Neptune: The Planet
The frozen planet Neptune sits as the farthest planet from the Sun. Its distance and thick atmosphere make Neptune difficult to study, leaving scientists with many unanswered questions about this icy gas giant. The images are set to music and does not include any narration. (05:13)
A Matter of Competence: A National Study of the Preparation of New Student Affairs Professionals
Dr. Peter C. Mather,
Kent Smith,
Sarah Skipper
This mixed-methods, national study gauges the extent to which new professionals in student affairs use competencies identified as important b
Caistor dig
A skeleton, found in September 2009 at one of the most important, but least understood, Roman sites in Britain is puzzling experts from The University of Nottingham.
Dr Will Bowden from the Department of Archaeology at the University of Nottingham and leader of excavations at the buried town of Venta Icenorum at Caistor St Edmund in Norfolk and is interviewed in this video on site at the dig.
September 2009
Suitable for Undergraduate study and community education
Dr Will Bowden, Associate P
The anatomy cook book : a dissection guide with recipes
The Anatomy Cookbook has been written to accompany an anatomy and physiology course for bioengineers who would otherwise have missed out on the opportunity to study real organ systems at first hand. It is not an alternative to a standard anatomy text, it acts more as a laboratory supplement. The fun bit is that your kitchen takes the place of the dissection room. Each recipe provides an insight into one or more organs, and all you need to do is go to the supermarket and be prepared to think abou
Serious Breaches Relating to the Food Act
Use of e-learning tools for 3 units of Certificate III in Hospitality
(Commercial Cookery) for apprentice cooks. These units are the first 3 units to be
studied in the program and to be available on line can reduce the face to face learning
time and enable the apprentice to commence study while waiting to commence trade
school.
Identify, assemble and prepare ingredients
Use of e-learning tools for 3 units of Certificate III in Hospitality (Commercial Cookery) for apprentice cooks. These units are the first 3 units to be studied in the program and to be available on line can reduce the face to face learning time and enable the apprentice to commence study while waiting to commence trade school.
Cleaning and Sanitizing Part B
Use of e-learning tools for 3 units of Certificate III in Hospitality
(Commercial Cookery) for apprentice cooks. These units are the first 3 units to be
studied in the program and to be available on line can reduce the face to face learning
time and enable the apprentice to commence study while waiting to commence trade
school.
Furniture making and design - Task: Set up for
machining
This task contains information and activities about setting up
for a CNC machining and processing centre. The user is guided through the process of
recognising and checking safety equipment on a CNC machine, setting and adjusting a
CNC machine, checking cutting tools and jigs, conducting a trial run and making
final adjustments where necessary. Comprehensive resources are provided which
contain interactions and activities. Opportunities for collaborative discussion are
in
Fractions, Decimals, and Percents
From the Go Figure video series: In this video, the math concepts of fractions, decimals and percents are presented in a fun and engaging way. Those students wanting to review the basics within these three areas will find this study-aid an effective way to do so. Video is slow moving at the beginning. Run time 16:23.
22.611J Introduction to Plasma Physics I (MIT)
In this course, students will learn about plasmas, the fourth state of matter. The plasma state dominates the visible universe, and is of increasing economic importance. Plasmas behave in lots of interesting and sometimes unexpected ways.
The course is intended only as a first plasma physics course, but includes critical concepts needed for a foundation for further study. A solid undergraduate background in classical physics, electromagnetic theory including Maxwell's equations, and mathema
15.099 Readings in Optimization (MIT)
In keeping with the tradition of the last twenty-some years, the Readings in Optimization seminar will focus on an advanced topic of interest to a portion of the MIT optimization community: randomized methods for deterministic optimization. In contrast to conventional optimization algorithms whose iterates are computed and analyzed deterministically, randomized methods rely on stochastic processes and random number/vector generation as part of the algorithm and/or its analysis. In the seminar, w
Learn English Through Song - Listening Comprehension
Help listening comprehension from the lyrics of the song Dancing in the Street by Martha and the Vandrellas. Learn English Through Song Program helps English Second Language (ESL) students study speaking, conversation, vocabulary, pronunciation, listening and grammar. More songs at www.learn-to-speak-english-esl.com
Mom Loved Him Best: Bert & Ivan Sutherland
[Recorded February 3, 2004]
Computing industry legends and brothers Bert and Ivan Sutherland reminisce about their collective 100 plus years with computers and electronics.
Bert Sutherland developed, managed and mentored some of the most important computing innovations of the past half-century, from Bolt, Beranek & Newman ( BBN) and Xerox PARC in the 1970s to managing Java development at Sun Microsystems Laboratories in the 1990s.
Ivan Sutherland is considered by many to be the creator of comp
Colour on the Thames (1935)
(This is a higher-quality version of one of BFIFilms' most popular titles)
This film is tricky to describe: is it a boat study, a film-poem, an experiment, a picture postcard? One thing is certain: it's a rare colour snapshot of the Thames and London in the 1930s - and it looks quite magical.
Its artistic qualities may look a bit old-fashioned to us today; the slow pace, orchestral music and moody colours definitely belong to a bygone era, strikingly peaceful and undemanding. Yet colour film w
Allegra Goodman: 2010 National Book Festival
Author Allegra Goodman speaks at the 2010 National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: Allegra Goodman began writing short stories in high school, and the summer after she graduated in 1985, she submitted her story "Variant Text" to Commentary magazine, which accepted it for publication. Goodman continued to write for the magazine, and on her graduation day in 1989 from Harvard, her first book was published - a collection of stories. At Stanford, she studied William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlo
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9 The term ‘religion’: A concluding comment I hope that this more extended study of religion in context has been interesting in itself and that you have glimpsed something of the richness of Hinduism. We have made this brief study of Hinduism also to put to work some of the principles in the study of religion that we met earlier in this unit. I want finally to draw some threads together by considering more generally the problems and pitfalls of using the concept of ‘religion’ in a cross-cultural study. Applying what we h
8.8 Hinduism as ‘a world religion’: a more recent understanding Traditionally, as we have seen, a Hindu was someone born to Hindu parents and into a caste with its appropriate dharma. The link between religious
8.6 The Dakshineswar temple I want you now to follow a worshipper on a ‘pilgrimage in miniature’ around Dakshineswar temple on the outskirts of Calcutta. Before you read further, please study carefully the plan of Dakshineswar temple in Figure 14. 7.3 ‘Insiders’ and ‘outsiders’ The claim that it is possible to study religion adequately from a disinterested position has been hotly debated. Can the understanding of the observer achieve the same level of insight and authority as the participant in a religion? No serious student of religion can avoid confronting this question. The ‘outsider’ cannot escape depending to an extent upon insights from ‘insiders’ when studying a particular religion. An ‘outsider’ who has never been through a p
