Andes Mummies: Chachapoya Tombs
This 3:44 minute video shows the history of the Chacahpoyas, their culture, architecture, and influences on the surrounding neighbors and about how they revered their dead and the tombs they built. A good video to gain insights into where they lived and how they lived.
Funk/R&B Drums
Jim Payne—drummer, educator, producer, and collaborator with the best in jazz and funk—presents his new online course with Berkleemusic: Funk/R&B Drums.
In this course, you can learn to play songs and improvise rhythms in the style of funk and R&B.
Learn more at: http://bit.ly/gVwEwQ
Just Like Brian Wilson Did: Using Allusion to Teach Imagery and Theme
Beginning ENG I students are introduced to the general concepts of imagery (including symbolism) and theme in short literature in a lesson that features two contemporary pop songs and their lyrics. Serves as a useful attention getting exercise for low-level ENG I students who must become familiar with general literary concepts and terms for the ENG I EOC.
Film Appreciation through Video...
Film Appreciation through Video Production: Dr. Chad Harriss teaches film and television appreciation through the applied process of video production.
The Big Moon Illusion
Why does the moon appear large while it is on Earth's horizon? Several possibilities are explained here.(01:24)
Lunsford Lane: A Slave in North Carolina Who Buys His Freedom
Lunsford Lane's story is about a slave who lives in Raleigh, North Carolina. Though his master owns as many as three plantations outside of Raleigh, Mr. Lane is not a plantation slave. Rather, he works for his master in the city-dwelling. His story provides an example of an ingenious, determined, and disciplined slave who's vision and creativity affords him the opportunity to earn money and eventually buy his freedom. This is an incredible story.
Travel to Identity in the Mid-Nineteenth-to-Mid-Twentieth-Century Contact Zone of New Mexico: Knowle
This study assesses narrative representations of Euro-American and Native American travel and encounter in New Mexico. The primary purpose of the work is to explore the construction and authority of knowledge claims and identity through late nineteenth- and early-to-mid twentieth-century Euro-American and Native American travel to, and within, the contact zone of New Mexico. I examine Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop, Mabel Dodge Luhan’s Edge of Taos Desert: An Escape to Reali
Exercice 12 (Logique, ensembles, raisonnements) [00137]
Exo7. Exercices de mathématiques pour les étudiants.
Bonus (à 7'14'') : exercice.
Retrouvez la correction écrite sur http://exo7.emath.fr
Kidney Physiology
Introduction to the physiology of the kidney, examining the processes by which the kidneys filter blood, control body pH and eliminate the waste products of metabolism from the body.
California Spotted Owl
Owls sit high in trees and use their head-turning ability to search for food such as snakes, spiders, and small rodents (skunks, mice, and chipmunks). They do not eat plants and are considered carnviores.
Earth Rotation from Galileo Imagery: 10 x Real-Time
This animation is one in a series created to show an accurate representation of the Earths rotation at different temporal resolutions. The animation is created from images taken by the Galileo spacecraft during a close pass of the Earth on December 11-12, 1990. The animations range from real-time, in which no rotation can be perceived, to 3600 times real-time, in which both the Earths rotation and cloud motion can bee seen. The series also includes an animation in which the Earths rotation has b
Robin Hood and Sherwood Forest
This online exhibition highlights resources for the study of Robin Hood in the collections held by Manuscripts and Special Collections at the University of Nottingham. It includes examples from printed versions of the Robin Hood story in collections of traditional ballad literature, in popular chap books and in stories for children. It also features documents which can be used for the study of the historical Sherwood Forest and its laws.
Economic Update on WBAI 99.5FM April 2nd
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It Takes Two to Tangle
Students explore the theme of conflict in literature. They learn the difference between internal and external conflict and various types of conflicts, including self against self, self against other, and self against nature or machine. Stories are used to discuss methods of managing and resolving conflict and interpersonal friction. Note: The literacy activities for the Mechanics unit are based on physical themes that have broad application to our experience in the world concepts of rhythm, bala
Authors@Google: Evgeny Morozov
"The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom"
by Evgeny Morozov
A timely examination of the promise and peril of the Internet in politics with controversial author Evgeny Morozov. As Egypt, Tunisia, Iran, and other regimes meet resistance from citizens using technology to plan and document revolt, Morozov offers a rare and well-argued critique of the web as a democratizing force.
In this spirited book, journalist and social commentator Evgeny Morozov shows that by falling for the supp
The Standard Model Architecture and Interactions Part 2 The Fermion Interaction
The Standard Model Architecture and Interactions Part 2
© 2011 Claude Michael Cassano
The Fermion Interaction:
An interaction with entry ingredients A,B and exit ingredients C,D is denoted as you see, here:
A+B → C+D
which implies it's anti-equivalent.
A fermion interaction is an interaction between first and second order objects, i.e.: between solitary S sub R matrices.
The initial step in a fermion interaction proceess is fu
Exercice 7 (Injection, surjection, bijection) [00193]
Exo7. Exercices de mathématiques pour les étudiants.
Bonus (à 7'01'') : méthodologie pour les démonstrations.
Retrouver la correction écrite sur http://exo7.emath.fr
Female desert bighorn sheep in the Sonora desert
Desert bighorn sheep use a lot of energy to regulate their internal temperature in the desert. During the summer the sheep eat plants and drink water every few days. In the winter, desert plants contain enough water for sheep survival.
Efficiency of a water heating system
Students use a watt meter to measure energy input into a hot plate or hot pot used to heat water. The theoretical amount of energy required to raise the water by the measure temperature change is calculated and compared to the electrical energy input to calculate efficiency.
Endometrial Cancer Risks and Treatments
This is a self-assessment of knowledge around the epidemiology and late effects of cancer survival. Themes emphasized in this module are: epidemiology of survival; late effects; psychosocial concerns; secondary prevention; and strategies for behavior change. This assessment is based on the self-study tutorial of the same name.
