U.S. consumer confidence rising
Summary of business headlines: Consumer confidence at 8 month high; Home prices fall; Stocks fall on earnings disappointments; "King's Speech" leads Oscar nominations.
The American Civil War
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Reader's Theater of the Great Kapok Tree
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Iqbal Masih
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Audacity Basics
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Mrs. Burk's Simplify Rap
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Changing Europe: 1919-1945
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Creating Groups
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Intelligent Agents for Distance Learning
Distance learning involves a lot of work of human assistants. These assistants need to be connected for answering student doubts and questions. Intelligent agents can do part of this repetitive work because they can observe students interacting with educational courses, detect learning troubles of these students, and then suggest them some way for overcoming those troubles. However, a design problem appears with this promised possibility: how to connect educational applications with these agents
1.011 Project Evaluation (MIT)
1.011 examines methodologies for evaluating civil engineering projects, which typically are large-scale, long-lived projects involving many economic, financial, social, and environmental factors. Topics covered include: basic techniques of engineering economics including net present value analysis, life-cycle costing, benefit-cost analysis, and other approaches to project evaluation; resource and cost estimation procedures appropriate for large-scale infrastructure systems; and incorporating ser
The Pulse of Scientific Freedom in the Age of Biotech Industry
A conversation with: Arpad Pusztai, John Losey, Tyrone Hayes, and Ignacio Chapela. Introduced by Michael Pollan. Moderated by Mark Dowie.
The four participants in this conversation have performed simple, yet dramatic discoveries in Biology that question the wisdom of a quarter century of commitment to an agenda of agricultural development based on intensive technological dependence.
As a consequence of the publication of their research, each of the participants has encountered not only controv
Learning the Hindi Letters – Lesson 20–Consonants ल and व
This is a continuation of the series covering the very basics of Hindi. At the bottom of this lesson are links to the previous lessons. If you are already studying [...]
The week ahead: January 26th 2011
Unrest continues in Egypt, Myanmar's parliament convenes, the African Union holds a summit and it's Groundhog Day in America
