MAS.878 Special Topics in Multimedia Production: Experiences in Interactive Art (MIT)
This class deals with interactive art. Visiting artists will discuss their work from a theoretical and practical perspective. Discussions of the history of interactive digital art and contemporary issues in the field will take place. Students will develop an interactive art project for a final exhibition or submit a short paper.
Author(s): Davenport, Glorianna,Benton, Stephen,Mazalek, Ali
4.645 Selected Topics in Architecture: Architecture from 1750 to the Present (MIT)
This class is a general study of modern architecture as a response to important technological, cultural, environmental, aesthetic, and theoretical challenges after the European Enlightenment. It focuses on the theoretical, historiographic, and design approaches to architectural problems encountered in the age of industrial and post-industrial expansion across the globe, with specific attention to the dominance of European modernism in setting the agenda for the discourse of a global modernity at
Author(s): Dutta, Arindam
Information Technologies and Marginalization in African Market Economies
Laura Mann summarises her lecture on information technologies and marginalization in African market economies, part of the OII's Society and the Internet Lecture Series. It is often argued that poor and marginalized communities self perpetuate their poverty by inhabiting closed networks. This argument has been most strongly lobbied against those in Africa, where Ethno-linguistic Fragmentation (ELF) has been used to explain "Africa's 'growth tragedy'". However, the rapidly increasing use of the I
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Google vs Apple: The Amazing Maps Race
Sept. 27 - The iPhone 5 has been a hit with consumers. But the accompanying IOS 6 maps app - not so much. Reuters puts the heavily panned product to the test against Google in bustling Hong Kong.
Author(s): No creator set
Tension Over Rice Prices in Zanzibar
Failing rice harvests on Zanzibar islands have prompted tension between the government and farmers, especially women farmers. Tanzanian journalist Josephat Mwanzi uncovered a side of Zanzibar that rarely is seen by tourists on the popular resort island.
This report is part of Pulitzer Center-sponsored project "Tensions over Food Insecurity in Africa"
Author(s): No creator set
"Water Resources in the Middle East, part 2"
A talk by Olcay Unver, former head of the Southeastern Anatolia Project and founder of the Euphrates-Tigris Initiative for Cooperation. Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Environmental Studies Program. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
Author(s): The Center for International Studies at the Univer
Space Station Live: Antibiotic Effectiveness in Space
NASA Public Affairs Officer Brandi Dean talks with Dr. David Klaus, principal investigator for Antibiotic Effectiveness in Space from BioServe Space Technologies, University of Colorado. Klaus discusses the NPL Vacccine-21 experiment that is being sent to the International Space Station aboard the Cygnus commercial cargo craft this month.
Author(s): No creator set
Work Continues on Station Cooling Issue
Kenny Todd, ISS Mission Operations Integration Manager, provides an update on the efforts to regulate temperatures in one of two cooling loops on the International Space Station affected by the malfunction last week of a flow control valve in a cooling pump on the station's starboard truss.
Author(s): No creator set
#348: Innovation with purpose: Organizations creating and delivering social value
In
Author(s): up-close@unimelb.edu.au (University of Melbourne)
Season 3 – Lesson 21 – Coffee Break Spanish
Coming up in this lesson: In this first episode of Season 2, Mark and Alba chat about what they were doing during the vacaciones de Semana Santa. Both Mark and Alba have been travelling, and Mark has some buenas noticias. In the intermedio José provides us with some interesting phrases to talk about things in the past, […]
Author(s): radiolingua
Politics & Humor | Institute of Politics
Seth Rogen and Lizz Winstead joined moderator and Harvard Lampoon President Alexis Wilkinson for a discussion on politics and humour. The speakers addressed topics ranging from Rogen's advocacy on Alzheimer's research, Winstead's work on The Daily show, and gender dynamics and moral boundaries within comedy.
Author(s): No creator set
Scientific glassblower crafts a Christmas bauble
In our Dream Job Special, Steve Ramsey describes how glass-blowing can take you to labs, museums and TV studios, and makes us a festive bauble
Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24787
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Headset blends the real world with the virtual
Virtual reality is so 2013 -- a new, immersive blending of physical and virtual worlds suggests we could one day live our lives in "mixed reality"
Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24781
Author(s): No creator set
Babbage: Saving Face...book
Silkie Carlo from Big Brother Watch joins host Tim Cross to discuss the latest privacy issues involving Facebook. Also, ageing the rings of Saturn. And, the cost of using antibiotics on the human gut.
Author(s): No creator set
Towards a New Australian Security
In an interconnected world, Australia’s security interests will continue to expand faster than its capabilities. Emerging challenges will join enduring ones on a crowded horizon of risk. Australia’s strategic lifelines will be caught up in a changing Indo-Pacific region
and tensions surrounding China’s rise. Terrorism will test the resilience of Australian society. Australian governments will face hard decisions about whether this country should remain the principal security provider in a
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2.2 Levels of control
Vygotsky claimed that co-operation with a more able peer could also create a zone of proximal development (ZPD) within which a less experienced child can learn and develop. Owen clearly has had more experience in manipulating the small Lego pieces than Joe. Also he understands that the instruction diagram tells him in which order the pieces fit together. You will have noted, however, that most of Owen's interactions with Joe are in the form of specific verbal prompts (SVPs) and instruc
Author(s): The Open University
America's Cup Comes to San Francisco: Technology Under Sail
[Recorded: August 27, 2013]
This is the 2013 "Summer of Racing" with some of the most sophisticated technology ever deployed in both America's Cup racing and for the teleÂvised coverage of the race itself. The Museum is excited to host this special panel just before the America's Cup finals in September. Our guests include Ian "Fresh" Burns, Design Team Member and Matthew Mason, Grinder, both from Oracle Team USA Racing, and the man behind the technolÂogy driving the race, Stan Honey, Director
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L'Art en Question 2 : Manet - Dans la Serre (version finale)
Dans la Serre ressemble à un ersatz d'Adam et Eve avec sa fausse forêt vierge et une femme plus glaciale que tentatrice. Le film montre cependant que Manet va au-delà du pastiche : il met en scène une nouvelle femme citadine, caractérisée par son autonomie, et un désir masculin frustré réduit à se transférer sur les objets, les parties du corps ou les fleurs. Le film inscrit l'œuvre de Manet au sein d'une problématique plus large : celle de la redéfinition des rapports entre les se
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In Conversation: Jean Paul Gaultier and Thierry Maxime Loriot
Jean Paul Gaultier creates sophisticated, bold, and exquisitely-crafted fashions that embrace diverse cultures and reflect an inclusive sense of beauty. Join Gaultier and Thierry-Maxime Loriot, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts curator of the exhibition The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, for an illuminating conversation about the designer's life and career, from his childhood and first collections in the 1970s to his most recent runway shows.
This event took p
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