005 Further TDSE and the Position Representation
Fifth lecture of the Quantum Mechanics course given in Michaelmas Term 2009
Traditional Alphabet Song-Running Time 0:35
This is a short educational video singing the traditional ABC song to introduce the alphabet to young learners. Running time is 35 seconds.
Model village in China aims higher
China's Huaxi village wants to lose model village tag and be a city, makes big bet on tourism and services sector growth.
Dr. Brian Angus on Tropical Medicine
Writer and medical historian Conrad Keating talks to Dr. Brian Angus, Director of the Wellcome Trust UK Centre for Clinical Tropical Medicine in Oxford, about his interest in science and how this inspired him to work with infectious diseases in Africa. Dr Brian Angus originally worked with Professor Nick White in Thailand and joined the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine in 1993. In this wide-ranging discussion with the writer and medical historian Conrad Keating, Brian talks about his wor
General Philosophy Lecture 7 (slides)
PDF slides from Peter Millican's General Philosophy lecture 7.
1.11.1 Subject positions In her analysis, Blackman is identifying a pattern in Diana's talk and relating it to other similar methods of self-representation found in our culture. It is worth thinking through this in more detail. One key claim of discourse researchers is that language positions people – discourse creates subject positions. What does this mean? To speak at all is to speak from a position (remember the discussion of footing in the previous section). Further than this, the positions or slots in c
November 2010 Monthly Update
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Monthly Dialogue Series: Robert Wirsing: U.S. Involvement in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Robert Wirsing, Visiting Professor of International Relations at the School of Foreign Service in Qatar, delivered the October CIRS Monthly Dialogue on the topic of ?The Af-Pak Misadventure: Where is America?s ?Long War? Heading?...And Why??
CNIPsy 2010 Marseille - Le remède et le poison : exemple des amphétamines. Débat.
CNIPsy 2010 Marseille : 7ème Congrès National des Internes en Psychiatrie (CNIPsy). Thème : «Mauvais genre»
Session : Dépendance - Drogue - Addictologie. WORK in PROGRESS.
Titre : CNIPsy 2010 Marseille - Le remède et le poison : les deux faces des substances psychoactives : l’exemple des amphétamines.
Résumé : En prenant le pouvoir sur leur prise en charge, les usagers de drogues ont transformé les approches des médecins : la réduction des risques et l’aut
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5.3 Metabolism
The extreme challenges of life in the polar regions require the animals who make their habitat there to make many adaptations. This unit explores the polar climate and how animals like reindeer, polar bears, penguins, sea life and even humans manage to survive there. It looks at the adaptations to physiological proceses, the environmental effects on diet, activity and fecundity, and contrasts the strategies of aquatic and land-based animals in surviving in this extreme habitat. This unit builds
4.3.1 Summary of Section 4
The extreme challenges of life in the polar regions require the animals who make their habitat there to make many adaptations. This unit explores the polar climate and how animals like reindeer, polar bears, penguins, sea life and even humans manage to survive there. It looks at the adaptations to physiological proceses, the environmental effects on diet, activity and fecundity, and contrasts the strategies of aquatic and land-based animals in surviving in this extreme habitat. This unit builds
2.3 Environmental regulation of breeding
The extreme challenges of life in the polar regions require the animals who make their habitat there to make many adaptations. This unit explores the polar climate and how animals like reindeer, polar bears, penguins, sea life and even humans manage to survive there. It looks at the adaptations to physiological proceses, the environmental effects on diet, activity and fecundity, and contrasts the strategies of aquatic and land-based animals in surviving in this extreme habitat. This unit builds
Manal Omar on "Barefoot in Baghdad," Part 2
Manal Omar discusses her memoir, "Barefoot in Baghdad: A Story of Identity -- My Own and What It Means to Be a Woman in Chaos." An intimate look at the heartrending struggle for freedom and identity in Iraq, this poignant memoir tells a riveting story of hope and despair, freedom and longing, as Omar recounts the extraordinary metamorphosis of Iraq from a liberated country into an occupied one. She speaks of her quest to help as many Iraqi women as possible survive the savages of war and occupat
Islam and Liberal Democracy: How Tradition Matters (with An-Na'im, Jackson, Moosa, Esposito)
Moderated by Jane McAuliffe, President, Bryn Mawr College. Panelists included Abdullahi An-Na'im, Georgetown University; Sherman Jackson, University of Michigan; Ebrahim Moosa, Duke University; and John Esposito, Georgetown University.
Buyer for AIG's Nan Shan next week?
Winning bid for AIG's Nan Shan Life unit may come on December 15; or bidders could be shortlisted and informed of next step in bidding process.
Violence and the Origins of Human Rights:: (with Hans Joas)
In his first Berkley Center lecture, Hans Joas traced the history of violence in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and other important documents, and discussed the conditions for the successful transformation of experiences of violence into universalist value commitments.
Newsmaker: 3 Questions for Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Reuters Economics Editor, William Schomberg, gives us 3 questions he would ask DSK.
