Meet Nadja Drost: La Toma Miners' Gold Wars
Learn more: http://pulitzercenter.org/projects/colombia-cauca-gold-mining-conflict-government-resistance
Afro-Colombians in La Toma's mining community are struggling to stay in control of the gold. As mining titles are being granted to Colombian and international mining outfits, miners are beginning to defy outsiders mining on their territories, yet with a price. The miners are in danger of death threats and assassinations for their resistance.
Nadja Drost's report on mining in Colombia is par
Algorithmes et génomes : analyse informatique de l'information génétique : 1ere partie
La séquence de caractères est un des objets que les informaticiens connaissent bien et pour lequel ils ont développé de très nombreux algorithmes. C’est donc très naturellement que l’informatique et les sciences du vivant se sont rencontrées autour de la problématique de l’analyse des séquences génomiques. Cet exposé décrit quelques exemples d’algorithmes simples dont l’application contribue à l’analyse de génomes et à la compréhension de l’évolution des organi
Creating Documentation Graphics
A workflow case study of using Acrobat X Pro. for managing and creating graphics for your documentation.
Afreen Siddiqi - research seminar - part 2 To fit the full seminar it had to be broken into two parts.
Meet Stephanie Hanes: A Global Look at Statelessness
Learn more: http://pulitzercenter.org/projects/stateless-citizenship-nationality-kenya-bangladesh-dominican-republic
Pulitzer Center grantee Stephanie Hanes explains the difficulties confronted by stateless population—people who have no citizenship rights—and how they are distinguished from refugees. Using Kenya, Bangladesh and the Dominican Republic as a lens to look into this worldwide phenomenon of statelessness, Hanes emphasizes diversity within stateless people who are individualized b
Meet Greg Constantine: The Stateless Rohingya in Myanmar and Bangladesh
Learn more: http://pulitzercenter.org/projects/stateless-citizenship-nationality-kenya-bangladesh-dominican-republic
Reporting from Bangladesh, Pulitzer Center grantee Greg Constantine discusses a web of issues faced by the Rohingya community—an ethnic minority group stripped off citizenship in Myanmar (Burma)—that exemplifies the consequences of statelessness worldwide. Constantine has been documenting the issue of statelessness for the past six years, exposing the impact the denial of cit
Sarah Waechter, Partner Manager for Excalibur Almaz Inc.
NASA Public Affairs Officer Kyle Herring talks with Sarah Waechter, partner manager for Excalibur Almaz Inc., on the status of the Space Act Agreement. Excalibur Almaz is one of seven partners associated with the Commercial Crew Program.
Microraptor: Live Chat with Mark Norell & Mick Ellison
On March 9, the American Museum of Natural History and io9 hosted a live webcast discussion about new dinosaur feather research. The study, by a team of researchers that includes Museum paleontologists, reveals the black iridescent color and detailed feather pattern of Microraptor, a pigeon-sized, four-winged dinosaur that lived about 130 million years ago.
Robert Gonzalez, a science reporter at io9, moderated the discussion with two of the new paper's co-authors: Mark Norell, chair of the Mus
Breakingviews: A UK 100-year bond bad news for pension funds
Mar. 14 - A rational buyer wouldn't touch a UK 100 year bond, but buyers like pension funds may have no choice, making the bonds a symbolic victory for the government over savers say Reuters Breakingviews
Literary Festival 2012: Writing in the Social Media Age with Sarah Salway [Audio]
Speaker(s): Sarah Salway | Using social media means it has never been easier to get your words out there, but how can you be sure you are being read? Sarah Salway uses personal experience and practical examples to show how you can make the internet work best for you, including getting an audience and writing for personal websites, blogs, podcasts, Facebook pages, and Twitter streams. Canterbury Laureate and Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the LSE, Sarah Salway has been blogging successfully since
Uxor Vivamus by Dick Davis (poetry reading)
One of the best modern love poems. Uxor means beloved or wife, Vivamus means let us live...it's a quotation from Ausonius, a poet of the fourth-century the original is here:
http://www.forumromanum.org/literature/ausonius_epigrammata.html
"Uxor vivamus ut viximus et teneamus
nomina, quae primo sumpsimus in thalamo;"...etc.
Translation:
"Wife, let us live as we have lived,
Nor lose the little names that were the first night's grace,
And never come the day that sees us old,
I still your lad, a
Chapter 09 - The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Video 25:12
Chapter 9. Classic Literature VideoBook with synchronized text, interactive transcript, and closed captions in multiple languages. Audio courtesy of Librivox. Read by Tom Weiss.
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President's Awards for Teaching & Learning
Panel discussion featuring winners of the President's Awards for Teaching & Learning: Student Learning, Instructor Experience & International Learning Opportunities.
Los astros del Sistema Solar - en español
El sol, los planetas, cometas o meteoros componen el Sistema Solar. Con este video, estudiantes podrán entender la diferencia entre planetas exteriores y interiores. (1:45)
Cómo reconocer las constelaciones - en español
Para reconocer las constelaciones es importante situarse en un lugar oscuro y tomar algún punto como referencia. La vista del cielo es diferente desde cada hemisferio y también cambia según la estación del año que sea. Este video está bien para introducir una lección en constelaciones. (2:20)
Dolley Madison Saves Washington's Portrait
In this video clip, hear the tale of how first lady Dolley Madison risked her life to save George Washington's portrait from a fiery fate as British troops approached the White House. (2:40)
Coffee
First a food, later a beverage, coffee contributed significantly to the economic health of countries that controlled it. This video shows where coffee is grown and its many uses through time. The long process that the coffee bean goes through is explained. Some key vocabulary words include: brewing, botany, fermentation, hulling, pulping, and roasting. A teacher's guide is also included with this link. (05:00)
