Day of rage in Yemen
Pro and anti-governments protests take place during a 'Day of Rage' in Yemen.
Author(s): No creator set
Shell's $5.7bn profit disappoints
The global oil major Shell reports five fold profits but figures have come in well below expectations leaving the market disappointed.
Author(s): No creator set
Dancers generate lighting
See performers who appear to generate lightning from their heads. Find out how they do this here: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2011/02/the-secret-to-commanding-lightning.html
Author(s): No creator set
1840?: Emma Willard, Portrait 1
This image is a portrait of Emma Willard, founder of the Troy Female Seminary (later the Emma Willard School). She is wearing a dark dress with a white lace scarf tucked into the neckline. A dark veil is pulled away from her face and extends from her white lace cap to below her shoulders.,Willard was a significant figure in the history of American education for girls, a prolific writer and educational theorist. Her Troy Female Seminary, founded after energetic fund-raising in Troy, N.Y. (then on
Author(s): Unknown
1850?: Margaret Pierson Jermain Slocum, Portrait
This image is a photographic portrait taken in the early 1850s of Margaret Pierson Jermain Slocum, mother of Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage. Mrs. Slocum is wearing a dark satin dress with a lace collar fastened by a brooch and a white cap ornamented by embroidered leaves and artificial flowers.,This portrait shows Margaret Pierson Jermain Slocum, Olivia's mother, in the early 1850s. Olivia described her mother as "always a very earnest and purposeful woman." She claimed that her mother kept suitors
Author(s): Unknown
European Civilization, 1648-1945
This course offers a broad survey of modern European history, from the end of the Thirty Years' War to the aftermath of World War II. Along with the consideration of major events and figures such as the French Revolution and Napoleon, attention will be paid to the experience of ordinary people in times of upheaval and transition. The period will thus be viewed neither in terms of historical inevitability nor as a procession of great men, but rather through the lens of the complex interrelations
Author(s): mvd4
1909-11-28: A Woman Inventor Who Plans - and Expects - To Fly
This image is a newspaper clipping about E. Lilian Todd and the airplane she designed and that Mrs. Sage financed.,E. Lilian Todd was an unusual woman for her day, or ours. From a modest background and largely self-educated, she became a stenographer and then worked for a firm of patent attorneys in Washington, D.C. But in her spare time, she designed and built model planes and by 1906 she had developed a model biplane and was seeking a sponsor to enable it to be built and test-flown. Olivia Sag
Author(s): The New York Times
Balle de ping-pong dans un entonnoir (video)
Lorsqu’on plonge une balle de ping-pong dans l’eau, celle-ci remonte à la surface, en vertu du principe d’Archimède. Mais est-ce toujours vrai ? Pas sûr…
Author(s): No creator set
Blinder Understates the Cost of a Carbon Tax
In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, Alan Blinder listed numerous alleged benefits of a phased-in carbon tax. Out of his entire column, he devoted a single sentence to the possible downside of his plan when he wrote, "No one likes to pay higher taxes." A more bala
Author(s): No creator set
Career Education for special education
Joy Heuer
This is a unit of career education lessons for a mod./severe special education class. These lessons are targeted towards a K-1 class. Included are lessons on name recognition, self awareness, […]
Author(s): No creator set
Marimba Beat: Jingchen Sun
In this performance video segment from From the Top at Carnegie Hall, 17-year-old percussionist Jingchen Sun plays a marimba, a percussion instrument with a fascinating history. The piece she plays, "Ultimatum I," is by German composer and percussionist Nebojsa Zivkovic. (04:20)
Author(s): No creator set
The Young People's Chorus of New York City
The Young People's Chorus was founded by conductor Francisco Nuñez to celebrate the diversity and musical richness of his hometown, New York City. In this performance video from From the Top at Carnegie Hall, listen to a performance of Panta Rhei (Greek for "all things are in flux") by another New Yorker, composer Jim Papoulis. Many of the musical elements—a driving rhythm, syncopation, atonality, and surprising percussion—contribute to the sense of change and movement.
Author(s): No creator set
Do you suck at PowerPoint?
Author(s):
Creator not set1.203J Logistical and Transportation Planning Methods (MIT)
The class will cover quantitative techniques of Operations Research with emphasis on applications in transportation systems analysis (urban, air, ocean, highway, pick-up and delivery systems) and in the planning and design of logistically oriented urban service systems (e.g., fire and police departments, emergency medical services, emergency repair services). It presents a unified study of functions of random variables, geometrical probability, multi-server queueing theory, spatial location theo
Author(s): Larson, Richard C.,Odoni, Amedeo R.,Barnett, Arnol
Copyright 2009 University of Nottingham