Diana and Debbie
The Fed's Long Shot Last week the Fed announced "Operation Twist," in which the central bank will buy $400 billion of longer-dated Treasury securities while selling the same amount of shorter-dated Treasuries. This episode epitomizes everything that is wrong with the modern, statist view of money.
The Goofy N
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The cellular and molecular basis for planarian regeneration
Peter Reddien - MIT Biology, Whitehead Institute
September 27,2011
9.012 The Brain and Cognitive Sciences II (MIT)
This course is the second half of the intensive survey of brain and behavioral studies for first-year graduate students in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences curriculum. Each module of this core course involves a series of overview lectures by leading researchers in the field. By offering a thorough introduction to the current state of the discipline while emphasizing critical thinking, the course aims to prepare students as cognitive scientists.
Topics include: perception, attention, working memo
Morgan Stanley boasts profit
Oct 19 - Summary of business headlines: Morgan Stanley swings to a profit but AMR posts a wider-than-expected quarterly loss; Consumer prices tame in U.S., housing construction heats up. Conway G. Gittens reports.
Camera-trap diary keeps Sumatran ecosystem in public eye
Sept. 30 - A conservation program, focused on the vulnerable Leuser ecosystem in northern Sumatra, is producing monthly camera-trap video recordings of the rare and, in many cases, endangered creatures that live there. The recordings are providing evidence to scientists that ongoing efforts to protect the Leuser from illegal logging are working. Rob Muir reports.
The Architectural History of Chicago
This one minute video shows images of the buildings in this city and how the Great Fire pushed the residents to create new edifices and, ultimately, the Sears Tower. A brief overview.
Network-Driven Transportation
Today, cell phones are a menace to safe driving, as they distract operators who should otherwise focus on the road. Tomorrow, cell phones could actually improve our driving, and help drivers avoid traffic congestion, use the road system more effectively, and manage the parking supply. Li-Shiuan Peh says that the key to these serv
Environmental Impacts of Aviation
Knowing more about the environmental impacts of aviation is increasingly essential, but according to
Ian Waitz, it is also an area where uncertainties abound. One thing we know for sure is that the airplanes developed today will be flying for next 30 years, as the fleet dynamics are very stable, due to the extraordinary cos
History of the internet
"History of the internet" is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to file-sharing, from arpanet to internet. This eight minute video provides an illustrated history that provides some insights into how the Internet developed along computers and related breakthroughs. Excellent.
In the Chef's Kitchen
Whether they're planning bulk orders for next week's menu, measuring the correct amounts of ingredients or figuring out how to scale up a recipe for a catered event, math is almost as important a
tool as their pots and pans. Shows students the value to math in life.
Running time 5:05 minutes
Libya post-Gaddafi transition will take years, says expert
Oct. 20 - Managing Director for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy Michael Singh talks with Reuters Insider about the death of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Great Zoom out of Houston, Texas: Reliant Stadium (with spin)
Using data from different spacecraft and some powerful computer technology, visualizers at the Goddard Space Flight Center present you with a collection of American cities in a way you have never seen them before. Starting with our camera high above the Earth, we rush in towards the surface at what would be an impossible speed for any known vehicle. Passing though layers of atmosphere, the colors of our destinations shimmer with their own unique characteristics, and suddenly we find ourselves fl
Getalbegrip tot honderdduizend Deze presentatie sluit aan bij de methode Kompas 5. Tijdens deze klassikale instructie leren leerlingen getallen tot honderdduizend in een schema plaatsen. Ze moeten de getallen ook noteren op een getallenlijn en er is een oefening …
הועלו הספרים בקורס "דיני תאגידים"
ארבעת הכרכים של הקורס "דיני תאגידים" (13018) הועלו אף הם לפא"ר. סדרת הספרים עוסקת בכל מאפייני התאגיד בכלל, ומתמקדת בחברה עיסקית בפרט. בסדרה מוצגים מגוון היבטים משפטיים, כגון: סוגי תאגידים שאינם חברות; סוגי תאגידים שניתן להקים בישראל; עקרונות המשפט בפירמה וכללי ה
A Tribute to Earthworms
Dr. Diana Wehrell-Grabowski shares some basic information about earthworms and their beneficial contributions to the plant and animal kingdoms. In addition, there is video footage of recent hands-on science classes conducted with preschoolers as they explore ecology and earthworm science concepts. Early childhood students made comparisons and contrasts between synthetic and real earthworms characteristics, measured earthworms, observed what surface preferences earthworms have, made models of ear
Stephanie Dutkiewicz follows the motion of the ocean, its nutrients, and phytoplankton
A research scientist in MIT’s Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science department, Stephanie Dutkiewicz focuses on biogeochemical cycling and phytoplankton distribution in the ocean. Her research follows the circulation of the ocean, from the surface waters to the depths, and back. Within that cycle, Stephanie focuses on another cycle: she models how oceanic circulation affects the flux of carbon and other nutrients, how the consequent availability of these nutrients drives phytoplankton dist
Creating a bar graph
FIZZ - Layers of the Earth
