Public Health: The World is One Clinic
Dr. Jody Heymann is the Canada Research Chair in Global Health and Social Policy, a Professor in McGill's Faculties of Arts and Medicine and founding director of the McGill Institute for Health and Social Policy.
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Delete!
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger looks at the important role that forgetting has played throughout human history, the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger discusses the themes of his new book 'Delete' with Helen Margetts, Professor of Society and the Internet at the Oxford Internet Institute. 'Delete' looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and reveal
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Giving in the Digital World
For charitable organizations and initiatives, the Internet provides the opportunity to reach more people in more direct and personal ways. Are they grasping this opportunity? Following on the earthquake in Haiti in January 2010, generous individuals around the world used their mobile phones to make more than $40 million in gifts to aid organisations. More than $1 billion in gifts came in the next four weeks, a large percentage of which was donated online. But the real stories of how digital tec
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This unit was written by Professor Grahame F. Thompson, Professor of Political Economy at The Open University. Researching the political economy of the international system and the process of ‘globalization’.

The content acknowledged below is Proprietary (see terms and conditions) and is used under licence.

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5. The Future of Oil (October 22, 2008)
science, energy, fossil fuel, oil, oil reserves, petroleum, peak oil production, global warming, climate change, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), crude oil, Department of Energy (DOE), Saudi Arabia, oil prices, recovery factor, Energy
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9. Fourier Transforms Lecture 9
Electrical, engineering, computers, math, physics, geometry, algebra, calculus, technology, functions, linear operations, Fourier transformations, Fourier series, convolution, signal combinations, multiplying signals, turbidity, clarity of water, frequenc
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What is Science for?
What is science for, what good does it do and should it do good? In this lecture, Sulston and Harris will attempt to identify some of the most urgent ethical and regulatory problems raised by contemporary science, and suggest some possible solutions. They will discuss some key cutting edge scientific problems, and debate how we can assess their impact. Where do the significant ethical and regulatory dilemmas for science lie? Are we worrying about the right things? They will also address the cru
Author(s): John Sulston, John Harris, Richard Dawkins

Cosmology Lecture 6 (March 2, 2009)
science, physics, astrology, sun, photons, electrons, positrons, force, electromagnetism, charge, antiparticle, symmetry, adiabatic expansion, antimatter, photoelectric effect, water,
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Episode 25: Abundance And Extinction: Species Under Pressure

Duration: 19 min 3
Author(s): up-close@unimelb.edu.au (University of Melbourne)

8 Stress and rhythm

All words are comprised of stressed and unstressed syllables. Any line of poetry (or, indeed, any text) can be marked to show which syllables are stressed and which are unstressed. The act of mapping out stress patterns, usually by placing the appropriate symbols over the syllables, is known as scansion.

To scan a line of poetry, say it out loud, without thinking about it unduly. Listen for which syllables you naturally emphasise. The stressed syllables can be indi
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Research Meets Web 2.0: Augmented Social Cognition Sheds Light on Coordination, Trust, Wikipedia, an
Computer science, information environment, social network, online communities, internet, communication, global community, social web, tagging, blogs, wiki, interaction, transparency, technology
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Problems and Solutions with "Simple" Interactive Devices
Course - Group - Problems and Solutions with "Simple" Interactive Devices - Stanford > Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (Winter 2007) > Problems and Solutions with "Simple" Interactive Devices
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3. Internet Economics
Technology, worldwide web, infrastructure, network, architecture, global, ownership, computer, science, neutrality, telecommunications, economics, policy, packet, TCP, internet protocol, peer to peer, transit, routing, filtering, deregulation, autonomous,
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3. Sustainable Energy System: Scale, Tradeoffs, and Co-Benefits (October 14, 2009)
science, earth studies, technology, carbon problem, energy, electricity, generation, renewable, resources, climate, change, time, population growth, green power, capacity, problem, emissions, sustainable, intermittency, design, economy, food, water, ethan
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1. When the Rubber Hits the Road: The Real Story on Fuel Economy (January 7, 2009)
science, economics, engineering, environment, global warming, energy, climate change, policy, technology, research, education, international issues, oil, fuel emissions, carbon, transportation, congestion, car, mileage, automobile, vehicle, bus transit, A
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3. Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy (October 8, 2008)
science, geography, energy, environment, geopolitics, politics, international relations, energy policy, natural resources, oil, natural gas, North Atlantic Treaty Organization(NATO), Africa, China, Europe, energy crisis, economics, climate change, global
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2. Evaluation of Proposed Energy Solutions to Climate Change, Air Pollution, and Energy Security (Oc
science, energy, climate change, global warming, fossil fuels, greenhouse gases, pollution, renewable resources, carbon dioxide emissions, nuclear energy, nuclear weapons, corn ethanol, environmental economics, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IP
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7. Equitable Solutions to the Carbon and Climate Problem (November 5, 2008)
science, climate change, global warming, carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, fossil fuels, international relations, environmental economics, trees, atmospheric gases, nitrogen, biology, emissions, China, financial crisis, technology, Intergovernmental Panel
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