Aquatic Animal Appendages - Limbs
Several aquatic animals have appendages, such as limbs, that support their body while they spend time on ground. They are usually small because they spend most of their time in the water.
What is Temperature?
Temperature is the measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in an object. Temperature in science is measured in Celsius or Kelvin. (04:55)
House Divided: Lincoln's Speech at Cooper Union II
This four minute video is about Lincoln's speech that was one of his most important of his political life on the afternoon of February 27, 1860, Abraham Lincoln stopped by Matthew Brady’s Broadway studio to have his picture taken. This video provides insights into how astute Lincoln was.
Global Retailing Conference 2011 - Susan Lyne
Re-thinking E-Commerce - Susan Lyne, Chairman, Gilt Groupe. Susan Lyne serves as Chairman of Gilt Groupe, an innovative ecommerce company offering highly coveted products and experiences at insider prices. Susan joined the company as Chief Executive Officer in September 2008, less than a year after Gilt's launch as a women's apparel and accessories business.
The Terry J. Lundgren Center for Retailing is proud to present the annual Global Retailing Conference, which consistently delivers practi
Learn about the Great American Landmark- The Statue of Liberty
Learn About the Statue of Liberty - Learn about the great American landmark the Statue of Liberty. (03:16)
Codex Sinaiticus
Vigil in Norway
July 23 - People light candles and the Prime Minister tours the Oslo blast site one day after a man kills 98 people. Rough Cut (No reporter narration)
Here come the brides; and grooms
July 24 - Amid cheers and a few protests, for the first time, hundreds of gay couples marry in New York City. Deborah Lutterbeck reports
Drag on Moving Bodies and the Renormalization Group
The lecturer is Professor Nigel Goldenfeld from UIUC.
You can find the lecture notes on the BSS2011 website under the link of "Lecture Notes":
http://boulder.research.yale.edu/Boulder-2011/index.html
Kuwait Programme seminar: The Gulf and the Knowledge Economy [Audio]
Speaker(s): Will Hutton, Dr Christopher Davidson | Will Hutton, executive vice chair of the Work Foundation, former editor in chief of The Observer. Dr Christopher Davidson, senior lecturer at the Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Durham University.
Migrants and Intellectual life [Audio]
Speaker(s): Sir Harry Kroto, Philippe Sands QC, Mike Phillips, Gita Sahgal, Barbara Roche | Migrants are often presented as a burden, but no one can deny the impact they have had on Britain's intellectual life. One quarter of Britain's Nobel Prize winners in science were born abroad. Our religious, philosophical and ideological heritage has often been inspired by migrants, from royal patrons (Prince Rupert, Prince Albert) to refugees (Ralf Dahrendorf, Isaiah Berlin). It is rarely noticed on the
File Systems Lecture
File Systems Lecture
Networking Lecture
Networking Lecture
Linux vs Windows Vista Lecture
Linux vs Windows Vista Lecture
Introduction to Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 for Microsoft Windows Assessment/Quiz This HIBB begins with explaining the basics of Microsoft PowerPoint, including how to start a new presentation, open an existing presentation, and save a presentation. It discusses the Ribbon toolbar and how to use it. The HIBB gives the viewer an introduction to many customizing options PowerPoint has available. The HIBB concludes with describing how to view outlines, print handouts, and view the slideshow. At the end of this HIBB, students will be able to create a slid
3.7 Being ethical As outlined in Table 3, ethics within systemic practice are perceived as operating on multiple levels. Like the systems concept of hierarchy, what we perceive to be good at one level might be bad at another. Because an epistemological position must be chosen, rather than taken as a given, the choice involves taking responsibility. The choices made have ethical implications. Within systematic practice ethics and values are
3.4 Experience – making distinctions based on a tradition and constructing a history Experience, and learning from experience, will be a major theme throughout this unit. The model of experiential learning developed by David Kolb is increasingly well known and used as a conceptual basis for the design of all sorts of processes from curricula to consultancies (Figure 32). In itself, the model is powerful but it does not address what is meant by experience or learning. In what follows, I want to provide a br
3.2 Being aware of the constraints and possibilities of the observer It is often claimed that the essence of a systems approach is that of seeing the world in a special way. This immediately prompts the question of what is meant by the phrase ‘seeing the world’. Because we live so intimately with the world of objects, categories and people and phenomena, we tend to think our own way of seeing the world is the only way, or even of thinking, ‘Well that is my view because the world is like that’. Actually, your view is special in several separat
10 Part 2: 6 Review In Part 2 of this unit, you have undertaken a major piece of work. In encountering the case study you were engaging with a set of events, issues, actors, stakeholders and intentions that was, by any standards, complex. In addition, you brought your own complexity to it, your own stakeholdings and understandings, your own reactions and feelings. You used systems diagrams to structure the complexity you encountered in the case study. That then structured and clarified the situation in way
9.6 Sign graphs Next, in the exercising of your diagramming skills, I want to look at sign graphs. Unlike the three diagram types you have already drawn, a sign graph is not usually used to structure the understanding of complexity. This means it is likely to be relatively less useful in the task of searching for system within the complex situation described in the case study. Sign graphs can, however, be useful once some elements of system have been identified. They can support the exploration of
