Creating Imperfect Squares and their roots.
Todd Lane (Sandia National Laboratories) at the 2012 SFAF Meeting
By: JGI Todd Lane on "RapTOR: Automated sequencing library preparation and suppression for rapid pathogen characterization" at the 2012 Sequencing, Finishing, Analysis in the Future Meeting held June 5-7, 2012 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
A Wicked Deception
10 Common grammatical errors that drive teachers nuts.
Hey, I'll be the first to admit that everyone makes the odd grammatical error every once inow and then. But there is an ever growing incidence of students are making unforgivable mistakes with their gram
U.S. Morning Call: Stocks pointing higher; Isaac threatens
Aug 28 - Stock index futures are pointing to a slightly higher open as Isaac threatens to strengthen into a hurricane, setting its sights on Louisiana.
Science off the Sphere: Yo-Yos in Space
NASA astronaut Don Pettit uses his off-duty time to practice his microgravity yo-yo skills. Through a partnership between NASA and the American Physical Society you can participate in Pettit's physics challenge and view experiments here: http://www.physicscentral.com/sots
Connections Between Texts - Maya Lin and Jane Jacobs
Overview
Students watch two segments about two women who have influenced architecture and the physical look of a city. After a class discussion, students will write and perform a Readers' Theater script in which Jacobs and Lin talk to each other about their ideas about architecture and life.
Why is this an important concept?
It is important for learners to be able to recognize connections between or among texts so they can identify common themes and conflicting information in t
Symphony in Slang
This is a cartoon that uses figurative language. The story is about a man who goes to the gates of heaven and tells his life story in slang so that that St. Michael cannot understand him. This would be great for teaching idioms. (03:32)
ArtSleuth 1: VAN GOGH - The Starry Night - New version
Better image and sound sync
More on http://www.canal-educatif.fr
Why Study FD Maurice with Frances Knight
F.D. Maurice (1805-72) was one of the more significant Anglican theologians of his day. Although not well known today, he was the pioneer of many of the ideas of Christian socialism, and one of the first theologians to build a theology of salvation on the love of God as father rather than on the threats of eternal damnation - a position for which he was much criticised in his lifetime.
ScienceCasts: Watch Out For The Blue Moon
The second full Moon of August--a "Blue Moon"--is just around the corner. It will probably look just like any other full Moon but, on rare occasions, the Moon really does turn blue? (03:36)
Digital Physicality
Digital Physicality is the first volume of the conference proceedings of the 30th eCAADe conference, held from 12-14 september 2012 in Prague at the Faculty of Architecture of Czech Technical University in Prague. The companion volume is called Physical Digitality. Together, both volumes contain 154 papers that were submitted to this conference.Physicality means that digital models increasingly incorporate information and knowledge of the world. This extends beyond material and component databas
Should a Person Touch 200,000 Volts? A Van de Graaff generator experiment!
The teacher in this video uses a Van de Graaf generator to talk to a group of middle school students about static electricity. He uses the demonstration to explain how lightning rods work and also distinguishes between voltage and current (08:20).
Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate 2012: Improving quality with unit tests and fakes | Visual Studio This short video shows how to run and manage unit tests from multiple providers in Visual Studio, and create fakes to bring complex systems under test. Please refer to the edition comparison chart for more details: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us/products/compare Note: Fakes is available only in Ultimate edition.
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DISCOVERING GENES ASSOCIATED WITH DISEASES AND TRAITS IN DOGS
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Sketching the Secret Tracts of the Child's Mind
Sketching the Secret Tracts of the Child's Mind: Theorizing Childhood in Early American Fantasy Strips, 1905-1914:
Lara Saguisag examines how early 20th-century comic strips that featured child protagonists revealed the nature of the child during that era.
For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5587.
Understanding the Rise of China
Speaking at a TED Salon in London, economist Martin Jacques asks: How do we in the West make sense of China and its phenomenal rise? The author of "When China Rules the World," he examines why the West often puzzles over the growing power of the Chinese economy, and offers three building blocks for understanding what China is and will become. (21:31)
Trading at Noon: UnitedHealth pushes out Kraft
Sep 14 - UnitedHealth Group gets a spot on the Dow Jones Industrial Average as Kraft exits.
SOC101 Session 2 Fall 2012
The Individual in Society with Sergio Soto 09/17/12
