US suspect freed in Aruba
Aruban authorities release a US man who had been the prime suspect in an American woman's disappearance in the country. Rough cut (No reporter narration)
Articulation entre histoire et littérature dans les programmes des collèges et lycées (video)
Intervention pour la table ronde : « Histoire et Littérature de l’école au lycée : différences et complémentarités
Comment lire un texte ? Perspectives critiques (video)
La littérature (dès le XIXe siècle quand le roman s’approprie la réalité historique et revendique sa place comme histoire non événementielle) permet d’entrer au plus profond du tissu social et affirme pouvoir traiter le document par l’imagination. Elle s’inscrit dans une pensée sur le monde par la contextualisation des récits qu’elle opère ; elle a pour ambition de faire parler les silences de l’Histoire, sa vérité pourrait donc être plus grande que la vÃ
Striking workers gather for London march
Nov. 30 - Public sector workers who are in the middle of a 24-hour strike gather in central London for a mass march and rally, protesting pension reforms and the government's austerity measures. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Fire and Rescue by Little Hardhats
This video shows the day in the life of a busy, city fire department and the fire fighter's training academy. Students will enjoy this real life footage of fire rescue vehicles and the jobs they do everyday. This is a good resource for the early childhood classroom to use in conjunction with a lesson/unit on community helpers and after reading non-fiction texts on this topic. (2:27)
Big Boats and Busy Harbors by Little Hardhats
This video takes an up close and personal look at all that goes on in a busy harbor. Students will enjoy this real life footage. This is a good resource for the early childhood classroom to use in conjunction with a lesson/unit on transportation and communities and after reading non-fiction texts on this topic. (1:34)
Ananya Vajpeyi: Anna Hazare, Gandhi, and the Historical Moment
Learn more: http://pulitzercenter.org/projects/anna-hazare-gandhian-today-ralegan-siddhi-india
How much of a "Gandhian" is Anna Hazare, the unlikely leader of the anti-corruption movement that has roiled Indian politics in 2011? Is there a place for Mohandas Gandhi in modern India?
Those are among the questions addressed in this interview with Ananya Vajpeyi, at her home in New Delhi. Vaipeyi teaches South Asian history at the University of Massachusetts in Boston and is currently a fellow at
Edward P. Jones, Author of "The Known World" Appears on the College of Charleston Campus
The College of Charleston selected "The Known World" by Edward P. Jones as its 2011 The College Reads! book selection. Jones was on campus for a public reading week and book talk on November 1, 2011. He remained on campus on November 2 to engage with students, faculty and staff.
Set in antebellum Virginia, 20 years before the Civil War began, Jones's debut novel examines issues regarding the ownership of black slaves by free black people as well as by whites. Caldonia Townsend is an educated b
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SCIENCE OF THE WINTER OLYMPICS: BLADE RUNNERS
By: nsf The U.S. speed skating team has two best hopes against a powerful South Korean team that took three- of-a-possible-four golds in Torino: Apolo Ohno and J.R. Celski--an 18-year-old World Champion in his first Olympics. Speed skating is all about force and movement--what, in physics, are known as Newton's First Three Laws of Motion. Celski and physicist George Tuthill of Plymouth State University explain.
Art a GoGo Podcast #36 - Art News + Gallery Player Please visit our blog at www.artagogo.com/blog for full show notes and links that we discuss during the show. Tags: art, arts, art a gogo, artist, art new
Data Quality: Data Cleaning Four tidal tails of Sagittarius dwarf galaxy Electrónica Digital Elton John commemorates World AIDS Day [PURDUE MLSS] Graphical Models for the Internet by Alexander Smola (Part 8/8) Blanchard Student Leadership - What is leadership? Chemistry Review EU could face downgrade "soon" if summit fails: S&P ISS Update - Dec. 5, 2011
This movie illustrates the 3D structure of multiple stellar streams produced by the disruption of Sagittarius dwarf galaxy. The location of the Sun is shown by an orange sphere. The size of the region show in the movie is around 600 thousands light years (200 kpc).
El objetivo básico de la asignatura es realizar una introducción a la electrónica digital, desde una perspectiva actualizada. Para ello, se comienza por revisar sus fundamentos, es decir, los distintos sistemas de numeración y codificación binaria y el Ãlgebra de Boole. El estudio de circuitos digitales comienza con las puertas lógicas, los circuitos combinacionales, incluyendo los circuitos aritméticos más sencillos, y finaliza con los circuitos secuenciales, incluyendo biestables, cir
Dec. 01 - Sir Elton John lights the Sydney Opera House to commemorate World AIDS Day. John Russell reports.
Lecture notes: http://learning.stat.purdue.edu/mlss/_media/mlss/smola.pdf
Graphical Models for the Internet
Information extraction from webpages, social networks, news and user interactions crucially relies on inferring the hidden parameters of interaction between entities. For instance, in factorization models for movie recommendation we are interested in the underlying hidden properties of users and movies respectively such as to suggest new movies. Likewise, when extracting topics from webp
Definition of leadership from a middle school leadership group. This is a good short video about what leadership means to young middle school students.
This is VERY brief, sixteen-minute, overview of the chemistry needed for Real Science-4-Kids Biology.
Dec. 6 - John Chambers, Standard & Poor's Head of Sovereign Ratings, tells Reuters the ratings agency could act quickly if an upcoming EU summit doesn't alleviate concerns about the states' sovereign debt.
The International Space Station video update for Dec. 5, 2011.
