Associate Professor Martin Sevior speaks with Jacky Angus and weighs up nuclear power in an energy-hungry and rapidly warming world.
Guest: Assoicate Professor Martin Sevior, School of Physics.
Topic: Nuclear power: Cure or Curse
Author(s): up-close@unimelb.edu.au (University of Melbourne) Episode 50: Criminal Investigation and Your DNA
Assoc Prof Jeremy Gans discusses the benefits, limitations and privacy implications of using DNA in criminal investigation. With host Jacky Angus.
Author(s): up-close@unimelb.edu.au (University of Melbourne)
What is Energy?
With an introduction to the ideas of energy, students discuss specific types of energy and the practical sources of energy. Hands-on activities help them identify types of energy in their surroundings and enhance their understanding of energy.
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Learn about The History of Ancient Egypt 3000 B.C.
This is an excellent overview of the history of Egypt and uses good visuals and easy to follow narrative. Includes some
basic facts about papyrus, pharaoh, kingdoms, death, and heiroglyphics. Too short to be of value other than as an introduction.
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Structure & Development of the Mammalian Brain, Spring 2002
Lectures plus guided readings and discussion with project reports, covering major CNS structures, with emphasis on systems being used as models for experimental studies of development and plasticity. Topics include: basic patterns of connections in CNS; review of lab techniques (anatomy, tissue culture); embryogenesis; PNS anatomy and development; process outgrowth and synaptogenesis; growth factors and cell survival; spinal and hindbrain anatomy; development of regional specificity with introdu
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Snapshots: Jim Sirmons
http://www.youtube.com/user/StPetersburgCollege
About St. Petersburg College:
In 1927, St. Petersburg College (then known as St. Petersburg Junior College) became Florida's first private, non-profit, two-year school of higher learning located in downtown St. Petersburg. Full accreditation followed in 1931 and in 1948 SPC became a public college.
In June 2001, SPJC officially became St. Petersburg College when Florida's governor signed legislation making it the first community college in Flori
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This is CS50
Creative vibe colors enormous CS 50 innovation fair
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Volunteer base camp, Port-au-Prince
Caring for volunteers who care for Haiti's sick and wounded is a full-time, round-the-clock job, requiring the barest of necessities.
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Consortium Toolkit for ULOs (Fusion)
Fusion provides guidance for third sector, user-led health organizations on setting up legal frameworks for collaboration. It provides a useful overview of models of consortium as well as some consortium monitoring tools.
Author(s): FUSION
Acknowledgements
The Egyptians are known for being ahead of their time in comparison to some civilisations that came after them. This unit looks at how the Egyptians solved mathematical problems in everyday life and the technology they used. An understanding of this area has only been possible following the translation of the Rosetta Stone.
Author(s): The Open University
Car explodes in Yemen, kills British shipping surveyor
July 20 - Yemen is investigating a car bombing that killed a British shipping surveyor, after he returned from inspecting a tanker that had been attacked by pirates. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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Praxeology: The Method of Economics
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On 24 June 2011, the RSC launched its seventh Policy Briefing on 'Protracted Sahrawi displacement: Challenges and opportunities beyond encampment' at UNHCR in Geneva. On 24 June 2011, the RSC launched its seventh Policy Briefing on 'Protracted Sahrawi displacement: Challenges and opportunities beyond encampment' at UNHCR in Geneva. The presentation by Dr Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh was followed by interventions from Mr Yacoub El Hillo, the Director of UNHCR Middle East and North Africa Bureau and Mr
Author(s): Dr Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Yacoub El Hillo, Yahia
A total solution
The Cambridge Service Alliance (CSA) digs down to find out what's happening in the 'Servitisation of Manufacturing'! Professor Andy Neely, Director of the CSA and Fellow of Cambridge Judge Business School, looks at the trends of the future that will bring about business success and the strategic, economic and environmental influences.
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Sink or Swim: Sea Level Rise - Implications for Dunedin. Session 1
An information evening open to the public to discuss issues around sea level rise and how it might affect low lying suburbs and coastal communities in the Dunedin area. Learn what the DCC and ORC are planning as well as hearing about possible engineering solutions and the social aspects of sea level rise.
It is being chaired by Professor John Hannah, member of the F.I.G. Task Force on Climate Change.
Hosted by the NZ Institute of Surveyors.
Held July 12, 2011.
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VUCast: Healing Power of Music
See why some of country music’s biggest stars are lending their talents to a special Vanderbilt camp. Plus, how a Vandy professor is personally tied to the Atlantis space mission, and fixing what U2 left behind! Read more about music’s healing power in Vanderbilt Medicine.
Author(s): Vanderbilt News and Communications
Next steps
This unit explores reasons for studying mathematics, practical applications of mathematical ideas and aims to help you to recognise mathematics when you come across it. It introduces the you to the graphics calculator, and takes you through a series of exercises from the Calculator Book, Tapping into Mathematics With the TI-83 Graphics Calculator. The unit ends by asking you to reflect on the process of studying mathematics. In order to complete this unit you will need to have obtained a Texas I
Author(s): The Open University
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