President Bob Bruininks Tribute
See U of M President Bob Bruininks' comments and a special musical surprise at the 2011 Alumni Association Annual Celebration. The program was in part a farewell to Bruininks as he leaves the presidency. For more information about the program and the Alumni Association visit www.MinnesotaAlumni.org/AnnualCelebration
What makes someone a Schreyer Scholar?
To be a Schreyer Scholar requires hard work, curiosity, drive, and passion.
The Giggler Treatment Quiz 2
The pupils will reflect on the content of chapters 3 to 8. They will deepen their understanding of the content.
Write Now! Career Writing Prompts: General Manager
This Career Clip features Steve Morrow, General Manager of the Lehigh Valley Syrup Plant for Coca-Cola. He is in charge of the entire facility and spends some time explaining that they train each of their technicians and that yes, it is possible to get paid to drink soda all day long. The best advice he ever received was to do what you like to do. Find a job that includes something you enjoy because you will be doing it a long time, and if you enjoy it you will be better at whatever it is.
A New Age of Exploration: From Earth to Mars
Happily for human spaceflight, Dava Newman and her students enjoy working in such laboratories as NASA’s “Vomit Comet.” Newman’s work aims to provide a better understanding of how humans can withstand the rigors of space missions. Her decades studying human physiology and performance in extreme environments may pro
The Next Giant Leaps in Energy, Environment, & Air Transportation
It’s no exaggeration to say John Holdren’s job involves tackling the most critical issues of our age: economic recovery and growth, health care, energy, climate change, global pandemics, national security, ecosystem preservation…the list goes on. As President Obama’s science and technology advisor, Holdren lev
Thinking Like a Social Scientist: a lecture by Professor Stuart Corbridge [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor Stuart Corbridge | In this new series of lunchtime lectures, nine of LSE's most senior academics explain the latest thinking on how social scientists work to address the critical problems of the day. They survey the leading ideas and contributions made by their discipline, explain the types of problems that are addressed and the tools that are used, and explore the kinds of solutions proposed.Stuart Corbridge is professor of human geography at LSE.
Literary Festival 2011 - Adaptation in an age of Digitisation: its fans, practitioners and foes [Aud
Speaker(s): Dr Shakuntala Banaji, Professor Andrew Burn, Blake Morrison | This provocative panel centres on the range of adaptations practised in today’s diverse multimedia landscape. These include adaptations of format (book to screen, game to film, short-story to stage) and adaptations of place, time and culture (Shakespeare into Hindi film). The panel will ask: How and why do such adaptations retain the original flavour and appeal to wide audiences? Is something lost in the process? Shakunt
Numeracy for Professional Purposes (7/10): Interpreting Data: Graphs & Charts (1)
Interpreting data: graphs and charts 1
The 800-pound Gorilla in the Gulf of Mexico
UM Rosenstiel School professor Nick Shay discusses the latest research to understand hurricane intensity change and the role of the Loop Current in the Gulf of Mexico on hurricane intensity.
1.1.1 Diagrams are all around us We all try to make sense of the world around us. This sense is displayed in two ways. We all have our own ‘internal models’ of how things work based on our experiences and our interpretation of those experiences. These ‘internal models’ shape our thoughts and actions and lead us to expect certain outcomes from certain activities. They change and evolve with new experiences or (hopefully) when challenged by new information. They are t
Araona Crater (Iturralde Structure)
The Araona Crater (also known as the Iturralde Structure) is a suspected crater from an impactor which struck northern Bolivia approximately 20,000 years ago. The feature is believed to have been caused by a short period comet striking at 70 kilometers per second and splattering into the muddy alluvial flood plain in the Lower Amazon jungle. The impact created a circular depression which is now roughly 8 kilometers across and 3 meters deep. The structure was discovered in 1988 Landsat data, but
7 Unit summary This unit presents an understanding of ‘ethics’ as something related with ‘good’ and ‘bad’. There are other derivative words like ‘optimal’ that might also be used, and there are parochial words which are related to particular communities. When we talk about ethical things, we are liable to confront cultural differences that are reflected in differences in vocabulary. But there are other kinds of differences too. Things have different properties; for exampl
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2D and 3D Wavefronts
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Free High School Science Texts Project,
Mark Horner,
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Royal Couple arrive at Polo match
July 9 - Prince William and Kate arrive at Santa Barbara polo club for chairty tournament. Rough Cut (No reporter narration).
The Mascot
Meet CMU's mascot "Scotty".
A deadly month in Iraq
July 9 - Attacks in Iraq are mounting as insurgents make a bid to undermine Iraq's capability to secure itself ahead of US troop withdrawal. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
Comparing Regular and Irregular Areas
The CyberSquad proves that the area of Hacker's land is equal to the area of Judge Trudy's land in this video segment from Cyberchase.
How Would You Turn a Bolt in Space?
In this fast-paced NASA Brain Bites™ video, an astronaut demonstrates the impact of microgravity on the use of tools in space.
