"Environmental Degradation and Deforestation in Thailand and Cambodia"
Alan Kolata is Neukom Family Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology, The University of Chicago.
There is little doubt that climate change, deforestation, erosion, and the unequal distribution of natural resources around the globe are of pressing importance everywhere, but these problems are perhaps most acute in Asia, home to 64 percent of the world’s population. Much of this population (1 and 1.3 billion, respectively) is concentrated in India and China, two countries with rapidly g
Duke Medicine Profiles: Shannon K. Morgan, CPNP, MSN
Get to know Duke Medicine's pediatric gastroenterology providers.
Learn more about Shannon Morgan, NP at http://www.dukemedicine.org/find-doctors-physicians/shannon-k-morgan-cpnp-msn.
Duke Medicine Profiles: R. Morgan Bain, MD
Get to know Duke Medicine's geriatric medicine specialists.
Learn more about Morgan Bain, MD at http://www.dukemedicine.org/find-doctors-physicians/r-morgan-bain-md.
"I saw emails of congratulations, but didn't understand why." Hiroshi Amano, 2014 Nobel Prize
Hiroshi Amano, 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics laureate, saw many emails of congratulations on his PC, but didn't have time to open any as he was on his way to catch a plane. So how did he realize he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics? He tells us in an interview at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm on December 6, 2014.
21F.315 Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Contemporary French Society (MIT)
This course is an intermediate subject designed to help students gradually build an in-depth understanding of France. The course focuses on French attitudes and values regarding education, work, family and institutions, and deals with the differing notions that underlie interpersonal interactions and communication styles, such as politeness, friendship and formality. Using a Web comparative, cross-cultural approach, students explore a variety of French and American materials, then analyze and co
University of Minnesota Innovator: Kechun Zhang
From agriculture, to medicine, to the environment and robotics, University of Minnesota researchers are at the forefront of great innovation.
University of Minnesota Innovator: Daniel Voytas
From agriculture, to medicine, to the environment and robotics, University of Minnesota researchers are at the forefront of great innovation.
Space to Ground: "Flying" High: 1/9/15
NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station. Got a question or comment? Use #spacetoground to talk to us.
Horses' New Year's Dinner (1916) | BFI National Archive
Horses' New Year's Dinner (1916) | BFI National Archive
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There's no sign of any New Year's diets or detoxes going on at the Cricklewood Home of Rest for Horses. Instead, the retired nags - former London cab horses and military steeds, are treated to a well-earned feed by a well-to-do looking crowd (and a soldier in uniform). The film singles out Marlborough, the old charger of the late
From Blue Ocean Strategy to Blue Ocean Leadership
The same way that blue ocean strategy can create uncontested market space, blue ocean leadership can unleash oceans of untapped talent and employee potential in organisations.
21M.065 Introduction to Musical Composition (MIT)
Through a progressive series of composition projects, students investigate the sonic organization of musical works and performances, focusing on fundamental questions of unity and variety. Aesthetic issues are considered in the pragmatic context of the instructions that composers provide to achieve a desired musical result, whether these instructions are notated in prose, as graphic images, or in symbolic notation. No formal training is required. Weekly listening, reading, and composition assign
Video shows Charlie Hebdo gunmen in police shootout
Video obtained by Reuters shows Cherif and Said Kouachi firing at police after their attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine offices. Rough Cut (no reporter narration)
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Reuters tells the world's stories like no one else. As the largest international multimedia news provider, Reuters provides coverage around the globe and across topics including business, financial, national, and internati
Locomotion of shovel-nosed snakes
Using X-ray equipment that allowed them to watch the animals move through a bed of dry sand, Georgia Tech researchers have studied how the shovel-nosed snake and sandfish lizard use their unique body plans to swim through sand. Information provided by the research could help explain how evolutionary pressures have affected body shape in sand-dwelling animals. (Credit: Jason Maderer).
For more information: http://www.news.gatech.edu/2015/01/12/slick-and-slender-snake-beats-short-and-stubby-lizar
The Process of Aging
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Obama calls on Congress to tackle cyber security
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Obama says "no foreign nation, no hacker should be able to shut down our networks" as he urges Congress to pass legislation on cyber security. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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High water swamps Venice as carnival season opens
Venice landmark St. Mark's Square is flooded by high waters on the first full day of the city's carnival. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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Reuters tells the world's stories like no one else. As the largest international multimedia news provider, Reuters provides coverage around the globe and across topics including business, financial, national, and international news. For over 160
CodeChat 021 - Amyr Haq (Microsoft's Garage) | CodeChat CodeChat is back after a long holiday and baby break, and this week, join me for a chat about Microsoft's Garage with event coordinator Amyr Haq. The Garage is Microsoft's internal program for encouraging and equipping employees to work on... well, whatever they want to work on. Employees build apps, sites, gadgets, and robots in the Garage. Amyr sees all of the goings on in this very cool space where Softies come to invent, build, code, or sometimes just hang out.
Inner Circle #1 - Inner Circle January 2014: Your New Year’s Resolution Solution
Welcome to the JapanesePod101 Inner Circle.
Tips, Tools & Success Strategies For Mastering Japanese ‘Til 2015 It’s the monthly, no-holds barred newsletter giving you tried and tested learning methods, insider tips from native-level Japanese students, and much more!
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Professor Germaine Greer - An Insight - Full Interview
Warning: Explicit Content
Professor Germaine Greer delivered the 2010 Winifred Mercier public lecture at Leeds Met on Tuesday March 23.
Born in Melbourne and educated in Australia and at Cambridge University, Professor Greer's first book, The Female Eunuch (1969), took the world by storm and remains one of the most influential texts of the feminist movement.
She has had a distinguished academic career in Britain and the USA and makes regular appearances in print and other media as a broadcast
