The Role of Europe in a Multilateral World - November 19, 2009
In his lecture, “The Role of Europe in a Multilateral World,” Romano Prodi will examine the benefits and challenges presented by the European Union’s expansion. Although the enlargement of the union has had significant impact on the democratic transition in eastern Europe and has extended European markets, there is no unanimity on issues of security, energy, and foreign affairs. Prodi maintains that if the EU aims to play a key role on the world’s political stage, it will need to develop
Is an Eclipse Described in Homer's Odyssey? – November 30, 2009
Plutarch and Heraclitus believed that a certain passage in the 20th book of The Odyssey (“Theoclymenus’s prophecy”) was a poetic description of a total solar eclipse. In the late 1920s Schoch and Neugebauer computed that the solar eclipse of 16 April 1178 B.C.E. was total over the Ionian Islands and was the only suitable eclipse in more than a century to agree with classical estimates of the decade-earlier sack of Troy around 1192–1184 B.C.E. However, much skepticism remains about whethe
Friendly Flip Flops
Brian Viel
In this exercise, the reader will learn how to create JK and D Flip Flops from each other, adding only combinational logic.
Some Rights R
Thomas Jefferson on Religion
Thomas Jefferson's policy on religious freedom rests on one ageless axiom: do unto others. Interpreter Bill Barker expounds.
Wetenschappelijke informatie opsporen Informatievaardigheid. Het is niet altijd even makkelijk om meteen de juiste informatie te vinden. Met deze interactieve tutorial wil men aanleren: hoe je op een efficiënte manier wetenschappelijke informatie kan …
Evaluating Arguments Part Two
Part six of a six-part series on critical reasoning. In this final lecture we will look at fallacies. These are bad arguments that can easily be mistaken for good arguments.
8.4 Persons, Humans and Brains
Part 8.4. The final part of this series. Explores the distinction between mind and body and whether this makes a difference to the idea of personal identity.
Discussion for December 9, 2010
Discussion on learning and related topics. This is the final podcast of the Fall 2010 semester. We shall return on January 20, 2011, for the Spring 2011 semester podcast series.
5.2 Madagascan diversity
David Attenborough looks at ‘life in the trees’: examining how species have evolved to cope with arboreal living. You will learn how lemurs, anteaters, bears and many others have developed different methods to help movement and survival.
8.01SC Physics I: Classical Mechanics (MIT)
Physics I is a first-year, first-semester course that provides an introduction to Classical Mechanics. It covers the basic concepts of Newtonian mechanics, fluid mechanics, and kinetic gas theory.
Developing Interview Techniques
Guided Reading: Making it Active
A six minute video that shows two different guided reading sessions, which involve primary
pupils revisiting well known texts, in a resource showing ways that guided reading can be used. Part of a series.
Online Communities in the Classroom
Online communities in the classroom is the topic of this 14 minute video. A basic overview of the way teachers can use the Internet to help expand their teaching beyond the classroom.
Jim O'Neill on the new BRICs
As "The World in" celebrates its 25th anniversary, Goldman Sachs's Jim O'Neill predicts what the global economy might look like in 2036
Fonts for the Web
This project requires the learner to research fonts on the web and font embedding. The learner will have to take into account costs, ligalities, and browser and platform support. The learner is situated in a fictitious company (Arachnoid Web Services) having commenced work as a Junior Web Designer.
Materiaal voor PEGO in het SO Via deze link vind je heel wat lesmateriaal en cursussen, onderverdeeld per graad. De eerste graad omvat het volledige programma van het Protestants Evangelisch Godsdienstonderwijs voor het ASO. De tweede …
Dewani wedding video released
The family of Shrien Dewani releases the video of the wedding held in India in October.
