Sunday Service - 11/27/2011 - Sam Wells
A service of worship in Duke University Chapel. The Reverend Dr Samuel Wells delivers a sermon entitled "Never Mind the Width."
Opening excerpt from the sermon: (38:00)
"Have you ever known what it means to be hungry? It starts as a sense of appetite, a feeling that you could really do with a bit of something, maybe a snack. And then it grows, and if you've got no way of finding a mouthful or a whole meal, you begin to feel your own fragility -- an ache in the stomach, your concentration begin
L'esclavage et le conte créole guyanais
Les contes sont une forme de transmission de la mémoire et des faits historiques. Afin d'établir le corpus de contes créoles guyanais, il a été entrepris une collecte exhaustive en métropole, aux Antilles, en Guyane, dans les revues, les romans, les recueils... Pas moins de 250 contes ont ainsi été rassemblés depuis les années 1800 à nos jours, cependant relativement peu portent sur l'esclavage. La légende de la fontaine blanchissante est un conte prépondérant, il donne une explic
Le prolongement des Grandes Découvertes : les relations ... (video)
Le prolongement des Grandes Découvertes : les relations ...
.... de voyages françaises au 17e siècle, la littérature et la mise en place de la Géographie.
La communication tente de montrer l’interconnexion entre trois phénomènes culturels du 17e siècle : les relations de voyages, qui sont une forme d’écriture parfois descriptive et technique ; la mise en place de la configuration du monde, c’est-à -dire de la géographie, à partir des témoign
An Obama Christmas
Dec. 1 - The annual Christmas tree ceremony at the White House. Deborah Lutterbeck reports
CIF vaccinologie 2011 - Réalisation pratique de l’administration vaccinale. (video)
Cours international francophone de vaccinologie.
L’auteur n’a pas transmis de conflit d’intérêt concernant les données diffusées dans cette vidéo ou publiées dans la référence citée.
Titre : CIF vaccinologie 2011 - Réalisation pratique de l’administration vaccinale.
Intervenant : Catherine GOUJON
Résumé : 29 mars 2011 - cours 28
Conférence enregistrée lors du DIU de vaccinologie le vendredi 1er avril. Hôpital d’instruction des armÃ
[PURDUE MLSS] Machine Learning for Statistical Genetics by Karsten Borgwardt
Lecture notes: http://learning.stat.purdue.edu/mlss/_media/mlss/borgwardt.pdf
Machine Learning for Statistical Genetics
In this course, I will give an introduction to the field of Machine Learning in Statistical Genetics. The grand challenge in this area is to develop algorithms and statistical tests that allow biological and medical researchers to explore the genetic basis of common phenotypic traits in humans, animals and plants.
I will describe two research questions in genome-wide associa
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11A - Great Masters of Southern Song: Ma Yuan
This, the first of four lectures on artists who might be called the Four Great Masters of Southern Song Academy painting, introduces and discusses many works by Ma Yuan and his close followers and imitators, mostly landscapes with figures but also small scenes of birds-in-landscape and other subjects. Questions of authorship and authenticity, identifying the artist's hand, are raised and considered in relation to the many works ascribed insecurely to Ma Yuan.
A child's funeral in Gaza
Dec. 10 - Dozens attend funeral procession for 9-year-old Palestinian boy killed in Israeli air strike. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
Peter Backus - Why I Don't Have a Girlfriend: An Application of the Drake Equation to Love in the UK
Peter Backus of the Economics department at the University of Warwick presents his talk called 'Why I Don't Have a Girlfriend: An Application of the Drake Equation to Love in the UK' at the Warwick Economics Summit 2011.
Apple Knowledge Navigator — 1988
This six minute video shows a futuristic look at what computers could do in the future noting full well that this video was done a quarter century ago. It would be good for students to watch and discuss how close we are to John Sculley, Apple's CEO in 1988 ideas and, perhaps, even have them predict the future.
Sound Reasoning
Sound Reasoning is a web-based, introductory music appreciation course. It offers a new approach to music appreciation for adults, focusing on style-independent concepts. While the course concentrates primarily on Western classical and modern music, the concepts that are introduced apply to music of any style or era. The goal of "Sound Reasoning" is to equip you with questions that you may ask of any piece of music, thereby creating a richer and more comprehensive understanding of music both fam
Lumbosacral Plexus
This animation illustrates the lumbosacral plexus including its origin, location, and distribution of main branches.
"Seven All Together Went Down": A Family Disappears in the 1927 Mississippi Flood
The history of settlement around the Mississippi River is often depicted as a struggle of humankind against Nature. Yet the very richness and fertility of the soil in the Midwest and South is the direct result of the regular flooding of the Mississippi River and its tributaries. In April 1927, after more than a month of rain, the river overflowed its banks in a flood which inundated more than 16 million acres of land in seven states, destroyed 40,000 buildings, washed away over $100 million in c
"I Am Sorry Not to Be Hung": Oscar Neebe and the Haymarket Affair
The Chicago radicals convicted of the infamous May 4, 1886 Haymarket Square bombing in which one policeman was killed remained openly defiant to the end. Unlike the other seven men convicted of the bombing, Oscar Neebe, a New York-born labor organizer who had been raised in Germany, received not death, but a fifteen-year jail sentence. Although Neebe insisted (accurately) that "there is no evidence"that he had connection with the bombing, he maintained, in this brief address, his solidarity with
Cloud Poems
This lesson for the first grade will have students plan and conduct weather investigations and write a poem about clouds.
Advanced Calculus
Some of the topics that this book addresses are: Vector spaces; finite-dimensional vector spaces; differential calculus; compactness and completeness; scalar product space; differential equations; multilenear functionals; integration; differentiable manifolds; integral calculus on manifolds; exterior calculus.
Note: this is a 57 MB PDF Document.
