J. Erik Jonsson Ethics Award -- Walter J. Humann with Introduction by Bobby B. Lyle
The Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics & Public Responsibility presented Walter "Walt" J. Humann with the J. Erik Jonsson Ethics Award on April 2, 2012. The annual award recognizes individuals who epitomize the spirit of moral leadership and public virtue. In this video: introduction by Dr. Bobby B. Lyle and Remarks by Walt Humann. For more information, please visit http://smu.edu/ethics
Science Bulletins: The Roots of a Malaria Menace
Malaria kills more than a million people every year. Recently, an international team of biologists used genetic techniques to trace how the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum first emerged to infect humans. In their study of chimpanzees in West Africa, the researchers discovered that P. falciparum evolved from Plasmodium reichenowi, a species of chimpanzee malaria. Malaria thus began much like many other modern pandemics such as HIV, SARS, and swine flu—it jumped from animals to humans.
Boiler Bytes: Nano Days 2012
Purdue University's Discovery Park served as a host site for a nationwide program known as Nano Days. This outreach program enlisted hundreds of University faculty/staff/student volunteers to teach K-12 Indiana students about the "science of the very small."
Lego Batman
Matisse, Luxe, Calme et Volupté, 1904 - Smart History at Khan Academy
NOTE: Female Nudity. Henri Matisse, Luxe, calme et volupté, 1904, oil on canvas, 37 x 46 inches (Museé d'Orsay, Paris) Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. (03:26)
Painted while the artist stayed with the pointillist painter, Signac, at his home in Saint-Tropez on the Côte d'Azur. Matisse's title comes from Charles Baudelaire's poem, L'invitation au voyage (Invitation To A Voyage) from his collection, The Flowers of Evil. Luxe, calme e
Faculty of Law: Public Law Toolbox: Why it Matters
Mai Chen of CHENPALMER Law Specialists, and distinguished Otago Law alumna discusses New Zealand Public and Employment Law. Mai has recently had her book, Public Law Toolbox published, and she has contributed greatly to public and employment law discourse in New Zealand.
IPL: Professor Richard Walter
Professor Richard Walter of the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology) presents his Inaugural Professorial Lecture on the topic of “Challenges and Diversions in Pacific Archaeology” on 19 October 2011. Professor Walter's research interests include prehistory and archaeology of Oceania with a special interest in Melanesia and Polynesia; material culture analysis; history of archaeological method and theory; ethno-archaeology; and faunal analysis.
IPL: Professor Richard Walter
Professor Richard Walter of the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology) presents his Inaugural Professorial Lecture on the topic of “Challenges and Diversions in Pacific Archaeology” on 19 October 2011. Professor Walter's research interests include prehistory and archaeology of Oceania with a special interest in Melanesia and Polynesia; material culture analysis; history of archaeological method and theory; ethno-archaeology; and faunal analysis.
Lecture by Fo Wilson
This lecture was recorded on February 22, 2012, at the San Francisco campus of California College of Arts. This event was presented by the Design and Craft Lecture Series.
Fo Wilson uses the language of furniture to investigate ideas around identity and culture, and to re-present histories that counter dominant Western historical narratives. She is an educator, curator, writer, and maker of objects, spaces, places, and ideas. She advocates a progressive agenda for the future of craft and desig
Lecture by Jonathan Harris
Presented by the Interaction Design Program, this lecture by Jonathan Harris was recorded on February 27, 2012, at the San Francisco campus of California College of the Arts.
Jonathan talked about his latest project, Cowbird, and the back story and personal journey of how it came to be. Cowbird is a community of storytellers, focused on a deeper, longer-lasting, more personal kind of storytelling than you're likely to find anywhere else on the Web. Cowbird allows you to keep a beautiful audio-
LeanUX: Lecture by Jeff Gothelf
"LeanUX: Building a Shared Understanding to Get Out of the Deliverables Business"
Presented as part of CCA's Interaction Design Lecture Series, this lecture was recorded on April 21, 2012, at the San Francisco campus of California College of the Arts.
Enter Lean UX. Inspired by Lean Startup and Agile development theories, Lean UX is the practice of bringing the true nature of our work to light faster, with less emphasis on deliverables and greater focus on the actual experience being designed
Science Bulletins: Skull fills Gap in Fossil Record
Some periods of human prehistory lack a substantial fossil record in key geographic locations, making it difficult to confirm genetic evidence of modern human migrations. One such crucial period was when the earliest modern humans migrated from East Africa after having originated there 150,000 years ago. Genetic analysis shows that populations of our direct ancestors left this area between 65,000 and 25,000 years ago, spreading elsewhere in Africa, to Europe, and eventually, around the world. Al
Science Bulletins: Genes in the Urban Environment
Much of who we are biologically is determined by an interplay between our genes and the environment we live in. To learn how the transition of human populations from rural to urban lifestyles may be affecting the body's susceptibility to disease, researchers from North Carolina State University traveled to Morocco to study the genetic makeup of three communities living in three distinct environments: nomadic, rural, and urban.
Although the genes among the groups were quite similar, the expressi
Urban heat, ancient cave art, bold birds
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: a look at how urban heat islands will alter under climate change, and how these changes might affect your health, as well as our railways, roads and energy supplies. Also: why Europe's oldest cave art might not have been painted by humans at all.
Alesia Latson Recorded 6/28/2012
Phillip Earl Johnson '86 - performs at Redbird Pride Night
Redbird Pride night at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival featured MooNie. Phillip Earl Johnson '86, Illinois State University Theater alumnus combines the European Silent Clown with the immediate interactive theater of street and stage. His very first performance was on the lawn by Ewing Manor. Since, he has done 5,500 performances in 23 years.
Diego Velázquez - Pablillos de Valladolid
Descripción escrita por Arte Historia.
El excelente retrato de Pablillos de Valladolid también formaría parte de la serie de bufones - junto a Cristóbal de Castañeda y El bufón Don Juan de Austria - supuestamente destinada al Palacio del Buen Retiro hacia 1636. La actividad de este bufón o actor consistía en divertir a la familia real, en muchos casos actuando, como podemos deducir por la actitud declamatoria y su act
Mass murder of Kherson Jews
Vanda Kriger, who was born in 1925 in Kherson and lived there during the war years, describes how in late September 1941 her mother, together with other Jews, was transported from a prison in Kherson to a murder site, where they were shot. She notes the three places where Jews from Kherson and prisoners of war were executed and buried in mass graves in Kherson and surrounding areas.
For more information: http://www1.yadvashem.org/untoldstories/database/murderSite.asp?site_id=214
Raisa Kuchurenko a Kherson Jew, escapes the grim fate of Kherson Jewry
Raisa Kuchurenko, who was born in 1930 in Kherson and lived there during the war years, describes how, together with other Jews of Kherson, she was taken to a murder site while viewed by a crowd of local spectators, how her mother pushed her out of a group of Kherson Jews doomed to death and how she ran away and saved her life.
For more information: http://www1.yadvashem.org/untoldstories/database/murderSite.asp?site_id=214
Mass Murder of Novo-Moskovsk Jews - Part 3
Natalia Levchenko, who was born in 1929 in Novo-Moskovsk and lived there during the war years, testifies how the Jews who had been taken to the riverbank next to the Samara Bridge were forced to undress and were then shot to death. Their clothes and personal items were taken away.
For more information: http://www1.yadvashem.org/untoldstories/database/murderSite.asp?site_id=417
