Texas A&M: Wildfires Scorch Texas
http://www.tamu.edu/ Over three and a half million acres - more land than the entire state of Connecticut - completely scorched. When the worst wildfire in the state's history erupted, the governor enlisted the help of the Texas A&M University system team including the Texas Forest Service, Texas Task Force 1, the Texas Engineering Extension Service, and the College of Veterinary Medicine at Texas A&M. Video contains actual footage from the battle to gain control of even the most devastating fir
Daily Digit: Counting the costs of Bangladesh factory fire
Nov. 27 - Major retailers' supply chains are under scrutiny again as an industrial disaster highlights the poor working conditions in the factories supplying much of the world's clothing. Tessa Dunlop reports.
Young melanoma patient shares positive outlook on treatment
By: mdanderson Brian Rose, a young adult malignant melanoma patient at MD Anderson, does not advise studying your cancer's statistics. Rose says, "If you see your name in those statistics, go ahead and believe it. Until you see your name on one of those studies it really means nothing." It's important to be surrounded by a team of family, friends and physicians that share your focus and do not be afraid to reach out for help.
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Historique du Risorgimento italien. 2. La monarchie libérale en Italie (1861-1896) / Philippe Foro
Historique du Risorgimento italien et ses formulations politiques et sociales. 2. Vie politique et système institutionnel sous la monarchie libérale en Italie (1861-1896) / Philippe Foro, Université Toulouse 2-Le Mirail, 3 octobre 2011. Cours filmé, destiné, notamment, aux étudiants préparant l'agrégation d'italien ou d'histoire 2011-2012.
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Whenever Faith Holland visits a city, she likes to explore its libraries. So when she moved to Baltimore with her husband -- the late Laurence B. Holland, Ph.D., a professor of American literature and American studies who had accepted an appointment at The Johns Hopkins University's Krieger School of Arts and Sciences -- she was delighted to encounter the institution's George Peabody Library, which she describes as "one of the most beautiful buildings in America," as well as the Evergreen Museum
Joichi Ito: Enabling Emergent Voices and Expression through Technology
October 17, 2011
Joichi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab (USA)
Enabling Emergent Voices And Expression Through Technology
Respondent: Brendan Mcgetrick, Independent Writer & Designer (China)
Moore’s law and the Internet have dramatically reduced the cost of producing and distributing information. This has greatly lowered the cost of collaboration and has empowered a qualitatively different “public” to think, express, and act without, or in spite of, central authority. These changes and advanc
Understanding Alzheimer's Disease
Provides a clear demonstration of how the advent of new technologies has aided research into the etiology of disease.
Kindergarten and 1st Grade-Basic Addition
In this brief video addition with manipulatives is introduced. This is a basic lesson showing 1+1=2 and 2+2=4 (00:48).
Introduction In this course you will consider key developments in the English language from the end of the fifteenth century to the nineteenth century. You will study how the social and political changes of this period affected the English language as well as the development of new tools and ways of thinking about language.
Firstly, however, some useful ‘tools of the trade’ – you'll take a look at some vital foundations of English grammar. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Leve
The Finance Crisis: Part Five
Melody Barnes, Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy at the White House, speaks with Robin Harding, U.S. Economics Editor for the Financial Times, about the strategies behind the Obama administration's policies for economic recovery at The Finance Crisis: Lessons Learned from Canada and the Way Forward conference at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C.
Cells - Centers for the Week of 8/30/10
Mrs. Matthews students rotate through science centers each week. This week, the class is learning about living things, the parts of a plant and animal cell, and unicellular organisms. Their centers for the week include (1) a video about microbes found on Watchknow called Magic School Bus is in a Pickle (2) three interactive microscope websites on the Whiteboard (3) an experiment with a chicken egg (one large cell) soaked in vinegar to reveal the membrane (4) an art act
how to knit with part/hold buttons
how to knit with part/hold buttons
Encouraging Discussion Workshop 2
Introduced by Dr. Langer, this program concentrates on discussion and its importance in helping engaged readers go further in the text. The on–screen teachers talk about ways to encourage whole–class and small–group discussion, the importance of asking the right questions to provoke thoughtful discussion, and making the discussion inclusive, including both talkative and reticent students. Their discussion is punctuated by visits to their classrooms, where discussion flourishes.
Alice In Wonderland- In ASL
Student-Created Video- The classic tale of, Alice in Wonderland, is retold in American Sign Language as part of an ASL 1 class. No voice, text or illustrations are used in the story. (09:58)
Season 2 – Lesson 05 – Coffee Break Spanish In lesson 5 Mark and Kara look further at making arrangements using the tricky Spanish verb quedar. Please note that lesson 05 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 205 of Coffee Break Spanish. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners. The premium version of Coffee Break Spani
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4 Exploring the explanations At this point the emphasis of the discussion changes somewhat. We are going to use three case studies to illustrate some of the problems and difficulties that parents can face in their day-to-day lives. After reviewing the case studies you will be asked to reflect on some possible reasons and explanations for the situations outlined. 21L.704 Studies in Poetry: Gender and Lyric -- Renaissance Men and Women Writing about Love (MIT) 社会理工学国際特別演習（経営）第一 1.5 Increasing complication, complexity and risk: the underlying relationship Figure 3 showed five commonly encountered problems of effecting different types of change. These are notionally located on a spectrum of change that ranges from no change at all, to complete revolution. The relationship suggested on the figure is that as the degree of change – represented
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The core of this seminar will be the great sequences of English love sonnets written by William Shakespeare, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and Mary Wroth. These poems cover an enormous amount of aesthetic and psychological ground: ranging from the utterly subjective to the entirely public or conventional, from licit to forbidden desires, they might also serve as a manual of experimentation with the resources of sound, rhythm, and figuration in poetry. Around these sequences, we will develop sev
Through presentation sessions on recent articles in academic journals in our fields:
- To share recent knowledge in cutting-edge researches in research fields in our departments.
- To discover novel viewpoints through discussions and bring them back to own research problems.
- To improve presentation skills based on own experiences, feedback from others, as well as observation of others.
