Polygons
Polygons are closed plane figures formed by three or more line segments. If a figure is open or curved, it cannot be considered a polygon. Concave polygons have at least one diagonal that does not pass through the interior of the polygon; all of the diagonals in a convex polygon are contained within the figure. Equiangular polygons have all angles congruent; equilateral polygons have all sides congruent. (02:58)
What Students Want: Teaching from a Student's Perspective
Teachers often make assumption about what motivates, excites or frustrates their students. But how do students themselves view teaching? This video is from college students, but has applications for other levels as well. This 1:37 video is best used as an example of what teachers might do to improve by asking students who have left their classroom for a few years what helped them the most. I have done this and it is most valuable.
Authors@Google: Gary Taubes
Gary Taubes spoke to Googlers in Mountain View on May 2, 2011 about his book Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It.
About the book:
An eye-opening, myth-shattering examination of what makes us fat, from acclaimed science writer Gary Taubes.
Building upon this critical work in Good Calories, Bad Calories, Taubes revisits the urgent question of what's making us fat and how we can change in this exciting new book. Persuasive, straightforward, and practical, Why We Get Fat makes Taubess crucial
Avner Shalev: The Challenges for Yad Vashem
Avner Shalev, Chairman, Yad Vashem Directorate, Israel: Perpetuating the Legacy of the Survivors for Future Generations: The Challenges for Yad Vashem
The 6th International Conference on Holocaust Education
Teaching the Shoah -- Fighting the Racism and Prejudice
Day 3 -- Thursday, July 10, 2008
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/education/conference/2008/index.asp
Arab youths, revolutions, and the rise of the ‘second society’
The patterns of revolutions tend to be similar, focusing on the rise and fall of their leaders, a plunge into lawlessness, and finally a new order. Today’s movement in the Arab world is different. Sami Mahroum, Director of INSEAD’s Innovation & Policy Initiative in Abu Dhabi, explains why.
Attitude is everything: The case for Turkey
Turkish membership could make the EU a world leader, contends Yilmaz Argüden, chairman of Istanbul-based ARGE Consulting.
Nassim Taleb on Living with Black Swans
Nassim Taleb is a literary essayist, hedge fund manager, derivatives trader and professor of risk engineering at The Polytechnic Institute of New York University. But he is best known these days as the author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. During a recent visit to Wharton as part of The Goldstone Forum, he spoke with Wharton finance professor Richard Herring -- who taught Taleb when he was a Wharton MBA student -- about events in the Middle East, the oil supply, investin
25 Feb 2011: Emerging Disciplines Symposium II
This symposium will feature prominent scholars from across academic disciplines who are shaping important new fields of scholarly inquiry. Participants will discuss the research questions that have served as the impetus for their new approaches, the methodological strategies that their emerging field entails, intellectual opportunities and challenges requisite to the emerging field, graduate student engagement, strategies for sustaining new research models, and other related issues.
Ecosonic : Union Chapel performance
Ecosonic ensemble performance at Union Chapel.
Every word starts with a 'dis': the impact of class on choice, application and admissions to prestig
The UK government's commitment to increasing the number of working class students in higher education places little emphasis on who goes to which university to study what subject. It thus is failing to acknowledge the advantages which elitist universities bestow on their predominantly middle class graduates. This article looks at how issues of class impact on university choice, application and admission, with particular emphasis on art and design higher education. In particular, it examines the
Martin Motor Co. sells car to Police Dept., 1946
The Martin Motor Co. in Auburn, Alabama, dealt in DeSoto and Plymouth automobiles. World War II military demands severely reduced production of civilian vehicles, resulting in high demand for new vehicles in the post-WWII period. [The individuals in this photograph are not identified, nor is the police dept. Anyone with information should contact the Auburn University Libraries Cataloging Dept. at caudlda@auburn.edu.
1987 Glomerata, vol. 90
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1982 Glomerata, vol. 85
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2002 Glomerata, vol. 105
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Chelated fluoroboron cations : synthesis and multinuclear nmr studies
The preparation of chelated difluoroboron cations (DD)BF2+, where DD is a
saturated polydentate tertiary-amine or polydentate aromatic ligand, has been systematically
studied by using multinuclear solution and solid state nuclear magnetic resonance
spectroscopy and fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry. Three new methods of
synthesis of (DD)BF2+ cations are reported, and compared with the previous method of
reacting a chelating donor with Et20.BF3. The methods most effective for aromatic donor
Guide to the George P. Firth Collection on the Office and Professional Employees International Union
George P. Firth, a Pittsburgh resident, was a representative of the Office and Professional Employees International Union during the 1960's through the mid 1970's. Firth represented unions in various Mid-Atlantic and Midwestern states. The collection contains organizational records, publications, news clippings, and leaflets that Firth produced and collected as result of his affiliation with the Office and Professional Employees International Union.
Papers of Abraham L. Wolk, 1937-1968
Abraham L. Wolk was born in 1891 and was a Pittsburgh jurist and a former Pittsburgh city councilman whose interests included smoke control, industrial health programs, the "Pay-as-you-go" tax program, and the Civic Light Opera. The collection contains correspondence, memoranda and notes, writings, speeches, memorabilia, photographs and scrapbooks. The scrapbooks have been microfilmed.
Guide to the North Side Laundry Company, Pittsburgh, PA Records, 1877-1943
This collection contains stockholder and board of director's meeting minutes, mortgages, deeds, bonds, and lease records for the North Side Laundry Company of Pittsburgh, PA., for the years 1877-1943.
Guide to the William G. Johnston and Company Records, 1857-1915
This collection consists of the business records of the William G. Johnston and Company printing and book-binding firm of Pittsburgh, 1857-1915.
BIOL 105-03, Human Biology, Fall 2004
My objectives for this course are to help you develop:
• A general understanding of human biology.
• An understanding of the process through which scientific knowledge is obtained (the scientific method).
• Critical thinking and problem solving skills.,This syllabus was submitted to the Rhodes College Office of Academic Affairs by the instructor.
