Hometown Huddle
Meeting Room at Christ Church Cathedral
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ISS Update - May 23, 2012
The International Space Station video update for May 23, 2012.
Imperial History of the Middle East
Who has controlled the Middle East over the course of history? Pretty
much everyone. Egyptians, Turks, Jews, Romans, Arabs, Persians,
Europeans...the list goes on. This 90 second video shows the various nations who have controlled this area of the world over the last 5000 years. (00:90)
Americans Living Alone: Meanings and Implications (Podcast)
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Patrick Awuah:: "Fostering Innovation as the Key to Lasting Change in Africa", Talks at Google
After a successful career at Microsoft, Patrick looked back to his native Ghana and decided that the ills of the country could only by solved by educating the next generation of business and government leaders, providing them with training in critical thinking and ethics that the current generation lacked.
To put his plan into action, he founded Ashesi University in Accra, West Africa's first liberal arts school. Now in its 10th year, Ashesi empowers young Africans to develop the motivation and
"Cooking with Our 3s," a Multiplication Rap
This multiplication rap song gives students practice multiplying by 3. The song begins with mnemonics to help students remember their threes. The second half of the song features practice problems which challenge students to sing out the answer before we do. Lyrics provided. (3:07)
Andrea Mitchell talks with Kathleen Hall Jamieson
During Alumni Weekend 2012, Andrea Mitchell CW'67 sat down with Dr. Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center. They discussed Ms. Mitchell's battles with Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo, the tragic earthquake in Haiti, Fidel Castro, Alan Gross (an American imprisoned in Cuba), the inscrutable Alan Greenspan, her near brush with the law while covering George Clooney, the media "slugfest" between the right and the left, and many other fascinating topics. They are introd
1.3.3 Bringing remote sweatshops within reach continued There are, to my knowledge, at least two ways in which this challenge has been mounted. The first, which I have already touched upon, gathered momentum in the 1990s when, to great effect, different elements within the growing antisweatshop movement sidestepped the tangled arrangements of the market by targeting the most visible icons of global trade, the big retail ‘brands’: Adidas, Nike, Gap, Umbro, Puma, Reebok, Fila, French Connection, Mattel, Disney, and so on. The antiswe
1.2.8 In praise of cheap offshore labour? continued There are two points which are central to this line of thinking. One, according to Wolf (2004), is that the whole process, as odd as it may sound, is about mutual exploitation. Outside firms do indeed exploit the poor by taking advantage of the profitable opportunities that a pool of cheap labour represents. But Indonesian or Chinese workers, for instance, could be said to exploit the incoming firms by extracting higher pay from them and taking advantage of opportunities that previousl
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4.2 Job analysis
Does the recruitment and selection process fill you with dread? Discrimination and equal opportunities legislation can make this area feel like a minefield. If you are faced with appointing a new employee, then this unit will provide a straight-forward guide to the process: from writing job descriptions to finally assessing who to appoint.
Northward Ho!
In this activity, students will create their own simple compass, be able to explain how a compass works, understand that the Earth's magnetic field has both horizontal and vertical components, and learn more about cardinal directions.
24.05.2011 – Langsam gesprochene Nachrichten
Trainieren Sie Ihr Hörverstehen mit authentischen Materialien. Nutzen Sie die Nachrichten der Deutschen Welle von Dienstag – als Text und als verständlich gesprochene Audio-Datei. Die Betreibergesellschaft des havarierten japanischen Atomkraftwerks Fukushima geht von einer Kernschmelze in zwei weiteren Reaktoren aus. Dies sei außer in Reaktor 1 auch in den Reaktoren 2 und 3 "sehr wahrscheinlich", sagte ein Tepco-Sprecher bei der Veröffentlichung neuer Messwerte. Die drei Reaktoren würden
Wire Maze
Students will build a wire circuit and pass a paper clip through the maze, trying not to touch the wire. Touching the wire with the paper clip will cause the circuit to close, which will activate the indicator.
Tower Investigation and the Egg
Towers have been a part of developed society for centuries. Towers serve a variety of purposes, from lookouts to cellular towers. In this activity student groups will build three types of towers, engineering them to hold an egg one foot high for 15 seconds.
Life on the Moon
In this lesson, students learn about the physical properties of the Moon. They compare these to the properties of the Earth to determine how life would be different for astronauts living on the Moon. Using their understanding of these differences, they are asked to think about what types of products engineers would need to design for us to live comfortably on the Moon.
3.6.5 Using ‘involvement devices’ sensitively and appropriately
Legacy fundraising, big-gift seeking are all part of the professional fundraiser's role. This unit will help you to gain the skills necessary to persuade individuals to become donors. How do you change people's ideas about methods of giving, moving them from casual street donations to regular direct debit giving?
Up Close with a Zapotec Urn
This article is part of OLogy, where kids can collect virtual trading cards and create projects with them. Here, they learn more about the Zapotec people of ancient Mexico.
Some Dinosaur Groups Diminishing Before Mass Extinction: Live Chat with Museum Scientists
On May 10, the American Museum of Natural History and Wired Science hosted a live webcast discussion about new research on dinosaur extinction. The study shows that some dinosaur groups were already on the decline around the time an asteroid hit at the end of the Cretaceous.
Brandon Keim, an associate editor at Wired Science, moderated the discussion with two of the paper's co-authors: Mark Norell, chair of the Museum's Division of Paleontology, and Steve Brusatte, a Columbia University graduat
