European Cargo Ship Launches to Station
The European Space Agency's third Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-3) launched atop an Ariane 5 rocket from the Arianespace launch site in Kourou, French Guiana, at 12:34 a.m. EDT Friday, beginning a six-day journey to the International Space Station. The 13-ton "Edoardo Amaldi" spacecraft, named in honor of the 20th-century Italian physicist who is regarded as one of the fathers of European spaceflight, is delivering 7.2 tons of propellant, water and supplies to the six crew members aboard the o
Can Religion Justify Bullying Children? by Sean Faircloth
The book "Attack of the Theocrats: How the Religious Right Harms Us All & What We Can Do About It" is available in audiobook, electronic, and hardcopy: http://richarddawkins.net/audio/645178-audiobook-of-attack-of-the-theocrats-with-richard-dawkins-reading-his-foreword-now-available. Learn about a Ten Point Vision of a Secular America: http://richarddawkins.net/videos/644419-atheism-a-new-strategy-richard-dawkins-foundation-for-reason-science-us.
A Notre Dame graduate, Faircloth is Dir. of Stra
Breakingviews: Royal Mail pension deal is a sleight of hand.
Mar. 22 - The Royal Mail pension deal is an accounting sleight of hand allowing the government to reduce national debt and hide long term liability, leaving UK tax payers no better off say Reuters Breakingviews.
Breakingviews: Bond market recidivism
March 22 - Rob Cox and Breakingviews columnists discuss the return of bad habits by bond investors.
Four Firsts
This video shows four 'firsts' in the history of computing. The video was assembled by Danny Cohen and donated to the Computer History Museum by Sun Microsystems Laboratories. The topics covered are: computer aided instruction (CAI); computer aided design (CAD); flight simulation and digital voice packet transmission. Many features of computing systems we have come to take for granted today got their start in such early experiments.
Authors at Google: Sara Ramsey, "Heiress Without a Cause"
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HEIRESS WITHOUT A CAUSE -- Muses of Mayfair #1
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A disgraced son with a dark reputation, William "Ferguson" Avenel is content to live in exile -- until his father dies in the scandal of the Season. With rumors of insanity swirling around them, his sisters desperately need a chaperone. Ferguson thinks he's found the most proper woman in England -- and he won't ruin her, even if he secretly desires the passionate woman trapped beneath a spinster's cap.
A Systems Approach for Addressing the Crisis in Employment and Consumer Demand - Nicholas A. Ashford
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MIT GSW - Elevator Pitch 101 Anand Dass, winner of the MIT 2010 Elevator Pitch Competition, gives the MIT Global Startup Workshop an quick course on how to prepare and deliver a successful elevator pitch.
Marilyn Friedman: “Can Bad People Live Well?”
Watch video of Vanderbilt University Marilyn Friedman presenting “Can Bad People Live Well?” on March 22. Her presentation was part of The Berry Lectures in Public Philosophy series of talks that aims to make philosophy accessible and relevant for the public. “The Berry Lectures in Public Philosophy provide a wonderful opportunity to reach a broader audience beyond our studentskeep reading »
#187: Damned if you do: How gender colors perceptions in negotiations Stem Cell Trials in Humans | Sugary Drinks and Diabetes USiU : Agribusiness - Kapsabet1 Opposite Bunny: hot/cold, chilly/warm March 2012 Economic Outlook Take 5 with Octavia Spencer Day of the week and months -- and cultural oddities Communications Forum: "Documentary Film and New Technologies" Emerging digital technologies are opening powerful new ways to create and even to reconceptualize the documentary film. How will handheld video cameras and ubiquitous open-source computing change the nature of documentaries? What are the implications for makers and viewers of documentaries of today’s unprecedented access to online editing and distribution tools, to an ocean of data never before available to the general public? These and related questions Schola Cantorum: Robert Emmerich, '12 GESS: Amazonian Dark Earths Timelapse of traffic as it passes under the IST bridge
Dr. Robert Lanza from Advanced Cell Technology gives us an update on the human embryonic stem cell clinical trial for macular degeneration. Then, Dr. Vasanti Malik talks about her research looking at the link between sugary drinks and type II diabetes.
This video is part of a USiU Agribusiness ICT training module
In this video segment from Between the Lions, an animated superhero bunny saves the day through the use of opposites. In this segment he tells a hippo who is hot to jump into the water. The hippo then gets cold, so the bunny motions her to come back to shore. Then the hippo is chilly. The bunny wraps a towel around the hippo, and then she is warm. The featured vocabulary words are: hot, cold, chilly, and warm. This video segment provides a resource for Fluency, Vocabulary, and Language and
Professor F. John Mathis reviews key economic indicators March 21, 2012, at Thunderbird School of Global Management. His guests include Wolfgang Koester, CEO of Fireapps, and Andy Gage, Head of Marketing of Fireapps. http://www.thunderbird.edu
Actress and Montgomery native Octavia Spencer is the sixth of seven siblings with a passion for the film industry. After graduating from Jefferson Davis High School in 1988, she attended Auburn and earned a bachelor's degree in liberal arts in 1994. She began her professional acting career in 1996, portraying a nurse in the movie "A Time to Kill," but is best known for her recent role as Minny Jackson in the 2011 film "The Help." Her role as Minny won her many accolades including an Academy Awar
Day of the week and months -- and cultural oddities.
Robert Emmerich, '12. performed a solo piece titled "Es treibt mich hin & Ich wandelte unter den Bäumen" by Robert Schumann while on tour with the University of Richmond's Schola Cantorum, March 2012. Robert performed this solo during a concert by Schola Cantorum in the Iglesia de Santo Angel in Seville, Spain.
For more about the tour and Schola Cantorum visit http://music.richmond.edu/on-tour/index.html
Dr. Antoinette WinklerPrins, Associate Professor of Geography at Michigan State University presented "Amazonian Dark Earths: Implications for the Region?" as part of the Global Environment Speaker Series hosted by the University of Richmond Department of Geography & the Environment.
For more in the GESS visit http://geography.richmond.edu/resources/speaker-series.html
This was taken at the coffee shop on the IST Building bridge around 10am on 3.26.12. The traffic was shot on an iphone and accentuated by an "echo" effect applied in an edit program.
