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U.S. and Cuban scholars involved in academic, scientific, and cultural research face
17.32 Environmental Politics and Policy (MIT)
"Environmental Politics & Policy" explores the workings of environmental policymaking in the United States.
What are the big issues facing environmental policy?
How did we end up with the policies we have today?
Why does it take a crisis to move environmental policy forward?
Why do political factors - economic interests, social and political values, bureaucratic styles, ideologies, elections, etc. - always seem to overwhelm sound scientific and engineering judgment in determining policy out
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Aaron Straup Cope, Head of Engineering at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, talks about the concomitant cost of reaping the benefits of Big Data.
STS.067 Scientific Visualization across Disciplines: A Critical Introduction (MIT)
This subject exposes students to a variety of visualization techniques so that they learn to understand the work involved in producing them and to critically assess the power and limits of each. Students concentrate on areas where visualizations are crucial for meaning making and data production. Drawing on scholarship in science and technology studies on visualization, critical art theory, and core discussions in science and engineering, students work through a series of case studies in order t
2008.02.19-Unfinished Business in the Balkans
Hinckley Institute of Politics Forum: Presented by William Montgomery; Columnist, former career diplomat and U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria, Croatia, and Serbia and Montenegro. A discussion of the current political and social situation in the Balkans.
"The Talibanization of South Asia: Can it Be Stopped?" (video)
A talk by Pervez Hoodbhoy, Department of Physics, Quaid-e-Azama University. Dr. Hoodbhoy received his bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering and mathematics, master's in solid state physics, and Ph.D in nuclear physics, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been a faculty member at the Department of Physics, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad since 1973. He is cha
SP.693 Gender, Race, and the Complexities of Science and Technology: A Problem-Based Learning Experi
What can we learn about science and technology–and what can we do with that knowledge? Who are "we" in these questions?–whose knowledge and expertise gets made into public policy, new medicines, topics of cultural and political discourse, science education, and so on? How can expertise and lay knowledge about science and technology be reconciled in a democratic society? How can we make sense of the interactions of living and non-living, humans and non-humans, individual and
2.3 Public and private law Public law involves the state or government in some way. There are three main types of law that fall into this category. Constitutional law: this controls how the Author(s):
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This week: Indie films struggle in the digital era, sleeper trains could soon reach the end of the line and why defensive cows protect endangered jaguars
3.2 Necessities and luxuries As the division of opinion between the government and low income people illustrates, definitions of poverty are the stuff of political debate. People in the Rowntree studies tended to focus on ‘paying bills and food’. Most people's list of basic needs would also include adequate food and clean water, clothing, shelter and heating. But are there also less apparently physiological, more evidently social, necessities of life? Language of Movement Keep on learning   There are more than 800 courses on OpenLearn for you to Ecologie industrielle, gestion des flux et faisabilité des synergies (Vidéo) Rémi Beulque revient sur plusieurs problématiques qui affleurent lors de la mise en place de symbioses industrielles : adaptation qualitative des flux, quantité de flux, acheminement, réglementation. 15.010 Economic Analysis for Business Decisions (MIT) Photo Slideshow: Tara Oceans 5.2 The ‘answer’ in your dictionary Please now look at the definition of ‘religion’ given in a dictionary. We have used the Concise Oxford Dictionary definition for this exercise. Do you think that the The Polite Academy Political Perspectives to State Censorship of Literature 4.4 Discussion In this second case study, I have described two different trends in energy use by cold appliances over the last few decades. On the one hand the efficiency with which appliances use electrical energy has improved but, in spite of this, their consumption of electricity has increased significantly in recent decades. Since 2000 consumption has started to decline, probably as a result of the introduction of minimum energy standards. The trend will only continue if we demand and use the most energ
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Former UA postdoctoral fellow Melissa Duhaime joined the crew of the Tara Oceans expedition for one month sailing from Valparaiso, Chile, to Easter Island, Chile, in the South Pacific Ocean. Braving cramped quarters and the swells of the high seas, she collected ocean viruses from some of the most remote places on the planet.
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The manners of the parlor codify the feminine culture. Kristen Spivey keeps up appearances in The Polite Academy.
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