Ames' Window - Optical Illusion This very interesting visual illusion - the Ames window (or trapezoid) - appears to rotate one way and then another, but in reality rotates continously in one direction.
Lecture 28 - 11/29/2010
Lecture 28
Cafe Scientifique Nancy 2010 - Sciences de demain : jamais sans les nanos.
Les Cafés des Sciences organisés par les Universités de Lorraine en collaboration avec l’INSERM, l’INRIA et le BGA.
Mardi 9 novembre
Café Scientifique Nancy 2010 - Sciences de demain : jamais sans les nanos.
Intervenants : Olivier JOUBERT, PhD. Cibles Thérapeutiques. Formulation et Expertise préclinique du Médicament – Nancy.
François MONTAIGNE. Médecin Institut Jean Lamour – Nancy.
Emmanuel LAMOUROUX. Maitre de Conférences Structure et Réact
Lanceurs spatiaux et problème de propulsion (audio)
Une conférence de L'UTLS au Lycée
avec Luc Vervisch
Lycée de la Côte d'Albâtre (76)
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Kate I would like to be there and have general chat with you indeed it would be interesting for there has been a good many changes since last we met our friends are scattered only yesterday I heard of the death of our friend George Rogers poor George the sound of armies and the Rolling drums will never arouse him Well Kate I will close for this time write soon and give me all the news Give my Respects to all my friends and don’t forget Kate Direct to Cleveland Tenn Your friend, H
George W. Ham letter to Kate Ballard, November 9, 1862
Mr. Ham writes from Camp Morton in Indianapolis that Gov. Morton is in Washington trying to accomplish a prisoner exchange.,Transcripts provided by previous owner. Catharine (Kate) Ballard became Catharine (Kate) Garman when she married George Garman in October, 1864.
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I must conclude by Remembering our best love to all grand mother Heckman we wish to see you all we wish to see you all again once more Thomas and Elizabeth Pearson Aron and Nancy BallardDear brother and Sister I write you a few lines me and my family is in Reasonable health at thistime hoping that this may find you the same blessing we had a daughter the second day of September we named her martha Elizabeth I shall make shall make forty of fifty bararlls Of Corn three thousand w
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I must conclude by Remembering our best love to all grand mother Heckman we wish to see you all we wish to see you all again once more Thomas and Elizabeth Pearson Aron and Nancy BallardDear brother and Sister I write you a few lines me and my family is in Reasonable health at thistime hoping that this may find you the same blessing we had a daughter the second day of September we named her martha Elizabeth I shall make shall make forty of fifty bararlls Of Corn three thousand w
Tongue-controlled robot
Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19790 See how a robot can be controlled with just a few tongue clicks.
Lecture 29 - 12/1/2010
Lecture 29
Le développement durable - Phillipe Boudes
Une conférence de l'UTLS au Lycée
Le développement durable par Phillipe Boudes (sociologue)
Looking after the neighbourhood (Introduction to government: Assignment brief 1)
Write a 250-word profile of a local councillor for Informer Online (University of Cumbria student publication), complete with a picture of him/her. The profile should be of interest and relevance to a student audience. The councillor may serve on Carlisle City Council or any other principal local authority. There does not necessarily have to be a news angle to this profile. Assignment 1 of 3 for the Introduction to Government module.
Doug Dixon: Flash Forward - The Rise of Small Tech Gadgets - April 15, 2009
Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Doug Dixon (Manifest Technologies) presents the latest toys from the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show. Flash memory and solid state drives abound in thumb drives, video cameras, etc. Is the hard drive, as we know it, soon to be a thing of the past? For more information see http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2009/04/flash_forward_the_rise_of_small_tech_gadgets.html.
Merry Xmas
Message side of card.
Colonial Chocolate
Journeyman cook Jim Gay explains that Americans' love of chocolate dates back to the beginning.
Massachussetts 54th Regiment
The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment was one of the first official black units in the United States armed forces during the
American Civil War. This is a video about this units attack on a built in Confederate position and over half died. In the attack the first black soldier won the Medal of Honor. The impact on Lincoln is explained.
NASA's Mars Rover Spirit and It's Six Years on Mars
This is a video created by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory that showcases the rover Spirit. It discusses the discoveries of Spirit, its past, and its future after the end of its prime mission.
Warren Finegold GLS 2010 interview Fall Convocation - November 19, 2010 (9:30 a.m.) Sea Turtles - Endangered Species
Warren Finegold (MSc14), Chief Executive, Global Business Development, Vodafone, on what we can learn from emerging markets
Highlights from McMaster University's fall convocation - morning ceremony.
This video provides a preview of a television documentary and educational film featuring the rarest sea turtle in the world—the Kemp's Ridley sea turtle. It describes the efforts underway to save these sea turtles from extinction. (8:02)
