Conversations with History - Thomas E. Ricks
"The Military and the Iraq War"
Thomas E. Ricks, Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Thomas Ricks for a discussion of his work as a writer and journalist. Reflecting on his career, Ricks discusses his two books on the Iraq War, Fiasco and The Gamble, offering an analysis of the failures of the first years of the war and the changes in strategy engineered by Generals Odierno and Petraeus. Reviewing the conduct of the Iraq War, Ricks analy
EBI Seminar - Michael Crowley
Large Scale Molecular Modeling of Biomass and the Molecules that Torture It
Michael Crowley, senior scientist at the National Renewable Energy
Laboratory (NREL) in Colorado, will speak as part of the 2010-11 EBI
Seminar Series.
The abstract:
Modeling of cell wall components degrading enzymes has taken on an essential role in the search for both understanding of cell walls and cell wall digestion. Our research is directly connected to the experimental efforts at NREL to understand and design b
Part 1,"'Die!' Censoring Game Violence"
"Blood, Sex, and Politics in Video Games: How Censorship Is Done (or Not)"
Part 1,"'Die!' Censoring Game Violence" MIT GAMBIT Game Lab researcher Konstantin MItgutsch , brilliant as he is, can't figure out how video games are rated. And that's saying something, given that Mitgutsch is a scientific board member of Europe's game-ratings group, Pan European Game Information (PEGI).
"Game content rating system like the Entertain
India Catches its Stride: Andy Khandwala
Thunderbird School of Global Management alumnus Andy Khandwala talks about entrepreneurship in India. http://www.thunderbird.edu
India Catches its Stride: Narasimha Reddy
Thunderbird School of Global Management student Narasimha Reddy talks about entrepreneurship and innovation in India. http://www.thunderbird.edu
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"Hypothetical Risk: Cambridge City Council's Hearings on Recombinant DNA Research" (1976)
The film "Hypothetical Risk. The Cambridge City Council's hearings on DNA Experimentation in Cambridge" was recorded in June 1976 at City Hall, Cambridge MA. Mayor Alfred Vellucci and city councillors Saundra Graham and David Clem are among those to question a panel of scientists including Mark Ptashne (Harvard), Jonathan King (MIT), Daniel Branton (Harvard), Maxine Singer (National Institute of Health), and Ruth Hubbard (Harvard). Produced by the MIT Oral History Program for the Recombinant DNA
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What is ‘e-commerce’? This unit will look at typical application areas including the internet, supply chain management and online auctions. It will also help you to understand the underlying technologies used to implement e-commerce applications before looking at some of the problems that can be encountered when developing distributed e-commerce systems.
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What is ‘e-commerce’? This unit will look at typical application areas including the internet, supply chain management and online auctions. It will also help you to understand the underlying technologies used to implement e-commerce applications before looking at some of the problems that can be encountered when developing distributed e-commerce systems.
A Bengali quiz and a matching exercise: food
A Bengali quiz and a matching exercise: food.
Mapping Food Taste Vocabularies between Chinese and English
Mapping Food Taste Vocabularies between Chinese and English.
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Leadership in Action (5/10): Effective team leadership
Leadership in Action (5/10): Effective team leadership
Leadership in Action (6/10): Effective change leadership
Leadership in Action (6/10): Effective change leadership
Leadership in Action (7/10): What leaders have to handle – effective problem solving and decision
Leadership in Action (7/10): What leaders have to handle – effective problem solving and decision making
A global view of mobile trends
The custom research firm TNS is launching its Mobile Life 2011 study which shows the mobile web is becoming an increasingly important factor in the way people use their devices.
De la Warr Pavilion 1935 CC47_02383 DE LA WARR PAVILION, Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex. The Pavilion at night with interior lighting. Photographed by Herbert Felton in 1935 shortly after completion.
Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary Entomology
The Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary Entomology (CMAVE) operates under the auspices of the USDA Agricultural Research Service. CMAVE "conducts research aimed at reducing or eliminating the harm caused by insects to crops, stored products, livestock and humans. Research is directed not only at the insects themselves but at pathogens they may transmit and at identifying inherent protective mechanisms in plants." The Center's website links to information about CMAVE researchers and
