Catch-Up History and the Cold War [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor Lord Peter Hennessy | World-renowned expert on Cold War intelligence and espionage Peter Hennessy will address recently declassified documents and how history can help us 'catch-up' with the threats of today. Peter Hennessy is Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at QMUL and was recently elected a Fellow of the British Academy as well as being an Honorary Fellow of LSE. Before joining the Department in 1992, he was a journalist for twenty years with spells on Th
Out of Europe? The United States in an Asian age [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor Michael Cox, Professor Arne Westad | Niall Ferguson argues that the world is now being shaped more by the emerging economies of the East than by the once dominant West. But within the West another kind of power shift is taking place, one that leads to the growing irrelevance of Europe. Is this true? And does it really matter? Michael Cox is professor of international relations at LSE and codirector of LSE IDEAS. Arne Westad is professor of international history at LSE and c
Great Zoom into Tucson, AZ: Sabino Canyon
Using data from different spacecraft and some powerful computer technology, visualizers at the Goddard Space Flight Center present you with a collection of American cities in a way you have never seen them before. Starting with our camera high above the Earth, we rush in towards the surface at what would be an impossible speed for any known vehicle. Passing though layers of atmosphere, the colors of our destinations shimmer with their own unique characteristics, and suddenly we find ourselves fl
Armstrong Experience: Ashley Morris
Armstrong Experience: Ashley Morris
Numeracy for Professional Purposes (3/10): Basic Descriptive Statistics: Introduction
Basic Descriptive Statistics: Introduction
Number Strips (1-12)
Number strips which teachers can photocopy, cut out and use with pupils for number activities that involve addition or subtraction up to the number 12.
Business Expansion (HL)
Fact-sheet discussing the issues involved in business expansion, with a brief account of the main sources of finance used.
Zoom Around the Sun using TRACE Imagery
A zoom into a composite solar image created from TRACE observations made on October 10, 1998, followed by a pan showing various active regions in the solar corona
Plantation of Ulster - Undertakers and their Promises
Worksheet requiring students to match illustrations with the appropriate primary and secondary sources.
Supraconductivité (video)
Manipulation qui présente l'effet supraconducteur d'un matériau sous l'action d'un champ magnétique : effet Mesner, ancrage des vortex, thermalisation.
Vidéo issue du projet VideoManip dont l'objectif est la réalisation de courtes séquences filmées, montrant des expériences réelles, qui seraient à la fois trop complexes pour être montées et montrées en amphi, et pas assez riches d'enseignement pour justifier un TP de plusieurs heures. Les sciences de l'ingénieur consi
Eli Whitney
This animation does not have a narrator so the sound can be muted. It is 1:22 minutes long. Not much depth.
South America: Showing the Changing Seasons
SeaWiFS false color data showing seasonal change in the oceans and on land for South America. The data is seasonally averaged, and shows spring, summer, fall, winter, spring, summer, and fall.
17.40 American Foreign Policy: Past, Present, Future (MIT)
This course covers the history of American foreign policy since 1914, current policy questions, and the future of U.S. Policy. We focus on policy evaluation. What consequences did these policies produce for the U.S. and for other countries? Were/are these consequences good or bad?
Confederate vs. Union Soldiers (2:39)
A great video to help students understand the differences between the North and South in terms of soldiers and where they came from and what they experienced. A 2:39 video that wold be excellent to show students prior to a study of the battles.
Tropospheric Ozone from Earth Probe TOMS: Global - 9 Day Averages (May 1997 - May 1998)
Global aerosol concentrations from May 1997 through May 1998 from Earth Probe TOMS
The Transformative Degree: Carey School Dean Yash Gupta Discusses the Johns Hopkins Global MBA
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Article :: Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5 Studio Techniques: Making Your Site Available Offline
In this chapter, you'll learn how to make a site available offline by creating a file that not only tells the browser which files to cache, but also specifies substitute files for offline use.
Kinect Code Camp 2011: Team Evan Recently we had our Kinect launch with a special Channel 9 Live event. Just prior to this we held a 24 hour Code Camp to allow developers to play with the Kinect SDK for 24 hours and see what they could come up with. I interviewed the teams after the event to take a look at their project and get an idea of the challenges and surprises they found as they worked with the SDK. Team Evan included... well, just Evan Lang from Identity Mine. Eva
Rx Workshop: Observables versus Events Learn about the first-class representation of event streams using observable sequences in Rx, and how to use subjects to publish and subscribe to sources.
