NCPACS: A conversation with Chris Laidlaw, November 2011
Chris Laidlaw in conversation with Professor Kevin Clements, National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, November 2011. Chris Laidlaw is a broadcaster, columnist, author, Regional Councillor, sports commentator and former Rhodes Scholar, Ambassador, All Black and MP.
NCPACS: A conversation with Chris Laidlaw, November 2011
Chris Laidlaw in conversation with Professor Kevin Clements, National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, November 2011. Chris Laidlaw is a broadcaster, columnist, author, Regional Councillor, sports commentator and former Rhodes Scholar, Ambassador, All Black and MP.
Animals at the extremes: the desert environment
Animal life has adapted to survive in the most unlikely and inhospitable habitats. This unit looks at the surprisingly diverse desert climates throughout the world and mammals, birds, lizards and amphibians that survive there. It splits these animals into three groups according to their strategy for survival: evaders, evaporators and endurers, then discusses how these strategies work on a biochemical and physiological level.
The Human and Economic Consequences of Kenya's 2007 Post-Election Violence
Pascaline Dupas (Stanford) discussed her study to document the impacts of the 2007 presidential election crisis in Kenya, which resulted in over 1,200 deaths and 500,000 displaced individuals. In addition to lost income suffered by market vendors and shopkeepers, informal sex workers engaged in riskier sexual behavior, suggesting similar outcomes (and subsequent increases in the rates of sexually transmitted infections) in other contexts.
Community Driven Development in Sierra Leone
Edward Miguel (UC Berkeley) and Katherine Casey (Stanford) discussed the challenges of community driven development in post-war settings. They presented results from their GoBifo study in Sierra Leone, an intensive program to promote democratic decision-making within villages, in which they found no impact on social norms (i.e. involvement of marginalized groups in community decision making). They also discussed their use of the pre-analysis plan and the importance of having a registry for socia
Crown Forum: Supplemental
April 10, 2012
Supplemental Crown Forum
Speaker: Michelle Alexander (author)
Crown Forum: Senior Day
April 26, 2012
Senior Day Crown Forum
Dr. Schmidlin, Severe Weather Expert
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Kidney Dissection for IPAD
Texas A&M Scientist Joins Mars Rover Mission
Dr. Mark Lemmon, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, talks about "Curiosity", NASA's newest mission to Mars to research environment conditions of the planet when water was present.
Sean Stillwell: Opportunistic Park(ing): A Distributed Pedestrian Network
Architecture Final Reviews: Presented by the Architecture Program at California College of the Arts. Filmed at CCA's San Francisco campus April 27--29, 2012, 9 a.m.--7 p.m.
Currently, public space is created by limited policy mechanisms that trade public square footage for developer rights. This thesis exploits ulterior means of producing contiguous public space within dense urban fabric of the city without mitigating that density, and while maintaining connectivity with the existing pedestrian
Do Lectures: Can Innovation Flourish in a Conservative Industry?
They can be small Do’s or big Do’s or just extraordinary Do’s. But when you listen to the story of, if
our homes and offices be more intelligent? And if they become so, will
they save energy? Markus believes they can do both. And his wireless
technology can do it. Markus Brehler, CEO & founder of Enocean.
These speeches light a fire in your belly to go and Do your thing, your
passion, the thing that sits in the back of your head each day, jus
Agricultural improvement in a poor region of India.
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