Advanced Audio Blog S5 #3 - Top 10 Japanese Holidays: Jūgoya/The Fifteenth Night
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Your friend tells you that you’re going out tonight. You assume he’s referring to one of the hot Japanese nightclubs that’s not too far away, so you get dressed to the nines. However, when he picks you up, he’s not dressed to hit a Japanese dance floor: he’s wearing very casual [...]
World War II- Major Charity Adams- 6888 Postal Battalion
This is historical footage of the eight hundred WACs of the Army's Central Postal Directory Battalion, the 'Six Triple Eight,' who were stationed overseas and in charge of redirecting all 'V-Mail' for Europe. Major Charity Adams was the battalion's commanding officer. There is no narration, just music. (02:39)
Springing to Life
"Springing to Life: Movable Books & Mechanical Devices," curated by Leah Hamilton, features more than 50 examples of pop-up books, bibliographic mechanisms, and amazing feats of paper engineering and spans nearly 500 years of the interactive book. Each of the books in the exhibit is a part of the collection in the University of Rochester's Rush Rhees Library Rare Books and Special Collections Department. For more information on the exhibit, visit: http://www.library.rochester.edu/node/32924.
DeAndree Watson at Obama Event 1-27-12
DeAndree Watson, President of the Student Assembly at the University of Michigan, addresses the audience gathered for President Obama's visit on January 27, 2012.
Electric Vehicles - the race is on
Experiential, hands-on learning is the goal of the WSU Electric Vehicle Team, one of 30 clubs in the College of Engineering and Architecture.
Mentored by Kirk Reinkens, students design and build one-person vehicles powered by AC electrical systems. Their skills are tested in nationally recognized Electrathons, where drivers compete to see how fast and far their cars can go in an hour.
President Faust Visits the JB Petit High School for Girls, in Mumbai, India
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GRCC Plastics 30 sec promo
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Calculus 2/02/210
David Pruis teaches the latest installment of MA134: Calculus 2 at Grand Rapids Community College.
Arab Spring Symposium - Dr. David Sorenson
Dr. David Sorenson, Professor of International Security Studies at the Air War College, discussed the role of the military. Invited guests from local and national universities and government and civilian agencies broaden the range of discussions. Guest speakers brought up complex issues and challenges to discuss back in seminar. This symposium is the latest in a decade-long tradition where the USAWC pauses to explore a region in a focused fashion.
L'héritage de l'Espagne des trois cultures : musulmans, juifs et chrétiens. Présentation / I. Tou
L'héritage de l'Espagne des trois cultures : musulmans, juifs et chrétiens. Présentation / Isabelle Touton. Rencontre-débat organisées par l'Université Toulouse II-Le Mirail, l'Institut Cervantes de Toulouse, en partenariat avec les Presses Universitaires du Mirail et le Centre d'Initiatives artistiques du Mirail (CIAM). Toulouse : Institut Cervantès, 8 avril 2010. Cette journée fête le 25 ème anniversaire de la revue Horizons maghrébins, Le droit à la mémoire<
CIS : just in time BBC Nature-Coelacanths Class Agnatha Intro to Chemistry: 10.1 Introduction to Acids and Bases (2/2) Deepest Surrey Archaeology Newcastle English country dancers - Mage on a Cree Upper Intermediate S5 #3 - I Hope That’s the Last Bear Attack in Japan Temperature Measurement 101: Clip 1 of 6 "Days of Wine and Roses" by Ernest Dowson (poetry reading) Outside In: a conversation with Peter Hain [Audio]
David Attenborough goes to the Madagascar Research Institute's
laboratory to see its most famous fish - the coelacanth. Until 1938 it
was believed to be extinct. The coelacanth, or a fish very like it,
would have been the ancestor of all amphibians, reptiles, birds and
mammals.
This clip was first broadcast in 1961.
Join award winning teachers Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams as they interactively teach Chemistry: 10.1 Introduction to Acids and Bases. This video explains the properties of acids and bases in relation to human taste buds. ( 8:17)
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This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K An Egyptologist discusses the significance of some of the objects found by Haward Carter in 1922 in King Tut's tomb. You see examples which include a shanti, an amulet, a chair, a dagger and a fan. She tells us what a tomb is and why it was important for the Egyptian culture. (4mins)
Newcastle English country dancers perform the dance of Mage on a Cree (to the tune of Lilibulero) at the Renaissance pleasure faire.
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! It’s only been a week since you left your home in Japan for a business trip, but you’ve been missing your family ever since. In the airport, you decide to buy some souvenirs for your family members to show them that you’ve been thinking about them. After looking in several shops, [...]
Temperature Measurement 101: Clip 1 of 6. Run time 10 Minutes.
Recorded webinar from Industrial Controls with speakers Harold Dorr and Bill Bergquist. February 24, 2010. Voice over Powerpoint slides.
Topics Include:
*Understanding RTD sensors - strengths and weaknesses
*Understanding Thermocouples - strengths and weaknesses
*Selecting the correct temperature sensor for your application Author(s):
It's not actually called "Days of Wine and Roses" but people remember that quotation. The title is a quotation from Horace and it means "The brevity of life stops us from having long plans".
The most persuasive argument for drinking in literature might be The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, for instance,
"I often wonder what the vintner's buy
One half so precious as the goods they sell".
Then there's Baudelaire "You have to be always drunk...it's the only way...you have to be continually drunk".
Speaker(s): Peter Hain MP | During a discussion on his latest book Outside In|, former anti-apartheid leader turned Labour cabinet minister Peter Hain will recall his campaigning days, receiving a letter bomb, being prosecuted in two political trials and his role in negotiating the historic 2007 settlement in Northern Ireland. He was also Britain's first-ever African-born Africa Minister and a passionate advocate and deliverer of devolved government to Wales. Featuring Iraq, Mugabe, Europe, Gibr
