RES.21G-003 Learning Chinese: A Foundation Course in Mandarin (汉语基础教材) (MIT)
This online textbook represents materials that were used in the first four semesters (two years) of the Mandarin program at MIT. They eventually formed the basis of a print textbook of the same name, published by Yale University Press; information and supplemental materials for the Yale edition are available at the companion website. The OCW course materials were extensively revised, and at times reordered, before publication, but the general principles of the original remain: to provide a com
Radio Lingua Network News: 26 September 2008
Happy European Day of Languages to all our listeners! By way of joining in this international celebration of languages and language-learning we're delighted to introduce eight new podcasts today. We're adding Catalan, Danish, French, Japanese, Mandarin and Romanian to our One Minute Languages series; we're introducing our first podcast for English learners - Write Back Soon will help learners master Phrasal Verbs; and we're finally announcing the long-awaited sequel to Coffee Break Spanish: it's
Colour Music
Around the turn of the twentieth century, visual artists were looking to their musical counterparts for inspiration. Constrained by the necessity of literal depiction the artists were envious of the freedom music gave its composers. They sought to paint the way musicians composed – tied not to narrative or figurative form but free to explore the sounds, the emotions and indeed the human experience of the notes played.
Their exploration in search of such freedom was fuelled by the idea of syne
Making of Gypsy Diasporas
Marginalised for centuries and the subject of “many attempts” to theorise their origins, Gypsies’ own accounts of their ancestry have tended to be disregarded. This PDF document describes an AHRC-funded project aiming to provide “a comprehensive overview of Gypsies’ own versions of their diasporas”. In doing so the project aims to investigate the emerging Gypsy “diaspora discourse” which crosses political, ethnic and cultural boundaries to allow Gy
Women of four wars: stories from the veteran's history project
This site is maintained by the Veterans History Project of the Library of Congress. It provides free access to online materials relating to the experience of women service personnel in the Korean War, Vietnam War, Afghanistan conflict and the Gulf war. The site includes online oral histories with video webcasts or podcasts of interviews with the women in whom they detail their experiences of fighting and warfare. Technical and copyright information is displayed on the website.
A Stress Test Of The Welfare State [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor Tito Boeri | Editor's note: We apologise for the poor quality of this audio recording. How did the welfare state in Europe cope with the Great Recession and the Eurozone crisis? While a lot of attention has been devoted to (home-made) stress tests of the banking sector, no attempt has been made to date to evaluate the performance of social tax and transfer systems to reduce poverty during the crisis. This talk will address this issue, making reference, in particular, to the
Ping 239: Lumia 640XL, Xbox One March Update, Rock Band 4 and Office for Mac | Ping! Welcome back to Ping! We talk about the return of robot combat return to television, we chat about a one-way ticket to Mars on the space desk, and more stories that 'softies are pinging each other about...
Aporia
Aporia is an online undergraduate philosophy journal based at Brigham Young University in Utah, USA. All articles are written by undergraduates, and the staff of the journal consists of BYU philosophy students. Submissions are subject to a peer review process, and the journal also invites critical notices - brief pieces criticising papers which appear in the journal. The journal has appeared twice yearly since 2002, and covers a wide range of philosophy topics. Recent article titles have include
RAF Shipdham - USAAF Station 115
A photographic record of the airfield, the surviving buildings and the wall art contained therein
State of Kuwait National Assembly
This is the official website of the national parliament of Kuwait. It is offered in English and Arabic language versions. The English language pages provide basic information on the Kuwaiti political system and the electoral process. There is also access to the full-text of the constitution.
Opening Remarks
Dain Borges, Director, Center for Latin American Studies
Mark Hansen, Dean, Social Science Division
Ambassador João Almino, Consul General of Brazil in Chicago
Marina Silva, Senator, Green Party (from Brazil via video)
A. Richard Newton Distinguished Innovator Lecture Series Dr. Jun Wu
Dr. Jun Wu, a partner with Zpark ventures, was most recently a scientist at Google, leading the effort of automatic question/answering. After doctorate work at Johns Hopkins, honing an expertise in speech recognition, natural language processing and web search he joined Google in the early days and pioneered their anti-SPAM work, for which he received the Google engineering award. He also authored the Google Chinese/Japanese/Korean search algorithms.
After Google he went to work at Tencent.
Fabian Society online archive
The Fabian Society online archive is maintained by LSE Archives, which is based at the London School of Economics and political Science. It provides free access to an online library of over 580 full text pamphlets, minute books and tracts from the Fabian Society. The items have been published from 1884-1997 and cover a wide range of topics relating to British social, economic and political history. They include: electoral reform; foreign policy (such as colonialism, the Cold War and relations wi
Those Golden Eggs Come From Somewhere: Internet Regulation at a Crossroads
A discussion of how largely well-intentioned political and legal reactions to the highest-profile risks of ICT creates a danger of perhaps killing the goose that is giving us golden eggs of innovation, decentralization, and personal empowerment. From its inception, many have recognized the Internet's potential as a liberating, decentralizing, and, yes, destabilizing technology but also its counter-potential as a controlling and centralizing technology. Over the last two decades, predictions abo
What is Design? An Example.
A video of a person designing a machine from start to finish, warts and all.
UW Provost Town Hall: February 24, 2015
Join UW Provost and Executive Vice President Ana Mari Cauce as she shares key priorities for the current academic year, addresses topics of interest to the campus community and answers questions from the audience.
http://uwtv.org
02/24/2015
Post-Election 2016: Beyond the headlines
Vanderbilt professors John Geer, Efrén Pérez and Tracy Sharpley-Whiting discuss the 2016 presidential election.
PSYC 105 - Lecture 27 - 11/24/2010
PSYC 105 - Lecture 27
The state of Russia
Professor Christopher Read examines the current state of Russia and its changing political and economic position.
Length: 22 minutes
