Mining on the Moon
The race is on to mine the moon - and UNSW researchers have figured out how to do it and how to build there.
Discrete Random Variables: Practice 1: Discrete Distributions
Susan Dean,
Barbara Illowsky, Ph.D.
This module provides students an opportunity to practice applying concepts related to discrete distributions. This practice exercise asks students to calculate several values based on the data […]
"Cooking with Our 3s," a Multiplication Rap
This multiplication rap song gives students practice multiplying by 3. The song begins with mnemonics to help students remember their threes. The second half of the song features practice problems which challenge students to sing out the answer before we do. Lyrics provided. (3:07)
PharmGenEd™ Toxicogenomics
By: KuoOffice This webinar was presented on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 by Dr. Helen Smith. Dr. Smith discusses Toxicogenomics.
Bases Psicosociales de la Educación
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Advancing Global Trade and Employment Together: Shared Opportunities and Responsibilities for the Un
Speaker(s): Ambassador Ron Kirk | In a major address, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk will discuss opportunities for the U.S.-EU trade relationship at a critical time. Leaders on both sides acknowledge the need for a fresh look at the U.S.-EU trade and investment relationship, to ensure that it meets its potential. Ambassador Kirk will emphasize how the United States and the EU can work together – bilaterally for mutual growth, at the World Trade Organization for better results, and around
Singing Neanderthals? The Evolution of Music and Language [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor Steven Mithen | What can the archaeological record of our stone age ancestors bring to our understanding of the relationship between music and language? Steven Mithen is professor of early prehistory and pro-vice chancellor at the University of Reading. He is the author of The Singing Neanderthals: the origins of music, language, mind, and body.
Envisioning Real Utopias: alternatives within and beyond capitalism [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor Erik Olin Wright | Wright argues that we can be simultaneously utopian and practical by pursuing projects for social transformation within capitalism that point us in an emancipatory direction beyond capitalism. Erik Olin Wright is Vilas Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and president of the American Sociological Association.
How Can European Migration Policies Promote Development? [Audio]
Speaker(s): Tobias Billström, Peter Sutherland | Migrants play a crucial role in the development of countries of origin and countries of destination. How can labour immigration and other policies in Europe be shaped so as to optimise the benefits? Tobias Billström is Swedish minister for migration and asylum policy. Swedish migration policy includes refugee and migration policy, voluntary return home and support to voluntary return migration. Billström, a member of the Moderate Party, has be
Listening exercise: Andrea Bocelli's song
Listening exercise: Andrea Bocelli's song.
Preterite or Imperfect? Telling stories in the past.
Preterite or Imperfect? Telling stories in the past.
U.S. President Grave Sites
A slide show with patriotic music in the background.
Presidents are shown in order of service to the American people.
Shifts in Equilibrium Unedited for review - 5/22/12
Switzerland's Climate Change Trail (Interactive)
A three-hour trail walk in Switzerland's Engadin Valley takes tourists on a tour of climate change and its real life effects.
The Re-Creation of the Globe Theater
Learn about the re-creation of Shakespeare's Globe Theater in London and consider how architecture can affect the craft of performance. (9:16)
2.5 Defining surfaces
Surfaces are a special class of topological spaces that crop up in many places in the world of mathematics. In this unit, you will learn to classify surfaces and will be introduced to such concepts as homeomorphism, orientability, the Euler characteristic and the Classification Theorum.
1.5 Conclusion Throughout this unit, a major concern has been to show how the demand of the antisweatshop movement that we not only respond to, but take responsibility for, economic injustices, no matter how distant, is an intensely controversial one. Claims by campaigning groups such as Oxfam and Christian Aid that consumer demand for cheap branded goods perpetuates poverty wage levels in the sweatshop industries are countered by claims from the pro-market lobby which point in an altogether differen
1.4.3 It's all down to connections For Iris Marion Young, the responsibility of those in North America and Europe towards distant others does indeed rest with their connections to injustices elsewhere, but it would be a mistake to stretch this line of reasoning too far. Although these connections, whether as a consumer, boardroom executive or shop manager, can establish a line of responsibility, as was claimed in Section 3.1, for Young this is only the starting point and not the end point of our involvement. We do not have to
1.3.8 Summary of section During the 1970s and 1980s, countries such as Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan benefited from their low-cost advantages in the new global division of labour. Now, however, the gap between rich and poor nations is wider and competition in the world economy greater, prompting campaigning groups to argue that contemporary low-wage economies do not have the options for economic development that their predecessors had. In the face of market fragment
