Lecture 16 - 11/18/2010
Lecture 16
Lung Cancer CT Scan Clinical Trial Results Show Benefit
"Twenty percent fewer lung cancer deaths seen among those who were screened with low-dose spiral CT scan than with chest X-ray. http://bit.ly/ah084K
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is today releasing initial results from a large-scale test of screening methods to reduce deaths from lung cancer by detecting cancers at relatively early stages.
Reggie Munden, M.D., from the Department of Thoracic Imaging and principal investigator of the trial at MD Anderson talks about the impact of the stud
Bike off secure bike parking stands
This research portfolio project, is being delivered in collaboration with the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science (JDI) at University College London (UCL), aims to catalyse a design revolution in secure cycling provision for the 21st century. The research seeks to use creative solutions to overcome the adverse effects of bicycle theft on the achievement of sustainable transport objectives within European cities and to assist in the promotion of cycling and the benefits it offers society in ter
CNIPsy 2010 Marseille – L’esprit malade, l’objet même de la psychiatrie.
CNIPsy 2010 Marseille : 7ème Congrès National des Internes en Psychiatrie (CNIPsy).
Thème : «Mauvais genre»
Session : Péripéties dans l’histoire de la psychiatrie.
Modérateurs : Dr Catherine PAULET, Grégoire BILLON
Titre : CNIPsy 2010 Marseille – L’esprit malade, l’objet même de la psychiatrie.
Auteur : Pierre-Henri CASTEL (psychologue clinicien, directeur du Centre de Recherche Psychotropes, Santé mentale et Société, Université Paris Desc
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Characterization of ICRISAT-bred sorghum restorer lines
Title: Characterization of ICRISAT-bred sorghum restorer lines
Authors: Reddy, B.V.S. (Belum V.S. Reddy); Sharma, H.C.; Thakur, R.P.; Kumar, A.A. (A. Ashok Kumar)
Basic Math: Operations on Numbers
Illustrates Absolute Value and Order of Operations. This video is in lecture format with an instructor using a dry erase board. Run time 30:34.
American Revolutionary War
This is a classroom lesson with lots of visuals. It asks questions and later answers them. Might be of value as an after test for students.
FruitLoops- Creating Layers
A tutorial on using layers of sound to create a more complete sonic composition. A little quiet
Inside the Tornado
This is an educational video about tornadoes from the National Geographic Channel. The video talks about tornadoes as well as the equipment needed to track tornadoes.
Pictures of Tornadoes
This is a video of various pictures of tornadoes. The slected music is strange. (06:17)
How does the element of 'play' figure in Profs Geim's and Novoselov's research?
Short excerpt from interview with the 2010 Nobel Laureates in Physics Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, 6 December 2010. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editorial Director of Nobel Media. For the complete interview, see: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2010/geim-interview.html
"Keynote: Connecting the Dots: Some Ways of Reframing South Asian History"
A keynote address by Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair of Indian History, UCLA, at the Sixth South Asia Graduate Student Conference: Foundations for the Study of South Asia.
The Way David Macaulay Works: Finding Ideas, Making Books and Visualizing Our World
This presentation feels akin to a new Disney ride: During your tour inside David Macaulay’s imagination, prepare to soar over Rome’s great monuments, raft within the human body’s circulatory system, and dismantle and rebuild the Empire State Building.
Don’t expect much in the way of explanation or backgrou
Diversifying Cities: Migration, Habitation, and Community Development
The largest scale migration in human history, says Xavier de Souza Briggs, is potentially the most transformative as well. It’s time to consider new frames for issues, he says -- not rehash “civic life as a competition over power” but perhaps see this as a moment when we can realize, finally, the ancient idea
High-Eco-Tech: Building Avant la Garde
There’s more than a little magic in Werner Sobek’s constructions, which balance aesthetics, architectural constraints and pathbreaking science to, in his words, “go beyond” nature’s own limits.
Sobek walks us through his portfolio of engineering feats, enabled by a worldwide architecture and engi
Next Generation Solar Cells: Lowering Costs, Improving Performance and Scale
According to Tonio Buonassisi, we’re “on the cusp” of achieving a competitive technology for capturing the limitless energy of the sun. Buonassisi, in conversation with an MIT Museum audience, describes how, with the work of MIT and other researchers, photovoltaics may finally be coming into its own.
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Nanoscale Engineering for High Performance Solar Cells
How much energy does it take to turn on a lightbulb? Way too much in the U.S., where 22% of all electricity gets channeled into illuminating homes, businesses and thoroughfares. Vladimir Bulovic wants to end the exorbitant use of power for lighting, and simultaneously brighten our lives more pleasantly, with the applicati
The Medium Doesn’t Matter
In an era of packaged toys and online games, have our children lost the knack of creative play? While American kids may never again prefer sticks and other found objects to the manufactured experience, Laura Seargeant Richardson of frog design believes children can still evolve from game consumers to game designers. I
