What Is Wind?
In this video, Pexi the Alien asks Alexi what wind is. Alexi explains that wind is just air that is moving around. It is the uneven heating of the Earth's atmosphere and the cold air/warm air movement causes the wind. Content is appropriate for elementary students. This is a good teaching resource for a lesson/unit/story on weather, climate, and or Earth.
Goldman CEO: Board member broke rules
Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein told jurors at the biggest insider trading case in two decades that a former board member violated confidentiality rules in discussions with accused hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam.
Ed Ray Visits OSU Cascades Campus
OSU President, Ed Ray, visited the OSU Cascades campus in Bend on Monday, February 7.
How to Choose a Career for Your Personality
In order to choose a career that fits with a specific personality, an individual must have an understanding of herself, and this can be achieved by utilizing several tools, such as self-assessment exams. This three minute video explains why extroverts should look for jobs in a social setting with help from a career counseling specialist in this video on choosing a career. General data without any specifics.
How to Use a Thesaurus for Essays
A 1:41 minute video that clearly shows the advantage of using specific vocabulary and the importance using a thesaurus while writing essays. Several useful tips are explained. A must show video for teachers trying to increase the writing quality of students.
Atletiek : Hordenloop Een volledige lesvoorbereiding om een atletiekles voor de 1ste graad hordenlopen aan te leren. Er kan gestart worden zonder enige vorm van voorkennis.
US soldier gets 24 years for murder
One of five US soldiers is sentenced to 24 years in prison for the deaths of three civilians in Afghanistan.
"After Ronsard" by Charles Willams (poetry reading)
Not a translation, but a great sonnet inspired by Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_de_Ronsard
Quand vous serez bien vieille, au soir, Ã la chandelle,
Assise auprès du feu, dévidant et filant,
Direz, chantant mes vers, en vous émerveillant :
Ronsard me célébrait du temps que j'étais belle.
Lors, vous n'aurez servante oyant telle nouvelle,
Déjà sous le labeur à demi sommeillant,
Qui au bruit de mon nom ne s'aille réveillant,
Bénissant votre nom de lou
Cyclic Voltammetry
This site provides an excellent experiment involving cyclic voltammetry at a gold electrode. The experiment includes a detailed introduction to the topics of electrode capacitance, electrode reactions, and flux of the electroactive species to electrode surface. Lab report guidelines and post-lab questions are included.
EBI Seminar - Michael Crowley
Large Scale Molecular Modeling of Biomass and the Molecules that Torture It
Michael Crowley, senior scientist at the National Renewable Energy
Laboratory (NREL) in Colorado, will speak as part of the 2010-11 EBI
Seminar Series.
The abstract:
Modeling of cell wall components degrading enzymes has taken on an essential role in the search for both understanding of cell walls and cell wall digestion. Our research is directly connected to the experimental efforts at NREL to understand and design b
References
Care is needed at all stages of life. This unit makes care in the family its focus because the overwhelming majority of care, including health care, is supplied in families, much of it in private, much of it unnoticed and unremarked upon. The meaning of the term (informal carer) and the word (care) itself are explored.
Discussion of Emerging Directions - Harvard Forest
Discussion of Emerging Directions: Climate and Land Use Change, Human Health and Policy
Harvard Forest Symposium - March 15, 2011
Nurul Izzah Anwar in conversation with Nicholas Farrelly, March 2011
In this video from the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Nurul Izzah Anwar discusses her political life and the challenges that lay ahead for Malaysian politics with Nicholas Farrelly, editor of New Mandala.
Nurul Izzah Anwar is the Vice-President of the opposition PKR and the member for Parliament for Lembah Pantai.
The video was recorded at the Hedley Bull Centre, The Australian National University in March 2011.
Climate Change and Animal Species
Creating natural corridors is a possible way to help the flora and fauna can to survive the climate change. It's a way of adapting the landscape for the species. (04:53)
Celebrate Earth Day (News Report)
Millions of people around the globe celebrate Earth Day. MSNBC.com's Dara Brown shares five simple ways you can help make a cleaner and greener world. (02:07)
ABC News Report - Earth Day
What is Earth Day and how can you help? Environmental lifestyle expert Danny Seo shares ways to save the planet and how many companies are doing their part. (06:50)
Sam Champion visits 'The Seas' at Epcot.
In celebration of Earth Day, ABC weatherman for Good Morning America, Sam Champion, discusses Disney's Animal Programs and Environmental Initiatives with the experts at Epcot's "The Seas with Nemo and Friends". (03:12)
