Tigers For Younger Learners
Learn about tigers in this educational video for kids! You will learn about tiger cubs, the size of tigers, where they live and the important task we have to make sure that tigers have the habitat they need to thrive! (11:34)
The Nature of Money [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor Philip Goodchild, Dr Waltraud Schelkle, Susan Steed | What is money, where does it come from, and why does it sometimes fail to make us better off? The banality of money makes it appear neutral with respect to political, religious, or moral values. Should we try to answer these questions in a value-neutral way, or does money shelter a value system hiding in plain sight? Philip Goodchild is Professor of Religion and Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. Waltraud Schelk
Virtual Maths - Basic Structures, bending moment point of load
Interactive simulation demonstrating the bending moment at point of load
Sexual Violence & Survivor Support Input-November 3, 2014
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Peter Sheldrake on Milton Friedman- Philosopher Series - Graduate School of Business & Law
Professor Peter Sheldrake provides an introduction to the work of twentieth century philosophers and invites the audience to reflect upon the relevance of their thinking to corporate life and how they might apply the findings to their own business practice.
Recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, Friedman is best known for his theoretical and empirical research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilisation. Friedma
"Session 2 (Boundaries) - History Textbooks and the Profession: Comparing National Controversies in
A symposium panel featuring the following papers: "Textbook Controversies and the Limits of American History" — Thomas Bender (New York University); "Testing the limits of historical imagination: Mexico’s history-textbook controversies and the U.S. question (circa 1957-2000)" — Mauricio Tenorio Trillo (University of Chicago); Discuss
The Perspective of Cross-Strait Relations
Professor Samuel Shiouh-Guang Wu, CDIB Partners Investment Holding Corporation discusses ‘The Perspective of Cross-Strait Relations: An Analytical Framework and its Implications’ at Taiwan, the view from the south conference.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Nell Painter
As Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama make their appeals to lower-income voters in Ohio and Texas, expert on media and politics Kathleen Hall Jamieson analyzes the messages on the campaign trail in the lead up to Tuesday's potentially decisive primaries. Also on the program, historian Nell Irvin Painter examines what history reveals about the current state of inequality in America. Painter looks at today's economic disparity as a new "Gilded Age" that threatens democracy.Author(s):
Advances in Nanotechnology
He also touches on some of the myths about nanotechnology as well as some of the real dangers of Nanotechnology and the steps governments are taking to regulate it.
In this podcast, Professor Moriarty discusses nanotechnology, and how it has led to a convergence of the traditional sciences. He talks about the commercial applications of nanotechnology such as hard disk technology in laptops, stain free materials and fabrics, self-cleaning windows and advanced water filtration.
Hiding from the Holocaust (Jane Marks)
Upon Reflection host Marcia Alvar welcomes Jane Marks, author of "The Hidden Children: The Secret Survivors of the Holocaust." In this 1993 video from the University of Washington, Marks illuminates the lesser-known story of Jewish children who managed to escape and hide from Nazi terror and why these stories have reached the public so slowly.
O_1:// the hypertextu(r)al matrix
Founded in 1995 LAB[au], laboratory for architecture and urbanism, links theoretic research LAB[a+u] to concrete works of conception and realisations LA.BAU. LAB[au] elaborates a ?hyperdesign? investigating the implications of new technologies of communication and computation in spatiotemporal and social processes and their forms of representation as architecture and urbanism. The transposition of the hypertext model to architectural and urban concepts question the mutation of the spatial and se
Telenet-BBC Public Speaking Award De Telenet-BBC Public Speaking Awards vinden opnieuw plaats vanaf februari 2013. Voor de zesde editie van deze award is er een nauwe samenwerking met Vlaams minister van Onderwijs Pascal Smet en alle onderwijskoepels. De …
No. 74: : Germs
The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. This episode is available in audio format. This page recounts the contributions af various persons to the eventual development of the germ theory of disease.
Lifespan predicted from flashes in worm cells
Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25040
Fluorescing proteins accurately predict the demise of nematode worms, by measuring the activity of free radicals within their cells
"Gandhi - Lovers and Haters" - UNSW Annual Gandhi Oration presented by Thomas Keneally AO (Excerpt)
COMPLETE LECTURE VIDEO AVAILABLE HERE:
http://youtu.be/rzo0ya64KRE
Booker prize-winning author Tom Keneally challenges Australia's policy on asylum seekers in his delivery of the 2014 Gandhi Oration at UNSW.
Keneally delivered the Oration to a capacity audience at UNSW's Leighton Hall to mark India's Martyr's Day, the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's assassination in 1948. The public talk was preceded by a remembrance ceremony at the Gandhi bust on the UNSW Library Lawn.
Infographic: Social Networking and Education Take a look at this infographic on how social networking and eduation are integrating.
4.4 Summary This section described how computers can be used in geographical applications (and in doing so it discussed maps and showed how modern maps are composed of layers of different data). It discussed the GPS to demonstrate how computers can communicate in order to solve a problem, such as navigation. It also showed how the geographical data that supports both map-making and the GPS navigation system can be presented in different forms such as a map, a list of directions, a moving grap
21H.326 The Making of Russia in the Worlds of Byzantium, Mongolia, and Europe (MIT)
Medieval and early modern Russia stood at the crossroads of Europe and Asia. In this course we will examine some of the native developments and foreign influences which most affected the course of Russian history. Particular topics include the rise of the Kievan State, the Mongol Yoke, the rise of Muscovy, Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, relations with Western Europe. How did foreigners perceive Russia? How did those living in the Russian lands perceive foreigners? What social relations were
Checklist - Study Placement
This is a resource released as part of the E-Portfolio Toolkit based on experience of developing the “Year Abroad E-Portfolio”, undertaken by the School of Languages at Leeds Metropolitan University.
1.2 Napoleon and the Spanish imbroglio Napoleon later admitted that his intervention in Spain in 1807 was among his worst mistakes. He referred to it as ‘the Spanish wasps’ nest’ or ‘the Spanish ulcer’, which divided and exhausted his military strength. While Napoleon probably intended to annex the Iberian peninsula to his French empire in any event, his immediate involvement arose from his decision in November 1806 to impose the Continental Blockade or European boycott of British goods, in the hope of defeating Britain
