The Student's Guide To Online Colleges
Vehicle Destruction
Lego Hat Stealers
Understanding U.N. Bias against Israel
Model Prison Architecture
Williamsburg's jail, or gaol, set the standard for colonial prison architecture. Visit the building this year as we celebrate the 75th anniversary of its reconstruction. Architectural historian Carl Lounsbury describes the structure.Author(s):
Model of the Heliosphere Over the Solar Cycle
This magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) model shows how the heliosphere of the Sun might interact with the local interstellar medium (ISM) over the course of a single 11 year solar cycle. The sun (and the orbit of the Earth) is located in the tiny blue region in the center. The ISM is moving from left to right. The solar wind varies from 400 km-s up to 566 km-s and back down to 400 km-s over the cycle in this particular model. The colors are logarithmically scaled to represent temperature, with blue ar
Super-Human Strength - Halve An Apple With Your Bare Hands
Learn how to crack an apple in half with your bare hands. This is placed in the exercise section as it does involve most fine motor coordination and strength.
Reading in the USA Music Video-Motivate Students to READ!!
Two North Elementary School teachers rewrote the lyrics to the popular Miley Cyrus song "Party in the USA" for a school-wide video project aimed at encouraging reading. About 700 students participated in this video. This is a great resource to motivate students to read, read, read!! (5:16)
Being an Astronaut
Being an astronaut - Learn about what it is like to be an astronaut, from preparation for the launch until returning back to earth. (03:24)
Mark Behrens
Professor Mark Behrens reviews in more detail and touches on key elements of his research that the students in video (Student Presentation #5) discussed. In describing his work, Behrens offered "think of looking through color filters." The filters eliminate any unnecessary or unforeseeable data, and when you combine all the filters together, the yield reveals amazing overlaps and patterns.
Michael O'Neill on Building a Sustainable Employee Enterprise
Michael O'Neill (MBA '74)
Director of Citigroup
Edible Adventures - The China Experience - Part 1
Join CIA students as they travel to China for the culinary experience of a lifetime. In the Food, Wine, and Agri(culture) Trip to China, CIA bachelor's degree students explore the various food regions, witness the industry in action, and gain knowledge from many sites. They enjoy delicious food, fine beverages, and fresh agricultural products, and meet passionate professionals and entrepreneurs eager to share their knowledge and unique insights. They also visit a number of culturally significa
First Images from Landsat 7: Flying Down I-90 to Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Flying down Interstate 90 to Sioux Falls, South Dakota using an image from Landsat 7 taken April 22, 1999
History Project with Student A
1.4.2 Engaging with multiple perspectives
This unit explores conceptual tools for assisting our thinking and deliberation on what matters. The notion of ‘framing’ nature is introduced and three readings provide an understanding of systems thinking for explicitly framing issues of environmental responsibility.
16.5 Where does the systems practitioner stand in relation to a system of interest? Systems practice may be carried out individually or as part of a team. In doing action research – which is a form of managing – an important question is: On us or with us? (Figure 47). This question seems pertinent to the process that led to the establishment of the Child Support Agency as described in the case study. The answer to the question, whether the action research is carried out by an individual or a gro
Israeli orchestra defies Wagner ban
July 26 - The Israel Chamber Orchestra breaks with a long-standing taboo becoming the first Israeli orchestra to perform Wagner in Germany. Tara Cleary reports.
16.4 Managing for emergence and self-organisation It might be useful to re-read Box 4 before starting this section. In this example, the terms ‘open’ and ‘closed’ were used on several occasions. You have already encountered the term ‘closed system’. You were told that human beings are closed systems in terms of inputs to our nervous systems and brain from the external world; effectively our cognitive processes are closed to information. Clearly,
Economist Shiller: "A mistake is being made" in Washington (Part 2)
July 26 - In part two of Insider's interview with Yale Economist Robert Shiller, he says the spending cuts being considered by Washington are coming at a very vulnerable time and the U.S. economy is "absolutely not" ready for austerity.
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