Defying the crackdown in Syria
July 13 - Amateur video purportedly shows anti-government protesters in several Syrian cities defying crackdown to demonstrate against President Assad. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
Day Ahead: JPMorgan upside surprise likely
July 13 - JPMorgan reports second-quarter earnings before the bell and Reuters Quantitative Analyst Mike Tarsala says lower debt issuance and a rise in commercial loans are likely to lead to an upside surprise.
Wall St. hails Fed chief comments
July 13 - Summary of business headlines: Wall Street, Europe break three-day slump; U.S. Senators want News Corp probe; Greece debt downgraded further into junk bond status. Conway G. Gittens reports.
Aztec Warriors
How Aztec boys were trained from birth to be warriors and how they believed that the Sun god needed human blood to quench its thirst. This two minute video uses images of artifacts from this time period.
3.4 Modular multiplication
Number systems and the rules for combining numbers can be daunting. This unit will help you to understand the detail of rational and real numbers, complex numbers and integers. You will also be introduced to modular arithmetic and the concept of a relation between elements of a set.
1.3.1 The importance of friendship When children are asked about the things that are important in their experience of education one factor appears to be important above all others – friendship. In a study of 2,527 children in 500 primary and secondary schools in one local education authority (LEA) in the north-west of England 62.8 per cent stated that happiness at school was the result of friendships (Whittaker, Kenworthy and Crabtree, 1998). This included best friends and also friendly teachers and other friendly pupi
Graduation 2012 - Monday July 23: Carnegie Faculty, 5pm Ceremony
Coverage of the School of Languages & Regional University Network graduation ceremony.
Launching a new gadget? Cool story bro - but we already knew
July 23 - Months of strategic planning for that new tech release mean nothing to the Internet, which already knows what you're planning - thanks to a constant deluge of rumours and leaks. Jon Gordon reports.
The high cost of connectivity: it’s not just you who’s paying
The mobile telecom industry is about much more than telephone calls today. A huge and increasingly sophisticated user base wants the world at their fingertips. But who’s going to pay for it all?
Corruption: A piecemeal solution
As Russia struggles to shrug off a corrupt legacy from its Soviet past, businesses are taking a step-by-step approach to managing the “informal practices” putting their companies at risk
An online travel startup grows up
India-based iXiGO launched five years ago in a nascent online travel sector that’s since mushroomed into one of India’s most competitive companies. Now the company has received a new round of venture-backed funding. What next?
Global Innovation Index 2012: Stronger innovation linkages for global growth
GII 2012 shows Switzerland, Sweden and Singapore most innovative.
Occupy Gotham? There have been a few articles and snippets on the Mises Blog about Batman, but most are about the Batman Chronicles issue where German Batman saves Ludwig von Mises's library — this just goes to show that I'm not the only student of Austrian economics who's a recovering comic-book nerd — though there i
Wrestling 2
Reinventing the Fairy Tale
Notre Dame OpenCourseware (OCW) offers free online educational resources for the course "Reinventing the Fairy Tale" in the Department of English. This course is structured around four main fairy tales: "Cinderella," the frame narrative for The Arabian Nights, "Beauty and the Beast," and "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," and we be looking at a number of different reinventions of those tales in the form of short stories, novels, poems, picture books, songs, and films. The focus will be on the stylisti
1.3 Essential ‘voluntary’ work experience For entry and progression into many careers, voluntary work experience is essential. Teaching, Law, Environmental/Conservation and Social Work are common examples but there are many others. Positions in the Arts, Media, Publishing, Development and Charitable sectors are rarely advertised and are also difficult to enter without a network of contacts, direct practical experience of the industry and enormous enthusiasm. For more details on any of these look at the Prospects website, which
Introduction Any local newspaper describes the latest achievements of volunteers in the community: hospital fund-raising, a wildlife pond created. The advantages to the community are obvious, but this unit explores how engaging in voluntary work can enhance your employment opportunities. It will focus mainly on how voluntary work can improve job prospects, for those actively job seeking or considering a career change. Employers are impressed by volunteering, but many volunteers don’t appreciate wh
Making a Contour Map
The purpose of this activity is to learn how contour maps can be made by hand. Students plot data from GLOBE schools on a map with latitude and longitude lines and draw contours based on the values plotted. A suggested extension and how to use this activity as an assessment is included.
Brahms, Academic Festival Overture
MIT Symphony Orchestra (MITSO) - 1967 Dec 3
6.1 What is a ‘good’ reader?
Reading is an essential skill for all of us and developing our skills in reading is a good investment. This unit is packed with practical activities which are aimed at making reading more enjoyable and rewarding. This unit also includes sections on how to read actively and critically.
