The World’s Most Innovative Countries, 2015
Innovation-led growth is no longer the prerogative of high-income countries alone. Middle-income countries are catching up fast, but they still need some crucial ingredients to compete.
Author(s): Bruno Lanvin, Executive Director for Global Indice

Misbehaving: the making of behavioural economics [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor Richard H Thaler | Richard Thaler, described by The Spectator as ‘the godfather of behavioural economics’, will be in conversation with LSE Director Craig Calhoun about his book Misbehaving, an authoritative and entertaining history of behavioural economics. Richard Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans—predictable, error-prone individuals. Traditional economics assumes rational actors. Early in his r
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4.645 Selected Topics in Architecture: Architecture from 1750 to the Present (MIT)
This class is a general study of modern architecture as a response to important technological, cultural, environmental, aesthetic, and theoretical challenges after the European Enlightenment. It focuses on the theoretical, historiographic, and design approaches to architectural problems encountered in the age of industrial and post-industrial expansion across the globe, with specific attention to the dominance of European modernism in setting the agenda for the discourse of a global modernity at
Author(s): Dutta, Arindam

Google vs Apple: The Amazing Maps Race
Sept. 27 - The iPhone 5 has been a hit with consumers. But the accompanying IOS 6 maps app - not so much. Reuters puts the heavily panned product to the test against Google in bustling Hong Kong.
Author(s): No creator set

"Water Resources in the Middle East, part 1"
A talk by Leila Harris, Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin. Co-sponsored by the Center fro Middle Eastern Studies and the Environmental Studies Program. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
Author(s): The Center for International Studies at the Univer

Art On Wheels
In his new book, On Wings of Diesel, Jamal Elias, professor of Religious Studies, takes readers on journey through the world of Pakistani truck decoration. These ornately adorned vehicles depict all aspects of life and fuel an extensive artisanal industry. To provide a unique understanding of Pakistan's complex society, Elias explores designs and motifs in truck art, the motivations of those involved in the practice and its cultural significance. An accomplished amateur photographer, Elias illus
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16.886 Air Transportation Systems Architecting (MIT)
This course addresses the architecting of air transportation systems. The focus is on the conceptual phase of product definition, including technical, economic, market, environmental, regulatory, legal, manufacturing, and societal factors. It centers on a realistic system case study and includes a number of lectures from industry and government. Past examples include: the Very Large Transport Aircraft, a Supersonic Business Jet, and a Next Generation Cargo System. The course identifies the
Author(s): Murman, Earll,Hansman, John,Clarke, John-Paul

Job interviews
Job Interviews is one of several Futures workbooks which help students choose and prepare for their careers. Like the other workbooks in the series you can dip in and out doing the exercises which are most relevant to you. You might want to include the exercises or the output in your personal development plan or e-portfolio. Interviews are still the most commonly used method for assessing a person’s suitability for a job. In the UK 99 per cent of employers use selection interviews to recruit
Author(s): Leeds Metropolitan University

Catholic Mass - 6/15/14 - Trinity Sunday
Catholic Mass - 6/15/14 - Trinity Sunday
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3.1 Introduction

The inner ear (Figure 3) can be divided into three parts: the semicircular canals, the vestibule and the cochlea, all of which are located in the temporal bone. The semicircular canals and the vestibule affect the sense of balance and are not concerned with hearing. However, the cochlea, and what goes on inside it, provides
Author(s): The Open University

Debat in de klas : Site met thema's en ideeën voor debatvoering

Deze uitgebreide site wil zo veel mogelijk scholieren lekker laten debatteren! We geloven dat het het kritisch en onafhankelijk denken bevordert.

Op deze website vind je alles wat je nodig hebt om zelf te debatteren. Het grootste deel is helemaal …

National Sleep Foundation
This site provides links to information on a variety of issues related to sleep.
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Gas Laws: Demos Galore