La roue de la vie dans les temples bouddhiques (video)
One of the first sights encountered by visitors to Buddhist temples is a large painting of the wheel of rebirth, depicting in horrific detail the pains (less often the pleasures) that await people after death. In this illustrated talk, Stephen F. Teiser explains how these representations of the Buddhist worldview have been imagined in Buddhist art over the centuries. The lecture offers an introduction to Buddhist cosmology, Buddhist art, and the spatial and ritual organization of Buddhist te
A thank you message to Concordia's donors.
http://giving.concordia.ca/
Stingers Men's Hockey Team captain Eric Begin explains what a difference it makes, especially to student athletes, when donors give to Concordia.
"DMC Upside": TACHE Silent Auction
The Del Mar College Chapter of the Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education held its annual silent auction fundraiser in late November. This segment on TACHE aired on the December 2011 edition of the "DMC Upside" television program, which is broadcast in Corpus Christi on Channel 19.
AU Celebrates 175 years
On Dec. 5, 2011, Alfred University celebrated 175 years. Take a tour through the day's festivities, beginning with a giant cake cutting and eating, moving to an "amazing race" scavenger hunt full of riddles and challenges, and closing with a spectacular fireworks show over the village by viewing the 175th anniversary video.
Qu'est-ce-que gouverner - Yves Michaud (audio)
Un conférence de l'UTLS au lycée
Lycée International de Strasbourg (67)
Qu’est ce que gouverner ?
Avec Yves Michaud (philosophe)
SML 2011 – Les maladies génétiques responsables d’une épilepsie (audio)
Titre : SML 2011 – Les maladies génétiques responsables d’une épilepsie
Intervenant(s) : Laetitia LAMBERT (Laboratoire de génétique – CHU de Nancy)
Résumé : Les maladies génétiques responsables d’une épilepsie
L’auteur n’a pas transmis de conflit d’intérêt concernant les données diffusées dans cette vidéo ou publiées dans la référence citée.
Conférence enregistrée lors de la Semaine Médicale de Lorraine 2011 (SML 2011) et des 3Ã
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At the stage of NOKIA launch its Windows Phone 7 based smartphone
At the stage of NOKIA launch its Windows Phone 7 based smartphone
Electrical Spin Injection into LaAlO3/SrTiO3
By: taku N. Reyren
(CNRS - Thales)
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
- New Frontiers in two dimensional electron systems, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Nov 23 - 25, 2011
Background
Yuqiang Mu,
Adrian Galindo,
Gbenga Badipe
Offers a basic explanation of several concepts relevant to our voice recognition approach.
Introduction to Peace Studies
Notre Dame OpenCourseware (OCW) offers free educational resources for the course "Introduction to Peace Studies" in the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. This course surveys: (1) the major causes of deadly conflict around the world; (2) various definitions of “peace†and the conditions under which it occurs and is sustained; and (3) the style and comparative success of various strategies such as building peace movements and nonviolent social change as ways to achieve peace.
12.445 Oral Communication in the Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (MIT)
This course focuses on developing oral presentation skills through practice, self-evaluation, and in-class feedback. Topics include slide preparation, answering difficult questions, explaining technical details and presenting to a general audience.
Art a GoGo Podcacast #61 - Bravo's Work of Art, The Next Great Artist, Upcoming Exhibitions, and Mor Art news, reviews, and commentary without those nasty side effects. Art a GoGo...It's Art over easy! Please visit our blog at Artagogo.com/blog for full show notes and links to the art topics that we discuss on the podcast.
Dr. Christopher Howard on Applying MBA skills to Leadership
Dr. Christopher Howard, President, Hamden-Sydney College talks about Applying MBA skills to Leadership while at the Darden School of Business Black Business Student Forum
Bringing Down the Bolt
Lightning is one of the biggest unsolved mysteries of the atmospheric sciences, researchers say. Scientists at the International Center for Lightning Research and Testing in Florida are inducing lightning to strike so they can understand it better. (3:43)
Cinémathèques et cinéphilies de demain. Table ronde
COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL
Table ronde avec Romain Blondeau, Gian Luca Farinelli, Alexander Horwath, Luc Lagier, Jean-François Rauger.
Romain Blondeau est critique aux Inrockuptibles.
13 et 14 octobre 2011
Organisé par le Centre National de la Cinématographie et de l’Image Animée et la Cinémathèque française :
« Révolution numérique : et si le cinéma perdait la mémoire ? »
Gian Luca Farinelli est le directeur de la
The Fastest Living Thing on the Planet!
What is the fastest accelerator on the planet? A cheetah? A rocket? A… a fungus spore? (5:00)
21A.460J Medicine, Religion and Politics in Africa and the African Diaspora (MIT)
This course provides an exploration of colonial and postcolonial clashes between theories of healing and embodiment in the African world and those of western bio-medicine. It examines how Afro-Atlantic religious traditions have challenged western conceptions of illness, healing, and the body and have also offered alternative notions of morality, rationality, kinship, gender, and sexuality. It also analyzes whether contemporary western bio-medical interventions reinforce colonial or imperial powe
A Canada Day Tribute
Presenting Canada from coast to coast featuring music and songs from Canadian/Newfoundland recording artist John Hollohan. This five minute video includes some history as well as photographs of Canada. The video is in two parts with the first a general one about the history of Canada and the second a song about each of the provinces.
