Hollywood Stuntman Honed Skills at Texas Tech
From sword fighting and stunt driving to falling down mine shafts, Texas Tech alumnus Trampas Thompson's life is full of action and adventure.
Thompson has worked as a stuntman in Hollywood blockbusters such as "National Treasure," "Pirates of the Caribbean," and "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull."
A complete article on Thompson can be found at:
http://today.ttu.edu/2009/02/alumni-profile-trampas-thompson/
How to Set a Hanukkah Table
This four minute video teaches how to set the Hanukkah table and what this holiday means. A good video for all ages, it provides information on the food and what it represents as well as the religious aspects.
4-H Goes Digital
The Tech Wizards after-school program uses technology to introduce Latino students to careers and educational pathways in science, technology, engineering, and math. (4:25)
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens (poetry reading)
A poem that seems like a translation from chinese. Wallace Stevens was a great poet - Sunday Morning is sublime - but I get the uncomfortable feeling that he was also a practical joker. If people were willing to publish and revere anything I wrote, I might be tempted to do the same.
It reminds me of what Nietzsche said, that writers make their waters seem deep by merely making them muddy. Why thirteen ways, and not ten or fifty? I have no idea. Admittedly I'm inclined to think the same th
Portail enfant Stéphyprod: Een schatkist voor de Franse les Hier vind je een groot aanbod aan Franse liedjes met muziek, tekst en filmpjes. Eenvoudige leesboeken worden er voorgelezen. Er zijn spelletjes en kleurplaten rond dezelfde thema's.
College Prep Physics
This course will acquaint students with topics in classical and modern physics and is divided into two semesters. The first semester discusses topics in Newtonian mechanics, oscillatory motion, waves and static electricity. The second semester discusses current electricity, magnetism, electric circuits, sound, fluids and gases, heat, and modern physics. The course emphasizes conceptual understanding of basic physics principles, with some problem solving. There are interactive conceptual and basi
Google Blockbuster Billion Dollar Deal
Reuters Technology Editor, Peter Lauria, breaks down Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola.
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At Brooklyn's PS 24, fourth and fifth graders resolve playground conflicts and train younger students to be peacemakers in their classrooms. (6:29)
Aug. 22 - Equities saw modest gains on prospects for an end to the conflict in Libya but worries over debt and growth keep a bid behind safe-haven assets. Euro zone PMI's will be the key to trading on Tuesday.
Aug. 22 - Chad Moutray, NABE board member and chief economist with National Association of Manufacturers, doubts the Fed will launch more quantitative easing to support to ailing U.S. economy.
This is one of a series of animations that were produced to be part of the narrated video shown in the HoloGlobe exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History and the Earth Today exhibit at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.
This video demonstrates an easy matching game for teaching the meanings of suffixes. The narrator explains the matching activity and gives suggestions for using it. ( 1:40)
Italian Taster Lesson: 'Pesca' game Powerpoint.
Soft nanotechnology, Lecture I, Azzaroni, Omar, Research Institute of Theoretical and Applied Physical Chemistry (INIFTA), Argentina
Aug.20 - Security personnel patrol the streets in Karachi after further bloodshed. Paul Chapman reports.
Students are introduced to the field of biomechanics and how the muscular system produces human movement. They learn the importance of the muscular system in our daily lives, why it is important to be able to repair muscular system injuries and how engineering can help.
