Jules Feiffer: 2010 National Book Festival
Author and cartoonist Jules Feiffer appears at the National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: Cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter and children's book author and illustrator Jules Feiffer has had a remarkable creative career turning contemporary urban anxiety into witty and revealing commentary for more than 50 years. From his Village Voice editorial cartoons to his plays and screenplays including "Little Murders" and "Carnal Knowledge," Feiffer's satirical outlook has influenced countless othe
Jonathan Safan Foer: 2010 National Book Festival
Author Jonathan Safran Foer appears at the 2010 National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of novels and nonfiction works. His work has received numerous awards and been translated into 36 languages. His thesis from Princeton became his novel "Everything Is Illuminated," which won the National Jewish Book Award and was made into a motion picture. His second novel, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," used the events of 9/11 to tell the story of a 9-year-old
Lidia Matticchio Bastianich: 2010 National Book Festival
Chef Lidia Matticchio Bastianich appears at the 2010 National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: Lidia Matticchio Bastianich is one of the best-loved chefs on television, a best-selling cookbook author, restaurateur and owner of a flourishing food and entertainment business. Her cookbooks include her most recent titles, "Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy" (Knopf) and "Nonna Tell Me a Story: Lidia's Christmas Kitchen" (Running Press Kids), as well as "Lidia's Italy," "Lidia's Family Table," "Li
Eye Anatomy Review
This is a lesson on eye anatomy for demo purposes
21L.715 Media in Cultural Context: Popular Readerships (MIT)
What is the history of popular reading in the Western world? How does widespread access to print relate to distinctions between highbrow and lowbrow culture, between good taste and bad judgment, and between men and women readers? This course will introduce students to the broad history of popular reading and to controversies about taste and gender that have characterized its development. Our grounding in historical material will help make sense of our main focus: recent developments in the theor
Riding the 'earning horse': Indian Railways
Indian Railways is the worldÂ’s largest employer and one of the biggest and busiest rail networks in the world, carrying some 17 million people and more than one million tonnes of freight daily. It was, however, until very recently, a loss-making organisation, which was heading for bankruptcy. Starting his term in 2004 with a budget of just $200 million with which to save the national institution, IndiaÂ’s Minister of Railways Lalu Prasad engineered a dramatic turnaround. Last year, Indian Railw
Paul Grabowsky: The complete musician, at ANU
Mr Paul Grabowsky, founder of the Australian Art Orchestra gives this lecture entitled 'the complete musician' at The Australian National Univerisity on the 14 October 2010.
Mr Paul Grabowsky challenges tertiary music educators to reflect on their current practice and consider how effective it is in actually preparing students for the careers they will now enter on graduation.
Recognised as Australia's pre-eminent jazz pianist with over 26 recordings to his name, Mr Grabowsky is regarded as on
Lesson #065, Friday questo = comes before a noun that is singular and masculine. Questo libro e' interessante. = This book is interesting. questa = comes before a noun that is singular and femine. Questa lettera e' per Lei. = This letter is for you. questi = comes before a noun that is plural and masculine. Leggiamo questi libri. = We read these books. queste = comes before a noun that is plural and femine. Queste donne dormono troppo. = These women sleep too much
Photographers@Google: Rick Sammon
Join Rick Sammon for thoughts and musings on lighting, HDR, and his life as a Canon "Painter of Light."
How to capture and control light to make the best digital photographs.
Light is the essence of photography. Follow master photographer Rick Sammon at dawn in Kenya or nighttime in Miami as he demonstrates how to achieve the best composition with the available light, which camera settings are best suited to existing conditions, and how to obtain the best exposures in challenging situations. Sa
The U.S. Constitution & the Bill of Rights
This is a three minute overview of the The Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights. Has student comments and fake advertisement can be distracting from the content. Poorly edited.
Has a Teacher's Guide.
Millicent Min, Girl Genius by Lisa Yee
This short video from Scholastic is a booktalk by Joni Bodart for the book Millicent Min, Girl Genius by Lisa Yee.  Bodart tells the plot of the book, but leaves the ending a surprise to encourage readers to read the book. (2:05)
Watching neurons grow
(00:38) The Gertler lab at the Koch Institute is studying migration of neurons and their growth cones, actin-rich structures that guide developing axons and dendrites to their targets. In this video, lab members visualized dorsal root ganglia growth cones by infecting neurons with HSV-tdTomato from the McGovern/Picower viral core facility.
Video courtesy of Ed Van Veen / Frank Gertler, Koch Institute
Stimulating Innovation and Creativity in the Workplace - Bob Sutton (Stanford)
Robert Sutton, Co-Director of the Center for Work, Technology, and Organization at Stanford University focuses on what it takes to stimulate innovation and creativity in the workplace and relates the key points from his book "Weird Ideas that Work."
1 Approaching plays Most people's experience of plays will be through seeing them on stage, or on television or video. Or, thinking of drama in a more general sense, we might be avid watchers of TV soaps or films. But, as a student of literature, you are sitting at home with a book open in front of you. It contains the text of a play. What, then, are you to make of the words on the page before you? If the script you were examining was intended for a film or a TV play it would look different from the examples tha
4 How do organisations become market leaders? Drucker (1992) wrote: The five most important questions you will ever ask about your organization [are]: What is our business? Who is our customer? What does our customer consider value? What have been our results? What is our plan? Can you answer these questions for your own organisation? I don't expect you to know all the answers now. Try to think about them
Bulletin of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Volume XXXII, Summer 2005
CONTENTS: Cover Illustration Description, The Berlin "Coptic Book", Rome Conference, IAC Fall 2005 Lecture Series, New SBL Program, 2005 Brownlee Lecture, IAC at AAR/SBL, Book Reviews
Meet Author Paul Harding and Alumni Reading Room Opening
October 12, 2010 Pulitzer Prize winning author, Paul Harding, discusses his book Tinkers in Snell Library Lobby. Gene Reppucci and Jack Moynihan address the opening of the Alumni Reading Room.
Alejandro González Iñárritu Masterclass
In a masterclass held in partnership with NFTS and The Script Factory, Alejandro González Iñárritu presents a brilliant and comprehensive account of his approach to filmmaking. An hour in his company reveals an eloquence to match his passion for the medium as he tells the story of his career and his practice. His fertile imagination is allied to a rare ability to animate the abstractions of the creative process through anecdote and metaphor. Watch the whole event at www.bfi.org.uk/live/video/
