This month with the President - February 2012
President Patrick Deane talks about the importance of the 3M Teaching Fellowships and congratulates McMaster's winners: social sciences' Marshall Beier and the Centre for Leadership in Learning's Susan Vajoczki.
EARTH - Masterpieces of Ice and Stone
Revel in Earth as Art. Landsat missions were launched for scientific purposes, but they make up one of the most awe-inspiring collections of beautiful images of our home planet. (13:32)
N.E.A.R. Device
THE DETECTIVE: Gwen Wright THE PLACE: Westminster, Colorado THE CASE: History Detectives peers inside a black box that may shed light on some of the darkest days of the Cold War. The US atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 raised the stakes of modern warfare. Almost immediately after World War Two, America’s former ally, the U.S.S.R., became her Cold War archenemy. the Soviet Union’s surprise testing of its own atomic bomb in 1949 helped trigger a nuclear arms race, with
LBJ Escalates the Vietnam War
In this video segment adapted from American Experience, view archival photos, newsreel footage, and interviews to examine the decision-making process that led Lyndon Johnson to order increased United States military involvement in the Vietnam War. With military and political advisers recommending massive American troop involvement over a number of years, and only one adviser urging complete withdrawal, Johnson chose to continue the commitments made by past presidents. This decision reflecte
OrganWise Guys Shorts: Pirates of the Carrot and Bean
Come learn about health and nutrition with the OrganWise Guys! In this short: Health Pirates sail the produce isles in search of high fiber foods. (1min)
A Comedy Segment About Leap Year
This comedy segment explains the purpose of February having twenty-nine days every four years, known as Leap Year. Children will be entertained by the performer, a grown man, saying that he is only seven years old!
1st AEARU Symposium on the Culture of Chinese Characters
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20.02.2012 – Langsam gesprochene Nachrichten
Trainiere dein Hörverstehen mit den Nachrichten der Deutschen Welle von Freitag – als Text und als verständlich gesprochene Audio-Datei.
Der parteilose evangelische Theologe Joachim Gauck wird neuer Bundespräsident. Die Vorsitzenden der schwarz-gelben Koalitionsparteien verständigten sich mit den Oppositionsparteien SPD und Grüne in Berlin auf den einstigen DDR-Bürgerrechtler und früheren Leiter der Stasi-Unterlagenbehörde als gemeinsamen Kandidaten. Gauck sagte nach seiner Nominierun
Wright Brothers Test Flight, 1909
In this clip see history in the making with footage of a 1909 test flight. In the early 20th century, the age of aviation took flight with airplanes invented by Orville and Wilbur Wright. From History Uncut. (1:32)
Targeted Killing: Exploring its Legality, Morality and Effectiveness
Professor Amos N. Guiora (University of Utah) with respondent Professor Jeremy Waldron (New York University School of Law and Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, Oxford) give a talk for the ELAC seminar series on 6 Feb 2012
Lecture 16a: Functional Analysis - Linear maps
The first part of the sixteenth class in Dr Joel Feinstein's Functional Analysis module covering linear maps and connections with Lipschitz continuity.
Further module materials are available for download from The University of Nottingham open courseware site: http://unow.nottingham.ac.uk/resources/resource.aspx?hid=bd32d53b-3c12-ac19-176b-d9e112731951 and on iTunes U: http://itunesu.nottingham.ac.uk/albums/64.rss
Dr Feinstein's blog may be viewed at: http://explainingmaths.wordpress.com
Dr Joel
"DMC Upside": Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program
Del Mar College students trained in tax and accounting software are providing free services through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program that starts Jan. 26 and runs through April 17, 2012.
This segment on the VITA program is featured in the February 2012 edition of the "DMC Upside" TV program, which airs on Cable Channel 19 in Corpus Christi.
Ancient Egyptian Timeline
This 2:31 video uses images and titles to trace the most important aspects of Egypt.
Lloyds bonus clawback limited - Breakingviews
Feb. 20 - Breakingviews assistant editor Chris Hughes argues that any arbitrary application of the bonus clawback principle would be problematic.
5 - Quel est l’impact des événements climatiques extrêmes sur les espèces ? A. Robert, F. Jig
Science en Question: "Changement climatique et biodiversité"
Le Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, le GIS Climat-Environnement-Société et La Huit ont coproduit en 2008 une série vidéo pluridisciplinaire intitulée "Sciences en questions - Changement climatique et biodiversité", conçue et coordonnée par Anne Teyssèdre. En quelques minutes chacun, une douzaine de scientifiques sélectionnés pour leur expertise répondent à 17 questions clés
8 - Quel est l’impact du changement climatique sur la biodiversité marine ? Question à Gilles BÅ
Science en Question: "Changement climatique et biodiversité"
Le Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, le GIS Climat-Environnement-Société et La Huit ont coproduit en 2008 une série vidéo pluridisciplinaire intitulée "Sciences en questions - Changement climatique et biodiversité", conçue et coordonnée par Anne Teyssèdre. En quelques minutes chacun, une douzaine de scientifiques sélectionnés pour leur expertise répondent à 17 questions clés
13 - Peut-on prédire l’impact du réchauffement climatique sur la biodiversité ? Question à D.
Sciences en Questions : "Changement climatique et biodiversité"
Le Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, le GIS Climat-Environnement-Société et La Huit ont coproduit en 2008 une série vidéo pluridisciplinaire intitulée "Sciences en questions - Changement climatique et biodiversité", conçue et coordonnée par Anne Teyssèdre. En quelques minutes chacun, une douzaine de scientifiques sélectionnés pour leur expertise répondent à 17 questions clÃ
