein blogs at http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernste
The 1920's: The Jazz Age
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iPad 2 spurs familiar buzz
Tablet, take 2, will help Apple avoid headaches in an increasingly crowded market for touchscreen computers, agree analysts at a London event marking the launch of iPad 2.
Egypt's prime minister resigns
Amid protests and calls for his resignation prime minister Ahmed Shafiq steps down.
Exterior Angles of a Polygon
This video explains how, in a polygon, an exterior angle is formed by a side and an extension of an adjacent side. Exterior angles of a polygon have several unique properties. The sum of exterior angles in a polygon is always equal to 360 degrees. Therefore, for all equiangular polygons, the measure of one exterior angle is equal to 360 divided by the number of sides in the polygon. (3:39)
Kite Properties
This video describes the properties of a kite. Knowing the properties of a kite will help when solving problems with missing sides and angles. Kite properties include (1) two pairs of consecutive, congruent sides, (2) congruent non-vertex angles and (3) perpendicular diagonals. Other important polygon properties to be familiar with include trapezoid properties, parallelogram properties, rhombus properties, and rectangle and square properties. (1:59)
