1.8.1 What happens next? The next ten years are likely to be momentous for the history of Europe. However, in the same way that no social scientist was able to predict the collapse of the Soviet order, it is pointless to speculate on possible but improbable scenarios. At this point it is only possible to project toward the future on the basis of the existing parameters; the more accurate and detailed our knowledge of the present trends is, the more likely our forecasts are to have some success. Europe is at a c
1.6.2 Education Education is obviously one of the crucial dimensions in any attempt to develop a future European identity or at least more understanding and convergence among Europeans. If the school made the nation, it should also be a key factor in promoting Europeanness. Observers of the school scene in Europe acknowledge the existence of a growing sentiment of interest for European themes (institutions, politics, peoples, languages). Furthermore, the EU-based exchange programmes have recognised the impor
1.4.1 Historical background European unification was begun by the social democratic and Christian democratic leaders of the Western European states who had fought each other during the Second World War. The idea was to create a community of states that would guarantee peace and prosperity. The process turned out to be long and arduous, particularly after the federalist failures of the Congress of the Hague (1949) and the European Defence Community (1953). The main emphasis was on economic co-operation, and the project w
Bangladesh opposition on hunger strike
July 13 - Bangladesh's opposition party and its supporters begin an eight-hour hunger strike in protest over police allegedly injuring their chief whip, and the abolition of their non-partisan, caretaker government system. Nick Rowlands reports.
Hundreds rescued from migrant boat
July 13 - Italian coastguard officials carry small children from a boat packed with migrants after the overcrowded vessel ran into trouble off the Italian island of Lampedusa. Nick Rowlands reports.
The art of the protest in Yemen
July 13 - On the sidelines of daily protests in Yemen -- women and children hold a craft exhibition to call for their own kinds of change. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
4.5 Vulnerability and rights One of the assumptions that is made in order to justify social workers making such life-changing judgements is that some people are vulnerable and therefore need decisions made on their behalf. This assumption is not held by everyone and is often challenged by groups and individuals representing service users and by service users themselves. Children's attitude to mixed-ability groupings Sue Lyle interviewed children from a school in Swansea that had run a ‘mixed ability’ and ‘mixed gender’ project designed to improve pupils’ literacy. The tasks in the project were designed so that pupils were collaboratively involved with the activities and texts being studied. Children expressed the view that there were some benefits gained from working in this mixed-ability, collaborative way. One pupil explained this was ‘… because you get more info A Diamond Poem Face-to-Fossil MSU College of Arts and Letters celebrates 50 years Landsat-7 20 Year Urbanization of Deep Bay near Shenzhen, China The School of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the U of M Neuro-Communications Lab The Cockroach Beatbox Breakingviews: Deutsche's profit miss isn't a blip Silkworms Chris Schommer-Pries: Dualizability in Low Dimensional Higher Category Theory (Part 1) Wayne Hemingway receives an honorary degree "I Saw The Walking Dead": A Black Sergeant Remembers Buchenwald Junk in Space
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This Web article is part of OLogy, where kids can collect virtual trading cards and create projects with them. Here they meet Deena Soris, who interviews the fossil of a Protoceratops. The more-than-20 questions answered by this dinosaur fossil include: You look fabulous. How old are you?How do scientists guess an extinct dinosaur's speed?Is it a thrill to have a frill?So what happened?One day you're happily munching away on thick, tough plants, the next you're history?How did you go from being
The MSU community helped the College of Arts and Letters celebrate its 50th anniversary with a "CAL" mosaic, made from wood, glass and other materials.
To read more, go to http://news.msu.edu/story/mosaic-of-memories/
The long operational history of the Landsat satellite allows a detailed study of urban growth around the world, as illustrated by this animation of urbanization around Shenzen, China.
Students and Professors at the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the U of M are studying various treatments and therapies to improve the speech of those with neurological disorders.
By dissecting a cockroach ... yes, live on stage ... TED Fellow and
neuroscientist Greg Gage shows how brains receive and deliver electric impulses -- and how legs can respond. (Launching a series on Awesome Nature) "The Cockroach Beatbox" was animated by the TED-Ed Animation Team (Jeremiah Dickey, Biljana Labovic, Celeste Lai, Kari Mulholland and Franz Palomares). (06:15)
July 25 - Deutsche Bank's capital and job-cut plans still look less punchy than peers', says Breakingviews.
Adult silkworm moths lay eggs to reproduce. The eggs hatch into silkworm larvae. The larvae spin silk cocoons and use them as they change from larvae to silkworm moths. Silkworm larvae exclusively eat mulberry leaves and their cocoons are used by human to make silk products such as silk fabric.
Chris Schommer-Pries (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Abstract: The cobordism hypothesis establishes a powerful relationship between extended topological field theories taking values in a symmetric monoidal higher category and objects in that higher category with various kinds of duality.
In this setting an extended topological field theory is a higher categorical extension of the Atiyah-Segal axioms which allows for topological bordisms to be decomposed along submanifolds of arbitrary c
Design legend Wayne Hemingway, best-known for co-founding international fashion label Red or Dead has received an honorary degree from Leeds Metropolitan University.
For more information please visit http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk
The American soldiers who liberated the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp had powerful reactions to what they saw, often shaped by their own backgrounds. Leon Bass was a nineteen-year-old African-American sergeant serving in a segregated army unit when he encountered the "walking dead" of Buchenwald. Like many others, he tried to repress his memories of the horrors that he saw there and "never talked about it all." But in the 1960s, while involved in the Civil Rights movement and teaching, he m
There are currently millions of man-made orbital ruins that make up "space junk". Space junk can be anything from hatches blown off space modules, paint fragments from the space shuttle, or satellites that no longer work. On this website you will help to capture junk that's floating out there in space. Each time you capture junk, you also find a short description of the junk, how it arrived in space and links to additional information. This is an activity that takes less than 5 minutes and is a
