Turtle - King County Library System
In this video, a librarian recites the fingerplay "Turtle" using motions. (0:37)
I Wiggle My Fingers - King County Library System
In this video, a librarian recites the fingerplay "I Wiggle My Fingers", which helps children to get ready to listen to a story. ( :15)
National Water Information System Web Data for the Nation
This USGS site provides access to water resources data collected at approximately 1.5 million sites in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. The site features real-time and historical data retrievable by geographic area for surface water, groundwater, and water quality conditions such as temperature, specific conductance, pH, nutrients, pesticides, and volatile organic compounds. The site also includes an extensive inventory of information about data collection sites at strea
NASA Planetary Data System Map-A-Planet
This site provides a useful way to view and download image data from the Moon, Mars, Venus, Io, Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa. Users can click on a map to select the area of the image desired. The maps may be customized by selecting latitude and longitude, data type, projection type, and scale. The Mars portion of the site now has both a Viking and a MOLA data set. Other planetary data sets are also available, including all Magellan SAR imagery for Venus. The image data is available at various
National Juvenile Defender System
The National Juvenile Defender Center (NJDC) was created in 1999 to respond to the critical need to build the capacity of the juvenile defense bar and to improve access to counsel and quality of representation for children in the justice system
Creating a nation: monuments and textual documents in Hungary: 1800-1900
Creating a nation: monuments and textual documents in Hungary: 1800-1900
HumBox Peer Review Workshop Video: Session 2: Thoughts for completing the workshop reviews
HumBox Peer Review Workshop Video: Session 2: Thoughts for completing the workshop reviews
Checklist: Preparing to share, and sharing your thoughts on resources in HumBox
Checklist: Preparing to share, and sharing your thoughts on resources in HumBox
Some Thoughts on Positivism
Ian Gilhespy
Xerte
A commentary on positivism, supplemented by a Radio 4 talk on the history of positivism chaired by Lord Bragg.
Honour crime and the legal system
Prof Shirin Rai talks about a joint study into how honour crimes are dealt with by the legal systems in India and Pakistan.
Global Media System, Public Knowledge and Democracy
Much of the world is moving towards the entertainment-centred, market-based media model of the United States. If this continues, we will enter a new era of political ignorance. James Curran is director of the Media Research Programme at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Majority Judgement: a completely new voting system. Part One - Majority Judgement vs the Traditional
Balinski presents an introduction to Majority Judgement, a new voting model that proposes a solution to many of the pressing problems confronting representative democracy and its various current electoral systems.
Majority Judgement: a completely new voting system. Part Two - The Principal Properties of Majority
Laraki argues that the new Majority Judgement voting system is superior because it best ranks candidates according to merit. It best resists manipulation or "gaming the vote." It heeds majority rule. It is not subject to Arrow’s impossibility, nor to most other classical paradoxes.
Majority Judgement: a completely new voting system. Part Three - Majority Judgement Compared with Ot
Balinski argues that, although the new Majority Judgement voting system is not perfect, approval voting fails in theory and practice, and that Majority Judgement is better than Condorcet’s and Borda’s classical proposals, point-summing methods, first-past-the post and others.
Gray's Anatomy: Thoughts on Politics, Religion and the Meaning of life
The world has entered a period of crisis and upheaval in which the ideologies of the past give little guidance. How did it reach its present condition? Is there a pattern of thinking that has led governments to make systematic errors? In conversation with Richard Reeves, John Gray will ask what went wrong and what we can expect in future. John Gray is emeritus professor of European thought at the LSE and author of Gray's Anatomy. Richard Reeves is Director of the think-tank Demos.
The Reform of the International Financial System: a proposal with the lessons from the crisis
A crisis that has impoverished the world has shown the need for an enhanced rules-based framework for the international financial system. More transparency, better regulation, incentives and oversight and a more in depth understanding of the implications of increased financial interdependence in a globalized world are the basis for the reforms needed.
Women's Rights in the Human Rights System: the Past, Present and Future
Navanethem Pillay, High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations
Stanley Hoffman Pt 1: Understanding the Global System
Stanley Hoffmann, the Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard University
Students at Risk: Nutrition, Obesity and the Public School System
Panelists:Â Nancy Huehnergarth, Director, New York State Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Alliance (NYSHEPA); Kathryn Henderson, PhD, Director of School and Community Initiatives, Yale's Rudd Center; Dr. Susan Rubin, Founder, Better School Food and "Two Angry Moms"; Chef Collazo, Head Chef of the Department of Education in New York City. Moderator: Rogan Kersh, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
The Reform of the International Financial System: a proposal with the lessons from the crisis
Speaker: José MarÃa Aznar, former Prime Minister of Spain. Chair: Professor Luis Garicano
