"Truth, Lies, and Duct Tape"
Sara Paretsky is the author of the bestselling V. I. Warshawski novels, including, most recently, Fire Sale and Blacklist. She is the winner of many awards, including the Cartier Diamond Dagger award for lifetime achievement from the British Crime Writers’ Association. This lecture series honors the life and work of Dr. Robert Kirschner, noted fo
"China's Brave New World and Other Tales for Global Times" (video)
A talk by Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. If Chairman Mao came back to life today, what would he think of Nanjing's bookstore, the "Librairie Avant-Garde", where it is easier to find primers on Michel Foucault's philosophy than copies of the Little Red Book? What does it really mean to order a latte at Starbucks in Bei
Creating Secure ActionScript Applications
Explore the tools, techniques, and resources for protecting content that are available to organizations. As a developer, you'll learn how to create secure architectures and how to audit your source code for potential issues. As a quality assurance specialist, you'll learn how you can test to find vulnerabilities in SWF content. Everyone will leave with pointers to additional resources to further your knowledge and track important updates.
R&D | Maria Popova | Salon 1 (4 of 6)
Maria Popova, Founder and Editor of Brain Pickings, explains the curator's role in connecting past and present and physical and digital.
MoMA R&D Salon 1: A Curator's Tale
http://momarnd.moma.org/
October 15, 2012
All videos © 2014 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
On Responsibility and Justice [Audio]
Speaker(s): Emily McTernan | Questions of responsibility play a central role within contemporary political debate. This lecture will revise the currently impoverished conception of responsibility within theories of justice. Emily McTernan is a fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at LSE.
Introduction to Clauses
This is a video presentation about different kinds of clauses. There is an introduction explaining the difference between words, phrases and clauses and there are several examples.
Learn About a More Complicated Friction/Inclined Plane Problem
Khan Academy Presents: Fun with two masses, some wire, a pulley, and a ramp with friction. (10:15) Sal Khan uses computer software and different colors for demonstration.
What's a Pulley? (rap song)
The "rap" video explains that a pulley is a simple machine. See how a pully helps to lift weight and reduce the amount of work required. This short, repetative song will help students remember that a "pulley is a simple machine" but does not have much content beyond that.
Ecological Tipping Points: When Is Late Too Late? (Mandarin)
The major goal of this lesson is to provide students with some of the tools they will need to analyze and solve the many complex problems they will face during their lifetimes. In the lesson, students learn to use Flow Charts and Feedback Diagrams to analyze a very complex problem of ecological sustainability. The lesson looks at a specific case study—from my home town in the Philippines—of the Live Reef Fish Trade now threatening survival of the Coral Reef Triangle of Southeast Asia. Live r
AT 130 - "Linear Structure Presentation" (Budden)
Recorded by Katie Budden, 6/19/2014.
Human Biology-Preface
Willy Cushwa
This book is derived from three OpenStax resources: Biology, Concepts of Biology, and Anatomy and Physiology. It has been extensively edited so that the chapter order and content is appropriate […]
What Makes up a Neutron?
Find out what a neutron is in this video. Neutrons are composed of two down quarks and one up quark. The overall charge of a neutron is neutral. See a proposed visual model of a neutron in this high quality video. (01:20)
ISS Update: Flight Surgeon Keeps Astronauts Healthy
NASA Public Affairs Officer Amiko Kauderer talks with NASA Medical Flight Officer Steve Gilmore about the role of a flight surgeon in tracking astronaut health and coordinating crew medical experiments before, during and after spaceflight.
Flight surgeons are involved in all phases of a human spaceflight mission, including walking the crew members through the process of becoming medically cleared for flight, coordinating the medical experiments the astronauts perform aboard the station, mainta
The Value of Social TV: Reaching the Niche
Twitter and other social media networks are becoming valuable sources for gauging both mainstream and niche interest in different consumer products, says Wharton's Shawndra Hill.
Researching Bacteria's Virulence in Space
NASA is partnering with Universities and other businesses in scientific research aboard the International Space Station. A scientist from Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute has partnered with NASA to investigate the effect of spaceflight on the genetic responses and disease-causing potential of microbial pathogens. Explore this research in this NASA episode of Spark 101.
GS-10: Guided edit mode
Learn how to use the Guided Edit mode. Guided Edit walks you through some basic editing tasks as well as some of the neat features in Elements.
Use with either Photoshop Elements version 7 or 8.
The Longbow, Part 10 of 12
Some scholars claim that the longbow 'made' Britain.This documentary explores the technology of the longbow. Suitable for high school students.
The Longbow, Part 12 of 12
Some scholars claim that the longbow 'made' Britain.This documentary explores the technology of the longbow. Suitable for high school students.
1.253J Transportation Policy and Environmental Limits (MIT)
Through a combination of lectures, cases, and class discussions this subject examines the economic and political conflict between transportation and the environment. It investigates the role of government regulation, green business and transportation policy as facilitators of economic development and environmental sustainability. It analyzes a variety of international policy problems including government-business relations; the role of interest groups, non-governmental organizations, and the pub
China Lecture Series: "Elections and Chinese Understanding of Democracy"
Associate Professor of Political Science at Duke University, Tianjian Shi specializes in comparative politics with an emphasis on political culture and political participation in Chinese politics. He is the author of Political Participation in Beijing (Harvard University Press, 1997).
