1.2.9 Nick In our society we tend to expect not to have to face the likelihood of death until our 70s at least, but one group of people who are having to face the prospect of death at a relatively young age are those diagnosed as HIV-positive. Controversy surrounds the issue of whether those at risk of contracting the virus should have the blood test which might give them that death sentence. At the time of writing there is no clear evidence that any treatment can improve the prognosis, even if taken at
Space Station Live: Studying Basic Biology in Space
NASA Commentator Lori Meggs at the Marshall Space Flight Center speaks with Ruth Globus, a project scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center, about her experiment studying rodents in a special enclosure on the International Space Station. Rodent Research is designed to learn how the space environment effects humans on orbit, as well as gain knowledge about basic biology that could help improve human health on Earth.
Watch Space Station Live, weekdays at 11am eastern.
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4.4 Fibre in the access network In the 1980s there was a belief that it was only a matter of time before fibre would be installed in the access network (from individual private customers to the local telephone exchange, also called ‘the last mile’, the ‘local loop’ and, now, the ‘first mile’). Installing ‘fibre to the home’, FTTH, as this has come to be known, was always recognised to be a major undertaking, simply because of the number of links involved. If, however, the revenue from new services enabled by
Snelheid, tijdsduur en afstand Via verhaaltjes krijgen leerlingen verschillende opdrachten rond snelheid, tijdsduur en afstand.
TechStars’ Brad Feld: A Startup Community Needs a 20-year Time Horizon
Brad Feld sold his Boston startup and moved to Boulder, Colo., in 1995. The city already had a bustling entrepreneurial community, and Feld was soon in the thick of things. He co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and, earlier, Intensity Ventures, a company that helped launch software companies. More recently, he co-founded two early-stage venture capital firms -- the Foundry Group and TechStars -- which provide seed funding and angel investors. A startup community has to tap its "natural resources
Méthodologie de l'éco-conception et études de cas
Cette conférence, après avoir rappelé les enjeux du développement durable, s'attachera à montrer ce qu'est une démarche d'éco-conception (concept, méthodes, outil), le contexte du déploiement de l'éco-conception, les métiers visés et les débouchés professionnels, et finalement présentera quelques exemples.
Tool making gives insight into early human mind
Full story here: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129580.600
How did we become the smartest creatures on Earth? The story of our ancestors' mental leaps can be found in stones -- a modern-day flint-knapper is our guide
5.4 Clinics and outpatient services In addition to acquiring greater access to general practitioners in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, poor patients also received more medical help from the outpatient departments of charitable hospitals and dispensaries. Hospital outpatient departments were an increasingly popular source of care: between 1860 and 1900, the number of patients attending the outpatient department of the London Hospital increased from 25,000 to 220,000. By 1910, there were 1.75 million attendanc
Virtual Maths - Numbers, 2D Rectangle simulation tool
Interactive simulation tool demonstrating the formula for calculating the area of a 2D rectangle
Otis Ben Maltz Gallery & LMU Laband Gallery: Tapping the Third Realm
The "third realm," is the space between life and death and art and life. It is the realm of the invisible, subconscious, intuitive, non-rational, and uncanny. It is what Carlos Castaneda refers to as "states of nonordinary reality," where seemingly irrational and esoteric types of knowledges may be discovered, communicated, and received. Not unlike the Zen notion "silence is thunder" it is a sphere where opposites can coalesce into an integrated whole to reveal alternate possibilities. It is a p
1.4 The discovery of tidal heating The Voyager fly-bys of the Jupiter system convinced planetary scientists that former preconceptions about 'dead' globes were wrong - even before Voyager 1 had got as far as Saturn, the mission had enabled them to identify a new heating mechanism to explain the discrepancies. The ease with which this revolution in thought was brought about was thanks to some of the Voyager images of Io, Jupiter's innermost Galilean satellite. Io is only a fraction larger and denser than the Moon, and so by rig
U-Multirank va-t-il révolutionner les classements internationaux ? (traduction française) (audio) Rencontres Universités Entreprises (RUE 2014) : Le rendez-vous annuel des acteurs universitaires, Economiques et institutionnels - 20 & 21 mars 2014 - Palais des Congrès Paris Grand débat Alors que la Commission européenne lance U-Multirank, ce nouveau type
de classement peut-il remettre en cause la légitimité des ...
U-Multirank va-t-il révolutionner les classements internationaux ?
Diplomats converge on Kiev as Russian takeover of Crimea peninsula nearly complete
Western diplomats are in Kiev to diffuse the Ukraine-Russia crisis, as Ukrainians on either side of the conflict raise pro-Russia and pro-Ukraine flags in Crimea. Mana Rabiee reports.
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Battle of the Bulge
In December 1944, a major German offensive is launched against the Allies in the Ardennes Mountains region of Belgium, France, and Luxembourg. Troops fought in treacherous conditions, which caused difficulties on both sides. As Allied begin progressing, German troops begin lacking fuel, ammunition, and manpower. This leads to a victory at the Bulge for the Allies. In this video clip, learn more about the conditions of the battle and the results. (2:50)
Chapter 09 - The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Video 25:12
Chapter 9. Classic Literature VideoBook with synchronized text, interactive transcript, and closed captions in multiple languages. Audio courtesy of Librivox. Read by Tom Weiss.
Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Ze'ev Portnoy
If you do not see the English subtitles click "cc" (red).
Woe! My life became repugnant to me,
Woe! My life was given over to torture.
Fatherless, motherless -- all mercilessly put to death,
I remained, forever despondent and lonely.
Thus Ze'ev (Vlodemerz) Portnoy, born in Tuchin, Volhynia (Ukraine), concludes his poem that describes the hardships he endured during the Holocaust. Portnoy, born in 1932 to a traditional family in which he had three sisters, was only nine years old when the Naz
Geologic "Eras"
This is an animation about the different prehistoric geologic time periods. It covers: precambrian, paleozoic, mesozoic, and cenozoic. The information is presented in a song with animation. This would make a fun introduction to a unit of study. (04:04)
Do Lectures: Why Values are Important
They can be small Do’s or big Do’s or just extraordinary Do’s. But when you listen to the story of, Gränsfors
can make one the finest forged axes in the world. It has become more
than just an axe. It is an icon for quality and a belief that there is
another way of making things. Gabriel Brånby, CEO of Gränsfors Bruks AB. These
speeches light a fire in your belly to go and Do your thing, your
passion, the thing that sits in
