Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner
This course examines major works by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner, exploring their interconnections on three analytic scales: the macro history of the United States and the world; the formal and stylistic innovations of modernism; and the small details of sensory input and psychic life. WARNING: Some of the lectures in this course contain graphic content and/or adult language that some users may find disturbing.
Breakingviews: BTG Pactual pulls off hot market debut
April 26 -- Billionaire André Esteves' BTG Pactual raises $1.96 bln in Brazil's largest IPO since 2009. Rob Cox and Breakingviews columnists ask how much growth it offers investors.
Steve Jobs: Speaking from the Wilderness
Editor’s Note: Nearly 16 years ago to the day, I interviewed Steve Jobs at an investment conference in San Francisco, California. He was “out of favour,” in-between his bifurcated tenure at the helm of Apple, revolutionising movie-making as chairman and CEO of Pixar. In retrospect, we see that Jobs brought his Apple technology approach to the movies and took movie marketing with him back to Apple…
Thomas Jefferson's Presidential Style
As president, Thomas Jefferson presented himself as a man of the people and believed the central government should not hold too much power. In this video clip, learn more about the charisma and political strength of Thomas Jefferson. (3:20)
Canals of the West Midlands (Birmingham Canal Navigations)
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Geologising on the Isle of Rum
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Another bit of the Jigsaw
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Peer Advisors & Mentors (PAM) Spotlight: Daniel Fairley II
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Aquatic Animal Skeleton - Claws
Certain aquatic animals have sharp claws the help defend itself from predators and in capturing prey.
Aquatic Animal Appendages - Flippers
Several aquatic animals have appendages, such as flippers, that are used as a source of locomotion. Depending on the type of animal, flippers come in different sizes and are usually associated with the same type of bone joints.
Apple Screen 4
At this point, microbes have attacked the fruit and will eventually digest the fruit into its smallest parts.
Leonardo da Vinci (Sung to tune of "Dear Prudence" as performed by Siouxsie and the Banshees)
This is a good video to introduce older students to the life of Leonard da Vinci. Sung to the tune of "Dear Prudence", students will learn that Da Vinci could write backwards and was a vegetarian. This is a great resource to help build background knowledge and to help make real world connections between Art History and the classroom. (3:26)
Logarithmic Scale
Understanding how logarithmic scale is different from linear scale and why it could be useful-From Khan Academy (11:15)
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Managed Exceptions - 06 | .NET Debugging Starter Kit: for the Production Environment Some exceptions don't cause your application to crash. Some do. Either way, developers should work to rid their applications of exceptions for both stability and performance reasons. Special guest Mario Hewardt joins us as we discuss how to detect the presence of these exceptions, how to gather vital data on them in a relatively non-intrusive fashion, and how to find root cause. And since this is all done in the production environment, we won't have Visual Studio avail
The story of India - amazing BBC documentary series part (5 of 7)
9:16 The Story of India is a BBC TV documentary series, written and presented by historian Michael Wood, about the 10,000-year history of the Indian subcontinent.
Ben Wellings: The politics of Great War commemoration
Dr Ben Wellings of the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences discusses issues of national commemoration, celebration and identity with Professor Laurence van Ypersele, Department of History, Catholic University of Louvain; Dr Matthew Graves, Centre for Research on the Anglophone World (LERMA), University of Provence (Aix-Marseilles) and Professor Jim MacAuley, Co-director of the Academy for British and Irish Studies, University of Huddersfield.
The panel discussion was part of an ANU conferen
SDSU Geological Sciences - Thesis Defense - Beckie Biagini
By: tcarrasc Exploring Magnetotelluric Data as a Geothermal Assessment Tool in the Caja del Rio Near Santa Fe, New Mexico
Beckie Biagini
B.S. Candidate
Department of Geological Sciences
San Diego State University
Advisor Dr. Kim Bak Olsen
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ABSTRACT
Magnetotelluric (MT) data collected during June 2011 at Summer of Applied Geophysical Experience (SAGE) was used as a geothermal assessment tool in the Caja del Rio. Th
Bio Flash Mob at the Koch Institute On April 26, 2012, 200 Boston-area students, MIT scientists and local community members came together to make cutting-edge cancer research come to life in the Bio Flash Mob. This event was organized for the Cambridge Science Festival by the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. Learn more at http://ki.mit.edu and http://www.facebook.com/kochinstitute.
Future of the Union: Northern Ireland [Audio]
Speaker(s): Martin McGuinness MP MLA | Editor's note: The recording comprises the lecture only, it does not include the the question and answer session. There was a short interruption 11 minutes into the lecture owing to fire alarm, this section has been edited out of the recording. The deputy first minister of Northern Ireland will discuss his view of Northern Ireland’s position in the future of the Union. Martin McGuinness is a Sinn Féin politician and the current deputy first minister of N
