Churchill Prepares for German Invasion of Britain
On the final day of the evacuation of Dunkirk, June 4, 1940, Prime Minister Winston Churchill speaks before the House of Commons, triumphant over the rescue of 338,226 Allied troops from advancing German forces. In the address he warns the nation to expect a German invasion and defiantly declares that Hitler's troops will meet an enemy prepared to "defend our island whatever the cost may be." (0:21)
ScienceCasts: A Taste of Solar Maximum
Solar maximum is still a year away. This month sky watchers got a taste of things to come when a powerful flare sparked Northern Lights over the United States as far south as Arkansas, Colorado and California. (04:22)
Newton's 3rd Law Example - Khan Academy
Do I pull on the Earth with as much force as the Earth pulls on me? (04:21)
Newton's 2nd Law of Motion - Khan Academy
Sal Khan discusses how force relates to velocity and acceleration. (09:15)
Newton's Third Law Quiz - Khan Academy
Sal Khan offers three statements which he leaves for you to decide which one is true. (06:28)
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Henry Cabot Lodge Urges U.N. Action on Hungary
U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. calls an emergency meeting of the U.N. General Assembly after Hungarians begin revolting against communist rule in October 1956. (0:22)
AJP Martin Nobel Prize Address
This site describes the historical development of partition chromatography. The pedagogical value lies in its historical perspective rather than its description of partition chromatography. This site provided a unique historical perspective on the development of partition chromatography and one of the pioneers of the technique.
CNIPsy 2010Â Marseille - Sur la recherche en psychiatrie (video)
CNIPsy 2010 Marseille : 7ème Congrès National des Internes en Psychiatrie (CNIPsy). Thème : «Mauvais genre»
Session : Péripéties dans l’histoire de la psychiatrie.
Titre : CNIPsy 2010 Marseille – Sur la recherche en psychiatrie
Résumé : On pourrait croire la psychiatrie atteinte d’amnésie antérograde, oubliant à mesure les chemins qui l’ont conduite au présent. Et son histoire, elle la réécrit parfois avec une extraordinaire politisation sélective.<
CNIPsy 2010 Marseille - Prévenir et prendre en charge les conduites addictives. Débat. (audio)
Session : Dépendance - Drogue - Addictologie. WORK in PROGRESS. Thème : «Mauvais genre»
Titre : CNIPsy 2010 Marseille - Prévenir et prendre en charge les conduites addictives dans une société addictogène.
Résumé : En prenant le pouvoir sur leur prise en charge, les usagers de drogues ont transformé les approches des médecins : la réduction des risques et l’auto-support ont consacré ce changement de paradigme. La question des salles de shoot, telle qu’elle a ét
Private Property [This article is excerpted from chapter 24 of Human Action: The Scholar's Edition (1949) and is read by Jeff Riggenbach.] Private ownership of the means of production is the fundamental institution of t
Syrian forces fire on protesters
Amateur video footage purportedly shows Syrian forces opening fire on youths protesting against the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
Noodles for comfort in quake-damaged Japan
A Japanese noodle chef travels more than 700 miles to feed quake victims. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
NATO stresses Libya arms embargo
Fighter jets complete more missions over Libya, and NATO vows to robustly enforce an arms embargo.
Gaddafi soldiers: Told to fight or die
Captured Gadaffi soldiers say the Libyan governmenet told them to fight or die. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
Chris Brown sorry, Gwen Stefani aids Japan
The day's top showbiz news and headlines including Chris Brown apologizes, jury selection begins in Michael Jackson manslaughter trial, and Zsa Zsa Gabor in and out of hospital again.
Introduction In a complex and rapidly changing world, social scientific study examines how we produce things, communicate, govern ourselves, understand our environments, and how to solve the problems we face in the organisation of social relations and processes. This unit provides a basic overview of how social science contains deeply embedded cultural assumptions and outlines the important relationship between philosophical thinking and practical research methods in social sciences. This material
The University of Warwick's Professor Wyn Grant in conversation with Boston University's Professor G
Prof Graham Wilson, Department for Political science, Boston University & Prof Wyn Grant, Department of Politics, The University of Warwick, discuss their joint political workshops and how the strategic partnerships between the two universities is progressing. Part of a series of conversation pieces that demonstrates the strategic partnership between the University of Warwick and Boston University.
Trying to Quantify Uncertainty
Editor's note: We apologise for the poor audio quality in the question and answer session of this podcast. There has been a traditional division between 'risk', which can be quantified using probability distributions, and 'uncertainty', which is the surrounding mess of doubt, disagreement and ignorance. Spiegelhalter will use examples from swine flu to climate change to illustrate different approaches to dealing with uncertainty, from ignoring it to trying to fully quantify it, and conclude that
3.4 Variation
In this unit, we describe the theory of evolution by natural selection as proposed by Charles Darwin in his book, first published in 1859, On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. We will look at natural selection as Darwin did, taking inheritance for granted, but ignoring the mechanisms underlying it.
