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På torsdagen berättade att kvinnor som har en besvärlig graviditet har rätt att stanna hemma från jobbet och istället få pengar från Försäkringskassan. Vi berättade också att miljövännen Nnimmo Bassey från Nigeria ska få Right Livelihood-priset. Han får det priset eftersom han försöker att hjälpa dem som har drabbats av olja som släpps ut i naturen i hans hemland Nigeria i Afrika.
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Video: James Franklin interview with Joe Fisher
Head Coach James Franklin gives his first interview to Vanderbilt’s Joe Fisher. Media Contact: Rod Williamson, rod.williamson@vanderbilt.edu
How to Create Free Google Apps Email like gmail for My Domain
This video provides a step by step tutorial for starting a successful blog. This video is hosted by http://fourblogger.com. The speaker tells you the directions as you see the screen with direction arrows (Running Time 4:53).
Gemesis Diamonds - Lab Created Diamonds?
Various clips from Discovery Channel, CNN, CNBC, and 60 Minutes about Gemesis Diamonds™ (lab created diamonds) vs mined diamonds. Run time 04:56.
11.122 Environment and Society (MIT)
Modern industrial activities - which MIT engineers and scientists play a major role in - have significant environmental and social impacts. Trends towards further industrialization and globalization portend major challenges for society to manage the adverse impacts of our urban and industrial activities. How serious are current environmental and social problems? Why should we care about them? How are governments, corporations, activists, and ordinary citizens responding to these problems.
This c
Celebrating James Marshall and Humor in Children’s Books
Friends, colleagues and fans unite in loving praise of a children’s author who, though renowned, never got his due. James Marshall was writer/illustrator of the George and Martha and The Cut-Ups book series (he also illustrated Miss Nelson and The Stupids series, among many others). He died at ag
Learn Principles of Economics at the Online Mises Academy I am pleased to announce that at the end of January we will begin another session of my Mises Academy online class, the Principles of Economics. If you missed the inaugural session back in the fall, now is your chance to see fo
Windows Phone 7 at CES 2011 Greg Sullivan gives us a tour of what's happening for Windows Phone 7 at CES 2011. The new devices look stellar!
Rounding Rap
This sing-along video features students performing a Rounding Rap song that describes the basic steps for rounding numbers. (2:40)
STAR TRACK Program Provides HIV-Positive Youth with Access to Care
The Adolescent Special Teens At-Risk, Together Reaching Access, Care and Knowledge (STAR TRACK) Program offers outreach, education and prevention services to youth, young adults and their communities in Baltimore City. It is an interdisciplinary program within the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine designed to address the complicated needs of adolescents who are infected with HIV.
In this six-minute video, staff members John Flannery, Chakeisha Dickens and Mayo McClinton talk about
Lego compass
See how you can make a south-pointing chariot using Lego. Read more here: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2010/12/no-magnet-required-how-to-build-a-compass-out-of-lego.html
Table ronde : Enseigner les Humanités. Repenser enseignements et filières, filières universitaire
Table ronde "Filières universitaires". Dans "Les Humanités pour quoi faire ? : enjeux et propositions", colloque international organisé par le laboratoire Patrimoine, Littérature, Histoire (PLH) en collaboration avec le laboratoire Lettres, Langages et Arts (LLA). Université Toulouse II-Le Mirail, IUFM Midi-Pyrénées, 27-29 mai 2010.
Thème IV : Enseigner les humanités : contenus, méthodes, filières, perspectives. Repenser enseignements et
11.380J Urban Transportation Planning (MIT)
This class is an introduction to planning transportation in metropolitan areas. The approach, while rooted on the analytical tools which estimate outcomes and alternatives, is holistic. This means starting from a scan of the site, its history and its current trends, in order to frame properly the problem, including the relevant actors, institutions, roles and interests. The design and evaluation of alternatives considers this complexity, in addition to construction, operation and maint
Professor Charles Sheppard - Protecting Indian Ocean Coral Reefs
Professor Charles Sheppard from the Department of Biological Sciences talks to Peter Dunn about his research into the biogeography and biodiversity of Indo-Pacific coral reefs, including the development of wide scale reef monitoring programmes. He discusses how important these government protected areas and their wildlife are to sustaining the lives of millions of people living around the Indian Ocean rim. Part of a team of international environmental marine researchers Professor Sheppard aims t
11.364 International Environmental Negotiation (MIT)
The class will explore the obstacles to achieving sustainability; in particular, the difficulties of managing common resources, achieving transboundary pollution control, making tradeoffs between economic and social development needs and environmental resource protection, and harmonizing environmental protection standards. At their core, these problems must be addressed through international or multi-lateral negotiations. We will focus especially on problems of representation and voting, issue l
Shape It
Using only six straight lines, divide this shape into four equal parts.
