Supplier Diversity Matchmaker Event
Veronica Cook-Euell, Kent State Supplier Diversity Program Manager, and Nicole Corll from University Facilities Management, discuss business opportunities with small business owners at a recent matchmaker event.
MAS.961 Networks, Complexity and Its Applications (MIT)
Networks are a ubiquitous way to represent complex systems, including those in the social and economic sciences. The goal of the course is to equip students with conceptual tools that can help them understand complex systems that emerge in both nature and social systems. This is a course intended for a general audience and will discuss applications of networks and complexity to diverse systems, including epidemic spreading, social networks and the evolution of economic development.
6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems (MIT)
Modern computing platforms provide unprecedented amounts of raw computational power. But significant complexity comes along with this power, to the point that making useful computations exploit even a fraction of the potential of the computing platform is a substantial challenge. Indeed, obtaining good performance requires a comprehensive understanding of all layers of the underlying platform, deep insight into the computation at hand, and the ingenuity and creativity required to obtain an effec
Male Green Iguana Displaying to Female, Pair Mating
This short video gives excellent real life footage of a male Green Iguana putting on a showy display for a female. This video also shows the male and female mating. This is a great resource to help build background knowledge and to help make real world connections between nature and the classroom. (Less Than 2 Minutes)
U.S. Morning Call: All eyes on jobs report; Alcoa cuts back
Jan. 6 - Thomson Reuters IFR Markets is looking for a rise of 140,000 jobs in December's report, and Alcoa announces plans to slash its global smelting capacity by 12 percent.
Theresa Fulgenzi - Stereotypes
Esther Duflo sur "Ce soir ou jamais", 2ème partie
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Finger Breaker - Piano Music Roll Piano arrangement on hand-punched paper. A dynamic music roll of Finger Breaker composed by Jelly Roll Morton, AS PLAYED BY Jelly Roll Morton. Also known as Finger Buster and often confused with Willie Lion Smith's Finger Buster. Note: Music rolls or piano rolls were almost never played or recorded by a pianist. Even when the artist was part of the process, arrangers, some skilled, some not, edited the rolls heavily and limited by factory rules and equipment. Performed and interpreted on my p
Q&BA: How does a gravitational slingshot work?
In this episode of Q&BA, I describe how a gravitational slingshot works, and how they are used to get spacecraft to the inner and outer solar system.
Between Empire and Gaddafi: Italian Settlers in Libya, 1943-1960
Pamela Ballinger, Fred Cuny Professor of the History of Human Rights and Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan
Trans-imperial Subjects and the Mediation of Sovereignty in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Natalie Rothman, Assistant Professor of History, University of Toronto
Climate Change in a Bottle: Overview Part 1 of 4
Lesson ObjectiveStudents design, build, and test models of the greenhouse effect. Questions to ConsiderWhat is the introductory activity for this lesson and why is it important?How does the teacher prepare students to create their own experiments?How does this activity use the scientific method and inquiry?Support Materials BelowData sheets, experiment instructions and more.
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The Lean Startup [Audio]
Speaker(s): Eric Ries | Most new businesses fail. But most of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach to business that's being adopted around the world. It is changing the way companies are built and new products are launched. The Lean Startup is about learning what your customers really want. It's about testing your vision continuously, adapting and adjusting before it's too late. Now is the time to think Lean. This event marks the publication of Eric Ries new book Th
When will Chinese banks change the world?
It's only a matter of time before China's banks begin to make an impact on the rest of the world. By market value and profits they are among the world's biggest, and five of them are internationally the most profitable
Sunday Service - 1/8/2012 - Sam Wells
A service of worship in Duke University Chapel. The Reverend Dr Samuel Wells delivers a sermon entitled "Solidarity."
Opening excerpt from the sermon: (36:07)
"When I was 19 I spent a summer living in an intentional Christian community. We would rise at 5.30 for an hour of silence, share Morning Prayer and the Eucharist together, and then have breakfast. There would be community prayers at midday before lunch for those who were around and not out at work, and evening prayers before supper at 6
University of Georgia Fall Commencement Address
Address to the Fall Semester Commencement at the University of Georgia by James H. Shepherd Jr., chairman of the Shepherd Center in Atlanta.
GoNUxstream Game Recap - Men's Basketball vs. UNCW - Jan. 4, 2012
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Lucy, la pionnière (audio)
A l’occasion du colloque « Les sciences dans les années 70 », Yves Coppens revient sur son activité de paléontologiste et sur les nombreuses campagnes de fouilles menées dès les années 1920 dans le cadre de la recherche sur les origines de l’homme. Il retrace en particulier les prémices et la découverte dans les années 70 de l’Australopithecus afarensis, la célèbre Lucy.
Très médiatisée lors de sa découverte car elle détenait le record du plus vieil hominid
7.2 Graphing Equations
Images de la mort dans la B.D. et la peinture (audio)
A une époque où la mort est devenue une « valeur marchande » pour les médias et où l’intérêt pour le fait divers se fait toujours plus vif, Pierre Christin nous donne un aperçu de la représentation visuelle de la mort dans l’art pictural et photographique et dans la bande dessinée. Occultée parfois, crainte le plus souvent, la mort est un thème récurrent dans l’art et sa représentation évolue en même temps que les croyances et les sociétés.
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