Prehistoric Astronomy: How the Ancients Looked at the Heavens (1/4)
Join award winning teacher Jonathan Bergmann as he interactively teaches Astronomy: Prehistoric Astronomy: How the Ancients Looked at the Heavens. Mr. Bergmann describes how ancient people observed the sunrise, phases of the moon, changing seasons, and the brightness of stars at night. Ancient people identified constellations. This video also shows a diagram of the celelstial sphere. ( 10:55)
Private Wealth & Asset Management (presentation from "Deconstructing Wall Street", 9/30/11)
Sponsored by the University of Richmond Alumni Association, Deconstructing Wall Street brought together students of all class years interested in learning more about careers in finance. The students attended sessions such as this one on Private Wealth Management -- Asset Management to learn about the major areas and career paths in the field from alumni representing several prominent firms.
Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes
Episode 134: PTSD I: Describing and diagnosing post-traumatic stress disorder Introduction to the Cranfield MBA The Atlanta Riot Without Geometry, the Dog Would be Free - Part 2 - Area Raft Spider Hunting and Catching Water Boatman presidents awards 06.03.2012 – Langsam gesprochene Nachrichten ISS Update - March 5, 2012 Critical Thinking Essential Marketing Advantage Chris Van Dusen: 2011 National Book Festival Kwame Anthony Appiah on "Islam and the West" The Beauty of Algebra Legatum Lecture:Redefining Business in Africa with Dr. James Mwangi Under the stewardship of Dr. James Mwangi, Equity Bank challenged conventional banking wisdom and redefined their business model to focus on microfinance and low-income consumers. Employing innovative approaches to collateral, credit assessments and branding, the company has gained international recognition as a leading bank in East Africa. Equity Bank is now one of the most profitable companies on the Kenyan Stock Exchange. Garlic Literary Festival 2012: A Moment of Mishearing [Audio]
Graham Clark, Full-time MBA Academic Director, introduces the Cranfield School of Management MBA
Although a prosperous African-American middle class had emerged in Atlanta by the early 1900s, it was understood by both whites and blacks that Atlanta was a tense and highly segregated city. In 1906, on the heels of the Thomas Dixon play The Clansmen, newspapers began falsely reporting assaults of white women by black men, leading to the Atlanta Riot. This segment from The Rise and Fall of Jim Crowdescribes the events leading up to the riot, and its impact on the black civil rights le
This series of videos was created to help middle school and early high school students understand the concepts and math of perimeter, area, and volume and how they can be used in a real life situation - in this case, a brother and sister want to build a new dog pen for their new puppy. This series of videos was created to be colorful, animated, and funny, so that students will want to watch the videos. This video concentrates on finding the area of the floor of the new dog pen, so the brother an
This short video gives excellent real life, close up footage of a Raft Spider hunting and catching a Water Boatman. This large brown and white spider has long, sturdy legs and an oval-shaped abdomen. There are striking pale stripes along the sides of both the carapace and the abdomen. These stripes are due in part to a row of white hairs. Males are similar in appearance to females, although they have smaller abdomens. This is a great resource to help build background knowledg
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Trainiere dein Hörverstehen mit den Nachrichten der Deutschen Welle von Dienstag – als Text und als verständlich gesprochene Audio-Datei.
Bei Kundgebungen gegen die Wahl von Ministerpräsident Wladimir Putin zum neuen Staatschef sind am Montagabend in Moskau und St. Petersburg rund 500 Kreml-Kritiker festgenommen worden. Darunter waren auch Abgeordnete der liberalen Jabloko-Partei und bekannte Putin-Gegner wie der Blogger Alexej Nawalny. Auf dem Moskauer Puschkin-Platz protestierten etwa 20
The International Space Station video update for March 5, 2012.
You cannot succeed without the ability to listen, apply reason and make an independent decision.
Marketing with a broad-based management program gives the student a real advantage in the job market.
Chris Van Dusen appears at the 2011 National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: Chris Van Dusen writes: "As a child, my brothers and I would spend hours drawing pictures. We didn't have video games or computers to entertain us, so we drew instead. I had no idea back then that I'd end up writing and illustrating children's books when I grew up." Since then, Van Dusen has been the writer, illustrator or both of many acclaimed children's books, including illustrating Kate DiCamillo's "Mercy Watson.
Noted author and Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University Kwame Anthony Appiah visited the University of Rochester to spend three days with the campus community holding discussions on his work and the issues he addresses in his books. On February 23, he delivered his talk "Islam and the West" as part of the inaugural Distinguished Visiting Humanist Series. In his talk and during his discussions with students, Pro
In this ten-minute video clip, Sal Khan discusses why the abstraction of mathematics is so fundamental to its understanding.
Garlic is often called "the stinking rose." That's because it contains molecules composed of the same atoms that lurk in burnt matches and rotten eggs. This video explains the many uses of garlic and what chemicals are present. Some key words include: atom, electron, enzyme, sulfur, chemical reations, compounds, electron clouds, energy, and reactant. (7:00)
Speaker(s): Amit Chaudhuri, Ian Jack | Editor's note: The podcast is the conversation only, it does not include the music performance. A conversation between award-winning Indian wrtier and musician Amit Chaudhuri and former Granta and Independent on Sunday editor Ian Jack, will be followed by a performance by the five-piece Amit Chaudhuri Band. Amit Chaudhuri's first CD ‘This Is Not Fusion’ (Times Music) was released in Britain on the award-winning independent jazz label Babel, and received
