Global Cohort: Yali Roldan
Entrepreneur Yali Roldan of Panama talks about her company, Dutu Mola, and her participation in the 2012 U.S. State Department and Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Entrepreneurship Partnership Global Cohort at Thunderbird School of Global Management. http://www.thunderbird.edu
.NET 4.5 in Practice: Bing .NET GC developer Maoni Stephens, Performance Architect Vance Morrison and Bing front end developer Mukul Sabharwal join us for a conversation about .NET 4.5 in practice. We spent some time with the.NET 4.5 team earlier in the year. You can see the series of conversational interviews we did here
Sesame Street: The Letter "X" Song
Young learners will enjoy this cute animated video with Cookie Monster. Cookie sings a letter "X" song that emphasizes the letter sound and the word x-ray. This is a great resource to introduce and/or review alphabet sounds in the early childhood classroom. (0:52)
Breakingviews: Bailout bond buying is a backward idea
June 20 - The euro bailout fund is too small and too limited to be used to buy sovereign debt and current proposal would help creditors not countries say Breakingviews.
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Global Cohort: Amparo Quisbert
Entrepreneur Amparo Quisbert of Bolivia talks about her company, Fama, and her participation in the 2012 U.S. State Department and Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Entrepreneurship Partnership Global Cohort at Thunderbird School of Global Management. http://www.thunderbird.edu
Build it Better!
Students use their knowledge of tornadoes and damage. The students will work in groups to design a structure that will withstand and protect people from tornadoes. Each group will create a poster with the name of their engineering firm and a picture of their structure. Finally, each group will present their posters to the class.
Kent Welcomes Back the Golden Flashes Baseball Team
Fans and members of the press cheer on members of the Kent State Golden Flashes Baseball Team as they return from the 2012 NCAA College World Series. The team made Kent State history this year by playing in the College World Series for the first time and being the first school in the Mid-American Conference to attend since 1976. After eliminating No. 1 Florida in their second College World Series game, the Golden Flashes fell to defending champion South Carolina, 4-1.
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Introductions to Equations and Fractions
This tutorial video gives step by step directions on solving equations with fractions. This is a great resource to help build mastery of this important skill. (2:07)
Afganistan:Â 19th Century Overview
The history of British imperial interference in 19th Century Afghanistan is replete with useless wars, miscues, mismanagement, ineptitude and disastrous choices. Afghanistan’s attitude toward the outside world is in many ways shaped by this record of incompetence. Length: 4:47
Aztecs: Religion and Rituals
In the early decades of the 1500s, Spanish explorers, or Conquistadors, moved from the Caribbean coast into central Mexico. There they encountered the Aztecs, a deeply religious people with a complex structure of rites and ceremonies. Length 4:01
Diet composition is associated with endogenous formation of N-nitroso compounds in obese men
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21M.220 Early Music (MIT)
Includes audio/video content: AV selected lectures. This course examines European music from the early Middle Ages until the end of the Renaissance. It includes a chronological survey and intensive study of three topics: chant and its development, music in Italy 1340-1420, and music in Elizabethan England. Instruction focuses on methods and pitfalls in studying music of the distant past. Students' papers, problem sets, and presentations explore lives, genres, and works in depth. Works are studie
Aztecs: Introduction to People and Civilization
This video gives great facts and pictures of the Aztec people and its habits. One of most advanced civilizations in the Americas was at its height when it was abruptly invaded and conquered by the Spanish. This is a great resource to use in conjunction with texts and/or lessons on this topic. There is a partial nude drawing of Aztec woman. (3:45)
Striped Bass Decline Points to Pollution
The striped bass, which can grow upwards of 45 kilograms (100 pounds), is a prize catch for sport fishers in the San Francisco Bay area—especially in recent decades, when big ones have been harder to find. Yet something other than fishing is causing the striped bass populations in the Bay to tumble dramatically. Years of study is revealing that many factors are to blame. They include pumping bay water for agriculture, invasive aquatic organisms, and pollution run-off from homes, industry, and
Geograph reaches Three Million Pictures
Geograph having over 3 million live images on its website!
Gerald Ford's "Sunday Morning Massacre"
On November 3, 1975, President Ford holds a news conference and announces a number of personnel changes among his top national security posts. The press dubbed his action the "Sunday Morning Massacre." (4:53)
Challenges for Media Democratization in Brazil and Latin America
Dr Carolina Matos, former LSE fellow, gives a talk for the Reuters Institute seminar series on 6th June 2012
