Connections - Stanley Plumly
Connections readings offer the Southern Maryland community a chance to hear from and meet established and emerging local writers up-close-and-personal. This Connections features Stanley Plumly, a distinguished Maryland university professor and founder of the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative
Writing at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is also
the author of nine books of poetry, including "Old Heart," a
National Book Award finalist, and winner of the "LA Times"
Book Prize.
3.3 More carers: still deeper in the shadows? What can be said of the others who work on hospital wards? There are, as you heard on the audio cassette, care assistants, there are domestic staff, and sometimes too there are nursing auxiliaries and clerical assistants whose role is to take some of the paperwork away from the nurses, to enable them to get on with the business of giving direct patient care. You have already seen that the division of labour between doctors and nurses is not always clear-cut. You will now see that there are im
Maths and the making of the modern world
Professor Chris Budd describes the maths behind Google and the Ipod and shows how maths has led to the modern information revolution.
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Technologies in Sport Symposium - Session 3
Technologies of the body, Gregor was a research scientist at the University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine, for 16 years before, in 2008, becoming an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary’s, Program in Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies. Currently, he is also a part-time Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa in Canada. In addition, Gregor is a Distinguished Scholar in the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University, USA and Ad
Research Expo 2012
The Research, Innovation, and Scholarship Expo showcases the breadth and depth of innovative thinking at Northeastern University.
Shock & Friend: -oo-
Feel the beat with Shock and his friend as they beatbox letters and sounds. The goal for this segment is vowel combination -oo-. (1min)
La question du mal, entre radicalité et banalité (audio)
Radicalité du mal, banalité du mal : deux expressions apparemment opposées, que Myriam Revault d’Allonnes s’attachera à rapprocher en montrant combien l’hypothèse kantienne du mal radical permet de faciliter la compréhension de la pensée d’Hannah Arendt, qui, au moment du procès d’Eichmann à Jérusalem, avait associé l’idée de « banalité du mal » à la figure inédite du mal politique moderne (les meurtres de masse, commis sans conscience de culpabilité par des in
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LSE Night of Ideas | Session 2 | Citizens of Nowhere, Post-Truth Politics [Audio]
Speaker(s): Mukulika Banerjee, Jean-Claude Monod and Richard Bronk | Hosted by the London School of Economics and Political Science as part of a worldwide series of events coordinated by the Institut français, the Night of Ideas will bring together leading researchers from France, the UK and Europe to discuss changing ideas of democracy, citizenship, and truth. What conceptual frameworks can we apply to understand “post-truth politics� What light can an exercise in comparison shed on the q
The Monetary Theory of Current Textbooks in the Light of 'The Theory of Money and Credit' Bottled Water Top 25 Spanish Questions You Need to Know #14 - How tall are you? in Spanish Roodkapje en de wolf : Moderne versie op rijm Dit gedicht gebruikte ik al meerdere keren als instap voor een les creatief schrijven met als onderwerp 'Herschrijven van een bestaand sprookje'. Marv Caruthers Hikoya Hayatsu #189: Easy to say, easy to like: People's names and the impressions they make Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes in Top-ranked and Non-top-ranked Orthopaedic Hospitals: An Analysis 6. The Disordered Soul: Thémis and PTSD Triangle explorer
Symposium on the Centennial of 'The Theory of Money and Credit'. Recorded 9 March 2012 at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. [20:16]
Have you ever wondered where bottled water comes from and what impact this has on the environment? This informative, animated video looks at the complete process of producing bottled water and strives to answer the question, 'Bottled water - who needs it?' Highlighting the effects this has on the carbon footprint, we learn how bottled water is disseminated worldwide. This material forms part of the course U116 Environment: journeys through a changing world.Author(s):
Learn Spanish with SpanishPod101.com! Since you arrived in Spain, you’ve noticed that you get a lot of strange looks, but you’re not quite sure why. And last week, your Spanish friend was teasing you for hitting your head on door frames on an almost daily basis. Maybe the strange looks are related to your height?!
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By: WentzMR Dr. Peter Cram, Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Iowa, Carver College of Medicine, in Iowa City, IA, discusses his article appearing in the April 2012 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, which compares outcomes for Medicare patients undergoing primary total knee arthroplasty in US News and World Report top-ranked orthopedic hospitals and competing non–top-ranked hospitals. The study found that top-ranked hospitals did not have lower complication rates, readmission
Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature (PHIL 181)
Professor Gendler introduces Aristotle's conception of virtue as a structuring one's life so that one's instinctive responses line up with one's reflective commitments. Becoming virtuous, according to Aristotle, requires that we engage in a process of habituation by acting as if we were virtuous, just as musicians master their instruments by playing them. By contrast, when one's behavior or experience is out of line with one's reflective com
This Java applet enables students to investigate the area of triangles placed in the first quadrant of a Cartesian coordinate graph. The student selects a level of difficulty, which determines the type of triangle and its orientation on the graph. In addition to it automatically checking student answers, the applet can keep score of correct answers and offers hints by adding to the graph a rectangle that is related to the triangle. From the activity page, What, How, and Why buttons open pages th
