Danica's persuasive text
Buenos Aires Fashion week sizzles
Aug. 22 - Argentine designers show off their spring/summer collections. Alicia Powell reports.
U.S. Day Ahead: July producer prices seen edging up
Aug. 16 - U.S. producer prices are likely to have increased by 0.1 percent in July, compared to a drop in June of 0.4 percent, according to Reuters Correspondent Jason Lange.
Conquering Technophobia: A Classroom Veteran Warms to Digital Tools
Jim Wilson, a self-described "old guy" and star of theEdutopia video Conquering Technophobia, has gone from grumbling about his school's technology-integration initiative to embracing it. Laptop computers and other gadgets are now tools that he uses just about every day in his English classes at Freedom Area High School, outside Pittsburgh.There have been bumps along the way, and -- Wilson will be the first to tell you -- there are surely more to come. But he's pleased with what comput
Great Zoom out from Kodak Theater with spin (Los Angeles, CA)
Using data from different spacecraft and some powerful computer technology, visualizers at the Goddard Space Flight Center present you with a collection of American cities in a way you have never seen them before. Starting with our camera high above the Earth, we rush in towards the surface at what would be an impossible speed for any known vehicle. Passing though layers of atmosphere, the colors of our destinations shimmer with their own unique characteristics, and suddenly we find ourselves fl
PBS - The Secret Life of the Brain 1of5 The Babys Brain (2/4)
THE SECRET LIFE OF THE BRAIN, a David Grubin Production,
reveals the fascinating processes involved in brain development across a
lifetime. The five part series covers brain development in the baby,
child/adolescent, and adult. This is a great video to use for High school
psychology, anatomy, or biology class.
Innovative Schools - Breaking New Ground!
4-H Goes Digital
The Tech Wizards after-school program uses technology to introduce Latino students to careers and educational pathways in science, technology, engineering, and math. (4:25)
Digital Youth Portrait: Jalen
My name is Jalen, and I live in Illinois. In the Digital Youth Network program, I do graphic design, video gaming, and robotics. I am doing DYN TV, in which we make our own little TV show. And I'm learning photography this year. So I think I have advanced throughout the years in my use of technology and in my use of creating through technology. In school, at home, and in the Digital Youth Network, Jalen thrives as an artist, animator, and digital-media creator. (7:46)
Portail enfant Stéphyprod: Een schatkist voor de Franse les Hier vind je een groot aanbod aan Franse liedjes met muziek, tekst en filmpjes. Eenvoudige leesboeken worden er voorgelezen. Er zijn spelletjes en kleurplaten rond dezelfde thema's.
Digital Media Empower Youth
Both in the classroom and in after-school pods, students learn to become critical creators in Chicago's Digital Youth Network. On Remix World, the program's social-networking site, participants share, critique, and discuss their work. (5:30)
The Tortoise and the Hare: An Animated Reading
This selection is an animated storybook version of Aesop's Fable The Tortoise and the Hare. The words of each page appear as they are read. ( 1:11)
Jim Tiedje at the 2011 DOE JGI User Meeting
Jim Tiedje of Michigan State University on "Tackling Metagenomics' Largest Challenge: The Great Prairie Project" at the 6th annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting on March 24, 2011.
Polymer composites from nano-cellulose
Polymer composites from nano-cellulose, Lecture II, Aranguren, Mirta, Institute of Materials Science and Technology (INTEMA), Argentina
Faculty conversations: Jim Harding
Jim Harding, wildlife information specialist at the MSU Museum and instructor and undergraduate advisor in the Department of Zoology, talks about his work in the conservation of reptiles and amphibians, as well as the wood turtle study he has been doing for more than 40 years.
To read more, go to http://news.msu.edu/story/9676
Silhouette Blends: Bossy -r-
Hector and Lisa use their br-ight br-ains to come up with different words that can be made from one phoneme. The goal for this segment is r-controlled vowels. (0:31)
Fur flies at European convention
Aug 22 - Fans of all things furry meet in Magdeburg, Germany for Europe's largest furry convention. Tara Cleary reports.
Stocks-to-asset-class correlations drive volatility
Aug. 19 - Shares in the top 10 sectors on the S&P 500 index are now 96.7 percent correlated -- a two year record -- and this could explain the whipsawing volatility of recent weeks, says ConvergEx's Colas.
"Darkness" by Lord Byron (poetry reading)
Some end of the world prophesies here:
http://www.endoftheworld2012.net/
Paintings:
http://apocalypse2011.com/tag/signs-of-the-apocalypse
Guide to surviving the apocalypse
http://tinyurl.com/3lcylnc
Apocalypse Now by Thierry Canon
http://raph.com/3dartists/artgallery/imagePage?iid=6415
Apocalypse City
http://jjasso.deviantart.com/art/Wolverine-apocalypse-city-124412093
I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal
Karachi tightens security
Aug.20 - Security personnel patrol the streets in Karachi after further bloodshed. Paul Chapman reports.
