Physical activity, obesity and health - Steven Blair
Professor Steven Blair, from the University of South Carolina, USA, talks about the causes of the obesity epidemic in the US, the relationship between weight and fitness levels, and the importance of physical activity in a healthy lifestyle.
How the human genome project reveals our evolutionary past - Stephen Dorus
Dr Steve Dorus from the Department of Biology & Biochemistry reveals how cataloguing the DNA blueprint of humans is revealing the evolution of human traits.
From cathedrals to cars and planes: representations in engineering design - Chris McMahon
Professor Chris McMahon, from the University's Department of Mechanical Engineering, considers some of the most complex design challenges faced by engineers through the ages, from designing ships in the 17th century, to the modern computer-assisted design of cars and planes.
Stories & visions of Stonehenge - Roger Vlitos
Roger Vlitos, writer and photographer, discusses how Stonehenge has been seen in every age, from it's first appearance in medieval manuscripts to the present day.
Engineering a better quality of older life - Tom Kirkwood
Professor Tom Kirkwood, Director of the Institute for Ageing and Health at Newcastle University, explores how the ageing process is influenced by a broad range of lifestyle and environmental factors
Shakespeare's Sonnets: Two loves I have of comfort & despair - Nicholas Fogg
Writer and journalist Nicholas Fogg, sheds light on the historical conundrums of Shakespeare's sonnets. The sonnets represent one of the great literary enigmas and have given rise to endless speculation and debate.
The effect of gravity on light - Mark Birkinshaw
Professor Mark Birkinshaw talks about the effect of gravity on light as part of the 2008 Herschel lecture, named in remembrance of the Bath astronomer who discovered the planet Uranus in 1781.
What can we do about English spelling - John Well
Professor John Wells from the Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Science Research Department at University College London discusses whether we are wasting time on irregular spellings and holding our children back with spelling tests.
Azure Notification Hubs with Elio Damaggio - Part 1 - Broadcasting Alerts | Azure Friday Elio Damaggio teaches Scott about Azure Notification Hubs and how you can send alerts to any device.
I'm Comic Sans, Asshole by Mike Lacher (monologue read by Tom O'Bedlam)
Warning - this contains foul language, naughty words and general obscenity.
Mike has a wonderful comic talent. I found the original by accident here, posted on 15th June 2010:
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-comic-sans-asshole
then I did a search and found many references to it on the web. Here's one in the Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/19/comic-sans-asshole_n_903392.html
Here's Mike's website which contains many other gems:
http://mikelacher.com/
Mike's parod
PES Celebration
This artefact outlines the creation of a new website for Innovation North students holding details of all work placements (short, long term, voluntary, paid).The Institute for Enterprise funded the project and the money helped pay a student to maintain the website for a year
Meetopdrachten voor het tweede leerjaar Leerlingen doen verschillende meetopdrachten: De leerkracht duidt op dit blad aan wat de leerling al kan of waar …
The military-industrial complex
Professor Mark Harrison discusses the military-industrial complex in the final part of his series on his book Guns and Rubles
Learn with Video #17 - Would Your Spanish Skills Help You Out of This Situation?!
Learn Spanish with SpanishPod101.com! You are walking through the streets of Barcelona, enjoying your time off from school and work, when suddenly, you hear crying and yelling just ahead. As you get closer, you see a Spanish storeowner and a teenage boy screaming loudly at each other! The storeowner is very angry and throws his [...]
Collaring a Black Bear
The Northwest Territories government is tracking black bears by using
special collars with satellite devices, in order to find out more about
the bears and their habitat. Here biologist Dean Cluff puts a satellite
collar on a sedated bear. (00:35)
7th CSS: Enacting Mobile Claims to Space: The Choreography of Encounters Between Cyclists and Non-Cy
Katrina Brown, Macaulay Institute, talks on 'Enacting Mobile Claims to Space: The Choreography of Encounters Between Cyclists and Non-Cyclists' as part of the 7th Cycling and Society Symposium at the Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford in 2010.
8.4 Implementing As with assignments, this is the phase when you actually do the task - sit the exam or produce the final version of your end-of-course assessment. This is where monitoring your performance is really important. For most students, the crucial thing in an exam is usually to monitor the timing. Unlike the production of an assignment, an exam is a timed test; so, you need to pace yourself appropriately. Most end-of-course assessments have no time constraints although you may find the deadline very
1.4 Parallel lines Two straight lines that do not intersect, no matter how far they are extended, are said to be parallel. Arrows are used to indicate parallel lines.
3.1.1 Inserting half-twists We can insert half-twists into a paper surface whenever a piece of the surface is homeomorphic to a rectangle ABCD with the following properties: the edges AB and CD of the rectangle map to distinct parts of the boundary of the surface, and the edges BC and DA of the rectangle map to non-boundary points of the surface. As illustrated in Author(s):
Troisième session : L’enquête de terrain, l’expert l’image. ... « Du Vicaire à Amen : Pie XII est-il coupable ? Les historiens dans l’arène médiatique »
Guittat-Naudin Muriel, Docteur en histoire contemporaine (GSRL, EPHE), enseignante dans le secondaire, Laboratoire de rattachement : Crises, Université Paul Valéry. « La crise des caricatures de Mahomet à Libération et au Devoir: Image, représentation et ...
