George Soros on The New Paradigm for Financial Markets
George Soros extends his “theory of reflexivity” from abstraction to application in the realm of investing. His book, The New Paradigm for Financial Markets, offers a timely look at the credit crisis that reached crescendo in 2008. His views fall between prescience and vindication. Nevertheless, he concedes fallibility
Beginner S6 #5 - Learn This Japanese Verb Ahead of Time
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! It’s so easy to run behind. In Japan, time seems to fly, and your Japanese to-do list is always so long! But you’re trying to improve this bad habit: in fact, you made a resolution to work harder at being on time for your appointments in Japan as often as possible [...]
The Second Law and Cosmology
In spite of its old age, the Second Law of Thermodynamics “is alive and kicking,” says
Max Tegmark, stimulating research on “really, really big puzzles.” In Tegmark’s case, “big” encompasses the cosmos, and investigating the entropy of the universe offers one path into understanding “how we started out.
A New Age of Exploration: From Earth to Mars
Happily for human spaceflight, Dava Newman and her students enjoy working in such laboratories as NASA’s “Vomit Comet.” Newman’s work aims to provide a better understanding of how humans can withstand the rigors of space missions. Her decades studying human physiology and performance in extreme environments may pro
The evolving Universe
The ‘Big Bang’ is said to be the origin of our Universe. This unit will help you to comprehend what happened in the moments immediately after the Big Bang and during the initial cooling period. You will also gain an understanding of how this event turned in to the Universe we live in today.
2 River flow
Water is arguably the most important physical resource as it is the one that is essential to human survival. Understanding the global water cycle and how we use water is essential to planning a sustainable source of water for the future. In the UK there area areas where water supplies are limited, shown by recent droughts. Globally, there are many areas that do not have enought water to support the currently population adequately. Decisions will have to be made on the best way to use water in a
Dress and the African diaspora network
This is the website for the AHRC-funded Dress & the African Diaspora Network, which provides a series of focussed research forums for new and established researchers to “discuss the consumption, production, collection and display of dress, textiles and beauty regimes” of the African diaspora. The network aims to identify new areas of study and create scholarly information resources for the field.
Answering Exile: how Sudanese refugees deal with displacement
This PDF-document describes an AHRC-funded project exploring the ways in which Sudanese refugees in Uganda continue and adapt their cultural practices and rituals in the face of their forced dislocation from their ancestral territories. The study, which will encompass a representative cross section of the exiled population will involve activities such as observation, oral history, interviews, discussion as well as a photographic and filmed record. The project aims to address the gap in forced mi
Education in a modern world : British Modernism and school design 1930-1970
'Education in a Modern World: British Modernism and school design 1930-1970' is an online resource that is part of RIBA's website. It presents a workshop that formed a focus for architecture students at Oxford Brookes University, engaged in a project to renovate and redesign existing educational and institutional buildings. The notes and images are accessed via the names of the architects, which include Robert W. Edis, Aston Webb, Walter Gropius, Denys Lasdun and Erno Goldfinger. These examples
Australian centre for Christianity and culture
The Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture (ACC&C) is an ecumenical foundation established in 1993. It is a division of Charles Sturt University and is concerned with interfaith dialogue; reconciliation between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities in Australia; research; and the connection between theology and social issues. The centre is directed by the Reverend Professor James Haire. This homepage provides information about the centre's history and mission; upcoming events; an
Early cinema and the diasporic imagination : the Irish in America 1890-1930
This PDF document briefly summarises an AHRC-funded research network into “the role and representation of Irish immigrants within US cinema”, drawing new ideas of the role of audience taste on the shaping of early cinema and “the contradictory dynamic between ethnic assertion and cultural assimilation faced by the immigrant communities within the US”. The network was conceived as very much a multinational one, with academics from the UK, US and Ireland contributing, and w
Kitabkhana
Kitabkhana is a literary blog site which, while it has a fairly strong South Asian focus, also looks at publishing in English generally. The site is quite idiosyncratic - it is light hearted and humourous, but nonetheless gives an interesting critique of many modern works of fiction and on bodies of work. The South Asian bias of the site can be seen in the number of Indian authors that feature on it, as well as in the references to South Asian phenomena and trends in the reviews of other works.
Souffles : revue culturelle arabe du Maghreb
The journal Souffles, published between 1966 and 1971, was a cultural review devoted to literature and the arts in Morocco and North Africa. Its founder, Abdellatif Laâbi, is a Moroccan poet and writer who was imprisoned for eight years for his oppositional political views. The website for the journal gives access to online text versions of all 22 issues. The journal was important in the renewal of artistic expression across North Africa, and published work by or about poets, novelists, dramati
dichtung digital
This is the homepage of Dichtung Digital (Digital Fiction), an online newsletter in German devoted to "contributions on digital aesthetics." The site contains annotated links to and commentary on a broad range of electronic literature; hyperfiction; Latin American cyberculture and cyberliterature; canonized hypertexts; trans-medial narrative theory; and digital poetry that references prehistoric texts and symbols. The site publishes reviews on digital literature and art; interviews with author
Vanderbilt e-journal of Luso-Hispanic studies
This is the website of the Vanderbilt e-journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies, published by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, US. The journal is published annually by the Department, and it covers Latin-American studies from the perspective of humanities by invited contributors. Most articles concern themselves with Hispanic culture, while articles concernig Brazil focus primarily on Brazilian literature and cinema, as it is attested to by the 2008 issue sp
Street and studio : an urban history of photography
The Tate Gallery website has provided this online resource which accompanied their exhibition 'Street and Studio: an urban history of photography', which ran from 22 May to 31 August 2008. This resource features some of the 350 works that were exhibited to illustrate the history of photographic portraiture comparing those images taken in the studio to those set outside in the street. Set out in 11 'rooms' this resource features images from the late 19th century through to the 20th century. Alt
Federal fashions
This is the website of the online companion to the exhibition Federal Fashions hosted by the National Library of Australia. The exhibition material comes from the National Librarys ephemera collection of fashion in Australia at the time of federation. The clothing worn by the men, women and children who attended the celebrations marking the Federation of Australia were transitory styles between the stiff, formal lines of late-Victorian fashions and the looser, more comfortable Edwardian cl
Emile Zola Society
The website of The Emile Zola Society will be useful to anyone engaged in study or research relating to the work of Emile Zola, or nineteenth-century French literature more generally. The site provides details about conferences on the work of this prolific French novelist, held both at the Institut Français and elsewhere; biographical and bibliographic material; information about Zola's infamous open letter regarding the Dreyfus Affair, 'J'accuse!'; pages exploring topics such as the poster cam
Bibliothèque du film (BIFI)
This is the website of the Bibliotheque du Film (BIFI), based in Paris, which is the equivalent of the BFI Library in London. In 2005 it moved to a new site at rue de Bercy and contains the screening rooms of the Cinematheque Francaise and an exhibition space. The nearest metro is Bercy, southeast Paris.The BIFI contains books, periodicals, and a VHS/DVD collection. There is also a stills collection. The special collections section (Espace chercheurs) is only open in the afternoon, and booking n
German history in documents and images
German History in Documents and Images (GHDI) exhibits primary sources online to present a narrative of Germany's political, social, and cultural history from 1500 to the present. The site includes historical narrative overviews and original German texts, accompanied by new English translations. Short secondary historical narratives are prepared by a variety of current scholars who are specialists in relevant fields. The site is divided into ten sections according to historical time periods, w
