Tracking Creeping Plates from Space Mike Floyd, a postdoc in the Department of Earth, Atmopheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT, uses GPS to track the vanishingly slow, yet inexorable movement of the tectonic plates underlying the Caucasus. In this video he shares work he and co-workers recently published showing deformation caused by colliding tectonic plates may threaten the Azerbaijani capital, and oil supplies to Europe. Read more about efforts to monitor and understa
Veterans Day 2012
NorthÂeastern UniÂverÂsity observes VetÂerans Day at the VetÂerans MemoÂrial on campus. PresÂiÂdent Joseph E. Aoun welÂcomed U.S HomeÂland SecuÂrity SecÂreÂtary Janet NapoliÂtano, the guest of honor. Other speakers included Aoun, StuÂdent VetÂerans OrgaÂniÂzaÂtion PresÂiÂdent Michael Trudeau and LTC Blaise Gallahue.
Pocahontas: Mischief and Joy
Pocahontas' people, the Powhatan tribe, were led by her father, Wahunsunacock. In the 1590's the Powhatan people were in an advanced level of their civilization. In this video clip, learn more about Pocahontas and the Powhatan people. (2:17)
U.S. Morning Call: FedEx, UPS eyed in illegal drug probe
Nov 16 - The U.S. is targeting FedEx and United Parcel Service as part of an expanding crackdown on illegal sales of prescription painkillers.
Meet Shanghai's 'Guy Tais,' house-husbands with style
Nov. 21 - With more women coming to Shanghai on fat expat packages, the city is seeing a rise in trailing husbands, and they're banding together. Call them the 'Guy Tais'. Jane Lee reports.
SP.722J D-Lab II: Design (MIT)
D-Lab: Design addresses problems faced by undeserved communities with a focus on design, experimentation, and prototyping processes. Particular attention is placed on constraints faced when designing for developing countries. Multidisciplinary teams work on semester-long projects in collaboration with community partners, field practitioners, and experts in relevant fields. Topics covered include design for affordability, design for manufacture, sustainability, and strategies for working effectiv
Electri-Fried Circuits IP revision 11/12/12
IDS336 Session 10 Fall 2012
Jazz in the Modern Era with Chet Hanley 11/13/12
Guest: Ramon Banda
ECU Wins C. Peter Magrath University/Community Engagement Award
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Pereira- Urban Entomology
Explore Research at the University of Florida: Roberto Pereira, a UF research associate scientist, describes the f
Koehler- Why Science- Mosquitoes
Explore Research at the University of Florida: Philip Koehler, a UF professor of entomology, talks about ent
10 Amazing Facts About The Human Body
10 Amazing Facts About The Human Body
Pacman frog eats cricket
Pacman frog eats cricket
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As three Expedition 33 crew members spend their final week aboard the International Space Station preparing for their return to Earth, NASA astronaut Dan Burbank joined ISS Update commentator Pat Ryan at the PAO console in Mission Control Houston to explain the process. It's a topic near and dear to Burbank as he made that same journey April 27 after spending more than five months aboard the orbiting complex as an Expedition 29 flight engineer and commander of Expedition 30.
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Roald Dahl was an author so he had a vested interest in people reading. Perhaps he changed his mind when his stories were dramatised for TV, and that became a major source of income. (I watched the movie Fantastic Mr Fox on TV and really enjoyed it.)
When all the other kids watch television, is it a good idea to make our kids different? Don't they have to grow up in the world as it is - not the world as we would like it to be? Didn't George Bush say he had never read a book?
Of course, sch
Nov 14 - Jeffrey Goldfarb talks to Breakingviews editors about how Tesla and Peugeot are affecting the auto industry in different ways.
Marin Alsop is the first woman to direct a major American orchestra, the first artist to win both Gramophone's Artist of the Year Award and the Royal Philharmonic Society's Conductor's Award in the same season, and the first conductor named to a MacArthur Fellowship. She is the music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and chief conductor of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra.
On Wednesday, April 18, 2012, fifteen extraordinary women who are first in their fields were honored with Sackl
Nov. 21 - Greece's lenders once again fail to agree on how to cut its debt, plus Hillary Clinton holds truce talks in Mideast.
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