Tragedy of the European Union: Disintegration or Revival?: how Europe must now choose between econom
Speaker(s): George Soros, Anatole Kaletsky | This event marks the publication of George Soros' new book, Tragedy of the European Union: Disintegration or Revival?: How Europe Must Now Choose Between Economic and Political Revival or Disintegration in which he reveals the roots of Europe's current financial crisis and comprehensively assesses the consequences of that crisis for the global economy and on the political ideals embodied by the European Union. In this concise and illuminating volume,
Google Glass in the Gobi: Prospecting
Last summer, a team led by the Museum's Provost of Science Mike Novacek and Paleontology Division Chair Mark Norell headed to the Gobi for the joint American Museum of Natural History/Mongolian Academy of Sciences expedition. The group included Aki Watanabe, one of Mark Norell's students at the Museum's Richard Gilder Graduate School, who was recently chosen as a beta-tester for Google Glass and who recorded video on Glass throughout the trip.
In this video, Watanabe takes us out into the Gobi
Los Texmaniacs: Traditional Conjunto Dance Music from Texas
Los Texmaniacs mix the simplest yet finest ingredients of Texas music to create a sound solidly rooted in tradition, exploding with contemporary vitality. Their versatility has led them to perform at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, the International Accordion Festival, the Kennedy Center, the Governor of Texas Ball, and many major festivals overseas in countries such as Germany, Holland and Spain.
Speaker Biography: Los Texmaniacs is a conjunto band created by Max Baca in 1997. Baca wanted
1.963 Environmental Engineering Applications of Geographic Information Systems (MIT)
This graduate seminar is taught in a lecture and lab exercise format. The subject matter is tailored to introduce Environmental Engineering students to the use and potential of Geographic Information Systems in their discipline. Lectures will cover the general concepts of GIS use and introduce the material in the exercises that demonstrate the practical application of GIS.
Meet the Players: Armstrong Pirate Softball 2014
The 2014 Pirate Softball team reveal their obsessions.
Harvard Art Museums renovated teaching and learning spaces
The Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) partnered with the Harvard Art Museums to create a video that highlights the renovated museum space (opening November 16, 2014) and its possibilities for Harvard’s teaching and learning communities.
Sustainable Tourism Certification
A lecture on sustainable tourism
Virtual Maths - Shapes, Space and Measure, Theodolite Survey simulation
Simulation of using a thodolite to calculate the height of a building.
Getting Started: InDesign CS5の概要
このビデオはInDesign CS5の概要をご紹介します。アニメーションパネル、タイミングパネル、メディアパネル、プレビューパネルといったWebドキュメントの作成を前提とした新しいパネル類などの新機能のフラッシュをご覧いただきます。
Kanak_VocabDigitalStory Ecosystem Dynamics and Tropical Forestry Richard Titmuss: forty years on [Audio] 1 Part 1 Investigating the innovation process In Part 1 I invite you to look around at the technological products in your home or at work and consider their development history and their impact on the lives of you and your family. I then define the key concepts associated with the process of invention, design, innovation and diffusion. Efficient Computer-User Interface in Electronic Mail Systems “Afghanistan and the Future of Peace Operations” (video) 11.943J Urban Transportation, Land Use, and the Environment (MIT) What is a Blizzard? Coca-Cola: Job search and interview tips for new grads 1 Using vectors to model The main teaching text of this course is provided in the workbook below. The answers to the exercises that you'll find throughout the workbook are given in the answer book. You can access it by clicking on the link under the workbook. Click the link below to open the workbook (PDF, 1 MB). Click the link below to open the answer book (PDF, 0.4 MB Executive Education CNN advert
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The Young Dragon - A fictional vocabulary digital story highlighting vocab terms for the ’China’ unit of
Short introduction to research by the Ecosystem Dynamics Group at the Environmental Change Institute.
Speaker(s): Professor Howard Glennerster | Richard Titmuss was one of the world’s leading public analysts and philosophers. He was enormously influential in shaping the post-war welfare state and created the discipline that we now call social policy. It is now forty years since he died. What would he have made of the present state of welfare? The present state of social policy? Welfare reformers frequently talk of going back to Beveridge. Should we not think of going back to Titmuss? Howard G
This research explores the question of improving user- computer interface. The approach is one of observing and codifying various parameters that influence the efficiency of interface in the context of electronic mail tasks. In the paper the authors observe 'expert' and 'regular' users of a mail system and analyze the sources of efficiency. It is clear that experts use a different, more specialized, set of commands in performing standard mail tasks. While experts perform these tasks with fewer e
A speech by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Secretary General of NATO. In his first visit to Chicago as Secretary General, Anders Rasmussen discusses Afghanistan, the lessons learned after eight years, and implications for future operations.
This course is aimed at the aspiring planning practitioner, policy-maker, or industry decision-maker with an interest in urban transportation and environmental issues in Latin America. The course will focus on current transport-related themes confronting many cities in the region, including: rapid motorization and suburbanization and subsequent impacts on transportation infrastructure and quality of life; public sector management and improvement of privately-owned and operated transit systems; a
This term gets tossed around at least once every winter for the big snowstorm of the season, and most of the time - it's WRONG! Blizzards have a very specific, difficult set of criteria to meet before they can be categorized as this type of winter storm - and it has more to do with wind and visibility than snow. (01:55)
The largest career event at McMaster University, hosted by the Student Success Centre, Career Fair 2014 offers a forum for you to meet face-to-face with employers and make career connections.
"The SEP programme strengthened my position as a leader and helped me get through what have been some pretty challenging times economically," Philip Stockton(SEP65) shares his thoughts on the School's Senior Executive Programme in a new CNN advert.
