Guide to the Papers of David Leo Lawrence, 1959-1966
David Leo Lawrence was a politician in Pittsburgh. A native of Pittsburgh, Lawrence served as the city's mayor (1945-1959), state governor (1959-1963), and as a special assistant to the President (1963-1966). This collection contains: biographical materials; personal correspondence; materials from his trip to Japan in 1962; and materials regarding local and state Democratic Party political activities, 1960-1966.
Prosecutors ask judge to drop Strauss-Kahn charges
Aug. 22 - Prosecutors recommend judge drop all charges against the former IMF chief due to concerns about his accuser's credibility. Deborah Gembara reports.
Résidence artistique dans un centre de recherche / Jérôme Planes, Sylvie Sauvaigno, Valérie Lege
Une résidence artistique dans un centre de recherche / Jérôme Planes, Sylvie Sauvaigno et Valérie Legembre. In "Images & mirages @ nanosciences", colloque international organisé par le Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Solidarités, Sociétés, Territoires (LISST) de l'Université Toulouse II-Le Mirail, le Centre d'Élaboration de Matériaux et d'Études Structurales (CEMES) rattaché à l'Institut de Physique du CNRS et le Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de
Out of This World: Students Take an Eco-Friendly Field Trip to Mars
A focus on energy conservation brings the sciences to life in an art class at Redwood Middle School, in Napa, California. Sharon Campbell remembers sleeping out under the stars and watching Sputnik go overhead. Back then, she wanted to be the first astronaut. Instead, she became an educator. She has been teaching art now for twenty-one years at Redwood Middle School, in Napa, California, but she visits space on a regular basis, via a very special classroom.It began when Campbell
Lecture 9 - Parallel and Selective Symbolic Execution (George Candea)
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Celebration in Tripoli's Green Square
Aug. 23 - Libyans celebrate in Tripoli's Green Square, which rebels renamed Martyrs' Square, as it was known before Gaddafi took power over four decades ago. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Rebels celebrate inside Gaddafi compound
Aug. 23 - Joyful Libyan rebels celebrate after storming Muammar Gaddafi's Tripoli compound. Deborah Gembara reports.
Micro-robots transport glass and trap particles
Read more:
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/08/born-to-be-viral-micro-robot-carries-heavy-glass-bead.html
Tattoo could monitor your health
Read more:
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/08/high-tech-tattoo-could-monitor-your-health.html
Robot swarm invades from the ground and air
Read more:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20791-robot-swarm-invades-from-the-ground-air.html
Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven (1978) - in cinemas 2 September
Widely recognised as a pinnacle of the golden age of 70s Hollywood filmmaking, Terrence Malick's foray into American pastoral has now been digitally restored, the subtle pictorial alterations supervised by the writer-director himself.
In selected cinemas across the UK from 2 September
For more information, dates and venues visit: http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/node/22276/
Virginia quake seismic waves march across the US
Seismometers from the EarthScope project Transportable Array measured the up-and-down motion of the ground from the magnitude 5.9 earthquake that occurred in Virginia on August 23, 2011. You can see the waves move across the country! Red is upward motion; blue down. The height of the wave was only 22 microns!
Original data: http://www.iris.edu/spud/gmv/109962
Credit: Data from the TA network were made freely available as part of the EarthScope USArray facility supported by the National Science
Authors@Google: Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
"The Theory That Would Not Die" How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy"
Bayes' rule appears to be a straightforward, one-line theorem: by updating our initial beliefs with objective new information, we get a new and improved belief. To its adherents, it is an elegant statement about learning from experience. To its opponents, it is subjectivity run amok.
In the first-ever account of Bayes' rule for gene
Wiki Session 1
Students answering their own questions posted on web
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Students answering their own questions posted on web
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Students answering their own questions posted on web
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Students answering their own questions posted on web
supplement to Zhang 1
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