Bees in the Colonies
The humble honeybee sweetens the American story. Apiarist Bill Krebs says bees have been here since the beginning.
Office 911: Screensaver Hostage Training on new software takes forever, right? Not necessarily. In this Office Show, one desperately overworked trainee learns how the Office 2010 Screensaver can get him up to speed on Office in just a couple of minutes a day. Plus, we rescue a perfectly good big-screen monitor. Get the Office 2010 Screens saver HERE. For more Office Shows, go to http://
School of Arts and Sciences Signature Courses
To learn more about the School of Arts and Science's Signature Courses, visit our webpage at http://sas.rutgers.edu/signature.
Johns Hopkins Astrophysicist Adam Riess wins Nobel Prize
On Tuesday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences recognized Adam Riess, the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor in Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins and a scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute, for his leadership in the High-z Team's 1998 discovery that the expansion rate of the universe is accelerating, a phenomenon widely attributed to a mysterious, unexplained "dark energy" filling the universe.
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Les campus universitaires québécois - Emission 22
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Les marais côtiers du Saint-Laurent (UQAR)
Une équipe de chercheurs de l’Institut des sciences de la mer de Rimouski de l’Université du Québec à Rimouski a choisi le marais salé de la Pointe aux Épinettes dans le parc national du Bic (Bas Saint-Laurent) comme site de référence pour leurs études.
Un prof, un livre : Martin Pâquet, professeur au Département d’histoire à l’Univ
La cinétique chimique
Émission 1 : La cinétique chimique
Une occasion de vous initier à la cinétique, l'étude de la vitesse des réactions chimiques. Certaines, comme les combustions, sont très rapides, voire explosives; d'autres, comme la décomposition dans le milieu naturel des matières plastiques, sont extrêmement lentes. La cinétique des réactions chimiques se retrouve partout : des cellules vivantes à l'aérospatiale.
California Museums: Sites of Global Dialogue
What does it mean to be a global museum in California in the 21st century? The USC International Museum Institute and the J. Paul Jetty Museum sponsored a seminar addressing this question as part of the Museum Matters series for museum professionals on March 23, 2011.
Featured speakers include Roxana Velasquez, director of the San Diego Museum of Art; Selma Holo, Director of the USC Fisher Museum of Art and the USC International Museum Institute; and Jay Xu, director of the San Francisco Asian
EU leaders hold crisis talks
Oct.23 - European leaders meet in Brussels to discuss a Greek bailout and Europe's deepening sovereign debt crisis. Andrew Raven reports.
Author(s): Dr. Oliver Sacks on The Mind's Eye
In The Mind's Eye, physician and author Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and abilities: the power of speech, the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, or the sense of sight.
Dr. Sacks recently visited the American Museum of Natural History to discuss his book and how he too has struggled with several perceptual cond
A Brief Introduction to Engineering Computation with MATLAB
Serhat Beyenir
An Engineering Computation Primer.
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Emerging economies boost GE numbers
Oct. 21 - Summary of business headlines: General Electric hits Wall Street profit forecasts; McDonald's beats expectations; Verizon pulls ahead despite slower sales ahead of iPhone launch. Conway G. Gittens reports.
YouTube generation looks for a job
Oct. 21 -In the UK, employers and recruitment agencies are experimenting with video as a way of expediting the search for potential employees. Matt Cowan reports.
"What Does It Mean To Be Green?" written by Rana DiOrio--Book Trailer (Conservation)
This colorful, insightful story, demystifies for children what it means to be green by helping them to view everyday tasks through an environmentally-friendly lens. The book empowers children to do whatever they can to protect the earth's precious resources. Don't be surprised if they start coming up with suggestions of their own for you! This is a great resource to encourage our young readers to go green. (1:48)
C-Suite Conversations: Chris Mooney
The Robins School of Business is pleased to unveil a series of educational summits for students, alumni and the business community facilitated by distinguished executives in the area. "C-Suite Conversations" are unscripted interviews with leading decision makers in central Virginia.
Throughout five installments in the 2011 - 2012 academic year, Senior Associate Dean Richard Coughlan and each executive will discuss business-related topics on stage in the Ukrop Auditorium at the Robins School. T
Nokia CEO Elop talks about new Windows smartphone
Oct. 26 - Insider speaks to Nokia Chief Executive Stephen Elop about the mobile manufacturer's battle to win back U.S. customers from Apple and other rivals.
Gregory Maguire: 2011 National Book Festival
Author Gregory Maguire appears at the 2011 National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: Gregory Maguire is the author of more than a dozen novels for children and many novels for adults, including "Wicked," the basis of the smash Broadway musical of the same name. Formerly a professor of children's literature at Simmons College, he is a co-founder of the Foundation for Children's Books and of Children's Literature New England Inc. Maguire is also one of the writers of "The Exquisite Corpse Advent
The Exchange: Eviscerating the Middle Class
Nov. 3 - Rob Cox is joined by New Yorker writer George Packer, who recently authored "The Broken Contract," an article published in Foreign Affairs to discuss economic inequality in America.
Basic Bootcamp #1 - A Pleasure to Meet You
Learn Spanish with SpanishPod101.com! You just arrived in Latin America, and you take a deep breath of the crisp air, look around you, and get ready to embark on a new adventure! What brings you to Latin America? Work? Vacation? Family? Or have you decided to grab life by the horns and study abroad at [...]
