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Wikipedia Co-Founder Larry Sanger Talks About WatchKnow(Learn)
Dr. Larry Sanger describes how he developed WatchKnow.org at Fox 28 Columbus, OH. This news segment aired before the WatchKnowLearn name change.
SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE
This video shows beautiful views of the interior and exterior of one of the world's most impressive works of modern architecture, the Sydney Opera House. The video is set to the song " When I'm 64" by Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. ( 4:48)
Arizona Space Grant Consortium
The Arizona Space Grant Consortium's mission "is to expand opportunities for Americans to learn about and participate in NASA's aeronautics and space programs by supporting and enhancing science, and engineering education, research, and outreach programs." The website features overviews, explanations of the missions, and the histories of a number of space science projects including Moon Devils and the Students Satellite Program. Students can explore graduate fellowship and undergraduate internsh
Understanding dyslexia
Dyslexia is a condition affecting literacy skills. This free course, Understanding dyslexia, analyses how our image of normality affects the way we as a society define such conditions. You will learn how important it is to integrate the different psychological accounts of dyslexia in order to provide a full explanation of potential causes and strategies for remediation.Author(s):
LQP Asks: Has someone close to you served in the military?
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What is up with Noises? (The Science and Mathematics of Sound, Frequency, and Pitch)
Correction: it is the "Basilar" membrane, which is what I say, but somehow between recording the script and actually drawing the stuff I got confused and thought I just pronounced my Vs poorly. Always sad to have such a simple and glaring error in something I put hundreds of hours of work into, but a "Vasilar" membrane can be the kind that a Vi draws to explain Viola Vibrations, I guess!Making up new words is just so prolightfully awstastic." (12:29)
Social Psychology Lecture, UCLA, Matthew Lieberman, Ph.D. (Psych 135), 11.10.09
Social Psychology Lecture by Matthew Lieberman, Ph.D.
Recorded at UCLA on 11.10.09
Lecture 11 of the 17 part Fall 2009 series
(Psych 135)
Gorilla Rock & Hercules Falls The National Archives UK posted a photo: Description: 'Photograph of Gorilla Rock & Hercules Falls of The Hundred Falls, Orange River.' Author of work
Diana Taylor | Labyrinth of Things || Radcliffe Institute
Diana Taylor, scholar of Latin American and US theater and performance, speaks about the play Bom Retiro 958 metros and its broad societal statement about the accumulation and transformation of things.
Taylor is a University Professor, Performance Studies and Spanish, and Founding Director, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, New York University.
Introduction by Martin Puchner, Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Com
Criminal Law
An undergraduate multi-state textbook for criminal justice, paralegal, pre-law and administration of justice courses in criminal law. Explores sources of law and the legal system, the Constitution, criminal defenses, elements of a crime, parties to crime, and most criminal offenses such as inchoate crimes, crimes against the person including criminal homicide and sex offenses, crimes against property, crimes against the public, and crimes against the government. The textbook is interactive, and
Wine Rules: Meat meets wine
Nov. 9 - Ray Isle, Executive Wine Editor at Food & Wine, overturns the traditional dinner table, pairing unconventional wines with red meat.
Youth Experiences as Researchers
A BCCDC led project called Youth Injection Prevention
Academic Writing Symposium, Chapter 11
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Academic Writing Symposium, Chapter 12
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Sara Paretsky: 2011 National Book Festival
Mystery writer Sara Paretsky appears at the 2011 National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: When detective V.I. Warshawski debuted in 1982 in "Indemnity Only," its author, Sara Paretsky, created a sensation by creating a female investigator who uses her wits as well as her fists. Paretsky challenged a genre in which women typically were either vamps or victims. "Body Work" (Putnam) is the latest in the V.I. series. Paretsky has broken barriers in other ways, such as when she founded Sisters in
156: Who cares for society ?
The economic crisis has put most governments on an austerity programme, cutting social benefits at a time when demand for such services is skyrocketing. Enlightened businesspeople can make a difference as social entrepreneurs.
Adolphe Pacault. Des livres, Une histoire
« "Adolphe Pacault. Des livres, Une histoire", un documentaire écrit et réalisé en 2011 par Claire-Lise Gauvain (SCD Bordeaux I), Yves Gloinec, Nadège Pré, Agnès Larcher (DCAM). Musique : Olivier Oguez ( 18 min 30, VF).
Dans le cadre de l’année internationale de la chimie 2011 et de l’exposition réalisée par le SCD de l’Université Bordeaux I « Itinéraires d'un scientifique : autour des bibliothèques d'Adolphe Pacault (1918-2008)&qu
LE KARTHALA, un volcan méconnu ?
16 avril 2005 sur l'île de la Grande Comores, le volcan Karthala se réveille après 14 ans de sommeil. Les conséquences de cette éruption sont catastrophiques : les puits d'eau et une partie de l'ile sont envahis par la cendre.
Le Laboratoire des Sciences de la Terre de l'Université de La Réunion, en collaboration avec l'Observatoire Volcanologique du Karthala, mettent en place des missions scientifiques pour comprendre le fonctionnement de ce volcan et d'en prévenir les érupti
