Unflat Pavilion
Part of the MIT FAST Festival, Unflat Pavilion is a freestanding pavilion illuminated with LEDS that flexes two dimensions into three. Flat sheets are bent and unfurl into skylights, columns and windows.
2.4.2 What are social work values? Traditionally, one of the things that distinguishes a profession is that it has a set of principles to which its members have to be committed and must put into practice. Sarah Banks defines social work values as: a set of fundamental moral/ethical principles to which social workers are/should be committed. (Banks, 2001, p. 6) The British Association of Social Workers issued a revised C
Authors@Google: Steven Levy in conversation with Matt Cutts in Mountain View
Steven Levy spoke to Googlers in Mountain View on April 19, 2011 about his new book In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives. Steven Levy is in conversation with Matt Cutts and is introduced by Karen Wickre.
About the book:
Written with full cooperation from top management at Google, this is the story behind the most successful and admired technology company of our time.
About the author:
Steven Levy is a senior writer at Wired, and was formerly senior editor and chief tec
Creating Capabilities
If a country's Gross Domestic Product increases each year, but so does the percentage of its people deprived of basic education, health care, and other opportunities, is that country really making progress? If we rely on conventional economic indicators, can we ever grasp how the world's billions of individuals are really managing?
In this video and in her new book, CREATING CAPABILITIES, Martha Nussbaum argues that our dominant theories of development have given us policies that ignore our mos
Austin Rover Factory Longbridge - Before, During & After Redevelopment.
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Brain: The Inside Story's "Your Sensing Brain"
Wherever you go, whatever you do, the world stirs your senses. It is there in the sparkle of fireworks, the flavor of watermelon, the crack of a baseball bat and the scent of summer rain. Sensations like these may seem to come to you automatically. But you only perceive them thanks to an intricate chain reaction of signals inside your brain.
The exhibition, Brain: The Inside Story, which is on view at the American Museum of Natural History from Saturday, November 20, until August 14, 2011, brin
2.3 Why we value play Play is notoriously difficult to define, but this in itself is not problematic. What is important is that practitioners, parents and children within a setting share their ideas about what constitutes play and that we, as adults, are clear about why we value play. In order to do this, you need to take a step back and think about what you think play does and, from there, consider why it is valuable. In Activity 2 you though
Faoiseamh a Gheobhadsa - Crossword
A crossword based on the poem Faoiseamh a Gheobhadsa which is on the leaving cert course.
Beyond a Global Deal? A UN+ Approach to Climate Governance
How can we make progress on climate change in the face of gridlock? Global Governance 2020 is a group of young academics, policymakers and business people from China, the United States and Europe. Robert Falkner is senior lecturer in international relations at LSE and a leading expert on global environmental politics. Anthony Giddens is former director of LSE and the author, most recently, of The Politics of Climate Change. Thomas Hale is a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics at Princeto
Pendennis Castle N900026 PENDENNIS CASTLE, Cornwall. c.1911. Reconstruction drawing by Ivan LAPPER of Half Moon Battery. Transfer of shells to No. 2 gun.
1 Technological advancement Everything that can be invented has been invented. (The Commissioner of the United States Office of Patents, 1899, recommending that his office be abolished, quoted in The Economist, 2000, p. 5) There is nothing now to be foreseen which can prevent the United States from enjoying an era of business prosperity which is entirely Next steps After completing this unit you may wish to study another OpenLearn Study Unit or find out more about this topic. Here are some suggestions: 4.2 Questions for review and discussion 4.1 Conclusion Every era defines for itself its most pressing economic problems. They emerge from a complex public dialogue, involving ideas and experience, theories and political pressures. Economists influence and take part in that dialogue but they certainly do not control it. Are we living through a new industrial revolution powered by ICT? Should we be grateful to big companies such as Microsoft and Nike for their new products or try to curtail their power? Does more material well-being always make peo Upheaval in Syria and Yemen 1$air: Re-Designing the Airline User Experience Burma votes 2010 - Episode 3 The Line (O) and (F) - Crossword MicrobeWorld Ep. 8: ReGenesis Gaeilge - Filíocht Bímse Buan ar Buair Gachló
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A former diplomat and our Middle East correspondent on how the governments of Yemen and Syria are faring amid increasing opposition
Course: "Introduction to Interaction Design"
Project: Three of four final presentation projects (CCA undergraduate)
Term: Spring 2011
Instructor: Kristian Simsarian
Description: Four groups of students redesigned the user experience for the fictitious airline, 1$air.
They presented to judges from Smart Design, HOT Studio, Google, and IDEO. Students worked one on one with design coaches from interaction design companies and other start-ups to create this inspired project.
Former Australian Ambassador to Burma Trevor Wilson is the guest while Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim gives his reaction to the release of Aung San Suu Kyi in the third Burma votes 2010 vodcast from The Australian National University.Trevor Wilson, now a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Political and Social Change in the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, was in Burma as the polls were taking place. He discusses the atmosphere in the country, the reaction to the release of Aung
Online crossword on the topic of The Line coordinate geometry. Solutions are provided. Crossword may be printed in hard copy as a homework exercise.
ReGenesis is an award winning science drama produced by Toronto's Shaftesbury Films that centers on the fictitious North American Biotechnology Advisory Commission. NorBAC's special operations team, headed by the brilliant but unpredictable Molecular Biologist Dr. David Sandström (Peter Outerbridge) and supported by a cast of forensic specialists and CIA operatives, investigates new strains of disease, genetically modified bacteria, and potential bioterror threats or agents. In essence, the sho
A crossword based on the poem.
