Patricia Hunt and Sandra Steingraber || Radcliffe Institute
Cloudy With a Chance of Solutions The Radcliffe Institute's annual science symposium in 2012 focused on the important and challenging topic of water. 00:00 "Are Environmental Contaminants Affecting Your Reproductive Health?" Patricia Hunt, Washington State University 48:06 "Fracking Our Water: Emerging Threats to Drinking Water in an Age of Extreme Fossil Fuel Extraction" Sandra Steingraber, Ecologist and Author
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Wealth Strategies: Stocks say markets wanted a surprise
Nov. 7 - JPMorgan's Tom Lee says the market reaction to the U.S. Presidential election indicates more investors were probably hoping for a surprise Romney win and thinks financial stocks may take a hit.
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George Lakoff on the 2012 election
George Lakoff talks about the 2012 election, and the differences between Republican and Democratic styles of politics, with the Center for Latin American Studies at UC Berkeley. George Lakoff is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. An expert on political communication and framing, he is the author most recently of "The Little Blue Book: The Essential Guide to Thinking and Talking Democratic" with Elisabeth Wehling.
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The future electric car may be one big battery
Swedish researchers believe the problem of battery efficiency in electric cars can be solved by turning the car's entire frame into one, big battery. They say their solution would remove the drag created by today's heavy batteries, vastly increasing the range of electric cars. Jim Drury has the story.
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BusinessCast 238: Special on Investing
This week we focus on the investor. On the heels of the annual University of Virginia Value Investing Conference held at Darden, we hear from Francesca McCann, Managing Director for Global Water Strategies, on water as an investment opportunity. We also sit down with student Cortland Ouzts of Darden's Private Equity Club about the conference event they will hold in Spring of 2013. The Darden BusinessCast is a weekly news podcast featuring the events, news, and newsmakers of the University of
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Classic Preschool Songs EPISODE 1: Camels & Duct Tape
This is the first "Sing & Play With Russ" episode. Video could be used as lesson breaks or indoor recess time with preschool and kindergarten children.  Songs include "If You're Happy and You Know It" with unique verses, "Alice the Camel" (number recognition), and "Duct Tape." (10:03)
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Philosophy of language and mind
Language and Mind: What is rationality? What is consciousness? How do we manage to express our thoughts and experiences in language?
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Theodore Roosevelt's Conservation Influences
Theodore Roosevelt was a great lover of nature long before he became president. From boyhood throughout his adult life, Roosevelt's enthusiasm for conservation was encouraged and shaped by several influential figures. Early on, TR's uncle, Robert Barnwell Roosevelt inspired his nephew with his tireless struggles on behalf of conservation policy. Later, Roosevelt would meet the naturalists John Burroughs, George Bird Grinnell, and Museum ornithologist, Frank Chapman. During his presidency, Roosev
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Koala Double Phonics
Koala Double Phonics Chant.
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Kwame Belle's Bucket List: Hitting the Ice
Senior Kwame Belle checks out Open Skate, gets some skating lessons from Laker women's hockey captain Olivia Boersen and sees his first women's hockey game in the latest episode of his Bucket List series.
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Varian Acuity Simulator comes to McMaster
Third-year students in the Medical Radiation Sciences Collaborative Diploma/Degree Program demonstrate how to use the new Varian Acuity Simulator, located in the Institute for Applied Health Sciences on the University's main campus. The technology is designed to offer world-class learning opportunities in the field of cancer radiation treatment to McMaster and Mohawk College students.
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Arthur's Perfect Christmas Part 2 of 4
This is a great resource to celebrate Christmas at home and at school. Various traditions are addressed in this Arthur movie. (14:52) Part 2 of 4
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Strengthening Capability of State Universities on Vulnerability Assessment to Enhance their Role in
By: UP Los Baños Presentation by Dr. Amparo M. Wagan, University Extension Specialist, University of the Philippines Los Banos, Philippines. Delivered during the International Conference on Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation for Food and Environmental Security, November 21-22, 2012 at SEARCA, UPLB, College, Laguna, Philippines.
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Acknowledgements

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Figures

Figure 2(f) © National Power;

Figure 3 Courtesy of IBM Corporation, Research Division, Almaden Research Center;

Figure 14 ‘Fuel hoarder sentenced’ by Maurice Weaver, printed 6 April 2001, Telegraph Gro
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6.3.1 Refinements and difficulties

In Section 6.2, we said that inter-axis repulsions vary in the order:

There is evidence for this in the inter-bond angles in molecules. For example, in wat
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