Genocide and War: The Holocaust as a War Goal or an Obstacle to Victory
An excerpt from Prof. Omer Bartov's lecture "Genocide and War: The Holocaust as a War Goal or an Obstacle to Victory" presented at Yad Vashem during the symposium marking 70 years since the Wansee Conference: "The Organization of the Mass Murder of the Jews and Its Significance"
The Holocaust in the Context of Genocide
An excerpt from Prof. Yehuda Bauer's lecture "The Holocaust in the Context of Genocide" presented at Yad Vashem during the symposium marking 70 years since the Wansee Conference: "The Organization of the Mass Murder of the Jews and Its Significance"
How to Shoot a Basketball
This video provides tips for beginners on how to shoot a basketball. The proper placement of hands and feet is shown. ( 1:37)
"Stop Taking in Stray Animals" 2012 Direct TV Commercial
See what happens when you make bad decisions with this humorous commercial from Direct TV. Commercials are not only relevant to students, but can also be used for a variety of comprehension skills such as: cause and effect, compare and contrast, context clues, drawing conclusions, fact and opinion, inference, summarizing, and sequencing. (0:32)
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Open Classroom 2/22/12 #2 Sarah Dwyer
Food and American Society an Urban Perspective
Topic for 2/22/12: What we eat: The role of culture
Lectures:
Sara Dwyer - Program Manager, Oldways -- Culture and Food
Lori Lefkovitz - Ruderman Professor and Director of Jewish Studies, Northeastern University
Robert Hall - Associate Professor of African American Studies, Northeastern University
The Open Classroom Policy Series is a graduate-level public policy seminar that is open to the public. Each semester, the School of Public Policy and
FORMATIC 2012 – Valeur des logiciels sociaux dans la santé et l’aide à l’autonomie
Titre : FORMATIC 2012 – Valeur des logiciels sociaux dans la santé et l’aide à l’autonomie
Auteur(s) : Robert Picard (Référent santé CGIET Ministère de l’Industrie).
Résumé : Les communications présentent une étude et une expérience d'utilisation de réseaux sociaux destinés aux personnes malades ou en perte d'autonomie et à leurs proches ainsi que des projets de mise en œuvre de logiciels et solutions TIC Santé et des actions d’accompagnement auprès d
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Moths
This WILD TV segment shows program host, Wali Collins and entomologist Mark Hostetler conducting an experiment on moths’ attraction to light. Moths use the moon to navigate at night, the reason they are attracted to outdoor artificial white lights. Mark and Wali go to a dark spot at night and turn on a white light. Moths and other insects soon arrive and land on Wali near the light with one moth even beginning to lay eggs on Wali. At the end of the segment we also learn frogs and
Health Care Reform: Life after the Supreme Court Debate
The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard arguments both for and against President Obama's health care reform initiative, known as the Affordable Care Act. The provision at the center of the legal debate -- the individual mandate -- requires all adults to buy health insurance, either through their employers or by purchasing it themselves. Knowledge@Wharton talked with Wharton professors Scott Harrington, Jonathan Kolstad, Mark Pauly and Arnold Rosoff about the possible outcomes of the court case; th
Lil' Drac- A Rescued Baby Bat Story
This is an amazing story of an orphaned short-tailed fruit bat that was hand-raised by Bat World Sanctuary. For Lil' Drac updates, photos and more please see http://www.batworld.org/adopt-a-bat-now. (04:13)
Kathryn Ellis | 2012 Jack Breslin Distinguished Staff Award
Kathryn Ellis | administrative assistant III, Lyman Briggs College
Kathryn Ellis leads short-term and long-term financial, personnel and procedural planning for Lyman Briggs College. Ellis is responsible for administering the college's budget, grant funds and personnel actions, and she coordinates searches for new faculty, academic and support staff.
Some of Ellis' contributions to the college include streamlining faculty and academic staff searches by transitioning them to an online system wh
Titanium - Periodic Table of Videos
New and updated video about the element Titanium. More chemistry at http://www.periodicvideos.com/
Children Book Review: The Turtle (Lighthouse Family) by Cynthia Rylant, Preston McDaniels
This is a quick summary of the book The Turtle by Cynthia Rylant. This could be used with an author study while studying the Common Core Test Exemplar story in the same series The Lighthouse Family: The Storm. (00:57)
International Business: Studying Abroad at the University of Richmond
Hear as our exchange students tell about their experience studying abroad at the University of Richmond.
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Symmetry: ( An Interactive Game)
In this game, students are shown shapes and must identify line(s) of symmetry in each. Shapes shown include isosceles and scalene triangles, a square, a rectangle, and a trapezoid. ( This link is for an interactive game and may take a few minutes to load.)
U.S. Day Ahead: Markets naively optimistic before Fed meeting
July 30 - With the Dow still clinging to the magic 13,000 mark, investors are being way too optimistic ahead of the Fed meeting, according to Reuters Breakingviews Agnes Crane.
Authors at Google: Kevin Bleyer, "ME THE PEOPLE: One Man's Quest to Rewrite the Constitution..."
We think of our Constitution as the painstakingly designed blueprint drawn up by, in Thomas Jefferson's words, an "assembly of demigods" who laid the foundation for the sturdiest republic ever created. The truth is, it was no blueprint at all but an Etch A Sketch, a haphazard series of blunders, shaken clean and redrawn countless times during a summer of petty debates, drunken ramblings, and desperate compromise—as much the product of an "assembly of demigods" as a confederacy of dunces.
