RMM - Getting ready for the Worlds
RMM sets bar at North Berwick Highland Games. The week before the Worlds, SFU's RMM bands perform at the North Berwick Highland Games.
Aldrin's Favorite Moment on the Moon
In this Tech Effect video, brought to you by the History Channel, Buzz Aldrin talks about his favorite moment from the Apollo 11 moon landing. His favorite moment is right after they landed before any pictures were taken. (0:59)
Distance Education: OERs and Social Inclusion
This special issue explores open educational resources (OER) and the ways in which they can be used to support social inclusion, one of the key challenges that needs to be addressed in today's technologically rich digital environment. OER research is now moving beyond the creation of OER repositories to consideration of how they can be used effectively. Articles in this freely accessible journal address OER in higher education, the role of national and institutional policy with respect to wideni
Euro Crisis Watch: Spain has time to wait on EU aid
Aug. 6 - Spain's Economy minister says Madrid has time to wait for clarity on what a full bailout would require. Laurence Mutkin of Morgan Stanley joins Reuters to discuss the latest on the debt crisis.
Exciton and Carriers in Semiconductor Nanocrystals
By: icamp2012school Matthew Beard, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
The Physics of Sustainability
By: icamp2012school Public lecture by Peter Littlewood, Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago
Listening, Speaking, and Pronunciation, Fall 2004
A seven-week module for high intermediate ESL students who need to develop better listening comprehension and oral skills. The workshop involves short speaking and listening assignments with extensive exercises in accurate comprehension, pronunciation, stress and intonation, and expression of ideas.
CO 1069-377-1 The National Archives UK posted a photo: Description: School at Bennett Hill, Jamaica.
Location: Jamaica
Date: 1940-1959
Our Catalogue Refer
CO 1069-377-5 The National Archives UK posted a photo: Description: New textile factory - Jamaica. Looking down on the almost completed textile mill. It has been designed to allow a rapid expansion if the deman
CO 1069-377-9 The National Archives UK posted a photo: Description: Kingston
Location: Kingston, Jamaica
Date: 1940-1959
Our Catalogue Reference: Pa
Master Class by Stephen Quake - 6-22-12 9:00am - 10:00am
Trials of the Trail: African-American Cowboy Will Crittendon
The cowboy of Western mythology rode the range during the heyday of the long cattle drives in the l860s and 1870s. Despite the individualism emphasized in myth, most cowhands were employees of Eastern and European capitalists who raised cattle as a corporate enterprise to serve a growing appetite for beef in the U.S. Cowboys were overworked hired hands who rode in freezing wind and rain or roasted in the Texas sun; searched for lost cattle; mended fences; ate monotonous and bad food; and suffere
Regional Night: India
Thunderbird School of Global Management students perform July 14, 2012. http://www.thunderbird.edu
Kate Keeler on iMedia
Kate Keeler '12 explains the personal and professional growth she found in Elon's iMedia program and the reasons she would do it all again.
#207: Happiness beyond retail therapy: A philosopher's view Happy Birthday, Telescope Florence Nightingale--Statue in London Saving the Tijuana Estuary Ping 149: The Outlook is good, body controlled PC's, Win8 RTM, Paid apps | Ping! This week Laura and Paul enjoyed themselves while bringing all the hot news to you in bite size morsels. Enjoy
This year is the 400th anniversary of the invention of the telescope. To celebrate its birthday, we hit the streets of New York City to find out what people know about the telescope and its history. Can you explain how a telescope works? (2:58)
This is a brief film showing the statue honoring the soldiers that Florence Nightingale aided as well as a statue honoring her in London.
The estuary stands as the last barrier between the Pacific Ocean and pollution. Its mix of plants and silt acts as a filter that purifies inland rain and flood waters before they reach the ocean. The beaches of Imperial Beach are closed about 180 days every year. Without the estuary, they would be closed year round.
