Engineering in the Headlines - Driven to Distraction
Mobile phones, PDAs, GPS devices, and glowing digital dashboards can easily draw a driver's attention away from the road. Serious accidents occur and states pass laws, but will our driving habits change? Professor Linda Ng Boyle of the UW College of Engineering is developing systems that can help drivers stay focused on driving and make roadways safer.
Engineering in the Headlines - Going for the Green: London 2012
Colorado-based engineering firm CH2M Hill and two British partners are racing to the finish as they complete multibillion-dollar facilities for London's 2012 Olympics. Sustainability initiatives include green buildings, mass transit, and new wetlands. Their legacy will be an all-new sustainable city on the outskirts of London. UW Alumnus Bob Card describes the challenges of this Herculean effort and London’s quest for both the gold and the green.
The Current Crisis: Money, Sound and Unsound The current crisis has economists, from mainstream defenders of central banking, such as Alan Blinder, to the leading interpreter of Austrian business-cycle theory, Roger Garrison, calling for a reexamination of the role of central banks and money in the economy. Blinder states, "The nature and scope of the Federal Reserve's authority and the structure of its decision ma
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Article :: Adobe Digital Imaging How-Tos: Softening Focus with the Lens Blur Filter
Dan Moughamian shows you how to use the Lens Blur filter, which is designed to apply an authentic-looking blur to specific areas of an image, while leaving other areas unaffected.
CAV 2010 - Traitements non médicamenteux des séquelles douloureuse liées aux cancers.
Conférences du Centre de Lutte contre le Cancer de Lorraine (CAV - Centre Alexis Vautrin de Nancy) - Nancy le 14 décembre 2010.
Titre : Séquelles douloureuse liées au traitement des cancers.
Intervenants : Nathalie CRETINEAU Médecin référente douleur Service Interdisciplinaire des Soins de Support pour les patients en oncologie (SISSPO) au Centre Alexis Vautrin (CAV) de Nancy.
Angeline NUE infirmière référente douleur Service Interdisciplinaire des Soins de Suppo
Sociable Robots
Cynthia Breazeal makes social robots, machines with the capacity to interact with people on psychological terms. She says they “open up a new world of questions.” But these increasingly sophisticated devices make Sherry Turkle uneasy, since they challenge the idea of human relationships and the very “purp
Women`s Pirate Basketball 2010 Favorite Hobby
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The Medium Religion
Noted philosopher, critic and essayist Boris Groys, who has previously delved into the Soviet post-modernist and Russian avant-garde art scene, turns his attention now to the recent and dangerous marriage of religion and digital media. In a talk based on his paper, Religion in the Age of Digital Reproduction, Groys
Listen: The Revelation of Imagination: From the Bible and Homer through Virgil and Augustine to Dant
Listen to an interview with William Franke, professor of Comparative Literature, Italian and Religious Studies, speaking about his book, ”The Revelation of Imagination: From the Bible and Homer through Virgil and Augustine to Dante.” Interviewed by Chris Benda, Divinity School librarian.
THE ELECTRIC COMPANY: Quotations
This video from The Electric Company uses a cute rap song to introduce quotation marks. It also emphasizes you must you a comma before using quotation marks (Running Time 0:51).
Analysis of Functions of a Single Variable
Lawrence Baggett
I have written this book primarily for serious and talented mathematics scholars, seniors or first-year graduate students, who by the time they finish their schooling should have had the […]
American Civil War Part Two
A ten minute segment from a Hollywood movie..Glory. Not much value except to give the students some idea of what the battle may have been like.
5.13 Organic Chemistry II (MIT)
5.13 is an intermediate organic chemistry course that deals primarily with synthesis, structure determination, mechanism, and the relationships between structure and reactivity emphasized. Special topics in organic chemistry are included to illustrate the role of organic chemistry in biological systems, medicine, and in the chemical industry.
CNIPsy 2010 Marseille - De la psychiatrie à la sexologie. Débat.
CNIPsy 2010 Marseille : 7ème Congrès National des Internes en Psychiatrie (CNIPsy). Thème : «Mauvais genre»
Session : Sexualité et psychiatrie : un mélange des genres.
Titre : CNIPsy 2010 Marseille - De la psychiatrie à la sexologie : un parcours atypique.
Résumé : Le sexe est un sujet dont tout le monde parle. Comment aborder ce sujet en tant que psychiatre face à un patient est un problème autrement plus complexe. Pour un prescripteur, le sujet pourra être a
"Roundtable: On the Usefulness of the Concept of the Modern"
A round-table panel discussion at the Sixth South Asia Graduate Student Conference with Steven Collins (Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities, University of Chicago), Wendy Doniger (Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School, University of Chicago), and Sanjay Subrahmanyam (Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair of Indian History, UCLA).
What is Ahead for Financial Markets? Perspectives from Jeremy Siegel and Jacob Wallenberg
After a terrible August, when the U.S. stock market appeared to be headed for the pits, October 1 saw a massive rally that sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average soaring above 14,000. The following day, however, stocks began to fall again, mainly due to a sharp drop in home sales. In short, Wall Street still seems to be sending out mixed signals. What will be the long-term effects of the Fed's decision to cut interest rates? Will the U.S. economy move past the sub-prime mortgage mess? How will th
Hamas: Will never recognize Israel
As Hamas marks its 23rd anniversary, its leader vows to never recognize Israel while US hopes to move forward on peace efforts. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
Business leadership in a time of responsibility
Looking at the global economy today, we can see that a much greater proportion of the world operates under the philosophy called ‘market capitalism,’ observes Subi Rangan, associate professor of strategy and management, and the Shell fellow in business and the environment at INSEAD.
AU Alma Mater: David Miller
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