Episode 7 - Fee Doran
Fee Doran, celebrity stylist and creator of fashion label Mrs Jones, talks candidly about her work, inspirations and experiences within the fashion world.This insight into the work of one of the most iconic image-makers in the music industry offers an introduction to Fee in advance of her appearance at the Shipley Late at the Shipley Art Gallery on Friday 30th October 2009.
International Forum with May Cheng: "Afghanistan 2009: A Reality Check with Amb. Robert Finn"
In addition to being the former ambassador to Afghanistan, Robert Finn is a Lecturer in Near Eastern Studies and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School
World's Largest Sushi Roll at UMass Amherst!
The UMass Amherst community set a world record on Labor Day 2010 when more than 300 volunteers gathered on the Haigis Mall to assemble a monstrous California sushi roll which, at 422 feet, was more than 90 feet longer than one created at the University of California, Berkeley last fall. Thousands of new and returning students gathered for the event as Chancellor Robert Holub and Food Network chef Jet Tila presided over the massive assembly line, along with auxiliary enterprises executive directo
Moore's Law Forever?
In 1965, Gordon Moore observed that the number of transistors on a silicon chip doubled every technology generation (12 months at that time, currently 18-24 months). He predicted that this trend would continue for a while. Forty years later, Moore's Law continues to hold. Since the number of transistors in a circuit is a measure of the circuit's computational power, the doubling of transistor counts compounded over a 40 year period has led to an enormous increase in the performance of electronic
Solar Eclipse
This site explains what to look for during a solar eclipse, how to create a pinhole projector (for safely viewing an eclipse), why eclipses happen, a world map of future eclipses, and archives of webcasts of past eclipses in Greece (2004), the U.S. (2002), and more.
Art and Ecology
Artists are often particularly keen observers and precise recorders of the physical conditions of the natural world. As a result, paintings can be good resources for learning about ecology. Teachers can use this lesson to examine with students the interrelationship of geography, natural resources, and climate and their effects on daily life. It also addresses the roles students can take in caring for the environment. Students will look at paintings that represent cool temperate, warm temperate,
Stop 3: Tapestries in Context
IMPERIAL SPLENDOR: Renaissance Tapestries from Vienna
Royal Renaissance tapestries from one of the premier museums of fine arts and decorative arts in the world, the Kunsthistorisches of Vienna,...
www.columbiamuseum.org questions: pnugent@columbiamuseum.org
Stop 6: Restoring the Tapestries
IMPERIAL SPLENDOR: Renaissance Tapestries from Vienna
Royal Renaissance tapestries from one of the premier museums of fine arts and decorative arts in the world, the Kunsthistorisches of Vienna,...
www.columbiamuseum.org questions: pnugent@columbiamuseum.org
Stop 5: The Production of a Tapestry
IMPERIAL SPLENDOR: Renaissance Tapestries from Vienna
Royal Renaissance tapestries from one of the premier museums of fine arts and decorative arts in the world, the Kunsthistorisches of Vienna,...
www.columbiamuseum.org questions: pnugent@columbiamuseum.org
4. Saturdays Are For Shopping (Listen Up & Learn)
Learn Italian with www.LearnItalianPod.com - Episode #4 of the all new and super-useful "Listen Up & Learn" lesson series is entitled "Saturdays Are For Shopping". Listen to Jane talking about how she and her family spend their Saturdays going to the market for groceries in the morning, then shopping at the mall in the [...]
Episode 12
In this episode of CultureCast, we talk to Brendan Foster about the Great North Run and In the Long Run, the exhibition which celebrates the Run's 30th anniversary. We also meet Graham Dury, a cartoonist from Viz magazine, and people from all around the world who have travelled to Arbeia Roman Fort to take part in the Earthwatch programme of excavations.
World Wise Schools
program aims to engage learners in an inquiry about the world, themselves, and others in order to broaden perspectives, promote cultural awareness and encourage service. Students can email currently serving Peace Corps volunteers and build cross-cultural awareness by reading Culture Matters, the workbook used by Peace Corps Volunteers in the field.
Investing for Market Strategy and Capital - Lisa Lambert (Intel Capital)
Lisa Lambert, Vice President at Intel Capital, speaks at length on the experience of working for a mammoth, corporate-backed strategic venture capital firm. She unpacks the challenges of the post-recession VC world, and speaks at length about the industry at large. In addition, Lambert discusses critical issues of work/life balance and the conundrum of personal choices faced when climbing the corporate ladder.
4. Linguistic Geography of Eastern Asia (May 1, 2007)
Globalization, cultures, languages, religion, faith, ethnic identities, map, distribution, world, international, regions, cultural diversity, coherence, contemporary transformation, history, linguistics, geopolitics, environment, settlement, economic, soc
"All We Are Seeking Here Is Equal Opportunity": The American G.I. Forum Desegregates a Texas Communi
With the annexation of Texas in 1848 at the end of the Mexican-American War, Tejanos--Texans of Mexican descent--lost property rights and political power in a society dominated by Anglos. Through discriminatory practices and violent force, Tejanos were kept at the bottom of the new political and socio-cultural order. From 1900-1930, as an influx of immigrants from Mexico came north to meet a growing demand for cheap labor in the developing commercial agriculture industries, Tejanos experienced c
After the execution.
The climate of repression established in the name of wartime security during World War I continued after the war as the U.S. government persecuted communists, Bolsheviks, and reds." Caught up in this "Red Scare
Business School Annual Lecture 2009 - Every Cloud has a Silver Lining
Following a very successful career that saw him lead a number of well-known business ventures, such as PizzaExpress and bookshop chain Borders, Luke Johnson became Chairman of Channel 4 Television Corporation in January 2004. In this presentation, Luke Johnson draws on his own experience as an entrepreneur to discuss the business of risk. How does risk affect us today in our lives? Hear from the man who has ridden through his fair share of storms in the business world and who has lived through t
OU Business School Annual Lecture 2008 - Delivering a High-Speed Europe
Eurostar is a world-class success story setting the standard for international train travel for more than a decade. At the leading edge of transport innovation Eurostar has changed the way people travel to Europe forever - doubling the amount of visitors traveling from London to Paris and Brussels.
With faster train times, carbon neutral journeys and the move to the iconic St Pancras station the success story continues at great pace.
But what lies behind this success? And what of the future?
Strategies of the Serengeti - Stephen Berry
This is an interactive presentation led by Stephen Berry, a highly qualified speaker, consultant, trainer and international MBA lecturer in Business Strategy. Previously a Finance Director and Banker, Stephen has worked in the harsh climates of the corporate Serengeti's of our business world and brings practical skills and processes for real life rather than academia. Strategies of the Serengeti takes a refreshingly innovative look at practical organisational strategy from the viewpoint of the r
Vernon Smith on Rationality in Economics
Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith of Chapman University and George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his new book, Rationality in Economics: Constructivist and Ecological Forms. They discuss the social and human sides of exchange, the robust nature of equilibrium in experiments and the real world, the seeming contradiction between Adam Smith's two great works, the unpredictability of how innovation emerges and its rationality, what neuroscience might tell us abo
