SeaWiFS: El Nino on a Globe
By monitoring the color of reflected light via satellite, scientists can determine how successfully plant life is photosynthesizing. A measurement of photosynthesis is essentially a measurement of successful growth, and growth means successful use of ambient carbon. Until now, scientists have only had a continuous record of photosynthesis on land. But following three years of continual data collected by the SeaWiFS instrument, NASA has gathered the first record of photosynthetic productivity in
"Health Policy and Practice in Tennessee: Assessing the Health of our Young Children".
The Papasan Public Policy Institute at the University of Memphis presents "Health Policy and Practice in Tennessee: Assessing the Health of our Young Children".
Developing Your Idea & Making the Perfect Pitch - Introduction
The Health Science Entrepreneurs event on May 17, 2011 titled "Developing Your Idea & Making the Perfect Pitch."
CSUN International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference 2011
NBC San Diego's coverage of the International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference, hosted annually by Cal State Northridge and held in San Diego for the past few years. The 2011 Conference ran from March 14 - 19 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel.
For more info, visit:
http://www.csunconference.org
Deer prints
Deer are unusual because they are mammals but they don't make tracks with paw-shaped marks. Deer walk on hooves, and these hooves make different tracks than paws do.
Eel swimming
Eels move in the same way as shark and other fishes. They use their fins and streamlined body to glide through the water.
Natuurramp in de wijnbouw: "Quelle catastrophe!"
Op het einde van deze les kun je het verhaal van een plaatselijke wijnboer verstaan en er vragen over beantwoorden. Je leert verschillende weerkundige termen en woordenschat over de wijnbouw.
Grasshoppers, Ants and Locusts: the future of the world economy [Audio]
Speaker(s): Martin Wolf | The financial crisis was the product of an unstable interaction between ants (excess savers), grasshoppers (excess borrowers) and locusts (the financial sector that intermediated between the two). In view of this history, is the current recovery solidly built? Or do the weaknesses the crisis revealed remain pervasive? Martin Wolf is the associate editor and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times.
6.830 Database Systems (MIT)
This course relies on primary readings from the database community to introduce graduate students to the foundations of database systems, focusing on basics such as the relational algebra and data model, schema normalization, query optimization, and transactions. It is designed for students who have taken 6.033 (or equivalent); no prior database experience is assumed, though students who have taken an undergraduate course in databases are encouraged to attend.
Author(s):
Fly Down into the Marianas Trench (Deepest Part of Pacific Ocean)
This is a flight down into a data visualization of the undersea mountains and trenches of the Pacific Ocean, ending up in the deepest part of the ocean, the Marianas Trench. The "Challenger Deep" is measured at 35,813 feet below the surface, or 10,915 meters. Courtesy of NOAA's Marine Geology and Geophysics Division. (47 seconds)
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JACOTES 2011 – Le traitement de maintenance dans le CBNPC : étude SATURN.
Titre : JACOTES 2011 – Le traitement de maintenance dans le CBNPC : étude SATURN.
Intervenant : Laure FAVIER (Oncologue CGFL de Dijon).
Résumé : Etudes comparant les traitements prolongés, versus des traitement courts.
L’auteur n’a pas transmis de conflit d’intérêt concernant les données diffusées dans cette vidéo ou publiées dans la référence citée.
Conférence enregistrée lors des 2ème Journées d’Actualité en Oncologie Thoracique de
Natural Theology
Revd Dr John Polkinghorne : Course
Models for Relating Science and Religion
Prof. Mikael Stenmark : Course
The Rationality of Science
Prof. Roger Trigg : Course
From Darwin to Scopes
Revd Michael Roberts : Course
Science and Miracles
Prof. Sir Colin Humphreys : Course
The Evolution of Religion and the Religion of Evolution
Prof. Jeff Schloss : Course
The "End" of Love: Evolutionary Psychology, Altruism, and Human Purpose
Prof. Jeff Schloss : Course
Berlin, Seventh of November – History in Nonhistorical Fiction: a discussion and reading [Audio]
Speaker(s): Dr Douglas Cowie | In this series, an historian, a novelist and a literary critic explore the ways in which memory, literature and history shape contemporary Europe. Douglas Cowie is a novelist and lecturer in the English department at Royal Holloway, University of London. This event is part of the Jean Monnet 'Europe Beyond Governance' Lecture Series.
