Voor of tegen bioplastics?
you can follow an interview with a specialist about environmental issues
Harriet Beecher Stowe & "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
The story of the great anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe, a book that stirred the country against slavery just prior to the Civ...
Klartext 20110523
Klartext handlar i dag om att många människor har dödats efter stora tornado-stormar i USA. Vi berättar också om ett stort vulkan-utbrott på Island som kan göra det farligt att flyga med flygplan. Du får höra fler nyheter när du lyssnar på programmet.
Brain: The Inside Story's "Your Thinking Brain"
If there is one thing that makes you different from other animals, it is your extraordinary ability to think. Like other thinking species, humans don't just react to the world as it is: We reflect on the past, imagine what could be, and then plan ways to make our thoughts become reality. Our brain's advanced outer layer, or cortex, enables us to remember past events and predict the future consequences of our actions before we make decisions. We can think about thinking, and use language to excha
Northeastern University Street Smarts: Apocalypse Edition
Our Street Smarts reporter asked Huskies how they would spend their last day if the world was ending tomorrow.
Topping Off the Brody Learning Commons
On May 9, 2011, members of the Hopkins community gathered on the south patio of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library to celebrate a milestone in the construction of the Brody Learning Commons.
Davis Ridley -- "The Southwest Airlines Success Model"
The mission of the Arthur M. Spiro Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership is to support educational, research and outreach programs that promote entrepreneurial activity and economic development of the region, state and nation. The focus is on wealth creation through entrepreneurial activity.
Hack Harvard
The participants and organizers of the winter break program, Hack Harvard (HackH4rv4rd), share their experiences.
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Good honest chocolate
At the completion of this chapter you will be able to understand a magazine article about honest trading. While carrying out this task you will be able to infer the meaning of unknown expressions and proverbs from the context. You will have to look for specific information on a fair trade label.
Manhunt for Jews in Odessa During the Holocaust
Naum Krimer, who was born in Odessa in 1928, testifies about the hunting down and murder of the Jews in Odessa during the Holocaust. Krimer describes how the Jews, including his parents and brother, were taken to an artillery depot in Dalnik, a suburb of Odessa, and were burnt alive there.
Brain: The Inside Story's "Your Sensing Brain"
Wherever you go, whatever you do, the world stirs your senses. It is there in the sparkle of fireworks, the flavor of watermelon, the crack of a baseball bat and the scent of summer rain. Sensations like these may seem to come to you automatically. But you only perceive them thanks to an intricate chain reaction of signals inside your brain.
The exhibition, Brain: The Inside Story, which is on view at the American Museum of Natural History from Saturday, November 20, until August 14, 2011, brin
"Writing About Race: Narratives of Multiraciality, Fall 2008"
" In this course we will read essays, novels, memoirs, and graphic texts, and view documentary and experimental films and videos which explore race from the standpoint of the multiracial. Examining the varied work of multiracial authors and filmmakers such as Danzy Senna, Ruth Ozeki, Kip Fulbeck, James McBride and others, we will focus not on how multiracial people are seen or imagined by the dominant culture, but instead on how they represent themselves. How do these authors approach issues of
Leçon 2 : Tentatives de définitions du film documentaire (partie 1 et 2)
Leçon 1 : définitions
Partie 1 : Tentatives de définition du film documentaire
- définir le documentaire occasionne un débat sans fin :
- est-ce simplement l’« interprétation créative de la réalité » ?
- le documentaire n’est pas un genre au sens des films de genre, caractérisés par leurs sujets ou leurs effets sur les spectateurs
- il a une généalogie, il évolue au cours de l’histoire
- il a une finalité particulière
How hummingbirds drink
Read more:
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/05/how-the-hummingbirds-forked-tongue-traps-sweet-nectar.html
Predit 4 : Cérémonie de remise des prix
Mi-parcours du Predit 4
Cérémonie de remise des prix
Les prix du Predit sont décernés, à mi-parcours et en fin de programme, à des recherches dont la qualité et les impacts font référence
Le Carrefour de la recherche et de l'innovation dans les transports terrestres
10-12 mai 2011 (Bordeaux)
pour le programme au regard de ses différentes priorités. Soixante-sept projets nommés et seize primés seront ainsi mis à l’honneur dans
les c
Leçon 3 : Théorie du film documentaire
THEORIE DU FILM DOCUMENTAIRE
Jean Luc Lioult
Professeur à l'Université de Provence
- il n’existe au fond qu’une seule modalité de représentation du monde réel, auquel l’immense majorité des films renvoient en dernière analyse
- il existe néanmoins diverses formes de mimesis qui remplissent différentes fonctions
- ainsi, les activités fictionnelles ont partie liée avec une dimension ludique de la mimesis : on accepte de sus
STS-134 Daily Mission Recap - Flight Day 8
A video recap of flight day 8 of the STS-134 mission of space shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station.
Expedition 27 Says Goodbye
At 2:45 p.m. EDT on May 23, 2011, hatches were closed between the International Space Station and Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft. Expedition 27 crew members Dmitry Kondratyev, NASA Flight Engineer Cady Coleman and European Space Agency Flight Engineer Paolo Nespoli undocked at 5:35 p.m. for their return home.
Mobilités, technologies et services pour des transports sobres
Mi-parcours du Predit 4
Mobilités, technologies et services pour des transports sobres
Le Carrefour de la recherche et de l'innovation dans les transports terrestres
10-12 mai 2011 (Bordeaux)
Le Grenelle de l’environnement a donné une forte impulsion pour l’évolution du système de transport vers plus de sobriété, en énergie
mais aussi en matières, pour les transports de marchandises comme de voyageurs, pour les transports collectifs comme indiv
Chimie et défis énergétiques du 21ème siècle: des carburants à partir d’eau et de soleil
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