Solving Intercepted Arcs: Ants in Space (Interactive)
Investigate various types of angles formed by radii, chords, secants and tangents and the arcs of circles that they intercept. Enhance understanding with practice problems and an interactive assessment.
The Function Machine (Interactive)
Explore and identify the patterns of mathematical functions with input-output tables and identify the graphs of those functions with this interactive.
Surface Area of Spheres (Interactive)
Calculate the surface area of three-dimensional geometric figures using the formula for a sphere. Make a net to represent a three-dimensional sphere.
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Why CRM fails and how to fix it
Over half of companies fail to meet the expected return on their CRM investments...because they rush too quickly into large-scale, IT-based CRM investments, seduced by "best practice" and management fashion. A framework that helps managers develop their CRM resources and capabilities is presented in this article.
First Year Strategy - Darden School of Business
Professor Michael Lenox uses examples from his First Year Strategy course to explain how Darden integrates topics of sustainability throughout its curriculum.
Sarah Dunwell receives an honorary award from Leeds Metropolitan University.
Sarah Dunwell, founder of the award-winning Create Foundation in Leeds, has been awarded an honorary Master of Business Administration degree from Leeds Metropolitan University as part of the summer graduation ceremonies.
For more information please visit http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk
Tennessee Crossroads: The Artwork at Le Bonheur Children's Hospital (2508-2)
Tammi Arender goes on an art tour of LeBonheur Children's Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, in this video. Many medical professionals beleive that art and art therapy can encourage healing and instill a feeling of calm and peace. This video shows and explains significance of many of the unique pieces of art at the hospital. ( 5:23)
Elements of Writing Reports : An Interactive Game
In this game, students answer questions about writing/planning reports, such as choosing a topic, sources of information, and choosing a title. ( This link is for an interactive game and may take a few minutes to load.)
Turkey: An Identity Crisis and a Border Crisis
Learn more: http://pulitzercenter.org/projects/turkey-crisis-identity-leadership-syrian-refugees-human-rights
In less than a decade, Turkey's leaders have remade their nation's identity, casting aside an inner view that had persisted since modern Turkey's birth in 1923. Looking at the country from the outside, it appears the model of a modern Muslim democracy. But within the country, Turks wrangle over their legacy and future, over freedom of the press, gender rights, and a worsening border cri
ISS Update: Weekly Recap for July 20, 2012
The International Space Station Weekly Recap for July 16-20, 2012.
ISS Update: Science Aboard Kounotori3
NASA Public Affairs Officer Amiko Kauderer interviews Pete Hasbrook, associate program scientist, about the experiments traveling to the International Space Station aboard the H-II Transfer Vehicle-3, or HTV3.
Questions? Ask us on Twitter @NASA_Johnson and include the hashtag #askStation. For the latest news about the space station, visit http://www.nasa.gov/station.
Zombie Epocalips 2
Learning outcomes By the end of this unit you should be able to: develop an appreciation of the huge variety of different mammals that exist on Earth today; see how fossil evidence can help us to understand evolutionary history; understand how the structure of DNA can help us to detect differences between different species; apply the techniques of DNA analysis to work out which mammals are most closely related to each other; appreciate t
Introduction This unit provides an introduction to the evolution of mammals. We will be considering Darwin's observations on a great many mammals, and how he noticed that species fell into natural groups. We take as an example the evolution of one particularly interesting mammal, the whale, and look at evidence both from fossils and from DNA to see which other mammals are most closely related to whales. We see how the evidence from these two very different sources points to the same relationship and
Singapore bans Japanese food
Singapore becomes the latest country to ban food imports from certain regions in Japan.
Syrian forces fire on protesters
Amateur video footage purportedly shows Syrian forces opening fire on youths protesting against the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
Yemen braces for more protests
Anti-government protesters in Yemen gather to demand President Ali Abdullah Saleh steps down immediately, not by the end of the year as he has offered.
Just-Eat has appetite for expansion
The London-based online food ordering service Just-Eat has raised $48 million in funding which it says will be used to accelerate the company's international roll-out plans.
Learning outcomes On completion of this unit you should be able to: describe why and how we study social phenomena; outline how theory can help us to deal with complex evidence; give examples of the most appropriate theory; identify which concepts are most useful for the task; explain how hypotheses are generated; summarise what makes our evidence and arguments more plausible.
