Building a True-to-Life Butterfly for a Habitat Diorama
When a real butterfly specimen in the coyote diorama was deemed beyond restoration, a decision was made to create a model. Conservation Fellow Bethany Palumbo explains the process, which included photocopying Museum specimens for the top-wing view, hand painting the underside, and building up the butterfly body with layers of glue.
The restored Hall of North American Mammals reopened October 2012.
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Lesson 02 - One Minute Luxembourgish
In lesson 02 of One Minute Luxembourgish you will learn a few more useful words in Luxembourgish which you'll use every day. Remember - even a few phrases of a language can help you make friends and enjoy travel more. Find out more about One Minute Languages at our website - http://www.oneminutelanguages.com. One Minute Luxembourgish is brought to you by the Radio Lingua Network and is ©Copyright 2008.
Does Philanthropy Make a Difference? | Institute of Politics
Mimi Corcoran, Special Fund for Poverty Alleviation Director at the Open Society Foundations; Christine W. Letts, Interim Director of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations; and Margaret McKenna, President Emeritus at Lesley University and former Walmart Foundation President participated in a discussion about the power, limitations and complications of philanthropy. IOP Fellow (Fall '12) Sonal Shah moderated the conversation, which covered partnerships, social investing and the challenges
Introduction to the Volcano symposium
Stephen Whitefield, head of the Department of Politics and International Relations, gives an introduction to the Volcano symposium: a series of talks discussing the causes of and possible solutions to the current global crisis.
Unit 06 Leadership for creativity and innovation.m4v
An introduction to the main themes of Unit 6
George Lakoff on the 2012 election
George Lakoff talks about the 2012 election, and the differences between Republican and Democratic styles of politics, with the Center for Latin American Studies at UC Berkeley.
George Lakoff is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. An expert on political communication and framing, he is the author most recently of "The Little Blue Book: The Essential Guide to Thinking and Talking Democratic" with Elisabeth Wehling.
biosights: October 29, 2012 - A stiff test for collectively migrating cells
By: JCB The mechanical properties of the extracellular matrix are known to regulate the migration of single cells, but whether substrate stiffness also affects collective cell migration is unclear. Ng et al. reveal that epithelial sheets move faster on stiffer matrices due to increased myosin contractility and mechanical coupling through cell-cell adhesions. This biosights episode presents the paper by Ng et al. from the October 29, 2012, issue of The Journal of Cell Biology and includes an inte
The Marxian Strategy [This article is excerpted from volume 2, chapter 12 of An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995). An MP3 audio file of this chapter, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach, is available for download.] Welcome Address to the Same Difference? - Nigerian Brits, French Senegalese: Comparing Integration i Four Coolest Future Space Missions The Green Song Charlotte, NC Mayor Anthony Foxx talks about the marketability of lawyers New BPS Culinary Science Degree Launching! Prony, Padé, and Linear Prediction for the Time and Frequency Domain Design of IIR Digital Filters SPARC at 25: Past, Present and Future Zoekopdracht : Sociale zekerheid De cursisten zoeken adressen openingsuren van verschillende nuttige organizaties Level 2 Students Presenting at Assembly
Katherine Nwajiaku-Dahou gives an introduction to the Same Difference? - Nigerian Brits, French Senegalese: Comparing Integration in the UK and France conference held on 6th July 2012 at St Anthony's College, Oxford Please see http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/index.php/details/1904-same-difference-comparing-integration-in-the-uk-and-france.html for more information
Hank fills us in on the four exploratory missions to space that he is most excited about - New Horizons is going to Pluto and the Kuiper belt; Juno is on it's way to Jupiter; Dawn is exploring two large asteroids; Rosetta will land on a comet! (03:47)
In this video, the color green is introduced. Words to the song appear at the bottom of the screen and are highlighted as the song is sung. Song is to tune of Old MacDonald. Photographs that match the green words are shown. Some of the pictures include grass and leaves. Some of the lyrics include "Old MacDonald, he spells green, G-R-E-E-N". Content is appropriate for our young learners.
The Joseph M. Bryan Distinguished Leadership Lecture Series hosts Charlotte, North Carolina Mayor Anthony Foxx. During his lecture he talks about the impact and marketability lawyers can have
Check out the latest exciting addition to the CIA bachelor's degree universe launching in the 2012-13 academic year—the Bachelor of Professional Studies in Culinary Science!
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Model based signal processing or signal analysis or signal representation has a rather different point of view from the more traditional filtering and algorithm based approaches. However, in all […]
Presented by the Computer History Museum Semiconductor Special Interest Group, with special thanks to Oracle.
This high-powered panel and guests discussed the origins and evolution of the SPARC processor on its 25th anniversary. When a small startup -- Sun Microsystems -- decided to develop their own microprocessor in the mid 1980's, it chose a Reduced Instruction Set Computers (RISC) architecture. The 1987 debut of the Sun-4, the first SPARC based computer, ignited meteoric growth at Sun and u
