Cloud Dreamer
In pretending, we learn to navigate with ease between real and imaginary worlds while learning the differences between them. Using our imaginations encourages original thinking, flexibility, adaptability, empathy, and the ability to generate multiple solutions to a problem. Pretend play helps us learn to think visually and spatially and to both capture and express ideas.
Conspicuous Consumption, Conspicuous Waste: Thorsten Veblens Theory of the Leisure Class
One of South Africa's most prominent sociologists, Professor Deborah Posel, gave this Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) Great TextsBig Questions lecture, discussing "Conspicuous Consumption, Conspicuous Waste". Thorsten Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class' conspicuous consumption of keeping up with the Joneses' describes the purchase of goods to show status or display wealt. Once more apparent within the nouveau riche or upper-income groups, recent research has indicate
Aquatic Animal Skeleton - Backbone
The backbone of an aquatic animal allows it to be very flexible under water. It usually extends into a tail and is classified as a gliding joint.
Pharmaceuticals Management for Under-served Populations
Students will be guided to analyze problems and develop strategies based on real world drug management issues including regulations, manufacture, procurement, distribution, safety, policy, financing and the unique aspects of international pharmaceutical trade, the role of the World Trade Organization - Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (WTO-TRIPS), government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and individuals/programs in the selection and use of pharmaceutical products. C
Enzyme Kinetics
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MICW - High-performance Computing: Brooklin Gore
By: JGI Morgridge Institute for Research's Brooklin Gore on "High Throughput Computing Impact on Meta Genomics" at the Metagenomics Informatics Challenges Workshop held at the DOE JGI on October 12-13, 2011.
Martin Luther King Jr. - I Have a Dream (Subtítulos en Español)
En este video, Martin Luther King Jr. da un discurso sobre las injusticias sociales que estaban común en los Estados Unidos durante los años sesentas. El discurso duro 17 minutos y fue entregado el 28 de agosto, 1963. Perfecto para una lección sobre las injusticias sociales, la retórica, o la historia. (16:34)
Transparency in the Obama Administration: A Third-Year Assessment - Luncheon Presentation
Representative of the Obama White House
George Eliot's Life and Writing Career
This 6:36 video provides a fairly indepth biography of her life and accomplishments.
Vulpus Vulpus
A two-legged wolf progresses from outcast to hero of the pack. Award-winning animation from COFA graduate Apattra Hongsuwong.
Apattra was a Bachelor of Digital Media Honours student at UNSW's College of Fine Arts who won both the "Animal Logic Encouragement Award" and the "Autodesk Storm FX Award for Best 3D CGI Model" at the students' screening. It is unusual for a single work to win two prizes but the judges were unanimous.
For more info about COFA's Bachelor of Digital Media check out the w
The Wollaton Library Collection Ep.2 - Conservation
In this, the second video in the Wollaton series, Robert Pearce (Conservator) explains the difficulty and importance of preserving these manuscripts and books for the future.
A Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) award enabled Manuscripts and Special Collections to conserve, catalogue and provide access to the remains of the Collection.
Access to the ten medieval manuscripts and 42 printed books had been limited both because of their fragile condition and the specialist nature of the manuscripts. The
Anderson Student Center Opening
"Soft" Opening and Ribbon Cutting for St. Thomas's new Anderson Student Center.
Nitin Garg, M.D. Physician Profile
Meet Nitin Garg, M.D. He was awarded his M.D by All India Institute of Medical Sciences. Dr. Garg completed his Residency at Creighton University School of Medicine and did a Fellowship at the Mayo Clinic. His Specialty is Vascular Surgery and he is Board Certified in Surgery.
Cosmic Train Wrecks - Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
"Observatory Nights" public lecture series from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Lauranne Lanz, CfA
Five billion years from now, our Milky Way galaxy will collide with the Andromeda galaxy. This will be an era of both destruction and creation as the galaxies lose their separate identities and merge into one..
December 15, 2011
Méga usine, méga défi : l'usine de gaz naturel liquéfié (audio)
Les avancées technologiques, la mise en valeur du développement durable, la prise en compte d'un contenu local, la forte demande mondiale en énergie par rapport aux capacités de production ainsi que les regroupements récents des grands donneurs d'ordre sont autant d'éléments qui font que les nouvelles usines sont de plus en plus grandes, intégrées et complexes. Ainsi la méga usine, qui était une exception il y a dix ans, est devenue monnaie courante. Pour relever ces nouveaux déf
Duke Children's Hospital & Health Center
Take a tour of Duke Children's Hospital & Health Center with an introduction by Grammy award-winning comedian Jeff Foxworthy. Duke Children's Hospital & Health Center is located in Durham, North Carolina, and is one of the top children's hospitals in the United States.
http://dukechildrens.org
Cuban Spectacular: So What
The University of Richmond Cuban Music Ensemble, led by Dr. Mike Davison, performed on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at the Camp Concert Hall in the Booker Hall of Music.
Why I chose the Goodman Institute's MBA with complete CFA® Integration - Michael Ayres
http://johnmolson.concordia.ca/giim
Michael Ayres graduated from the Goodman Institute of Investment Management (GIIM)'s MBA with complete CFA® Integration program at Concordia University's John Molson School of Business. Mr Ayres talks about how the GIIM MBA best prepares students who wish to pursue a career in the Finance industry.
For more information about the GIIM MBA with complete CFA® Integration program please visit http://johnmolson.concordia.ca/giim
Jim Madigan post-game comments (UMass Lowell • Jan. 20, 2012)
The Northeastern men's hockey team suffered a 4-0 loss on Friday night at No. 14/13 UMass Lowell in the club's lone trip to Tsongas Center of the regular season. The setback snaps a five-game winning streak against the River Hawks; Northeastern's longest winning stretch against a league opponent.
The River Hawks dominated the shot totals, winning the battle 32-20. Junior netminder Chris Rawlings steered aside 28 shots to slip to 8-9-3 while UML backstopper Doug Carr blocked all 20 shots in his
