'Steinbeck In Vietnam'- UT Professor Tom Barden on NPR
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Pete Seeger "Forever Young"
At 92 years old, Pete Seeger’s version of “Forever Young” by Bob Dylan. Hounded by the McCarthy anti-communists in the 1950′s, the grandfather of modern folk music.
Ironically, driving Pete Seeger underground spawned the interest of a whole generation in protest music, which helped to end the War in Vietnam and defined the 1960s rebellion.
Pete Seeger was a friend of Woody Guthrie and a major inspiration for
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A nice cup of tea - Russell Bowes
Garden historian Russell Bowes talks about the horticultural history of the tea bag, from its origins in the foothills of the Himalayas right through to the modern tea bag.
Mathematical Methods II (2012)
This course consists of a introduction to linear algebra.
5-16-12
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Chade-Meng Tan: "Search Inside Yourself", Authors at Google
In designing Search Inside Yourself, a popular course at Google, early Google engineer and personal growth pioneer Chade-Meng Tan (Meng) has distilled emotional intelligence into a set of practical and proven tools and skills that anyone can learn and develop. Created in collaboration with a Zen master, a CEO, a Stanford University scientist, and Daniel Goleman (the guy who literally wrote the book on emotional intelligence), this program is grounded in science and expressed in a way that even
What price energy security?
Increasing demands from a growing world population, civil unrest, terrorist attacks, human mistakes, natural disasters… all add up to a future full of “ifs” for the energy industry.
Monetos : Internationale en financiële informatiebron Op de website van Monetos kun je informatie vinden over verzekeringen, financieringen, investeringen en pensioen. Deze informatie is onafhankelijk, wat betekent dat er enkel informatie wordt gegeven, zonder concrete firma's erin …
Read Across America
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Madagascar - Island of Marvels
This 59 minute video shows how this isolated place provided the location that yielded a unique number of animals and plants. The video shows how Madagascar came to be and how the animal diversified. Excellent images and descriptions.
LC iPad High School
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Republics in History [The Decline of the American Republic (1955)] During the last 20 years America has suffered a succession of social and economic dislocations, including a great depression and a great war. We have been so absorbed in these difficulties that we have lost sig
Geometric Optics (Interactive)
In this interactive simulation adapted from the University of Colorado's Physics Education Technology project, learn how lenses refract light to form images. Experiment with different ray display options (marginal rays or many rays) to investigate how a convex lens refracts light. Adjust the curvature, refractive index, and diameter of the lens to see how the focal length changes and how the resulting image is affected. Manipulate the placement of the object to observe its relationship to image
Gerald's Weather Wheel - Interactive Game
Play this interactive game to practice determining proper attire for different types of weather. The player spins the wheel to pick from three weather situations, sunny, rainy, and snowy and then gets to dress Gerald in a hat, clothes, and shoes depending on the weather. Gerald helps the user to understand when they have dressed him appropriately for the weather and when they need to change something! This game can be used in association with the Sid the Science Kid episode, Sid's Holiday Advent
Kevin Marshall, Weatherman
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Periodic Table of the Elements (Interactive)
Often overlooked, the periodic table of the elements holds a wealth of information about our material world. This AMAZING interactive periodic table developed for Teachers' Domain helps unlock some of the information the table contains, making clear the relationships among some elements and illustrating the electron configurations responsible for each element's chemical properties.
Mixing Colors (Interactive)
What color do you get when you mix blue and yellow? Red and blue? Red and yellow? Children learn about mixing two colors to create a new color in this original interactive from KET.
Breakingviews: JPMorgan hammers another nail in VaR coffin
May 14 - JPMorgan's $2 billion loss may have dealt a fatal blow to Value-at-Risk. Breakingviews' Robert Cole assesses whether the alternatives are any better.
16.05.2012 – Langsam gesprochene Nachrichten
Trainiere dein Hörverstehen mit den Nachrichten der Deutschen Welle von Freitag – als Text und als verständlich gesprochene Audio-Datei.
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Deutschland und Frankreich wollen in der Europapolitik weiterhin eng zusammenarbeiten. Das bekräftigten Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel und der neue französische Präsident François Hollande in Berlin. So wollen beide Länder beim EU-Gipfel Ende Juni gemeinsame Vorschläge für mehr Wachstum im Euro-Raum präsentieren. Außerdem zeigten sich Merkel