Moving Ahead: Engineering Challenges of Deep Water Drilling and Future Oil Resource Recovery
To keep up with demand, the oil industry ventures increasingly farther and deeper offshore, extracting resources as fast as possible in often hazardous conditions with newly minted technology. So to these panelists, the BP Deepwater Horizon accident did not come as a complete surprise. However, they view the disaster from distinctly di
Engineering Smarter Drivers
While automakers market increasingly intelligent cars, they may be missing the point. No matter how sophisticated the vehicle’s brain, suggests
Alex (Sandy) Pentland, the smartest element on the road is still the human driver. In search of safe, responsive vehicles, designers should not think of separate
Re-Engineering Buildings: Innovations in Building Technology
The built environment consumes a very large share of the nation’s energy, and so offers rich opportunities for reducing our overall carbon footprint. MIT researchers share innovations that could soon radically alter the energy profile, as well as form and function, of buildings. Their work may prove invaluable to those in
New Media, Civic Media
As old media die, new forms are emerging, but it’s not clear they will serve such vital civic functions as “helping people form publics,” as Pat Aufderheide puts it. These panelists point to promising experiments in “Public Media 2.0,” but caution that new media are not guaranteed to shore up democracy or invigorate
Institutional Perspectives on Storage
European archivists grapple with the legal obligations, civic responsibilities and future prospects of their collections, which, thanks to the Internet and other new technologies, are increasingly awash in image and sound. As William Urichhio notes, “tradition-bound institutions know what we should be gathering: feat
Global and Domestic Imbalances: Why Rural China is the Key
Contrary to popular thinking, China owes its astonishing economic expansion not to far-sighted government policy but to hundreds of millions of entrepreneurial peasants. Yasheng Huang’s research reveals not only how small-scale rural businesses created China’s miracle but how that nation’s recovery from the global recession an
Challenges in Nation Building
At times humorous and other times defiant, José Ramos-Horta describes nurturing the 21st century’s first sovereign state through its formative years. The journey of East Timor from brutal Indonesian rule to fragile self-governance has involved Ramos-Horta in conflict and debate from the halls of the U.N. to the smallest vil
From Experimental Physics to Internet Entrepreneurship: One Scientist’s Journey
Few better personify the vitality and ambition fueling China’s economic surge than Charles C-Y Zhang. In this energetic and revelatory talk, Zhang relates his personal evolution from MIT physicist to leading Chinese entrepreneur.
An industrious student from a poor family, Zhang was one of the fortunate few in hi
Is social enterprise being set up to fail?
Is 'Enterprise Society' a myth or a reality? Academics from Cambridge Judge Business School express their concerns about the resources needed to successfully deliver it
4 great typing games
Learning typing is the focus of these keyboarding games. Learning keyboarding skills is vital for todays learners and tomorrows earners. These fun free typing games are a great way to build the foundation through typing ski
Is this how your maths lesson looks?
I came across this at school from one of my lecturers at university - Ann Gervasoni who had an almost unhealthy obsession with mathematics but was a brilliant lecturer nonetheless. It is a great model for any teacher as to how to structu
Malignant Peritoneal Mesothelioma
In this four-minute video, Dr. H. Richard Alexander, professor of surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and surgical oncologist at the University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center, discusses the difficulty of developing a successful standardized treatment for a rare disease known as malignant peritoneal mesothelioma. Dr. Alexander talks about ongoing research to improve available treatment options for this condition, including his team's discovery of special proteins that a
Open Classroom Series 12-01-10 #3
Open Classroom Series 12-01-10
Policy Advice to the Governor
Transportation and Infrastructure
Dan Grabauskas
Mac in a Minute - Alumni Travel
John takes us on a virtual tour of three of the exciting destinations included on the Discover Your Mac Adventure Alumni Travel Program. discoveryourmacadventure.ca
Up Close, Part 2
In the fast pace of our daily lives we may overlook details which, collectively, create a stunning backdrop for all that happens within the Harvard. Hundreds of historic volumes stand as individual works of art inside Houghton and Widener libraries.
The EdPortal
Mentoring at the Allston EdPortal
USAWC Birthday and Alumni Recognition
Retired Gen. Gordon R. Sullivan, Class of 1978, retired Gen. Donn A. Starry, Class of 1966, and Dr. Lewis (Bob) Sorley, Class of 1973, received outstanding alumnus awards from Maj. Gen. Gregg Martin, USAWC commandant, during the celebration of the 109th birthday of the Army War College. The Army War College mission is to develop strategic leaders for a lifetime and these three were selected for exemplifying the USAWC spirit.
Cafés des Sciences Nancy 2010 - Chimie alimentaire de quoi sont faites nos assiettes ?
Organisés par les universités de Lorraine en collaboration avec l’INSERM, le CNRS, l’INRIA et l’INRA
Résumé : E122, E416, E930…selon une directive européenne, les étiquettes de nos aliments affichent sans complexe les codes des additifs qu’ils contiennent. Mais quel consommateur est aujourd’hui capable de les déchiffrer ?
Les additifs sont des substances incorporées aux denrées alimentaires afin d’en modifier les qualités organoleptiques telles que
JALPES 2010 Strasbourg : Evaluer la motivation des candidats à un emploi hospitalo-universitaire.
Thème : Première Journée de Pédagogie Médicale d’Alsace Lorraine (JALPES 2010)
Auteur : Pie
Session : motivation et pédagogie en sciences de la santé.
Modérateur : Chantal KOHLER (Service d’histologie et d’immunologie CHU de Nancy) et Thierry POTTECHER (Professeur – service d’Anesthésie Hôpital de Hautepierre – Strasbourg).
Titre : JALPES 2010 Strasbourg : Evaluer la motivation pédagogique des candidats à un emploi hospitalo-universitaire.
Conflit, ritualisation, droit : la gestion de la diversité (video)
Psychologiquement, la relation humaine à la diversité est ambivalente : la diversité suscite la curiosité et stimule ; en même temps elle apparaît comme une menace et déclenche l'agressivité. Les sociétés humaines ont constamment affaire à la diversité. A commencer par celle qui est au coeur de la reproduction. La diversité est en fait dans les individus sous tous les points de vue : physique, mental, passionnel, générationnel. Cette diversité a des effets ambivalents. D'une
