Ames' Window - Optical Illusion This very interesting visual illusion - the Ames window (or trapezoid) - appears to rotate one way and then another, but in reality rotates continously in one direction.
Nuclear Physics
Start a chain reaction, or introduce non-radioactive isotopes to prevent one. Watch alpha particles escape from a Polonium nucleus, causing radioactive alpha decay. Control energy production in a nuclear reactor!
Lecture 23 - 11/15/2010
Lecture 23
Theory-based support for mobile language learning: noticing and recording
This paper considers the issue of 'noticing' in second language acquisition, and argues for the potential of handheld devices to: (i) support language learners in noticing and recording noticed features 'on the spot', to help them develop their second language system; (ii) help language teachers better understand the specific difficulties of individuals or those from a particular language background; and (iii) facilitate data collection by applied linguistics researchers, which can be fed back i
Rural Voices Winding through the Andes Mountains: A Collective Creative Literacy Research Project
This dissertation was a collective creative literacy research study
of a rural community in the Western part of the Venezuelan Andes. First, this
study aimed at portraying the meanings attached to some forms of “vernacular
literacy” (Barton and Hamilton, 1998) embedded in people’s everyday lives in
the community of St. Isidro and in the learning of St. Isidro children in a nearby
school. Second, a literacy workshop project was developed for a group of sixth
graders to fuse both community a
Lecture 28 - 11/29/2010
Lecture 28
Cafe Scientifique Nancy 2010 - Sciences de demain : jamais sans les nanos.
Les Cafés des Sciences organisés par les Universités de Lorraine en collaboration avec l’INSERM, l’INRIA et le BGA.
Mardi 9 novembre
Café Scientifique Nancy 2010 - Sciences de demain : jamais sans les nanos.
Intervenants : Olivier JOUBERT, PhD. Cibles Thérapeutiques. Formulation et Expertise préclinique du Médicament – Nancy.
François MONTAIGNE. Médecin Institut Jean Lamour – Nancy.
Emmanuel LAMOUROUX. Maitre de Conférences Structure et Réact
Lanceurs spatiaux et problème de propulsion (audio)
Une conférence de L'UTLS au Lycée
avec Luc Vervisch
Lycée de la Côte d'Albâtre (76)
Essential Science for Teachers: Earth and Space Science: Session 2. Every Rock Tells A Story
How can we use rocks to understand events in the Earths past? In this session, participants explore the processes that form sedimentary rocks, learn how fossils are preserved, and are introduced to the theory of plate tectonics.,Students and scientists explore the questions: How do rocks form? How can we determine how old rocks are?
Essential Science for Teachers: Earth and Space Science: Session 2. Every Rock Tells A Story
How can we use rocks to understand events in the Earths past? In this session, participants explore the processes that form sedimentary rocks, learn how fossils are preserved, and are introduced to the theory of plate tectonics.,Students and scientists explore the question: How do rocks form?
7.3 Disposal requirements When carrying out a risk a
Getting Started: 08 Managing and uploading sites
Use Dreamweaver's testing feature to check links and its site management capabilities to upload websites to remote servers.
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Virtual Tenori
The Tenori-on is an electronic musical instrument designed and created by the Japanese artist Toshio Iwai and Yu Nishibori of the Music and Human Interface Group at the Yamaha Center for Advanced Sound Technology. It consists of a hand-held screen in which a sixteen-by-sixteen grid of LED switches are held within a magnesium plastic frame. Any of these switches may be activated in a number of different ways to create sounds. Two built-in speakers are located on the top of the frame, as well as a
George W. Ham letter to Kate Ballard, November 9, 1862
Mr. Ham writes from Camp Morton in Indianapolis that Gov. Morton is in Washington trying to accomplish a prisoner exchange.,Transcripts provided by previous owner. Catharine (Kate) Ballard became Catharine (Kate) Garman when she married George Garman in October, 1864.
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I must conclude by Remembering our best love to all grand mother Heckman we wish to see you all we wish to see you all again once more Thomas and Elizabeth Pearson Aron and Nancy BallardDear brother and Sister I write you a few lines me and my family is in Reasonable health at thistime hoping that this may find you the same blessing we had a daughter the second day of September we named her martha Elizabeth I shall make shall make forty of fifty bararlls Of Corn three thousand w
Julie Shackford, Princeton University: The Sporting Edge - IT Tools for Winning Soccer
Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Soccer coach Julie Shackford and assistant Scott Champ discuss Dartfish and other technologies that they are using from the scouting process to post-game analysis. More info: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2008/04/the_sporting_edge_it_tools_for_winning_soccer.html
Princeton University's Hooding ceremony – June 2, 2008
The Hooding ceremony for advanced degree candidates was held at 5 p.m. Monday, June 2, in McCarter Theatre. Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman and Graduate School Dean William Russel presided.
Princeton University's 261st Commencement ceremony – June 3, 2008
The University's 261st Commencement ceremony was held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, June 3, on the lawn in front of Nassau Hall. Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman presided and addressed the graduates.
Anthony Scaturro: Cyber Security for Non-technical Users PDF
Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Your work or home computer may contain information about yourself, (e.g., tax returns and other personal information), about others (e.g., work-related reports, databases), or about matters you are working on (e.g., research) that you may not want to share with the public. It is not uncommon for computer users to assume that the various computer and software vendors sell products that will protect such information “out-of-the-box.“ While their products may conta
