Who is the consumer? Who is the reader?
Who is the consumer? Who is the reader?
20 great podcasts for busy teachers I found these in many ways superseded what I learnt about teac
A few years back I worked at a school that was about an hour from where I lived. Initially the drive used to drive me insane, but then someone put me onto some really great teaching podcasts.
Visual Studio 3D StarterKit Want to write a 3D game for Windows 8, but not sure where to start? In this video, we'll show you the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, which is now available on the Visual Studio Developer Code Samples site for all editions of Visual Studio 2012 that support writing Windows Store apps, including Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows 8. JP and Roberto walk you through this C++ code sample which shows you how to use common capabi
6.042 class from 9/20/12
Description not set
The need for a department of death and renewal
Nick Wood, entrepreneur and business advisor, looks at why all businesses today need a 'death and renewal' department that has the ability to make difficult decisions to ensure the long-term survival of the organisation
IMPACT Awards -- JuaBar
Student Team JuaBar
JuaBar (jua means "sun" in Swahili) grew out of the Social Ventures course offered by the MBA in Design Strategy program in summer 2011. The team is Olivia Nava (MBA in Design Strategy), Rachel Gant (Industrial Design), and Sachi DeCou (MBA in Design Strategy).
Of the 28 million Tanzanians who are mobile phone subscribers, only 10 percent have access to electricity. They may spend 25 percent of their monthly income and several hours each week commuting to charge their phone
A Lunchtime Poetry Reading – Emma Neale
The Department of English presents a lunchtime poetry reading featuring author Emma Neale. Emma is the 2012 Burns Fellow at the University of Otago and has published several successful volumes of poetry and novels. 11 September 2012.
The Sun King and his Court: from Rome to Versailles and back
The 2012 Wolfson College Ronald Syme Lecture was given by Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Master of Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. The speaker is introduced by College President Professor Hermione Lee. A Roman social and cultural historian, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill was elected as Master of Sidney Sussex, Cambridge, in 2009. For the previous 14 years he served as Director of the British School at Rome. Born in Oxford, son of a distinguished historian of the early middle ages (Jo
I Remember "Fool's Gold" Standards In a recent Mises Daily, "A Golden Opportunity," Patrick Barron and Godfrey Bloom make the case for Germany to withdraw from the monetary union combined with a strong argument that "a golden Deutsche Mark is possible and desirable." This recommendation may be a step in the right direction, but it leaves Germany with a c Salafi Islam, Online Ethics and the Future of the Egyptian Revolution [Audio] The Presidential Election Results: Implications for U.S. Healthcare | HSPH War and Peace in Time of Ecological Conflicts [Audio] Onthoudwoorden Alfabeestje 2 Dit document bevat alle onthoudwoorden van het tweede leerjaar uit de handleiding Kameleon en het Alfabeestje. Per thema moeten de leerlingen enkele woorden oefenen. In de handleiding vind je de woorden op onthoudkaartjes met … Red Ribbon Week
I Remember
I Remember
Rating 0/10
Views 103
Speaker(s): Professor Charles Hirschkind | A look at the politics of the Salafi movement in Egypt in relation to changing practices of religious media use. The movement is the political face of a much broader and diverse current within Egyptian society, one grounded less in a specific tradition within Islam than in a grassroots movement centred on ethical reform. Charles Hirschkind is associate professor of anthropology, UC Berkeley.
Two days after Barack Obama was reelected as the President of the U.S., The Forum at Harvard School of Public Health convened policy experts to explore the implications of the outcome for the healthcare system. How will Medicare be affected? How will key health system players such as hospitals and doctors be affected? Will the recently upheld healthcare law be newly scrutinized? And how will the U.S. Congress respond? This event was presented in collaboration with Reuters.
Watch the entire seri
Speaker(s): Professor Bruno Latour | Although it is still useful to insist on the distinction between science and politics, the scale and importance of ecological mutations make it more and more difficult to use it effectively. The problem is that the alternative requires a redefinition of the two terms "science" and "politics". The lecture will explore in which way an alternative definition could help us to cope with the geopolitical debates that will become more and more intense in the future.
