2.3 Calculating probability
Observation, measurement and the recording of data are central activities in science. Speculation and the development of new theories are crucial as well, but ultimately the predictions resulting from those theories have to be tested against what actually happens and this can only be done by making further measurements. Whether measurements are made using simple instruments such as rulers and thermometers, or involve sophisticated devices such as electron microscopes or lasers, there are decisio
Ancient Observatories (Pt 4): Mayan Astronomy
Fourth segment of NASA Connect Ancient Observatories describing the Ancient Mayan civilization and their accomplishments. (05:30)
Gerald Walter's Lecture
Leading architectural historian Dr Simon Thurley looks at the growing role of the state in the cultural life of the nation in the 40th Anniversary Gerald Walter's Memorial Lecture
4.3.3 After the exam
Do you get stressed at the thought of an examination? Does the idea of revision fill you with dread? This unit will provide a host of tips to help you improve your revision and examination techniques and enable you to manage your time effectively by creating a timetable for your revision.
Leeds Met International: China
Watch our student Ting from China talking about life at Leeds Met and the city of Leeds.
3.7 Hair cell tuning
Hearing is a familiar and important human sense that is a topic naturally of interest to those who are curious about human biology. This unit will enable you to relate what you read to your own sensory experiences – and indeed many of the questions asked have exactly that function. This unit will be best understood by those with some biological understanding.
5.1.2 Turning the negative into the positive
Do you get stressed at the thought of an examination? Does the idea of revision fill you with dread? This unit will provide a host of tips to help you improve your revision and examination techniques and enable you to manage your time effectively by creating a timetable for your revision.
Julius Erving – Inspirational Basketball Champion
Basketball Player: Julius Erving - Julius Erving, otherwise known as Doctor J, lead a successful basketball career and provides an inspiration to us all to this day. These clips are from older footage, so the image quality could be better.(01:33)
1.2 Curriculum guidance/frameworks and play In the first activity you will explore what curriculum frameworks say about play. Aim: to clarify the extent to which the importance 2.2 The shift from manufacturing to services in industrialised economies There was a profound restructuring of economic activity in ‘older’ industrialised countries in the last quarter of the twentieth century from manufacturing to service activities. There are several reasons for this restructuring. First, the long-established industrialised countries such as Germany, the USA, Japan and the UK have faced increasingly intense competition as more countries have industrialised. Second, productivity, or output per worker, has increased in manufacturing indus Le Documentaire et les images d'archives (Penser le cinéma documentaire : leçon 5)
De DzigaVertov à Frédéric Rossif, en passant par Alain Resnais et Chris Marker, de grandes signatures se sont prêtées à cet exercice bien particulier, qui consiste à faire un film sans tourner une seule image, un film qui va s’écrire entièrement sur la table de montage. Ce n’est pas pour rien qu’on appelle bien souvent les documentaires d’archives des « films de montage ». UA to Lead NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission bhangoo_NCR545_1 danny_teacherhood5 The Practice of Sovereignty: Kant on the Duties of National and International Citizenship Does Dominique Strauss-Kahn deserve due process?
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Images d’actualité, émissions de télévision, archives industrielles, militaires, éducat
NASA has selected the University of Arizona to lead a sample-return mission to an asteroid. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will orbit and explore asteroid 1999 RQ36 for more than a year before closing in and collecting a sample of pristine organic material that may have seeded Earth with the building blocks that led to life.
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Paul Guyer (University of Pennsylvania) presents his paper on Kant's views of the practice of sovereignty. Presented as part of the Anglo-German 'State of the State' Fellowship Programme.
Feminists Naomi Wolf and Maureen Tkacik discuss the state of due process in the U.S. and whether or not it has been extended to Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
