Sunday Service - 11/14/2010 - Sam Wells
A service of worship in Duke University Chapel. The Reverend Dr Samuel Wells delivers a sermon entitled "Posed Between Heaven and Earth."
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Lunch with a Laureate: Jack Szostak
Jack Szostak started his first lab as a “freshly minted assistant professor” working in DNA recombination and repair reactions. While researchers had known for years that the broken ends of DNA strands behaved differently from broken DNA in the middle of the strand, they did not know the details. Because cells do not like b
Social Networking in Plain English
A short introduction to the concepts behind social networking websites.
14.06 Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory (MIT)
This course is a survey of modern macroeconomics at a quite advanced level. Topics include the neoclassical growth model, overlapping generations, endogenous growth models, business cycles, incomplete nominal adjustment, incomplete financial markets, fiscal and monetary policy, consumption and savings, and unemployment. The course is also an introduction to the mathematical tools used in modern macroeconomics, including dynamic systems, optimal control, and dynamic programming.
Out of The Blue - Ep 213 Office of Tech Transfer
In an effort to help Michigan realize its economic potential, the Office of Technology Transfer works to speed the pace of innovation into the marketplace.
Fossil Detectives
A short introduction to this album.
Don't Hate the Player, Hate the Game: Internet Games, Social Inequality and Racist Talk as Griefing
This talk recaps the history of racist griefing online and link the current crisis in racial discourse in the US with this practice, exploring the implications for digital games as a transnational public sphere. Games are a radically transnational medium: as Martin Lister writes in New Media: An Introduction, 'even before Pokemon, the videogame was perhaps the most thoroughly transnational form of popular culture, both as an industry (with Sony, Sega and Nintendo as the key players) but also at
4 A thinking disposition and the process of development
Diagrams, mind-maps, tables, graphs, time lines, flow charts, sequence diagrams, decision trees: all can be used to organise thought. This unit will introduce you to a variety of thinking skills. Asking and answering questions is at the heart of high-quality thinking. Questions naturally arise from the desire to know and learn about things and may be the starting point for a journey of understanding.
Podcasting in Plain English
A short introduction to Podcasting and how it's different from broadcasting.
L'obésité - Irini Margaritis
Une conférence de l'UTLS au Lyccé
L'obésité par Irini Margaritis, chef de l'Unité nutrition à l'ANSES (agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire)
Lycée Pierre Mendes France (62 Bruay La Buissière)
Sustainability Residence Hall Tour
Jennifer Cox, assistant director of residence life and services, takes you on a tour of a Scholar's House to see the different practices that have been implemented in the residence halls for sustainability.
Codage et cryptographie
Ce cours a été donné en juin 2010 lors des journées de formation à l'informatique organisées par l'INRIA à destination des professeurs de mathématiques d'Ile de France. Il est composé d'une heure et demi de cours et d'un quart d'heure de questions-réponses sur le cours.
Highlights from the George W. Bush Center Groundbreaking
Former President and Mrs. George W. Bush and other dignitaries broke ground Tuesday on the Bush Presidential Center. More than 3,000 guests filled a massive tent on the site of the George W. Bush Presidential Center to celebrate groundbreaking for the building. Fifteen officials took up shovels to turn dirt, marking the official start of construction, with completion scheduled for 2013.
Klartext 2010-11-11
På torsdagen handlade Klartext om den allvarliga krisen för partiet Socialdemokraterna. Professor Ulf Bjereld berättade vad han tror att krisen beror på. Klartext berättade också att den misstänkte våldtäkts-mannen i Örebro har erkänt alla de 7 överfall han är misstänkt för.
Lecture 16 - 11/18/2010
Lecture 16
Die Deutschen in Toulouse
Dans le cadre des interviews allemandes pour la rubrique VO sur Canal U, nous jetons aujourd'hui un regard sur « les Allemands à Toulouse ». Ils sont environ 10.000 à vivre dans l’agglomération toulousaine, la plupart d’entre eux à Pibrac, Blagnac, Colomiers et Tournefeuille.
Lorsqu’on parle de la « présence allemande » à Toulouse, on pense surtout à des entreprises telles que Airbus et EADS. Mais depuis les années 1960 un réseau allemand particulièrement dense et
John Law: Proto-Keynesian [Excerpted from An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, vol. 1, Economic Thought Before Adam Smith. An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Jeff Riggenbach, is available for download.] La tutorship come assistenza tecnica e metodologica ai processi di formazione Game Theory Introduction to Political Philosophy
Le funzioni del tutor: chi è e come lavora,Istituzione universitaria di secondo e terzo livello (ciclo II e III) per la formazione degli insegnanti e/o dei formatori,Spiegare,Illustrare,Alta formazione universitaria (secondo e terzo livello),Educazione,Formazione degli insegnanti e scienze della formazione,Didattica,Misto (blended),Interazione con il tutor/docente,Misto,Risorsa per studenti,Apprendimento basato sulla fruizione di risorse,Collaborativa - per piccoli gruppi,NO,NO
This course is an introduction to game theory and strategic thinking. Ideas such as dominance, backward induction, Nash equilibrium, evolutionary stability, commitment, credibility, asymmetric information, adverse selection, and signaling are discussed and applied to games played in class and to examples drawn from economics, politics, the movies, and elsewhere.
This course is intended as an introduction to political philosophy as seen through an examination of some of the major texts and thinkers of the Western political tradition. Three broad themes that are central to understanding political life are focused upon: the polis experience (Plato, Aristotle), the sovereign state (Machiavelli, Hobbes), constitutional government (Locke), and democracy (Rousseau, Tocqueville). The way in which different political philosophies have given expression to various
