Turbidite Development
This site provides a collection of visual resources about turbidity currents and their deposits. Visualizations include animations, photos, static images, videos of experimental models, and visual output from numerical models. These resources can be integrated into lectures, classes, labs or other activities.
'Oeko-Hauptstadt Hamburg' lesson
'Oeko-Hauptstadt Hamburg' lesson.
Station Crew Opens Dragon's Hatch
The hatch between the newly arrived SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the Harmony module of the International Space Station was opened by NASA Astronaut Don Pettit at 5:53 am EDT as the station flew 253 miles above Auckland, New Zealand. The hatch opening begins four days of operations to upload more than 1,000 pounds of cargo from the first commercial spacecraft to visit the space station and reload it with experiments and cargo for a return trip to Earth. It is scheduled for splashdown several hund
The Grapist
Franklin D. Roosevelt on American Progress in World War II
With the United States now entered into World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt uses the occasion of Washington’s Birthday to broadcast to the nation on February 23, 1942, an outline of America’s progress in the war. (1:00)
Jackson and the $20 Bill
In this video clip, learn why Andrew Jackson, a staunch opponent of paper money, is featured on the $20 bill. (2:02)
1421: The Year China Discovered America
This fascinating documentary examines the mystery surrounding the sailing exploits of the legendary Admiral Zheng and his 30 year command of a gigantic Ming fleet. The Chinese court burned all records of Admiral Zheng’s daring voyages and achievements, and unwittingly created a mystery that tantalizes the world 500 years later.
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What Money Can't Buy - the moral limit of markets [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor Michael Sandel, Stephanie Flanders, Professor Julian Le Grand, Rt Revd Peter Selby | Is there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? If so, how can we prevent market values from reaching into spheres of life where they don't belong? What are the moral limits of markets? Noted public philosopher and Harvard professor Michael J. Sandel will explore some of these pressing questions with responses from Stephanie Flanders, Professor Julian Le Grand and Bis
Trig Implicit Differentiation Example
Implicit differentiation example that involves the tangent function. (12:08)
The Forgotten Queen of Bath: Remembering Author/Mayoress Madame Sarah Grand
Maura Dunst of the University of Hull looks at the forgotten 'Queen of Bath' Madam Sarah Grand
USAWC Class of 2012 Seminar 20
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Secrets of the Parthenon
A highly sophisticated restoration team is painstakingly reassembling the Parthenon of Athens—a classic Greek building that has suffered from wars, earthquakes, and disastrous previous restoration attempts.
The Parthenon’s builders created dauntingly precise yet subtle curves throughout the structure, giving the building its legendary grace.
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Science Nation - Cooperative Robots
By: nsf Learning a language can be difficult for some, but for babies it seems quite easy. With support from the National Science Foundation, linguist Jeffrey Heinz and mechanical engineer Bert Tanner have taken some cues from the way humans learn to put words and thoughts together, and are teaching language to robots. This innovative collaboration began a few years ago at a meeting at the University of Delaware. One goal for this project is to design cooperative robots that can operate autonomo
Early Secular Communism [This article is excerpted from An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995), volume 2, chapter 9: "Roots of Marxism: Messianic Communism," section 2, "Secularized Millennial Communism: Mably and Morelly." An MP3 audio file of chapter 9, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach, is Author(s): Reagan Swears in Rehnquist and Scalia Patches and Haplotypes in the Human Genome Telwoorden Unité 1 : En action 5 Om de kinderen de telwoorden tot tien nog eens te laten inoefenen, hang ik deze prentjes op in de klas. Elk kind krijgt een rooster mee.Op de stippeltjes moeten ze het cijfer invullen dat bij het prentje hangt. Gerald Ford's "Sunday Morning Massacre" Superintendents’ Perceptions of Teacher Leadership in Selected Districts
On September 25, 1986, President Ronald Reagan presides over the swearing in of William H. Rehnquist as the 16th chief justice and Aaron Scalia as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. (0:40)
By: gspudich Why are patches included in Ensembl? How is it possible to view a patch alongside the primary sequence? We explore the current human genome (GRCh37) in this video.
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)
Caryn M. Wells
This paper documents the results of a mixed method study of superintendents who participated in a survey while attending an annual meeting in 2009. The superintendents (N= 25) were from a variety […]
