Globalisation and the Financial Crisis - Summary
Final part of the podcast series, summarising what was discussed in the series, including what globalisation is, what caused the current financial crisis, what it means for developing countries and what can governments do to ensure it doesn't happen again
Alliance between U of R, George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film
The University of Rochester and George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film have entered into an alliance to further public engagement, research, and education in the arts and sciences. This unique museum/university partnership will focus on the museum's photography and motion-picture collections.
Credit Crunch Live
Economics students of St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford pose questions to a panel of experts about the credit crunch and global recession.
Economic growth and spiritual nourishment: Shenzhen and its entrepreneur citizens
Third lecture in the Martin D'Arcy lecture series on Christianity in China, in this lecture, Dr Wu looks at the rapid economic growth in the city of Shenzhen and also the spiritual growth within the city
2.2 The popularisation of ideas
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the approach to medicine was vastly different from today. Health is now recognised, at least in most European countries, as a universal right, but what was it like in the past? How did social and political boundaries affect access to treatment, and what were the treatments of the day? This unit examines how Scottish healthcare institutions were influenced by these underlying social, economic, political and cultural contexts.
Article :: Building 3D Objects in Adobe After Effects CS5
This excerpt from Adobe After Effects CS5 Classroom in a Book shows you how to create and control basic 3D layers.
Article :: Adobe Digital Imaging How-Tos: Organizing and Previewing Multiple Adjustments
The Layers panel provides a very simple means of grouping and previewing adjustment layers together. Dan Moughamian shows you how.
Prof Samuel Gershon: The Psychopharmacological Specificity of the Lithium Ion
Professor Samuel Gershon, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine gives this lecture entitled 'Discoveries and their Trajectory: The Psychopharmacological Specificity of the Lithium Ion' at The Australian National University on 16 August 2010.
Professor Gershon was educated in Sydney, Australia where he received his medical degree and specialist training in psychiatry.
In the course of his career Professor Gershon published more than 600 papers in peer r
Demonstrators march for human rights
Human rights activists in the Philippines and Cambodia hold mass demonstrations to mark Human Rights Day
English Castles
A list of Castles in England and smaller Islands
Conférence d'Alain Bergala : Les grands cinéastes de la chevelure
Tous les cinéastes ont filmé des cheveux de femmes. Mais les grands cinéastes de la chevelure féminine sont finalement peu nombreux. A quoi les reconnaît-on ? A ce que les cheveux de femmes, chez eux, ne sont pas seulement décoratifs, mais relèvent d'une émotion intime et singulière qui ébranle souterrainement leurs films.
Alain Bergala est le commissaire de l'exposition Brune Blonde à la Cinémathèque française. Cinéaste, critique, enseignant à la femis, il est l'auteur
Alphabet Sign-Language Video
In this teacher-created video, students are shown how to show each letter of the alphabet using sign language while the alphabet song is played on piano in background.
Skewer Through a Balloon
Some things in this world just dont mix... dogs and cats, oil and water, needles and balloons. Everyone knows that a balloons worst fear is a sharp object... even a sharpened, wooden cooking skewer. With a little scientific knowledge about balloons under your belt, youll be able to perform a seemingly impossible task... pierce a balloon with a wooden skewer without popping it. Piercing takes on a whole new meaning! In this professionally made video, Steve Spangler pushes a skewer through a ballo
Setting Up Shop
This video is useful in teaching students how to count money. The students in the video have to buy items in a store without spending all of their money while still getting enough items for everyone.
Digestion Travel
This video provides a creative tour of the digestive system provided by Ben Novy. Ben travels through the digestive system and explains how food travel from the mouth through the esophagus and into the stomach. He then describes how it moves through the small and large intestines. (3:08)
Science Experiments with the Tornado Tube
How long does it take to empty a soda bottle full of water? You'll amaze your dinner guests and explore some of the scientific properties of air and water when you learn how to empty a full bottle of water in just a few seconds! In this professionally made video, Steve Spangler demonstrates and explains experiments about air, water, vacuum, density, and centripetal force. Run time 03:14.
elearning in 90 Seconds - Snippy
Technology and Education: Putting it in context
We often hear competing media and research claims about the educational value of new technologies, but often it is not clear how, or indeed if, these technologies are supporting learning. And, importantly, there is often little attention to the challenges of trying to introduce these technologies successfully into an educational context. This report aims to address these issues through a short summary of some of the work carried out by the Capital Project over the last two years– the programme
