Europe in the new energy world order
The cold war era was characterised by a bipolarity based on ideologies and nuclear arms. The post cold war era will increasingly be defined by energy. Power and economic welfare will depend on a country's or region's access to the world's decreasing fossil fuels or the development of renewable energy. In this lecture, the Danish Minister of Climate and Energy focuses on Europe's chances to prosper in this new energy world order. Lykke Friis is the Danish Minister for Climate and Energy and Minis
Islam d’Extrême Orient - Andrée Feillard (video)
Les communautés musulmanes d’Extrême-Orient, qui totalisent plus de 232 millions d’individus au sein de onze pays, ont parfois reçu une moindre attention, leur pratique de l’islam étant considérée comme syncrétique, voire « abâtardie ». Ce préjugé est sans doute dû à leur éloignement géographique des lieux saints de l’islam, mais aussi à l’hétérogénéité de leurs coutumes : l’Indonésie à elle seule compte entre 650 et 700 langues locales, un pays où pourt
16.891J Space Policy Seminar (MIT)
The seminar explores current issues in space policy as well as the historical roots for the issues. Emphasis on critical policy discussion combined with serious technical analysis. The range of issues covers national security space policy, civil space policy, as well as commercial space policy. Issues explored include: the GPS dilemma, the International Space Station choices, commercial launch from foreign countries, and the fate of satellite-based cellular systems.
47. Banking and Financial Legislation: 1933-1935 Monopoly Literary Festival 2011 - Adaptation in an age of Digitisation: its fans, practitioners and foes ISKME's Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematice (STEAM) Design Challenge Science, Literacy, Arts iNtegration in the Twenty-first century (SLANT) Summer Institute 2003 Glomerata, vol. 106 Bank Vooruit! Op naar een holebivriendelijke school Bank Vooruit! is een educatieve map waar leerkrachten en onderwijsbetrokkenen direct mee aan de slag kunnen. In deel 1 vind je tips voor een holebivriendelijke school, als volgt opgedeeld: Joyce Carol Oates: Panel Discussion Scholars Gov't and the Marketplace Seminar: Toxics 02/22/2011 #2: Jennifer Intro Gov't and the Marketplace Seminar: Toxics 02/22/2011 #4: Robert A. Rio The Many Uses of Pi Bottoms up - the science of slurping
Why is it so difficult to perfect low alcohol wine? How do you measure aroma? And is wine-tasting an effective indicator of wine quality, or just plain, old-fashioned snobbery?
In this podcast Professor of Flavour Technology at The University of Nottingham, Andy Taylor, answers these and other questions, based on his pioneering research in the Division of Food Sciences at the The Pope and Jesus
In this podcast we hear about a major conference at the University, based on a hotly debated book by Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger.
Experts from around the world are gathering to debate major questions arising from the book, chiefly the concept of Jesus as an historical figure, Christ of faith, or both.
More infor Why politics matters
Prof Stoker recently spoke in the Spring Seminar Series hosted by the Centre for British Politics in the School of Politics and International Relations.
Professor Stoker is based at the University of Southampton.www.nottin Improving the health of the population and evidence based medicine Bayesian Reasoning with Graphical Models
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A presentation of Monopoly, its characteristics and influences.
This provocative panel centres on the range of adaptations practised in today’s diverse multimedia landscape. These include adaptations of format (book to screen, game to film, short-story to stage) and adaptations of place, time and culture (Shakespeare into Hindi film). The panel will ask: How and why do such adaptations retain the original flavour and appeal to wide audiences? Is something lost in the process? Shakuntala Banaji lectures in International Media and Film in the Media and Commu
This wiki page documents the STEAM Design Challenge Activity ISKME facilitated during the SLANT Summer Institute at San Francisco Unified School District July 19-23, 2010.
Participants designed prototypes for an arts integration project for students and posted their ideas on the wiki.
This wiki page documents the activities, articles, links, and resources used, as well as the teacher created Open Educational Resources (OER) during the SLANT Institute.
On July 19-23, 2010 San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), in collaboration with the California Academy of Sciences, the de Young Museum, 826 Valencia, KQED, ISKME, and the Exploratorium launched the Science, Literacy, Arts iNtegration in the Twenty-first century (SLANT) Summer Institute for Pre-k through 8th Grade Teach
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Author Joyce Carol Oates participated in this panel discussion as 2010-2011 Avenali Chair in the Humanities at the Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley. Oates is a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde (a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize), and the New York Times bestseller
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Managing Risk:
The Case of Safer Alternatives to Toxics
Speakers:
Joel Tickner, Associate Professor, Department of Community Health and Sustainability, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Robert A. Rio, Senior Vice President for Government Affairs, Associated Industries of Massachusetts
Moderator:
Jennifer Nash, Senior Research Associate, Nanotechnology and Society Research Group, Northeastern University
Managing Risk:
The Case of Safer Alternatives to Toxics
Speakers:
Joel Tickner, Associate Professor, Department of Community Health and Sustainability, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Robert A. Rio, Senior Vice President for Government Affairs, Associated Industries of Massachusetts
Moderator:
Jennifer Nash, Senior Research Associate, Nanotechnology and Society Research Group, Northeastern University
This video talks about what pi is, how to calculate pi, where pi is found, and fun facts / activities with pi. March 14 is Pi Day. Manly graphics.
Professor Andy Taylor
Dr Angus Paddison and Dr Adrian Pabst
In this podcast, Professor Gerry Stoker explains why he is disturbed by the lack of engagement with politics and why we should care.
This is a module framework. It can be viewed online or downloaded as a zip file.
As taught in Autumn Semester 2009
This module has two essential components: Evidence-Based Medicine and Public Health. Evidence-Based Medicine was introduced as a new discipline because traditionally the teaching of medicine was heavily reliant on an apprenticeship-type system with emphasis on learning from observing one’s teachers. One of the guiding principles in the NHS today is that all health care should be
This course motivates and introduces graphical models (with special attention to Bayesian networks) as well consolidated and popular tools with the ability to represent knowledge under uncertainty and reason with it, one of the main challenges in building intelligent systems in Artificial Intelligence. Uncertainty is modelled with probability theory and reasoning is based on Bayes’ rule. Bayesian networks represent factorizations of joint probability distributions. Nodes represent the variable
