8.2 John Locke on Personal Identity
Part 8.2. Looks at John Locke's view of personal identity; how consciousness and 'personal history' distinguish personal identity and the idea of memory as crucial for personal identity.
Author(s): Peter Millican

8.1 Introduction to Personal Identity
Part 8.1. Introduces the concept of personal identity, what is it to be a person, whether someone is the same person over time and Leibniz's law of sameness.
Author(s): Peter Millican

Music on a WIM: Andrea Clearfield (Part 1)
First up is Andrea Clearfield's composition Songs of the Wolf. Kristen Richard, a senior in horn performance in the studio of Mary Burroughs, and Alisa Gilliam, a piano faculty member at ECU perform the first movement of this piece—Wolf Songs. Clearfield, a current American composer, teaches at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She writes compositions for a variety of musical avenues including orchestra, chorus, soloists, and chamber ensembles. Additionally, Clearfield recently won
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Music on a WIM: Florence Price (Part 3)
The final two pieces, Trouble Done Come My Way and My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord, were composed by Florence Price. Price, who wrote mainly spirituals, was the first African American woman to be recognized as a symphonic composer in the 1930s. She attended the American Conservatory and the Chicago Musical College to study music. Although she wrote more than 300 compositions, many remain unpublished today. Candace Little, a senior in music therapy and mezzo-soprano, and Catherine Garner on p
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Blackboard 9 - Adding Announcements
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Computing in the Cloud - Part 1: "Introduction" – January 14, 2008
"Computing in the cloud" is one name for services that run in a Web browser and store information in a provider's data center — ranging from adaptations of familiar tools such as email and personal finance to new offerings such as virtual worlds and social networks. This workshop will bring together experts from computer science, law, politics and industry to explore the social and policy implications of this trend. Part 1 includes introductory remarks by H. Vincent Poor, and a survey talk by
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Computing in the Cloud - Part 2: "Possession and ownership of data" – January 14, 2008
"Computing in the cloud" is one name for services that run in a Web browser and store information in a provider's data center — ranging from adaptations of familiar tools such as email and personal finance to new offerings such as virtual worlds and social networks. This workshop will bring together experts from computer science, law, politics and industry to explore the social and policy implications of this trend. Part 2 includes the first panel of the workshop, entitled "Possession and own
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Computing in the Cloud - Part 6: "What's next?" – January 15, 2008
"Computing in the cloud" is one name for services that run in a Web browser and store information in a provider's data center — ranging from adaptations of familiar tools such as email and personal finance to new offerings such as virtual worlds and social networks. This workshop will bring together experts from computer science, law, politics and industry to explore the social and policy implications of this trend. Part 6 includes the third panel of the workshop, entitled "What's next?". Wh
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Computing in the Cloud - Part 6: "What's next?" – January 15, 2008
"Computing in the cloud" is one name for services that run in a Web browser and store information in a provider's data center — ranging from adaptations of familiar tools such as email and personal finance to new offerings such as virtual worlds and social networks. This workshop will bring together experts from computer science, law, politics and industry to explore the social and policy implications of this trend. Part 6 includes the third panel of the workshop, entitled "What's next?". Wh
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Many-Minds Arguments in Legal Theory (video)

La sagesse collective : principes et mécanismes

Colloque des 22-23 mai 2008, organisé par l'Institut du Monde Contemporain du Collège de France, sous la direction du Professeur Jon Elster.

Intervention de Adrian Vermeule, Harvard Law School, 23 mai 2008

Many-minds arguments are flooding into legal theory. Such arguments claim that in some way or another, many heads are better than one; the genus includes many species, such as arguments about how legal and pol
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Improving the health of the population and evidence based medicine
This is a module framework. It can be viewed online or downloaded as a zip file. As taught in Autumn Semester 2009 This module has two essential components: Evidence-Based Medicine and Public Health. Evidence-Based Medicine was introduced as a new discipline because traditionally the teaching of medicine was heavily reliant on an apprenticeship-type system with emphasis on learning from observing one’s teachers. One of the guiding principles in the NHS today is that all health care should be b
Author(s): Myles Puja R. Dr

Dames with drills: call a handywoman
Need help with hanging a pair of curtains, or want your house renovated? British firm Home Jane says next time you need a tradesman, you should call a tradeswoman.
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Commercial Success: Reaching to the Planets
Students will view examples of travel commercials and create their own focusing on one of the eight planets in our Solar System.
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Nassim Taleb on the world in 2036
As "The World in" celebrates its 25th anniversary, author and professor Nassim Taleb discusses a future filled with "black swan" events
Author(s): The Economist

Managing your time when teaching online
Download the supporting PDF file for this episode http://bit.ly/cnzReG from the Learning to Teach Online project website. Online classes are not bound by scheduled class times, and it can be very easy to spend too much time teaching and managing your students in this environment. This Learning to ...
Author(s): Simon McIntyre Karin Watson

High early scores for video game biz
The video game business is getting a boost this holiday season thanks to winning new products like Xbox Kinect and PlayStation Move.
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A life in Science (audio)

Prix Nobel de Chimie 2003

Biologiste américain, Peter Agre s’est très tôt orienté vers la recherche médicale. En 1991, il isole la première protéine capable de faciliter les mouvements de l'eau à travers une membrane biologique, l’aquaporine. Cette découverte lui vaudra en 2003 le Prix Nobel de chimie.

A l'occasion de cette conférence, il revient, non sans humour, sur ces années d’engagement et de combat pour la recherche scientifique.

GAMBIT Research Video Podcast Episode 10, Part 1 "Fun In The Stacks: Games, Gaming and Gamers in Li
In Episode 10, Part 1 "FUN IN THE STACKS: GAMES, GAMING AND GAMERS IN LIBRARIES" Syracuse Assoc. Professor and the host of "Board Games With Scott", Scott Nicholson leads a discussion during the Nov 11, 2010 GAMBIT Research Meeting on the value of gaming programs in public libraries. Founded in 2006, the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab sets itself apart by emphasizing the creation of video game prototypes to demonstrate our research as a complement to traditional academic publishing. The goa
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Viral Vector: BacMam-GFP
Astrocytes transduced with BacMam-GFP in mouse visual cortex. Notice the astrocytes are wrapped around the blood vessels.

This in vivo 2-photon image was created using viral vectors from the viral gene transfer core, a facility established in 2008 by the Picower Institute and the McGovern Institute to make viral vectors accessible to the MIT neuroscience community.

Image courtesy of Sam Clark, McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT
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Discussing Entrepreneurial and Innovation Strategy Curriculum
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