Authors@Google: Mark W. Moffett
Mark W. Moffett spoke to Googlers in Mountain View on March 11, 2011 about his book Adventures Among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions.
About the book:
Intrepid international explorer, biologist, and photographer Mark W. Moffett, "the Indiana Jones of entomology," takes us around the globe on a strange and colorful journey in search of the hidden world of ants. In tales from Nigeria, Indonesia, the Amazon, Australia, California, and elsewhere, Moffett recounts his entomological ex
NLS 80th Anniversary press conference
On March 3, 2011, the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS)—the Library of Congress' talking-book and braille program—celebrated 80 years of helping visually impaired and physically handicapped individuals enjoy reading their favorite books and magazines. This free library program brings reading materials in digital audio and braille formats straight to the homes of patrons from preschoolers to centenarians. Books on digital cartridge, digital talking-book
3.2 Congruence
Number systems and the rules for combining numbers can be daunting. This unit will help you to understand the detail of rational and real numbers, complex numbers and integers. You will also be introduced to modular arithmetic and the concept of a relation between elements of a set.
3.1 Division
Number systems and the rules for combining numbers can be daunting. This unit will help you to understand the detail of rational and real numbers, complex numbers and integers. You will also be introduced to modular arithmetic and the concept of a relation between elements of a set.
Earth Rotation from Galileo Imagery: 3600 x Real-Time
This animation is one in a series created to show an accurate representation of the Earths rotation at different temporal resolutions. The animation is created from images taken by the Galileo spacecraft during a close pass of the Earth on December 11-12, 1990. The animations range from real-time, in which no rotation can be perceived, to 3600 times real-time, in which both the Earths rotation and cloud motion can bee seen. The series also includes an animation in which the Earths rotation has b
Listening, speaking, grammar: Wo ich wohne... wohne ich gerne!
You practice your speaking skills in connection with describing a house and the plural forms of nouns.
1.8 The OU requirements
Are you about to undertake a PhD in science, technology or mathematics? If so, this unit will help you to examine your work processes. You will consider and develop the nature of postgraduate work and look at the planning of work needed at doctoral level.
Lezen, woordenschat, schrijven, structureren: Comic Relief
De student oefent begrijpend lezen en woordenschat ivm teksten over liefdadigheid. Hij/zij leert hoofdzaken in een tekst onderscheiden. Hij/zij kan ook een korte tekst schrijven om een goed doel voor te stellen.
INDS - Human Sciences
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Induction of Nitrate Reductase in Plant Shoots
A laboratory exercise that uses colormetric assay and corn seedling shoots to study the induction of enzyme activity by a substrate.
Pendennis Castle N900020 PENDENNIS CASTLE, Cornwall. c.1894. Reconstruction drawing of Half Moon Battery. Men working in the cartridge store by Ivan LAPPER.
Learn with Pictures and Video S2 #14 - Powerful Spanish Learning Technique - Learning Through Opposi
Don’t worry about ‘forgetting’ Spanish opposites because they are easy to ‘remember’ when you use this great Spanish lesson! In this lesson, you’ll use the same powerful Spanish learning technique to master even more Spanish vocabulary. Learning Spanish with SpanishPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Spanish!
This Spanish video series is a [...]
Exercice 17 (Arithmétique dans Z) [00341]
Exo7. Exercices de mathématiques pour les étudiants.
Bonus (Ã 7'18'') : principe des tiroirs.
Retrouvez la correction écrite sur http://exo7.emath.fr
Cervical Myelopathy - Sensory Exam - Superficial Sub-exam - Patient 13
This 46-year-old African American male presented with progressive weakness of the lower extremities for three months. He had increasing difficulty with walking and balance and now is unable to walk without assistance. He also complained of numbness and "pins and needles" sensation in the upper extremities with clumsiness and decreased dexterity in his right hand. Clinical history: He did not have neck or radicular pain and had no bowel or bladder problems or sexual dysfunction, but did have some
Spastic Paraplegia - Sensory Exam - Superficial Sub-exam - Patient 5
This video features a 54-year-old white male with a history of spastic paraplegia (diagnosed in 1994) and no previous history of heart disease or cardiac workup. He presented to the Emergency Room complaining of three days on-and-off retrosternal chest pain. Patient presented to the ER complaining of three days on-and-off retrosternal chest pain, rated 3/10, lasting approximately 30 minutes, occurring multiple times daily at rest or during activity. The first episode occurred three days before
Food Webs: Frogs
Frogs eat insects, and frogs are in turn eaten by larger animals such as birds. Frogs hibernate, or more correctly, they estivate. During estivation, frogs lowers their body temperatures in cold weather and go into a kind of dormancy. Frogs can "migrate" in that they move across land to find ponds and water sources.
Sleeping Beauty Invades Rat's Genome
Knockouts are not just for Mice anymore. Aron Geurts and Howard Jacob from the Medical College of Wisconsin talk about their plans for creating transgenic rats using the Sleeping beauty transposon. Coming out of work pioneered by Colin Bishop's lab, Geurts and Jacob describe how the Sleeping Beauty system can be used to make transgenic rats and their plans to make the phenotype data from these rats available via the MCW PGA website (http://pga.mcw.edu) and the strains themselves accessible via a
TRMM Rainmap for September 1998: Zoom to Rotating Globe
A zoom to a rotating globe showing the monthly average rainfall for September 1998 as measured by TRMM. High rainfall rates are in red.
Pride and Prejudice - Quiz 2
That students will identify key characters in the novel. That students will develop their understanding of the plot.
