The Current State of the Economy
Matthew Taibbi, a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, and Gillian Tett, the U.S. managing editor of Financial Times, will talk about the causes and possible outcomes of the current financial crisis.
Taibbi, a 1991 graduate of Bard College who finished his studies at Leningrad Polytechnical University, has worked as a freelance reporter in the Soviet Union and Uzbekistan. In 1997 he and writer Mark Ames founded a Moscow-based, English-language newspaper, the Exile, which reported on corruption
Robert Vanderbei: Digitizing the Universe From Your Backyard
Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Learn how the modern digital world in makes it possible, even almost easy, for amateurs to take astrophotos in their own backyards that are better than those taken at professional observatories only a generation ago. The key enablers are computer controlled mounts for very precise pointing control, CCD cameras, and modern image processing tools.
More at http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2008/02/digitizing_the_universe_from_your_backyard.html
Lord Townshend on Trade and Morality [Excerpted from An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, vol. 1, Economic Thought Before Adam Smith (1995). An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Jeff Riggenbach, is available for download.] The Water Cycle 1.11.1 Subject positions In her analysis, Blackman is identifying a pattern in Diana's talk and relating it to other similar methods of self-representation found in our culture. It is worth thinking through this in more detail. One key claim of discourse researchers is that language positions people – discourse creates subject positions. What does this mean? To speak at all is to speak from a position (remember the discussion of footing in the previous section). Further than this, the positions or slots in c Steunpunt diversiteit en leren Het Steunpunt Diversiteit & Leren (SDL) biedt een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde ondersteuning met betrekking tot het thema ‘Omgaan met diversiteit’. SDL beschouwt dit thema als een belangrijke hefboom om onze pluralistische en … "Roundtable: On the Usefulness of the Concept of the Modern" Pesticides et Santé
Journée Santé Environnement
Quelques risques environnementaux reconnus
ISPED, Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2
La question des pesticides comme risque environnemental est au cœur des débats de société et un sujet de choix pour l’imaginaire des medias. Les sources d’expositions sont diverses à la fois pour la population gé About MoLeTV Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Why Chemomechanical Design of Materials is Critical to Sustainable ICT in school : Al het ict-nieuws voor het basisonderwijs Deze Nederlandse site met de laatste ict-nieuwtjes bevat een overzicht met allemaal gratis ict-tools (software) en ook links naar andere educatieve websites. CI Days 2010 at Purdue C-SPAN Archives: Processing and Storage Europa voor leerkrachten : Inspirerend lesmateriaal over de EU Hier vind je een breed aanbod aan lesmateriaal over Europa, verdeeld over vier leeftijdsrubrieken. Het materiaal is samengesteld door verschillende EU-instellingen en andere overheidsorganen en ngo's. Het is bedoeld om jongeren meer te laten … New U of Minn. study examines alcohol consumption at pro sports stadiums Weet je nog, 2010? Aan de hand van de nieuwsoverzichten van VRT en VTM wordt achtergrondinfo gegeven over de actualiteit van 2010. Verder worden leerlingen ook aangespoord zelf één en ander op te zoeken op het internet of in de atlas. De bundel telt … Profile: Sir Martin Sorrell, Chief Executive, WPP Science, Faith and Reason Darwin and the Other Christian Tradition
This animation shows one molecule of water completing the hydrologic cycle where water is transferred from the oceans through the atmosphere to land and then back to the oceans. (1:23)
A round-table panel discussion at the Sixth South Asia Graduate Student Conference with Steven Collins (Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities, University of Chicago), Wendy Doniger (Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School, University of Chicago), and Sanjay Subrahmanyam (Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair of Indian History, UCLA).
Our conversations on sustainable transportation typically begin with a review of vehicle efficiencies, and end with the characteristics of fuel, energy sources, and life cycle. In a remarkably novel approach to sustainable transportation, Krystyn Van Vliet discusses how other things matter too- namely the materials
CI Days 2010 at Purdue December 8, 2010 C-SPAN Archives: Processing and Storage with Robert Browning. Director of the C-SPAN Archives and Purdue Associate Professor of Political Science and Communication.
Almost half of sports fans leaving professional baseball and football games have consumed alcohol and eight percent of attendees are legally drunk when they leave, according to University of Minnesota School of Public Health research. Lead University of Minnesota researcher Darin Erickson explains.
Sir Martin Sorrell discusses his career and his role as Chief Executive of WPP
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