A New Irish Opera, Hunger
"Hunger" is a new work based on old Irish songs and first-hand accounts of Ireland’s Great Famine of 1845-1852. It's an opera in the sense that it tells a big story through music. The composer, Donnacha Dennehy, and the lead singer, Iarla Ó Lionáird, join producer Susan Wallner to discuss singing in Irish and the connection between the dark times of the Great Famine and today’s world. The Princeton University Fund for Irish Studies presents excerpts from "Hunger" and a discussion with Donn
Creative enterprise in west Yorkshire Arts organisations
This report describes and theorises the findings of a workshop discussion, commissioned by WYLLN, into the views of arts organizations on the challenges they face in becoming more enterprising and less grant dependent.
Obama vows international support for Ebola outbreak
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President Obama says the international community will support countries suffering an Ebola outbreak and stresses the importance of close ties. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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The Philosophies of the Founding Fathers (Audio Only)
Continuing from the last episode, addressing the differences between the French and American Revolutions, and ending with the views of the founding fathers .(31:21)
The Process of Aging
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Health IT Workforce Curriculum 04-04 - Computer Software
The Health IT Workforce Curriculum was developed for U.S. community colleges to enhance workforce training programmes in health information technology. The curriculum consist of 20 courses of 3 credits each. Each course includes instructor manuals, learning objectives, syllabi, video lectures with accompanying transcripts and slides, exercises, and assessments. The materials were authored by Columbia University, Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, Oregon Health & Science University, a
Where next for public health in the era of austerity?
This event was the second in a series of master class lectures jointly staged by the University of Leeds and Leeds Metropolitan University bringing together relevant senior figures and academics from across the city and surrounding region.
The twenty-first century has seen a growth in political, environmental and economic insecurity in the context of global recession, population ageing and climate change. Responding to these threats involves rethinking how we work together, care for ourselves,
Sherpa community mourns for those killed in Everest's avalanche
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Nepalese march in honor of the Sherpas who were killed in Friday's avalance on Mount Everest. Nathan Frandino reports.
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One Minute Languages - Schedules
This flyer provides details on publication dates for each of the new One Minute Languages courses released between September and December 2008.Author(s):
How Everyday Things Are Made
From Stanford University and narrated by Dr. Mark Martin, this site contains tutorials and video to show how common items are manufactured. Things like chocolate, glass, clothing, airplanes, cars, jellybeans are shown from start to finish. Site also includes manufacturing processes like die casting, blow molding, rapid prototyping, and much more. It also includes some career info, bibliographic info, and online tours.
Transforming the science of language
Language is central to human existence and to the transmission of knowledge, yet different societies have evolved strikingly different languages to serve the same basic communicative needs.
The interdisciplinary team assembled by our Centre aims to transform the understanding of language, drawing on the unparalleled linguistic diversity of the Asia-Pacific region to build models of language structure, learning, use and evolution that treat language and languages as perpetually dynamic systems p
CSUB- NASA 2008: Climate Time Machine
This is a series of interactive visualizations that show how some of the key indicators of climate change have changed in Earth's recent history.
8.02 Electricity and Magnetism (MIT)
In addition to the basic concepts of Electromagnetism, a vast variety of interesting topics are covered in this course: Lightning, Pacemakers, Electric Shock Treatment, Electrocardiograms, Metal Detectors, Musical Instruments, Magnetic Levitation, Bullet Trains, Electric Motors, Radios, TV, Car Coils, Superconductivity, Aurora Borealis, Rainbows, Radio Telescopes, Interferometers, Particle Accelerators (a.k.a. Atom Smashers or Colliders), Mass Spectrometers, Red Sunsets, Blue Skies, Haloes aroun
7.1 Towards a constitution The European treaties establishing the European Union: create an institutional structure for decision making, and set out the freedoms of the individuals and the limits of the decision-making powers over the citizens. The treaty establishing a constitution for Europe was signed by the member states in October 2004. However, at the time of writing (2005), the process of ratification is in abeyance following the rejecti
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L'analyse multivariables pour l'instrumentation
L'analyse multivariable est un outil mathématique très utilisé, notamment en instrumentation. Cet outil a d'abord été développé pour la chimiométrie (analyse chimique par l'exploitation de spectres) mais est utilisable (et de plus en plus utilisé) d'une façon générale lorsque de nombreuse variables disponibles doivent être traitées (systèmes multicapteurs par exemple)
SPINTRONIQUE : ORIGINES, DÉVELOPPEMENTS RÉCENTS ET PERSPECTIVES (audio) La spintronique, qui exploite l’influence du spin
sur la conduction électrique et prend racine dans des recherches
fondamentales sur les propriétés de transport des métaux
ferromagnétiques, s’est développée après la découverte de la
Magnétorésistance Géante (GMR) en 1988 et est aujourd’hui en pleine
expansion. Elle a des applications importantes. L’utilisation ...
Virtual Maths - Numbers, Find the angle quiz
Interactive simulation quiz, 8 questions, Find the Angle using the simulation and enter the answers
Crisis Management - The Cranfield Full-time MBA
Stephen Carver, Lecturer in Project & Programme Management, discusses the Crisis Management exercise which is an integral part of the Cranfield MBA programme.
