Redistricting Game
The Redistricting Game is designed to educate, engage and empower citizens around the issue of political redistricting. Currently, the political system in most states allows the state legislators themselves to draw the lines. This system is subject to a wide range of abuses and manipulations that encourage incumbents to draw districts which protect their seats rather than risk an open contest. By explore how the system works, as well as how open it is to abuse, The Redistricting Game allows play
Title: mummy label inscribed on both sides
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury C
Description: Mummy label made of wood. It is irregularly shaped with two holes by which the label would be attached to the mummy after the embalming process for identification during transportation and in the afterlife. The label is inscribed on both sides in black ink.
Title: sculptors trial piece
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Vi
Description: Limestone sculptor's or apprentice's trial piece, worked on both sides.
The front is carved in high relief with the right side of the head of a king wearing a nemes headdress with uraeus. Faint lines have been carved into the surface of the limestone to provide a grid within which the portrait could be carved more accurately. The reverse is more roughly carved with the outline of the right side of the head of a king, with left arm outstretched.
Circa 350 BCE.
Title: head of jackal
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
Description: Right profile of the head of a jackal, made of obsidian. Simple markings to delineate the mouth are incised into the obsidian and the eye is inlaid. There are markings which suggest the ear may also have been inlaid.
Title: ivory panel of a game box
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for
Description: Ivory panel of a game box engraved with a scene showing a deceased man, Ahmose, seated on a high-backed lion-legged chair. He has a beard and wears a tripartite wig and a long overskirt worn over a short kilt. He holds a folded napkin in his left hand which is held to his chest as a symbol of authority; his right hand is held palm down above his thigh. In front of him is an offering table laden with food and under the table are two cones, one entwined with a lotus flower and
Title: glass earring pendant
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visu
Description: Mushroom-shaped earring pendant made of dark blue and cyan glass in the form of a papyrus column. The pendant is pierced along its length to enable it to be suspended from the ear by wire.
Finite element modeling of energy absorption characteristic of hybrid structure - composite wrapped
The study of axial crush behavior of metal and composite tube has become a basis for the design of crashworthy structure in automotive and aircraft applications. Unlike metals, polymer composite material displays little or no plastic deformation characteristics. Research has showed that the hybrid tube usually made of inner aluminum tube over-wrapped with Eglass fiber reinforced epoxy have significantly higher energy absorption than either aluminum tube or composite tube. It is therefore importa
Title: celadon lantern
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art
Description: Celadon lantern, in the shape of a hexagonal pavilion-style pagoda.
The roof of the pagoda is in six slightly concave sections, with a lotus-bud finial at the apex and a shaped boss at each corner. There is a small hole through the base of the finial by which the lantern could be suspended. Each wall of the pagoda is similarly decorated, with three horizontal slits arranged above an arched lattice window and floral panel. The lantern stands on six splayed feet, each shap
Title: large camel statuette
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visu
Description: Hollow-moulded glazed light buff earthenware model of a saddled Bactarian camel standing four-square on a rectangular, flat self-base. The camel has a raised head, tilted slightly to one side with mouth wide open, two humps and a short tail curled around the hindquarters to the right. The body is covered in a rich, finely crazed chestnut-brown glaze; the mane and chest of the camel in a buff-coloured glaze.
Description Source: Legeza, I.L. 1972. Descriptive and Il
Title: astronomical clock
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual
Description: Astronomical clock with carved wooden stand.
Title: Tibetan figure of a Buddhist deity
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Ce
Description: Tibetan cast bronze seated four-armed Buddhist deity, on a stand.
The Buddha is seated in Dhyanasana (lotus position) on a double lotus plinth, with his principal hands held in front of the breast, with the left palm turned inward (toward the body) and the right turned outward, and the circles formed by the thumbs and index fingers of each hand touch one another in Dharmachakra Mudra (gesture of teaching). The secondary hands are held higher than the principal hands, with
Title: Guan ware dish
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
Description: Guan ware. Dark brown stoneware dish with slightly rounded sides and foliated lip, standing on a short foot. The dish is covered with a thick ash-grey glaze with a clearly defined black crackle. The underside is also glazed and has five spur marks, produced during the firing process.
Description Source: Legeza, I.L. 1972. Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Malcolm Macdonald Collection of Chinese Ceramics in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archa
Fat check chair
An original 1 colour aquatint. The plate was hand drawn by the artist, editioned by Maurice Payne, New York City
Wildfires in european alps : frequent yesterday, rare today, frequent tomorrow ? / W. Finsinger
Wildfires in european alps : frequent yesterday, rare today, frequent tomorrow ?. Walter Finsinger. In "La construction des territoires montagnards : exploitation des ressources et mobilité des pratiques", 2e International Workshop on archaeology of european mountain landscape, organisé par les laboratoires GEODE, FRAMESPA, GEOLAB et Chrono-Environnement. Université Toulouse 2-Le Mirail, 8-11 octobre 2009. [seconde journée]
Over the past century, profound la
Teaching Organic Chemistry with Blogs and Wikis (JCBMarch07)
This is my first talk at the American Chemical Society conference in Chicago on March 25, 2007. I describe the evolution of my teaching practices using technology over the past few years, involving blogs, wikis, podcasting, vodcasting, games and class workshops.
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Open Notebook Science and Education
This is my presentation on April 17, 2007 at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia, PA. I describe Open Notebook Science in the context of education and argue that trends in open education, open science and automation will change the educational landscape in the near future.
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Cameron Neylon Drexel Talk
A Beginner’s Guide to Open Science(not for beginners but by beginners)
A talk by Cameron Neylon
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and School of Chemistry, University of Southampton
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Open Notebook Science and Cheminformatics
I guest lectured on Rajarshi Guha's cheminformatics course at Indiana University on March 25, 2008. After an introduction to Open Notebook Science and the synthesis of anti-malarial compounds, I discuss SMILES, InChIs, InChIKeys, CMLRSS, JCAMP-DX, JSpecView, ExcelVBA, blogs, wikis and Second Life.
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Powerpoin
LISE08 talk on Second Life in the Chemistry Classroom
I talked about Second Life in the chemistry classroom at the Chemical Heritage Foundation on April 29, 2008. This was part of the 8th Annual Leadership Initiative in Science Education (LISE 8). Most examples involve work done in collaboration with Andrew Lang. At the end I invite the group to an in-world meeting on May 6, 2008 at 13:30 EDT on ACS
