1.2 Optical elements
This unit looks at how telescopes and spectrographs are designed to improve our ability to observe the universe. You will examine how different technologies have been developed over the last four hundred years to enable us to look deep into space.
1.1 A milestone in the advancement of astronomy
This unit looks at how telescopes and spectrographs are designed to improve our ability to observe the universe. You will examine how different technologies have been developed over the last four hundred years to enable us to look deep into space.
3.1 Introduction
You may have met complex numbers before, but not had experience in manipulating them. This unit gives an accessible introduction to complex numbers, which are very important in science and technology, as well as mathematics. The unit includes definitions, concepts and techniques which will be very helpful and interesting to a wide variety of people with a reasonable background in algebra and trigonometry.
2.3 Section summary
You may have met complex numbers before, but not had experience in manipulating them. This unit gives an accessible introduction to complex numbers, which are very important in science and technology, as well as mathematics. The unit includes definitions, concepts and techniques which will be very helpful and interesting to a wide variety of people with a reasonable background in algebra and trigonometry.
8 How ‘Romantic’ is the Pavilion?
In this unit we examine the Royal Pavilion at Brighton, and its relationship to nineteenth century romanticism and exoticism. We begin with a biographical discussion of the Prince of Wales, afterwards Prince Regent and eventually King George IV, to whose specifications the Pavilion was built. With the help of video and still images we take a tour of the Pavilion, examining the exterior then a series of interior rooms as a visitor in the 1820s may have experienced them. Besides this we look at co
Promise based management: Execution and promise based management Is creative culture linked to play? Decision making can not be left to intuition alone Where have all the good times gone? Why choose a London Business School MBA? Management Innovation Lab 4 market opportunities for flexible managers to seize in a downturn 3 ways to re-structure your business processes in a downturn Ready for change? Chris Higson - Fourth briefing of the 'crisis compendium' The John Smith Well Sesame Street Sings  About Danger MisinforMation: A Double Room In A Single Bed (2010) Wikileaks: Public interest or amusement? 2.3.2 Love Please now read ‘Dogs and Wolves’. Click to view the poem ‘Dogs and Wolves’ This poem is amazing in its forceful, simple-seeming expression of an extraordinarily complex combination of thought and emotion. The ‘dogs and wolves’ are the speaker's ‘unwritten poems’. Why ‘unwritten’? One infers that other matters take priority over l
n part one of a series of three podcasts on promise based management, Donald Sull, Associate Professor of Management Practice in Strategic and International Management, talks about execution and how it presents many challenges for organisations.
Babis Mainemelis, Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour discusses the link between creative culture and play.
Zeger Degraeve, Professor of Decision Sciences, talks about today's general manager and the Process of Decision Making
On 14 October, four members of London Business School's economics faculty shared their perspectives on 'The World Economy: Where have all the good times gone?'
Julian Birkinshaw, Co-founder of the Management Innovation Lab discusses why management innovation is a largely unexplored source of competitive advantage
Don Sull, Professor of Management Practice in Strategic and International Management, shares four market opportunities that flexible and agile managers can seize in a downturn
Don Sull, Professor of Management Practice in Strategic and International Management, looks at three ways forward-thinking businesses use a downturn to restructure their organisation
Professor Michael Jarrett, discusses the internal and external complexities of organisational change and argues the case for being ready for change - always.
The School has been providing a regular commentary on the economic crisis and likely scenarios for the future. Chris Higson, Associate Professor of Accounting, provided his insights on the recession and the types of companies that will be affected
Discovery continues at Virginia's James Fort, site of America's first permanent English settlement. Archaeologist Bill Kelso gets to the bottom of a 1609 well.
The muppets in this video teach children the meaning of the word "Danger." The song is very animated and I think children will enjoy. (2:20)
The BFI's most startling and uncategorisable DVD of the year reveals what happened when mysterious music makers Mordant Music were asked to re-score an array of 70s and 80s public information films and documentary shorts produced by the Central Office of Information (COI). This piece (one of fourteen) combines images from 'Ideal Homes' (c.1970) with a soundtrack sampled from 'Tackling Priority Estates' (1983).
'MisinforMation' is released on Monday December 6th, and available exclusively from
With more sensitive information expected to be released on Wikileaks, Professor Wyn Rees weighs up whether the damage to international security is as dramatic as some have suggested.
