Creating an Interactive, Open-Source Textbook for Marine Science
Duke research scientist David W. Johnston gives his students a virtual textbook, built for the iPad and assembled from open-source materials created by experts in the field of marine biology. Students tweet with Johnston, teaching assistants and each other through the app, to keep the class interacting even when they are away from the classroom.
Mole Cricket in Burrow
This short video gives excellent real life, close up footage of a Mole Cricket in burrow. This is our largest native orthopteran and one of our most impressive and unusual looking insects. The body is brown in color and covered with fine velvety hairs, and the forelegs are greatly modified for digging. Only the adult stages are winged, and flight is said to be clumsy, directionless and only performed on rare occasions at night. Males can be distinguished from the females by the op
Read My Bar Graph!
In this "Cyberchase" video clip, the kids create their own bar graph to track the amount of bugs in the main Cybrary. They compare their bar graph to the one that Hacker created (to trick Ms. Fileshare, the librarian) and realize that the two bar graphs are based on different scales. (1:10)
Multiplying Bigger Numbers
In this video segment from Cyberchase, every time Delete sneezes he creates three clones of himself. The CyberSquad uses their knowledge of multiplication to figure out how many clones exist after Delete sneezes 103 times. (2:21)
'One Muslim is Enough!' Evidence from a Field Experiment in France
David Laitin, a political science professor who has examined the causes of religious discrimination in France, discusses the rationales that sustain discrimination against Muslims in the French labor market.
Speaker Biography: David D. Laitin is Watkins professor of political science at Stanford University.
For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5197.
OrganWise Guys Shorts: Treasure Your Health
Come learn about health and nutrition with the OrganWise Guys! In this short: the Pirates of the Carrot and Bean teach kids that healthy foods are all the treasure they need. (0:30)
Biomedical − Nikolay Vasilyev
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Euromarine part 1
By: psterk1 Satellite meeting of WP4 of the EC Project EuroMarine held at The Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany, September 27, 2011 (http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/GSC_12).
Task 4.2 "Methods linking data at the point of sampling & collection"
The task will further lead technological developments to consistently track samples and contextual data to link multidisciplinary data from the point of collection. Lead technological developments to track samples using onli
Authors@Google: Anand Giridharadas
Author Anand Giridharadas visits Google Cambridge to talk about his new book, "India Calling: an Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking." From the book's description:
"Reversing his parents' immigrant path, a young American-born writer returns to India and discovers an old country making itself new
"Anand Giridharadas sensed something afoot as his plane from America prepared to land in Bombay. An elderly passenger looked at him and said, 'We're all trying to go that way,' pointing to the rea
A Geriatrician's Insight Into Cancer Care and Medication Use
By: mdanderson Clinicians who care for elderly patients see a lot of cancer.
That goes double for Holly Holmes, M.D., the only practicing geriatrician at MD Anderson. She explains how a geriatrician, or any clinician, might counsel an elderly patient diagnosed with cancer.
She tells us what these patients and their caregivers should consider when choosing a treatment. It may depend on the patient's "functional age," she says.
And she answers the nagging question: How can elders work with th
Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick - 2008 Commencement Speaker
Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, archbishop emeritus of Washington, D.C. 2008 Commencement Speaker
"€œI do what I think the Lord wants me to do."
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Cardinal Theodore McCarrick to deliver 2008 Commencement address
http://newsinfo.nd.edu/news/9372-cardinal-theodore-mccarrick-to-deliver-2008-commencement-address
RSC Public Seminars 2012: Seeing the Person in the Problem: a practitioner perspective on justice t
RSC Public Seminar series of Hilary Term 2012 Podcast from the Refugee Studies Centre's Public Seminar Series on 'Critical Approaches to Environmental Displacement' convened by Dr Alexander Betts. This podcast was recorded on Wednesday 8 February 2012 at the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. The seminar was delivered by Hannah Smith, Climate Outreach and Information Network.
Saturday Scholar Series: Combatting Extremism: Democratic Virtues and Pluralism in Islam
Asma Afsaruddin, Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Learn More:
About Asma Afsaruddin:http://al.nd.edu/resources-for/faculty-and-staff/faculty-list/bio/aafsarud/
Related News:
Saturday Scholar Series to kick off football weekend:http://newsinfo.nd.edu/news/9589
Spirit of du lac
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About Notre Dame:http://nd.edu/aboutnd/
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Faith and Service:http://nd.edu/faith-and-service/
Campus and Community:http://nd.edu/campus-and-community/
MBTA Teach In - #2 Peter Furth, Professor, College of Engineering
MBTA Teach In
Tuesday February 28, 2012
Richards Hall, Northeastern University
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UCT Digital Pathology collection: Student cases
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Graphing Inequalities with Two Variables - Problem 3 of 3
This video is a continuation and presents another example that explains how to graph inequalities with two variables by using some of the same techniques used when graphing lines. (1:46)
Page 6; Assessing student blogs
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