Russia buries boat tragedy victims
July 13 - Victims of a boat accident in Russia's Volga river are buried in Kazan. Simon Hanna reports.
Europe slams Ireland downgrade
July 13 - The European Commission has called Moody's latest downgrade of Ireland's credit rating "incomprehensible" as fears also grow over the stability of Italy's economy. Andrew Potter reports.
Bernanke: Fed ready to act
July 13 - Summary of business headlines: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke lays the groundwork for possibility of further stimulus; Netflix hikes subscription price by 60 percent. Conway Gittens reports.
News Corp suit isolated to UK, pending more evidence: Coffee
July 13 - News Corp's hacking scandal took place in the UK and can only be sued in the U.S. if additional evidence against the American parent company is revealed, says Columbia law professor John Coffee.
Putnam County World War II Memorial
On the southwest corner of the courthouse lawn a World War II Memorial incorporates the infamous German V-1 "buzz bomb." It sits upon a v-shaped limestone base. It was dedicated November 11, 1948, as a tribute to Putnam County veterans killed in action.,Use of this image is restricted to projects related to Destination Indiana.,Putnam County Journey
King Tut's Tomb
The mystery of Tut's death and possible murder is examined by using modern scientific method. This 3:40 video shows how it is possible that the real reason for Tut's demise was a war wound. Students may need to understand what gangrene is.
6.2 Shaping knowledge It seems inevitable that any understandings we have will have been shaped and influenced by other (past and present) members of the same culture(s) we belong to. Most of these influences ‘just happen’: they arise out of our experiences as part of a culture whose members have had their experiences and shared them over many centuries. However, knowledge can also be deliberately influenced by powerful elements within a society: as we saw in Section 5.3, the church suppressed Galileo's r
5.5 How society constructs scientific thinking To understand science, it is important that we appreciate the contexts in which discoveries are made or suppressed. We can see from the account on the previous page that human understanding of the universe has changed significantly over time. The social and political climate in which scientists work has always had a profound influence on what can and cannot be said, done, published or even postulated as worthy of further investigation. (You could undertake a similar study of the debates on hu
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The History of Olympics 2012.
This student-created animated video outlines the history of the Olympic Games. Students created the artwork and provide the narration used in the video. ( 4:01)
U.S.-Iran Relations
While Barack Obama has rejected the Bush administration’s harsh stance toward Iran, panelists warn that we’re far from the start of fruitful relations, and that achieving real diplomacy will paradoxically require both patience and a sense of urgency.
Suzanna DiMaggio observes the U.S. seeking “areas of comm
Giving Back: Finding the Best Way to Make a Difference
The world’s most intractable problems might be cracked if more of our “brightest minds” could be tempted to work on them, asserts Bill Gates. Too many graduates of top universities like MIT find it infinitely more satisfying to deal in derivatives, he says, or lucrative areas of medical science like “baldness dr
4.3.2 Wave power
Access to safe, clean and sustainable energy supplies is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity during the twenty-first century. This unit will survey the world’s present energy systems and their sustainability problems, together with some of the possible solutions to those problems and how these might emerge in practice.
2.3 Black smokers
What is ecology and why is it important to our understanding of the world around us? This unit looks at how we can study ecosystems to explore the effect that humans are having on the environment.
Next steps After completing this unit you may wish to study another OpenLearn Study Unit or find out more about this topic. Here are some sugggestions:
3.1 (2A): Exploring the global implications of different mindsets In this activity the aim is to investigate the implications of different mindsets with regards to the future unfolding of events on a global scale. So far, you have focused your attention on exploring your personal c 2.3 Communication techniques In the introduction to communication, I focused on the problems of getting a message through, but Author(s): 4.13 Technologies and explicit knowledge Knowledge-based systems have the ability to analyse specific kinds of information in order to take action. Since we have earlier defined knowledge as arising out of the interpretation of information as mediated by representations, we can claim that in a limited sense such systems can ‘know’ things: they have a representation of part of the world, and they have some rules that allow them to analyse that representation, from which they can decide on a course of action. In that sense, t 2.4 Codification and formalisation continued An important point is that the process of ‘objectifying’ knowledge brings with it a gradual change in the knowledge represented, because content and form are inextricably linked. McLuhan's famous quotation ‘the medium is the message’ highlights this phenomenon, but overstates the case a little. We can say that the medium shapes the message, as follows:
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