Biodiversity
Biodiversity is the amount of variety of organisms in a particular area and is typically used to measure the "health" of an ecosystem. Biodiversity usually encompasses genetic diversity (variations within individual populations), ecosystem diversity (within ecosystems) and landscape diversity (range of differing ecosystems within an area). (03:46)
"Our Little Ghost" by Louisa May Alcott (poetry reading)
Maybe this is a poem about a living child expressed in a somewhat macabre way, but on close examination that seems less likely. Louisa May Alcott is better known for her novel Little Women, published in 1865, one of the first novels of the movement called Literary Realism. When reality is harsh, literature and art tend to be idealised. Little Women is about a family of four sisters. Beth, the youngest, becomes ill and she actually dies.
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Bahrain erupts in violence
Police fire tear gas to disperse crowds in Bahrain as violence erupts. Deborah Lutterbeck reports
The Problem Solving Profile Evaluation/Assessment Tool The African Health OER Network: Advancing health education in Africa through open educational resour This short commentary about the African Health OER Network was published by the African Journal of Health Professions Education, December 2010, Vol. 2, No. 2. ENS Lyon - La peur détruira-t-elle la ville? (Sophie Body-Gendrot)
La peur facilite la gouvernance des peuples, mobilise les citoyens, légitime un séparatisme social spontané. Son instrumentalisation politique et médiatique est ciblée sur la ville, car celle-ci est la métaphore des tensions sociales. L'«insécurité» cache un refoulé de questions majeures pour les sociétés et pour les habitants des villes, en particulier.
Illustrated Story: The "Art" of Editing 2011HumanitarianAwardInterview.mov Noam Chomsky - UCL Rickman Godlee Lecture 2011 8 Conclusion Interview with Radmilla Cody on Talkingfeather Radio Roberto Capucci: Art into Fashion NYIT Global Update: Mandarin: 03/16/11 Mind Mapping - Mini Lecture Jane McGonigal - How playing games can make the world a better place You may have recently heard Jane McGonigal on NPR or even watched her on Comedy Centrals "The Colbert Report". She has recently written a book titled "Reality is Broken". Why games make us better and how they can change the world now. I talk to her about her book, her research and her mission to try and Vittorio Colao GLS 2010 interview 2.2 The complex plane Skill and Science in Historic Trades ENS Lyon - La ville, espace public, espace privé (Dominique Wolton)
Deux philosophies de la communication s’opposent. La première, majoritaire, rêve que la performance des techniques permette de résoudre les problèmes de la communication. S’il y avait 6 milliards d’internautes, on se comprendrait mieux. La deuxième école, au contraire, – à laquelle appartient D. Wolton – pense que plus il y a de techniques, moins la communication est réelle. On avait dit : « quand il y aura des caméras partout, on ne pourra pas se tuer ! » ; en réalitÃ
This video teaches how to use software to do story-editing. It does not give too many examples, but provides some insight into how the software program, Prezi, works.
Clips from an interview with 2011 Humanitarian Award Winner Ryan Schlief
Professor Noam Chomsky, UCL Rickman Godlee Lecture 2011 - Contours of global order: Domination, stability, security in a changing world. Playlist of lecture excerpts: http://bit.ly/dKk2qY
Further links:
Blog post on the event: http://bit.ly/hwklig
Professor Chomsky's MIT page: http://bit.ly/gon5cT
Are you interested in creating your own open educational resources? This unit will help you to write a learning unit and provide you with links to various resources for open-learning materials. You will learn about the different purposes of self-instruction and receive advice about the techniques and strategies to help the learner.
Recently Radmilla Cody spent some time talking with Penny Gamble-Williams and her husband Thunder on their show Talking Feather Radio on BlogTalkRadio.com. Listen to this wonderful interview where she talks about her experiences as being a biracial girl growing up on the Navajo Reservation and later being chosen as the first biracial Miss Navajo Nation. She was selected as one of NPR's Great Voices and will be performing at the Eiteljorg Museum on March 19. In addition, the museum will screen a
March 16, 2011 - June 5, 2011: Italian fashion designer and artist Roberto Capucci (born 1930) is revered by contemporary designers for his innovative silhouettes and masterful use
of form, color, and materials. This exhibition—featuring over eighty works, as well as original drawings and sketches—will be the first survey of his work in the United States.
New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) Global Update: Mandarin Version: 03/16/11
A mini-lecture on Mind Mapping this looks at the benefits of using mind mapping to help organise ideas and use as a memory aid.
Vittorio Colao, Chief Executive, Vodafone, on what we can learn from emerging markets
Number systems and the rules for combining numbers can be daunting. This unit will help you to understand the detail of rational and real numbers, complex numbers and integers. You will also be introduced to modular arithmetic and the concept of a relation between elements of a set.
Intelligence born of practice combines with the study of science to complete the historic tradesman's store of knowledge. Director of Historic Trades Jay Gaynor describes the balance.Author(s):
