Yellowstone: Monitoring the Fire Below
This interactive feature story is part of Science Bulletins, an innovative online and exhibition program that offers the public a window into the excitement of scientific discovery. Published in June 2006, this Earth Bulletin looks at the geologic history of Yellowstone National Park. It includes the following components: Three online essays - Yellowstone National Park Is a Volcano, Signs of Restlessness, and Volcanic Witness; An Interview with Bob Smith -- each available in a print-friendly for
Chimie et défis énergétiques du 21ème siècle: carburants à partir d'eau et de soleil - M Fonte
Chimie et défis énergétiques du 21ème siècle: des carburants à partir d?eau et de soleil
Une conférence UTLS du cycle : « La Chimie partout » du 21 au 29 mai 2011 à 18h30
Marc Fontecave, Professeur, Membre de l?Académie des Sciences, Collège de France et CEA, Chimie et biologie des métaux, UMR CNRS 5249, Grenoble
Curating Tate Modern: Nine Years, Nine Exhibitions
In her nine years at Tate Modern internationally renowned curator Jessica Morgan has curated numerous group and solo exhibitions. Her talk reviewed these exhibitions, and discussed the rise of Tate Modern, now the most-visited modern art gallery in the wo (Running Time 67:59)
"Modern Blacksmithing and Physical Metallurgy, Fall 2008"
"Physical metallurgy encompasses the relationships between the composition, structure, processing history and properties of metallic materials. In this seminar you'll be introduced to metallurgy in a particularly "physical" way. We will do blacksmithing, metal casting, machining, and welding, using both traditional and modern methods. The seminar meets once per week for an evening laboratory session, and once per week for discussion of issues in materials science and engineering that tie in to t
La chimie théorique, miroir de la réalité ou miroir aux alouettes - Odile Eisenstein
La chimie théorique, miroir de la réalité ou miroir aux alouettes
Une conférence UTLS du cycle : « La Chimie partout » du 21 au 29 mai 2011 à 18h30
Odile Eisenstein, Directeur de recherche au CNRS, Médaille d?argent du CNRS, Institut Charles Gerhardt, UMR CNRS 5253, Université des Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc, Montpellier
David Levin interviewed by Elon President Leo M. Lambert
As part of Elon's Spring Convocation for Honors, David Levin,co-founder of the Knowledge is Power Program, was interviewed by Elon University President Leo M. Lambert. This interview was conducted for broadcast on UNC-TV's North Carolina Now news program.
sam_GrabAudio.vi
Build a LabVIEW subVI to wait for audio level to exceed a user-defined threshold, and then record audio for a specified time interval.
Mermaid Quay and the Cardiff Bay Barrage
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virtual philosopher interview: Savulescu and Sinnott-Armstrong
Nigel Warburton interviews Julian Savulescu and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong on the topic of addiction.
5.1 Why do plates move?
Plate tectonics is an earth sciences topic that attracts a good deal of interest, given that it a topic very often featured in popular science programmes on TV and radio. It is a subject that have strong visual appeal. The coverage is S279 is self-contained, up to date and is written in a way that will be accessible to those with interest and motivation, all the more so for those who have some pre-existing scientific understanding.
Tropospheric Ozone from Earth Probe TOMS: Indonesia - 9 Day Averages (May 1997 - May 1998)
Aerosol concentrations over Indonesia from May 1997 through May 1998 from Earth Probe TOMS
TRON:Legacy - An HTML5 Graphic Novel by Disney The Beauty of the Web shines with Disney's new Tron:Legacy site, a rich graphic novel brought to life online using HTML5 Canvas and audio tags (check out the music). The site, designed to mark the relaunch of the Tron:Legacy application, takes advantage of the power of modern PC hardware through Internet Explorer 9's full hardware acceleration so it feels interactive, immersive and responsive. Giorgio Sardo
SMU Dean Comments on His Work With Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology.
Meadows School Dean Jose Bowen is one of the five national editors of JAZZ: The Smithsonian Anthology, the new 111-track, 6-CD, 200-page compendium tracing the evolution of jazz. Bowen, a leading jazz scholar and musician, contributed more essays to the anthology than any other writer over the course of the seven-year project. Join him in the piano studio for a discussion and examples of this uniquely American art form.
Dark leafy seadragon face
This seadragon has a snout and you can see one of its eyes. The tube-shaped snout is what the seadragon uses to eat small bits of food with.
Daphnia body movements
A live Daphnia. Note all of the moving structures including the antennae and eyes.
Tropical Cyclone ALMA, May 29, 2002
This is Hurricane Alma on May 29, 2002 as seen by TRMM and GOES. The animation zooms down to Hurricane Alma and then scans across the cloud tops to reveal the underlying rain structure. There are 3 isosurfaces defined (Yellow = 0.5 inches-hour, Green = 1.0 inches-hour, and Red = 2.0 inches-hour)
6.4 The Edinburgh professorship Whytt, the Edinburgh professor of medicine, died in 1766 and Cullen was chosen to succeed him, largely with the aim of freeing the chemistry chair for Black. Black's transfer to Edinburgh was well received, and he fulfilled these expectations by being an excellent and popular lecturer. However, the Edinburgh chair also marked the end of his active research. One looks in vain for any sequel to his research on magnesia or his work on heat. With hindsight, foreshadowings of this change can be se
ENGL 200-01, Creative Writing: Introductory Poetry Workshop, Spring 2007
This class will introduce students to principles of good poetry,
including prosody, through readings of work by outside writers in Good Poems, edited by
Garrison Keillor, and through essays from Richard Hugo's The Triggering Town and
Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters To A Young Poet. You will complete writing exercises
assigned in class and in The Practice of Poetry edited by Robin Behn and Chase
Twichell. (4 texts) Students are expected to analyze and prepare to discuss the poems
and essays they rea
Learning outcomes
Childcare, education, working conditions, healthcare, crime … these issues are hotly debated in today's society. They are also issues that Robert Owen, seen by some as a visionary and by others as a knave and a charlatan, sought to address in the early 1800s. This unit uses a series of essays written by Owen to explore the ideas of this important and controversial figure.
