Demain, l’Université (video)
L’étiolement en France de la conception d’une université comme unique lieu de production du savoir et d’échange, et la conséquente création des grandes écoles, organismes de recherche, IUT…, ont appauvri, en même temps que le sous-financement et le manque d’autonomie, l’université française.
Et demain ? L’université devra se construire autour des initiatives à venir. La loi de liberté et d’autonomie, dite loi Pécresse (LRU), sera un premier pas en avant car
More expensive medication may be more potent
"Marketing variables not only influence people's perceptions and expectations, they actually influence the real efficacy of products such as medications." This is according to Ziv Carmon, INSEAD Professor of Marketing, who, along with Rebecca Waber and Dan Ariely from MIT and Baba Shiv from Stanford, tested the effect of price on the efficacy of a medication by administering electric shocks to those taking part in the study to test their resistance to pain.
Klartext 2010-10-14
Vi på Klartext berättade att alla de instängda gruvarbetarna i Chile nu är räddade. Vi berättade också att flera hundra anställda inom Försvaret kan tvingas sluta sina jobb.
Klartext 2010-09-17
På torsdagen hade Klartext en sammanfattning av de rödgröna partiernas politik.
The Reverend Peter J. Gomes: Keynote Address
Professor Gomes reflects on the religious climate on Harvard's campus when he arrived nearly 40 years ago and how diverse the student body is today.
Students from Harvard College and the graduate schools met with chaplains to work on a strategy for conducting interfaith conversations around campus. Student and chaplain panelists shared their personal narratives. Participants then met in small groups throughout the day to gain an understanding of others' beliefs and how to have conversations abo
What are Cells and How Were They Discovered?
This is a power point with audio and images that explain what cells are and how they work. It also gives a history of the discovery of cells. Run time 04:00.
How to Write a College Paper: The Revision Process
This video explains how to revise your college paper, whether it's for a thesis, essay, or story. (2:01)
Le référendum et les consultations populaires - J. Lang, T. Ménissier
L'Université de tous les savoirs et Le Château de Versailles présentent
18h30 : Le référendum et les consulta
Le référendum et les consultations populaires, recours démocratique ou démagogie ?
les Premiers entretiens du Jeu de Paume
La démocr@tie d?opinion
Du siècle des lumières à la démocratie des courts circuits
Vendredi 18, samedi 19 et dimanche 20 juin 2010
IP3S 2010 - Session UMVF 5 : Communications Libres (video)
IP3S 2010
11e Congrès International Internet et Pédagogie de la Santé et du Sport
12 & 13 Novembre 2010 – Université Victor Segalen, Bordeaux 2
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Session UMVF 5 : Communications Libres
Univ
Mr. Ford's Anatomy & Physiology: Lesson 0403 - Glycolysis
This video is the first part in a series dealing with cellular respiration. This lesson provides an overview of Glycolysis, with a useful "minimum to know" review at the end. The complete series of lesson videos, as well as interactive exam reviews and class notes, can be found at www.mrfordsclass.net. (6:46)
The Road from Copenhagen
Following the United Nations Climate Change Conference held in December 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark, a five-member panel reviews the pros and cons of the events that took place. Moderated by Ernest Moniz, the panel includes Rob Stavins, Michael Greenstone, Stephen Ansolabehere (filling in for William Bonvillian)
Autism: What Do We Know? What Do We Need?
“I’ll give you the 30,000 foot view of autism.”
Remarking that autism today, in terms of interest and funding, is like cancer was 20 years ago,
Dr. Thomas Insel provides the latest medical and scientific views on this complex developmental brain disorder. The formal definition of autism includes three main componen
Freaky Liquid Metal
Ferrofluid (magnetic fluid) sculptures by two Japanese artists that move like something out of a science fiction movie. You have to watch the video! Set to music. No narration. Run time 04:19
Secularisms in crisis
During the 1980s people living in Europe and North America took cognizance of two major developments in religion and public life. Islam assumed a more prominent role both in majority Muslim societies and in societies of relatively recent residence. And forms of Christianity took on greater public roles in much of the West. These parallel developments have given rise to interrogations on many fronts: concerning the nature of secularism, the proper role of religious commitments in liberal democrac
How rich are the baby boomers and how poor are their children?
David Willetts will analyse the distribution of income and wealth between different generations in Britain. He will investigate why the baby boomer generation have done particularly well for both income and wealth. He will then look at why the younger generation face much less favourable economic circumstances. Drawing on his new book The Pinch he will firmly place the issue of fairness between the generations on the political agenda.
Community and Innovation: "Where and Why is Innovation Happening?"
Margaret O'Mara is a historian of the modern United States whose work looks at the growth of the knowledge economy and the reasons creativity and innovation thrive in particular places. She is the author of Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley (Princeton, 2005), which explored how Silicon Valley came to be, why other U.S. regions did not become Silicon Valley, and what the Cold War had to do with it. Her current research includes a study of high-tech g
UW 2010 Holiday Video
UW 2010 Holiday Video
Networks and the Digital Revolution: Economic Myths and Realities The economy is now a networked economy. "Information goods" are becoming more important than traditional goods. Online businesses are a more substantial driving force than brick-and-mortar establishments. Some people even say that in this networked world centralized managerial hierarchies are obsolete; in the future, they will be replaced by decentralized, disaggregated, peer-to-peer communities.
Spanish Lesson - Present Tense -AR verbs: tú Form
This video lesson discusses the present tense of -AR verbs and how to change them in the tú (you) form. (3:24)
L'actualité des études grecques (video)
Jacqueline de ROMILLY (de l'Académie Française et Professeur honoraire au Collège de France) met en lumière, à travers deux exemples (la naissance de la démocratie de la Grèce dans notre vie et la figure du héros tragique), l'apport extraordinaire de la Grèce dans notre vie intellectuelle et notre actualité politique.
