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Agriculture and Climate Change
A lecture by Univ. Prof. Josef Eitzinger, Institute of Meteorology, University of Agricultural Sciences, Vienna 
Climate Change - Global Context
A lecture by Univ. Prof. Dr. Helga Kolb Kromp, Department of Meteorology, at the seminar "Humus - the Missed Opportunity for Global Climate?
Kid's Character Builder-Confidence-Part 1 of 2
In part one of this video confidence is defined as the courage to try. Smuggles was excited about the upcoming duck dash race. Smuggles finds a small, sad duck hiding in a bush named Weatherby. Smuggles tries to help build confidence in Weatherby so he will participate in race. Cute song played. Some lyrics include "When you're feeling so small you can't see past the wall. Confidence will make you 10 feet tall". This is a great teaching resource for a teachable moment that arises in the classroo
Frederick Douglas: Mini Biography
This 3:30 minute long video explains the life of Douglas and how he attempted to end slavery and create a more just society. Provides insights into how he came to be a mover in the anti-slavery movement.
Richard Wilkinson on The Age of Unequals
One of Britain's leading social epidemiologists, Richard Wilkinson, looks at what it means to live in a new age of inequality. Wilkinson is the co-author of the groundbreaking, international bestseller The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone.
Learn with Pictures and Video S4 #7 - Getting Around Using Japanese
Commuting in Japan has its perks and tolls. There are many modes of transportation: taxis, the subway, and cars, but which one is fastest? You’ll need all of your Japanese skills to find out. And you need to find out fast because you’ve been late to work two days in a row. You’ll have to [...]
Klartext 20110218
På fredagen berättade Klartext att det återigen går att dricka vattnet i Östersund. Vi berättade också att de politiska oroligheterna i Afrika har spridit sig till Libyen och Uganda.
Protests in Libya
Amateur footage of supposed protests in Libya on YouTube uploaded day after deadly clashes.
G20 finance ministers talk inflation
The world's major economies are split over how to measure imbalances in the global economy to help avert future financial crises.
Legal Analysis Workshop: Appellate Procedure
Legal Analysis Workshop: Appellate Procedure
Formatic_2011_ouverture
La journée du 8 février 2011 était organisée avec des Ateliers et Tutoriels parallèles
Les ateliers organisés par l'association FORMATICSanté ont été introduit par Jérome Clément Président de l'Association FORMATICSanté et Pierre Espinoza, Praticien Hospitalier, expert en télémédecine à l'HEGP
Ils ont rassemblés de nombreux professionnels intéressés par les pratiques innovantes
- au sein des structures de santé
- au s
003 LIBER LATINUS IN USUM PUERORUM
Büsching, Anton Friedrich: Liber latinus in usum puerorum Latinam linguam discentium editus (1769)
Chapter Three
Here is the link to a readable edition of the text on Europeana:
http://tinyurl.com/4r8bl6b
Reading Comenius' Orbis Pictus would be good preparation for using this text.
002 LIBER LATINUS IN USUM PUERORUM
Büsching, Anton Friedrich: Liber latinus in usum puerorum Latinam linguam discentium editus (1769)
Chapter Two
Here is the link to a readable edition of the text on Europeana:
http://tinyurl.com/4r8bl6b
This is an elementary school textbook, covering all the basic topics that would be studied nowadays in secondary school - Biology, Geography,etc. The Latin is clear and matter of fact - the text provides good material fo
Yes We Must: Achieve Diversity through Leadership-Student Remarks
Two students deliver heartfelt appeals for courage and integrity at the annual Martin Luther King Day breakfast.
In the 1940s, Matt Gethers recounts, his grandfather was forced to flee South Carolina after defending his brother against white racists in a store. Gethers wonders if he’d have put his life on the l
Deploying Our Gifts for the Betterment of Humankind: What Would Dr. King Say about Us? Student Remar
In urging the MIT community to use its gifts to help others in need, particularly, the victims of the earthquake in Haiti, Dylon Rockwell recalls his mother's quest to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina. With vivid memories of hundreds of New Orleans residents arriving in his hometown of Dallas, his family was there
MIT’s Entrepreneurial Development and Impact Over the Past 50 Years
Ed Roberts reviews the effects of entrepreneurship within MIT and the relation of MIT entrepreneurship to larger communities.
Much of the research under discussion comes from a 2006 study of MIT alumni conducted by Roberts and Charles Eesley of the Sloan School. The study polled MIT alumni about companies they had
Annual Technology Day Report 2010
Note: This video has some audio problems, which get resolved early on with some help from an audience member, presumed to be a Course VI alum.
MIT President Susan Hockfield delivers a general update on the Institute to MIT Alumni gathered in Kresge for the annual Technology Day event.
Focusing first on everyo
The Last New Century: American Art from 1880-1920
This six minute video looks back to the beginning of the Last New Century and uses famous art works to show the a relationship between the contemporary art world and those from earlier ones, especially the Hudson River Valley School. A quality video with great images and explanations. A must view for art classes or others studying this time period. There is an add at the five minute mark.
