Developing Your Idea & Making the Perfect Pitch - Bret Siarkowski Q&A
Entrepreneurs event on May 17, 2011 titled "Developing Your Idea & Making the Perfect Pitch."
Chancellor Red Wilson on funding for liberal arts building
A $45.5-million investment by the Ontario government will allow McMaster to build a major new liberal arts building that will be used by more than half the entire student body and improve access to education for under-represented groups such as Aboriginal people, Crown wards and first-generation students.
Read more: http://dailynews.mcmaster.ca/story.cfm?id=8082
Human skull
The skull helps protect the brain. The eyes are set into the orbital sockets. The nose would be located in the upside-down heart-shaped opening, but the nose is mostly cartilage.
Natuurramp in de wijnbouw: "Quelle catastrophe!"
Op het einde van deze les kun je het verhaal van een plaatselijke wijnboer verstaan en er vragen over beantwoorden. Je leert verschillende weerkundige termen en woordenschat over de wijnbouw.
CEO Summit on Pathways
President Steven Ender, Mayor George Heartwell and Fred Keller of Cascade Engineering present on the changing workforce (video included through first portion of Fred Keller's remarks.) Pathways to Prosperity
6.830 Database Systems (MIT)
This course relies on primary readings from the database community to introduce graduate students to the foundations of database systems, focusing on basics such as the relational algebra and data model, schema normalization, query optimization, and transactions. It is designed for students who have taken 6.033 (or equivalent); no prior database experience is assumed, though students who have taken an undergraduate course in databases are encouraged to attend.
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Advancements in Underwater Vehicles: Responding to Current Environmental Issues
Even if humans could breathe under water like fish, we might not want to become permanently aquatic. “Believe it or not,” says James Morash , “the deep ocean is kind of boring,” covered as it is by so much sandy sea floor. And yet there’s much to be learned about this terrain, which was a mystery to humans
"Poetry Readings" by Charles Bukowski (poetry reading)
Possibly the best place to find information regarding live readings by contemporary poets is www.ablemuse.com. This site is run by and for poets, so you get the dope straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak. Sturgeon's Law applies, of course.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_Law
(Clicking this link didn't work this morning, but it did if I copied it into my browser
http://tinyurl.com/c2vhtx - use this one instead)
Modern poets are not all as cringe-worthy as Bukowski makes them o
Fly Down into the Marianas Trench (Deepest Part of Pacific Ocean)
This is a flight down into a data visualization of the undersea mountains and trenches of the Pacific Ocean, ending up in the deepest part of the ocean, the Marianas Trench. The "Challenger Deep" is measured at 35,813 feet below the surface, or 10,915 meters. Courtesy of NOAA's Marine Geology and Geophysics Division. (47 seconds)
South Korea remembers Korean War
Jun 25 - South Koreans commemorate the 61st anniversary of the 1950-53 Korean War that divided the Korean peninsula and left 3 million dead. Sunita Rappai reports.
Olympic Peninsula Time Lapse with Park Boundaries: Dissolve through different dates
The four large scenes show the Olympic Peninsula in northwestern Washington State, centered on the Olympic National Park and the national and state forests immediately surrounding the national park. Mount Olympus dominates the scene with its (usually) snow-capped peaks. Clear cutting in the national and state forests around the national park was well underway at the time of the first Landsat scene. In the late 1980s, public land use policies changed and clear cutting by the timber industry migra
Ethical Issues Raised by Science
Dr Pete Moore : Course
JACOTES 2011 – Place des anti-angiogéniques dans la prise en charge du CBNPC : ACTIVOTE.
Titre : JACOTES 2011 – Place des anti-angiogéniques dans la prise en charge du CBNPC : cas cliniques interactifs (ACTIVOTE).
Intervenant : Pierre-Jean SOUQUET (Pneumologue, Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud).
Résumé : cas cliniques : AVASTIN
L’auteur n’a pas transmis de conflit d’intérêt concernant les données diffusées dans cette vidéo ou publiées dans la référence citée.
Conférence enregistrée lors des 2ème Journées d’Actualité en Oncolog
JACOTES 2011 – Le traitement de maintenance dans le CBNPC : étude SATURN.
Titre : JACOTES 2011 – Le traitement de maintenance dans le CBNPC : étude SATURN.
Intervenant : Laure FAVIER (Oncologue CGFL de Dijon).
Résumé : Etudes comparant les traitements prolongés, versus des traitement courts.
L’auteur n’a pas transmis de conflit d’intérêt concernant les données diffusées dans cette vidéo ou publiées dans la référence citée.
Conférence enregistrée lors des 2ème Journées d’Actualité en Oncologie Thoracique de
Stem cells in Research and in the Clinic
Prof. John Bryant : Course
Brains and Machines
Prof. Peter Clarke : Course
The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Life
Revd Dr Rodney Holder : Course
