Media Arts: One Minute Media Arts Lesson
People have created media in different ways in different places and times. This short animation provides a quick lesson on the history of communications and media arts. Students will follow the Artopia guide on a quick tour through the history of Media Arts.
Water and Peace in Ivory Coast: Reconciliation After Civil War
Learn more: http://pulitzercenter.org/projects/ivory-coast-water-management-peace-ethnic-violence
After recent civil war divided Ivory Coast's communities, some in Ivory Coast look to local water management as a key to reconciliation, social cohesion and long-lasting peace.
As the Ivorian government struggles to implement the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to mend communal divisions after the civil war, Ivory Coast communities are already working towards peace on one very important issue:
Science Bulletins: WISE to Scan the Infrared Sky
NASA's latest space telescope-the Wide Field Infrared Explorer, or WISE-recently took its first images of the sky around Earth in infrared light. In its initial six-month mission, WISE will spot thousands of previously unseen space objects, including asteroids and comets, brown dwarfs, and distant ultraluminous galaxies.
God Bless Cowboys on Vimeo
This is a digital postcard of a ghost town in Calico, California. This short video consists of footage of a town that looks like how old western towns looked during the Wild West era. This would be good to give students a visual of what these small towns looked like. (01:18)
12.540 Principles of the Global Positioning System (MIT)
The aim of this course is to introduce the principles of the Global Positioning System and to demonstrate its application to various aspects of Earth Sciences. The specific content of the course depends each year on the interests of the students in the class. In some cases, the class interests are towards the geophysical applications of GPS and we concentrate on high precision (millimeter level) positioning on regional and global scales. In other cases, the interests have been more toward engine
Part 4 - Chs 16-20 - The Awakening by Kate Chopin
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Part 4 (Chapters 16-20). Classic Literature VideoBook with synchronized text, interactive transcript, and closed captions in multiple languages. Audio courtesy of Librivox. Read by Elizabeth Klett.
Playlist for The Awakening by Kate Chopin: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL40B84B017A86F6DC
zee bee junior basic blues lick in E major
TechEd Europe Keynote with Brad Anderson and Jason Zander | TechEd Europe 2012
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Dr. Stephen Blank- The New Game in Central Asia
Dr. Stephen Blank, Army War College discusses the New Game in Central Asia as part of a noon-time lecture as part of the Distance Education Class of 2013.
Nixon Denies Watergate Allegations
On August 15, 1973, in his second address to the nation concerning the Watergate trial, President Richard Nixon denies any role in a cover-up. (1:03)
Tweetakt : Expansie uitlaten Bij het berekenen van uitlaten voor tweetakt komen er heel wat parameters kijken. In deze cursus gaat men daar dieper op in en komt o.a. aan bod:
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21L.451 Introduction to Literary Theory (MIT)
This subject focuses on the ways in which we read, providing an overview of some of the different strategies of reading, comprehending and engaging with literary texts developed in the twentieth century. The course is organized around specific theoretical paradigms. In each case our task will be, first, to work through the selected reading in order to see how it determines or defines the task of literary interpretation; second, to locate the limits of each particular approach; and finally, to tr
HIS348 Session 7 Summer 2012
Labor in American Society with Mike Fraga 06/23/12
Honour Killing Across Culture and Time: Official opening
Professor Andrew Leigh performs the official opening of the 'Honour Killing Across Culture and Time' conference at The Australian National University in December 2011.
The concept of honour has been linked to violence historically in Western culture, particularly through Greek mythology and Shakespearean tragedy. The play, Troilus and Cressida in particular, presents a classic formulation of violence justified through masculine conceptions of honour.
As this literary reference indicates, it is
What Soviet Medicine Teaches Us RES.CD-001 Leadership and Empowerment: Resources from Graduate Women at MIT (GWAMIT) (MIT)
The audio version of the Mises Daily article for June 22, 2012. [15:17] Narrated by Harold Fritsche. Music by Kevin MacLeod.
Graduate Women at MIT (GWAMIT) is an institute-wide, student-led group founded in 2009. Its mission is to promote the personal and professional development of MIT's graduate women. GWAMIT welcomes all members of the MIT community, including men. This OCW site features selected videos from the two conferences GWAMIT runs each academic year: a Leadership Conference in the fall and an Empowerment Conference in the spring. It also provides a list of related readings and other resources.
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