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Greek taxi drivers strike
Jul.18 - Tourists wait out delays in Greece's capital as taxi drivers block highways and the city of Piraeus to protest law making it easier to get taxi licenses. Jessica Gray reports.
TheraCord Blood Collection Device
The Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering Innovation in the department for Biomedical Engineering at the Whiting School of Engineering hosts its annual Design Day to showcase student research.
What is Heat?
"In Physics, heat is not in inside an object, but heat is the transfer of energy from one object to another so when you touch an object and it feels hot, what you're feeling is the heat you're feeling the energy being transferred from that hot object to your hand." (01:09)
Part 9_Journey of IC
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This last part of the main text of IC journey from 1959 to 2009 gives cost metrics of IC Chip. It gives the algorithm to determine the cost of a die.
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How Pentagon Security Can Be Breached by Lady Gaga
This is a 2:35 minute video is a speech that explains the impact of Wikileaks and how it could have been done. The speaker does not really know how the leaks happened, but is does raise a good question as to freedom of the press and the right to know. A great discussion or debate could be made, but it should be pointed out that all of this speech is conjecture.
Koch Institute Public Galleries: Sensing Cancer
How can doctors more quickly and effectively determine whether a new treatment is working for a cancer patient or not? This video traces the work of the Cima lab at the KI to overcome this problem with a tiny implantable sensor. The video currently appears in the interactive exhibits of the KI Public Galleries. Learn more at http://ki.mit.edu/galleries.
The History of English in Ten Minutes This is a great series that students will love which breaks history down into nice little bitse sized chunks you can flesh out in the classroom. I really hope you enjoy going through this with your students. A word of warning is that some of the language and content may not be totally appropriate to younger students.