Lucy, la pionnière (audio)
A l’occasion du colloque « Les sciences dans les années 70 », Yves Coppens revient sur son activité de paléontologiste et sur les nombreuses campagnes de fouilles menées dès les années 1920 dans le cadre de la recherche sur les origines de l’homme. Il retrace en particulier les prémices et la découverte dans les années 70 de l’Australopithecus afarensis, la célèbre Lucy.
Très médiatisée lors de sa découverte car elle détenait le record du plus vieil hominid
Demain, l’écriture (video)
Comment définir l’écriture aujourd’hui ? C’est à cette question que tente de répondre Clarisse Herrenschmidt en apportant des exemples explicites de la transformation majeure de l’écriture et des signes dans les 20 dernières années avec l’émergence des nouvelles technologies et l’usage de plus en plus diffus de l’ordinateur.
Cette révolution graphique se traduit par la transformation de l’écriture en information: à un caractère ou une police correspond
Female Green Iguana Avoiding Caiman by Swimming Underwater
This short video gives excellent real life footage of a female Green Iguana. In this video, this iguana swims underwater to escape a Caiman Alligator. Students will enjoy the close up shots of the iguana swimming. This is a great resource to help build background knowledge and to help make real world connections between nature and the classroom. (Less Than 2 Minutes)
Course Threads: Design in Transit
The Course Thread Program allows UC Berkeley undergraduates to explore intellectual themes that connect courses across departments and disciplines. Without creating new majors or minors, the program instead highlights connections between existing courses. Course Threads help students see the value in educational breadth while also pursuing a more in-depth and well-rounded knowledge on one particular topic. Course Thread topics include: Human Rights, Cultural Forms in Transit, The Historical & Mo
It's Your Time - Your Choices
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U.S. Marines probe video of men urinating on Taliban corpses
Jan. 11 - Graphic undated video from YouTube shows what is believed to be U.S. Marines urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban soldiers in Afghanistan. The U.S. Marine Corps said it would investigate the video, which was posted on YouTube and other websites on January 11, 2012. Reuters has not independently verified the authenticity of this video. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
GeografÃa rural
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Think of a Function
This video discusses how to choose a function with specified properties.
Open Classroom - 1/11/12/ #2 Louisa Kasdon
Food and American Society an Urban Perspective
Topic for 1/11/12: Why Food? Why an Urban Perspective?
Lectures:
Louisa Kasdon - Food editor, Stuff Magazine, and founder, Let's Talk About Food
Ilene Bezahler - Publisher/Editor, Edible Boston
The Open Classroom Policy Series is a graduate-level public policy seminar that is open to the public. Each semester, the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs selects a critical and relevant topic as the Open Classroom
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Technologies digitales et éducation : de l'observation des pratiques à l'innovation
Comment introduire les nouvelles technologies dans l’éducation ?
Face aux stratégies descendantes souvent décevantes, ou aux initiatives ascendantes considérées illégitimes, une troisième voie se dessine : l'observation des transformations induites dans la société par les pratiques communicatives et l’usage des technologies les plus efficaces.
Venez découvrir ces pratiques et leurs effets potentiels sur l'éducation avec Stefana Broadbent (Professeur d’A
Case Study: The Love Canal Disaster
Steve Altaner
In this module, The Love Canal Disaster is described.
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A Sign Language Song About Treats to Eat
This selection features a video of a teacher and students singing a song about treats to eat. In the video, the teacher and students show how to form the name of each treat using sign language. The foods shown are an apple, orange, carrot, cracker, cookie, and ice cream.
( While this song is appropriate for young children, it could be used by any person learning sign language.) ( 2:50)
Affirmative Action Question MIT graduate student Melissa Edoh asks a question.
Climate's Dusty Clues David McGee is a paleoclimatologist whose work focuses on reconstructing past changes in extra tropical atmospheric circulation and hydrology. He has explored this area through studies of dust blown out of the world's drylands and deposited in the ocean; changes in dryland water balance as reflected in closed-basin lakes; and studies of precipitation source and amount recorded in stalagmites. These studies involve a variety of types of data, but at the center of all of them are uranium-series
Photo Slideshow: Thousands of Patches, Millions of Stitches
UA alumnus Paul Nosa is raising $7,500 via Kickstarter to travel across the nation to share his work: Sewing art powered by solar energy and a bicycle electric generator. Nosa's aim is to encourage people to tap more deeply into their creative and to also rely more heavily on alternative energy sources.
PMAD Niro
People Make a Diffierence with Danny Brassell
Guest: Tom Niro
Regional Manager, Staples Co.
Northeastern Men's Basketball Press Conference - at Vermont - Dec. 30, 2011
Northeastern men's basketball head coach Bill Coen meets with the media following Northeastern's 53-51 win at Vermont on Friday, Dec. 30, 2011, at Patrick Gymnasium in Burlington, Vt.
Buck Brannaman training on turning and backing
1:55 Video- Buck Brannaman teaching at a symposium for horses and riders in Fremont NE Feb 2008 loaded by Bryan Lonski
Google+ Hangout: Phobos-Grunt re-entry
On January 15, 2012, the Russian spacecraft Phobos-Grunt re-entered over the Pacific ocean and burned up. During this time, I reported the event live with Planetary Society science journalist Emily Lakdawalla on a Google+ Hangout.
You can read Emily's blog at http://www.planetary.org/blog
My G+ page is http://plus.google.com/108952536790629690817/posts
33b: Graph Algorithms and Skepticism - Richard Buckland, UNSW
Lecture 33 of Computing2 - Data Structures and Algorithms. In this lecture we ask "How can we know if Prim's MST algorithm is correct?"
