Climate Forecasting with Chaos, or Chaos in Climate Forecasting?
Predicting how climate change will affect us is of paramount importance, yet it is beset with both practical and conceptual problems. This lecture explores the impact that chaos has on what we can reasonably assert on the basis of climate models. Roman Frigg is deputy director of the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences, LSE.
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Island Voices / Guthan nan Eilean
Island Voices / Guthan nan Eilean.
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Purity of Disciplines
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British Cartoon Archive
The website of the British Cartoon Archive was re-launched in 2008. It was formerly online as the CartoonHub - a project which completed in 2002, and which received funding from the Research Support Libraries Programme (RSLP) and the Arts and Humanities Research Board (now the AHRC). The Archive is based at the University of Kent at Canterbury and has an extensive collection of original artwork (British cartoons of social and political comment), plus a reference library of books, pamphlets and A
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Building a Business: Managing people, managing teams (old)
The fifth in the 2009/10 Building a Business lecture series on how manage people and teams in a start-up. Building a Business is a nine week evening lecture course of basic business skills. The course covers good business practice with a focus on science entrepreneurship. It is designed around technological enterprise but most course material is relevant to general business practice.
Author(s): Tim Cook

Encountering Islam in Eastern African: Transnational History and Imperialism, c. 1880-1930 (Global a
Prof. Anderson (Oxford University) examines the tumultuous history in the Jubaland area of southern Somalia and northern Kenya at the turn of the 20th century. (Presented in the Global and Imperial History Research Seminar) Professor David Anderson (Oxford University, African Studies Centre) presents research on the history of Jubaland, located in Southern Somalia and, previously until 1924, part of the Kenya colony and East African protectorate. Focused on the tumultuous history of British inv
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The Town Before the Town
An early plantation slumbers beneath Williamsburg's streets and foundations.Author(s): No creator set

Reconstructing the Capitol
Bricks and mortar bear witness to a contest of aesthetics and evidence. Senior Architectural Historian Carl Lounsbury tells the story of the Capitol's reconstruction.Author(s): No creator set

Tangible Remains
Objects drawn from a 1609 well put people back in the picture at James Fort. Senior Archaeological Curator Bly Straube interprets the evidence.Author(s): No creator set

The Holloway Series in Poetry: Fanny Howe
Fanny Howe with graduate poet Yosefa Raz Introduced by UC Berkeley English PhD Candidate, Natalia Cecire One of the most widely read experimental poets today and the author of over twenty books of poetry, fiction, and essays, Fanny Howe hardly requires introduction to the Bay Area poetry community. Howe's wiry lyrics construct spaces of unsparing sincerity in which to examine and interrogate the embodied qualities of moral abstractions like mercy, guilt, and awe. Scouting through the complex te
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Magic and the Brain
Neuroscientists join Penn and Teller to explore why humans are so easily fooled by magic.  This professionally-made video from PBS is from the NOVA ScienceNOW series.  (12:07)
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One Way to Structure an Hour in an Elementary Classroom.
A fourth grade teacher describes strategies she uses to structure individual lessons in her elementary school classroom. In the video you will notice biomedical science students from Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science observing Ms. Thai in her classroom prior to starting their mentoring activities with the elementary school students.
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Fale de você, lição 4: Falando sobre suas origens
Nesta lição você vai ouvir um diálogo entre dois estranhos e vai aprender sobre algumas expressões da língua Portuguesa.

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Conducting a Thorough Market Assessment

A recorded Entrepreneur's Forum on February 3, 2011 sponsored by Calit2's TechPortal and OCTANe@UCI.

Brant Cooper has 20 years of experience in the high tech industry. He has participated in several startup ventures in a variety of roles, including IT, marketing and business development. He recently co-authored a book, The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development: A Cheat Sheet to The Four Steps to the Epiphany, and he blogs at Market by the Numbers.

Patrick Vlask
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What is the fate of CO2 produced by fossil fuel combustion?
This assignment uses a box-model to simulate the earth's carbon cycle. The model hindcasts the atmospheric CO2 increase during the industrial era and compares it to the historic observations of atmospheric CO2 concentrations. The model then forecasts future concentrations of atmospheric CO2 during the next century. This activity was peer reviewed by participants at the 2004 Teaching Quantitative Skills in a Geoscience Context Workshop at Carleton College. The website provides teaching notes, tip
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On-line learning networks: Framework and scenarios
The idea of using the internet as a platform to mediate social interactions and learning at different levels has progressively affirming itself, and this has given rise to a huge number of spontaneous and planned collectives, which are often described as on-line learning networks. On-line learning networks create value through the combination of content and people's knowledge. They can vary widely in the strength and permanence of their connections and the resources necessary to maintain them. A
Author(s): Bottino Rosa Maria

USGS Techniques of Water-Resources Investigations: Frequency Curves
This 21-page pdf file is Book 4, Chapter A2 of a series of manuals on techniques and procedures for planning and executing specialized work in water-resources investigations. It describes procedures for preparing frequency curves from samples of hydrologic data. It also discusses the theory of frequency curves, compares advantages of graphical and mathematical fitting, suggests methods of describing graphically defined frequency curves analytically, and emphasizes the correct interpretations of
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JoJo : Scholen voor jongeren - jongeren voor scholen

10 jaar tewerkstelling van laaggeschoolde jongeren in scholen

Samenvatting

Het JoJo-project (scholen voor jongeren – jongeren voor scholen) is een tewerkstellingsproject voor laaggeschoolde jongeren in scholen. …

Norman Borlaug: 60 Years of Fighting Hunger
Norman E. Borlaug was awarded the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for developing methods to help the world's poorest nations feed themselves. Born of Norwegian descent, Dr. Borlaug was raised near Cresco, a small farming community in northeast Iowa. He earned a B.S. in forestry and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in plant pathology from the University of Minnesota. From 1942 to 1944, Dr. Borlaug worked as a microbiologist for E.I. Dupont de Nemours Foundation, in charge of research on industrial and agricultural
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