The Arab Spring and the Political Situation in Sub-Saharan Africa
A lecture by Walid Hamarneh on the impact of the changes taking place in North Africa, especially Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia but also in the Sudan on the neighbouring Sub-Saharan countries and other countries in East Africa.
Saving the Amazon?
Brenda Baletti with the Department of Geography at the University of North Carolina presented this lecture "Saving the Amazon? Sustainable Soy and the New Logic of Conservation" as part of the Global Environment Speaker Series at the University of Richmond.
The War in Korea
This 16 minute video provides an overview of the war and some of the steps that resulted in the war. It is done with a narrator and a white board with maps.
A Well of Memories
Spend an afternoon with the Alzheimer's patients at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem. Nothing brings back the spirit of youth and joy like music. (5:19)
11.16. Schumpeter’s Theory of Business Cycles Lecture 10B: Bird-and-Flower Painting: Emperor Huizong and After Polar Bears and Sea Ice Polar Bear Cubs Kozey's Year-End Bargains: Protective offers dividend growth 4.665 Contemporary Architecture and Critical Debate (MIT) Health during flights Ontevreden passagiers Sunday Service - 10/23/2011 - Sam Wells Practice Makes Perfect Rs Asthma (Spanish) Intro to Chemistry: 1.1: Properties of Matter (2/2) Animal tracks Australian Fires: 1-4-2002 MODIS Snow Cover over North America
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Beginning with a long consideration of Cui Bo's "Hare and Magpies" of 1061, this lecture continues by looking at the bird paintings ascribed to Emperor Huizong and offering a new proposal for how these were made. It goes on to show and discuss bird-and-flower works by Southern Song Academy masters, especially Ma Yuan and his son Ma Lin. Continuing with a handscroll of ink-monochrome images by a late Song literatus-artist, it ends with a miscellany of album-leaf paintings in the Academy styles.
Sea ice is essential to polar bears. Without it, they cannot hunt their primary prey, seals. (0:43)
Polar bears often have twin cubs, yet they have one of the slowest reproductive rates of any mammal. Learn more about these giants of the north and their offspring. (0:36)
Oct. 21 - In the final installment of Reuters Equities Analyst John Kozey's series on year-end bargains, small-cap candidate Protective Life offers a high dividend yield plus dividend growth potential.
This class, required of all Master of Architecture students, presents a critical review of works, theories, and polemics in architecture in the aftermath of World War II. The aim is to present a historical understanding of the period, and to develop a meaningful framework to assess contemporary issues in architecture. Special attention will be paid to historiographic questions of how architects construe the terms of their "present."
At the completion of this task you will be able to send someone who is pregnant a reassuring email with tips about traveling by plane. To successfully complete this task in the first exercises you will look at a number of articles and websites which have more information about this topic.
De student bekijkt een videofragment over het reilen en zeilen op een luchthaven. In dit fragment is een conflict te zien tussen een passagier en het personeel omdat een vlucht heel wat vertraging heeft opgelopen. Na het bekijken van het fragment moet de student een aantal uitspraken beoordelen en vragen beantwoorden over het fragment.
A service of worship in Duke University Chapel. The Reverend Dr. Samuel Wells delivers a sermon entitled "I May Not Get There With You."
Opening excerpt from the sermon:(36:23)
"Last Sunday I talked about taxes. So this Sunday I thought I'd talk about death. The death of Steve Jobs, the man who gave the apple the most attention it's received since the Garden of Eden, and the inventor of sleek devices modeled around the letter "i," brought renewed attention to a famous commencement address he m
This patient education program explains asthma including the causes, symptoms, and treatment of the disease. This resource is a MedlinePlus Interactive Health Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine, designed and developed by the Patient Education Institute.
Join award winning teachers Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams as they interactively teach Chemistry: 1.1: Properties of Matter. Intensive Vs. Extensive properties are explained. ( 4:41)
If an animal track is fork-shaped, it was probably made by a bird. If the track shows four or five toes and is paw-shaped, it was probably made by a mammal. There are many other tracks that different animals make.
Zooming down to New South Wales, Australia to view smoke.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) provides data in 36 spectral bands, some of which are used in an algorithm to map global snow cover. In this animation, a time series of global snow cover from MODIS-derived 8-day composite snow maps with a spatial resolution of about 5 km shows the dynamic behavior of the advance and retreat of continental snow cover over North America during the winter of 2001-02.
