"The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday: Unexpected Encounters in t
A talk by New York Times journalist Neil MacFarquhar. His book, "The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday" reveals a cross-section of unsung, dynamic men and women pioneering political and social change. There is the Kuwaiti sex therapist in a leather suit with matching red headscarf, and the Syrian engineer advocatin
“Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty” (video)
A talk by journalist and author Roger Thurow. For more than thirty years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet while the "Green Revolution" succeeded in South America and Asia, it never got to Africa. Now, an impending global food crisis threatens to make things worse. In the west we think of famine as
"America's Water Crisis" (video)
Robert Glennon is a nationally-renowned water expert, and the author of Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It (2009). His previous books include the highly-acclaimed Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Fresh Waters (2002). Glennon is the Morris K. Udall Professor of Law and Public Policy in the Rogers
Learn Basic English Numbers - Counting from 1-11
An animated video with pictures of animals and other fun cartoons teaching children how to count from 1 to 11.
A Song About Photosynthesis
A simple song that describes what photosynthesis is and how it occurs. The video shows the lyrics for the song onscreen.
Behind the Scenes: On Line: A. Balasubramaniam
On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century
The Museum of Modern Art, November 21, 2010-February 7, 2011
For more information please visit http://www.moma.org/online. Audio courtesy of Acoustiguide
© 2010 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Wet dog shake
Find out how furry animals are the masters of the spin-dry. Read the full story here: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2010/11/fluid-nature-from-wet-dogs-to-washing-machines.html
See what the world might look like with a new bionic eye: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2010/11/see-the-world-through-a-bionic-eye.htm
How do you look?
How Do You Look? (2003-2006) was a Wellcome Trust funded project carried out jointly with Imperial College Computing Department (IC) and St Mary’s Hospital London. The role of Imperial College was confined to providing eye tracking equipment for the surgical part of the project.
The project’s main thrust was to apply to laparoscopic surgery the research methodology we had developed over the years with artists. This consisted in observing the surgeon’s eye movements in order to understa
Dinnerfor1
'Dinnerfor1' is a 4 monitor video and sound installation which was first exhibited at the British Council Berlin in February 2005.
DinnerFor1 is a woman talking to you. Her questions (isolated from the replies using fictional and factual texts) are often universal, so that a viewer is directly engaged: each set of questions is taken from a different source, connoting different strata of society and areas of (public) life. These range from the sensationalist interview into Princess Diana’s p
Behind the Scenes: On Line: Monika Grzymala
On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century
The Museum of Modern Art, November 21, 2010-February 7, 2011
For more information please visit http://www.moma.org/online. Images courtesy of the artist
© 2010 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Behind the Scenes: On Line: Guiseppe Penone
On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century
The Museum of Modern Art, November 21, 2010-February 7, 2011
For more information please visit http://www.moma.org/online
© 2010 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Behind the Scenes: On Line: Ranjani Shettar
On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century
The Museum of Modern Art, November 21, 2010-February 7, 2011
For more information please visit http://www.moma.org/online
© 2010 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Behind the Scenes: On Line: Zilvinas Kempinas
On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century
The Museum of Modern Art, November 21, 2010-February 7, 2011
For more information please visit http://www.moma.org/online. Images courtesy of the artist
© 2010 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Big Sleep (1946, Trailer) - In cinemas 31 December
A taut and famously opaque thriller, The Big Sleep reveals treachery and deceit at every turn, as private detective Philip Marlowe, played by Humphrey Bogart, discovers there is no-one he can trust when he investigates the messy lives of the Sternwood family and their seductive daughter Vivien, played by Lauren Bacall. Howard Hawks' masterful take on Raymond Chandler's hardboiled novel will leave you aching with suspense...
Visit http://www.bfi.org.uk/releases for more information and venues.
80:Powering the economic growth engine
INSEAD's Robert Ayres and Ben Warr talk about why we cannot underestimate the importance of energy, as it has become the premier economic driver of growth of today.
81: In the world of banking, does size matter?
INSEAD banking and finance professor Jean Dermine shares insights from his new book, 'Bank Valuation and Value-Based Management', and the collapse of Lehman Brothers one year later.
82: Viral marketing: tell a woman?
Traditional marketing wisdom has it that if you want to use “word of mouth” you’d better be sure the people doing the talking are knowledgeable about the product. But a large-scale field experiment on viral marketing puts paid to that age-old concept.
84: The MBA oath debate
INSEAD professors Craig Smith and Theo Vermaelen face off on whether MBA students should take an oath in the first place.
85: Welcome, ‘Stateholder’
In light of the amount of government capital injected into the so-called "private economy" since mid-2008, INSEAD Professor Ludo Van der Heyden hails the emergence of the new 'stateholder'.
Understanding global politics
This is a module framework. It can be viewed online or downloaded as a zip file.
As taught in Autumn Semester 2009.
This module introduces global politics through the major theoretical, historical and empirical ways of seeing international relations. Different claims, about, for example, human nature, power, war, peace, the state, society, law and politics are offered by thinkers who exercise a major influence on our contemporary understanding. These claims contribute to different approaches t
