How can you defeat SAD this winter?
Dr. Charles Schulz, M.D., head of the University of Minnesota psychiatry department, says SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) is a mood disorder that affects people who have normal mental health throughout most of the year but experience a mood change when temperatures cool down, days become shorter and sun exposure is limited.
Schulz has some helpful tips on how people can identify SAD and cope with the sometimes dreary winter months.
Art Institute of Chicago Musecast: September 2008
Art Institute in the Community: Inspired by our new season of events 360 Degrees: Art beyond Borders, this episode takes a look at global culture seen at the local level. Hear about the intermingling of art and culture from our partners at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and Poetry Foundation, and listen to performances by Yang Wei from the Silk Road Ensemble and Alfonso Ponticelli of Swing Gitan. Both musicians will be performing at the seasonâs opening day festivities.
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Consciousness in Psychological and Christian Perspectives
Dr. William Struthers : Course
Snuffelsoft : Software voor de basisschool Op de website van Snuffelsoft biedt Ides D’Hont eenvoudige programma's aan die vlug inzetbaar zijn in de klas. Je kan er o.a. volgende programma's downloaden:
Trauma Survivor Shares Story of His Accident and Recovery
In this six-minute video, trauma survivor JR Black shares the story of the accident that resulted in him sustaining numerous traumatic injuries, and subsequently, joining the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center's "Trauma Survivors Network." In February 2009, Black fell asleep while he was driving. He crashed his car was ejected through the windshield, landing approximately 90 feet from where his car crashed. Here, he talks about his memories surrounding the accident as well as his thoughts about
Noam Chomsky on Gaza in Crisis
Noam Chomsky addresses the ongoing crisis in Gaza followed by a question-and-answer session with the audience. Joining Chomsky is Nancy Murray, the director of education at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Massachusetts. She is the author of Rights Matter: the Story of the Bill of Rights. Nancy holds a B.Phil. and Ph.D. in modern history from Oxford University. She has experience as a teacher, scholar and social activist in Great Britain, Kenya, and the Middle East as well as the Uni
Baconsthorpe Castle N070042 BACONSTHORPE CASTLE, Norfolk. Aerial view.
Northeastern Men's Basketball Press Conference • vs. Georgia State • Jan. 29, 2011
Northeastern head men's basketball coach Bill Coen and senior guard Chaisson Allen address the media after defeating Georgia State, 70-65, on Jan. 29, 2011, at Matthews Arena in Boston.
Art Institute of Chicago Musecast: November 2009
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Pair Production
This animation illustrates Pair Production. In this interaction, the photon's energy creates an electron-positron pair. The minimum photon energy required for this is determined by Einstein's famous Energy-Mass relation.
Procentberekening : Stappenplan In dit documentje vind je een stappenplan voor de volgende bewerkingen met breuken:
Quelques rudiments de calculabilité et de complexité
Ce cours a été donné en juin 2010 lors des journées de formation à l'informatique organisées par l'INRIA à destination des professeurs de mathématiques d'Ile de France. Il est composé d'une heure et demi de cours et d'un quart d'heure de questions-réponses sur le cours.
La recherche d'information, les moteurs de recherche et le pageRank
Dans cet exposé, Jean-Paul Delahaye, nous parle de l'information au sens usuel du terme et nous montre les problèmes mathématiques et algorithmiques qui depuis quinze à ving ans ont été résolus pour arriver à cette mise à disposition quasi miraculeuse de l'information, au fil de l'exposé il nous fait partager les autres notions d'informations et nous permet de partager les grandes idées qui font de l'informatique, la science de l'information.
Présentation à destinat
History of American Literature: Ernest Hemingway
A two minute video using quotes from Hemingway and an overview of his themes. A brief early biography.
1906-12-10: de Forest, Robert W., to Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage
This image is a typewritten memorandum from Robert W. de Forest to Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage. The writer gives the outlines of what was to become the Russell Sage Foundation.,Russell Sage has died in July 1906, leaving Olivia Sage a $75 million dollar fortune. Five months later, her attorney and advisor Robert W. de Forest lays out his suggestions for a general-purpose benevolent trust, a "foundation" incorporated under federal and state laws and administered by trustees serving for life. This
Flirters flock to Floxx
A website allowing people to send flirty messages to one another in public places is growing in popularity after its predecessor was shut down due to pressure from a top London university.
The Ghetto Series
This series of photographs was taken in Hackney in 1993/94 when the artist lived in a squatted community of London Fields East. All the photographs feature friends and neighbours of the artist. The title for the series comes from an article in the local paper, The Hackney Gazette, which described the neighbourhood as “a crime-ridden, derelict ghetto, a cancer - a blot on the landscape.”
The photographs were part of a campaign to save the community from developers and Hackney council. Fo
