Wikis in Plain English
A short introduction to wikis focused a group of people that plan a camping trip using a wiki.
Westward Expansion
Each time the United States expanded its territory, a wave of settlers and the development of new routes for trade and migration soon followed. This three minute video goes over some of the trails, personalities, and geography of this expansion. A good introduction, but students need to have map to follow the action.
Test Prep:Math Review (Place Value, Rounding, Fractions, etc.)
This is a good slideshow (61 slides) to use in a classroom. If the slideshow is expanded to 'full screen', the slides should be easily viewed with a projector as the font size is large.
The slides have test questions on place value, estimation, rounding, fractions, mental math, multiplication, numbers in standard form, etc. Pause the slide after each question to allow students to answer as the next slide has the answer. These slides would be suitable for fourth and fifth gra
JFK at the Boston Garden
Excerpts of John F. Kennedy's speech at the Boston Garden on November 7, 1960, the eve of the 1960 presidential election.
Global Resources and the Built Environment
With staggering statistics, John Fernandez persuades his audience that rapidly expanding urban centers are consuming too much of the world’s resources, setting the stage for global crisis. Yet Fernandez counters his own bleak picture with some bright examples of design that could help humans live within thei
Erik Vynkier GLS 2010 interview Medicine Games: Blood Typing Get your students to find out alomst anything at Factmonster.com Opening Remarks and Keynote Address - Importance of Asia to the United States AlgTop6: Non-orientable surfaces---the Mobius band An Introduction to Computational Multiphysics: Motivations for Triple-M Modeling Kabul airport attack ends Ground-Level Ozone: Smog City A talk by Saad Hariri Cervical Cancer SP.401 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies (MIT) Logarithm Concepts -- Introduction Two More Things to Worry About
Erik Vynkier (MBA2000), Director, Standard Life, on what we can learn from emerging markets
Play a game and find out about a Nobel Prize awarded discovery or work! In this game you have to blood type each patient and give them a blood transfusion. Are you able to do that? If not, maybe you should read the introduction to blood typing before you start, otherwise you will put the patients' lives in danger!
What will I find on the Fact Monster site? Fact Monster is an ideal reference site for kids ages 8-14 that provides entertainment and educational resources. It combines the contents of an
Welcoming remarks
Wen-hsin Yeh, University of California-Berkeley
Richard Ellings, The National Bureau of Asian Research
Douglas Bereuter, The Asia Foundation
Introduction
Robert Hathaway, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars
Keynote Address
Sources of Mutual Strategic Suspicion in U.S.-China Relations
David Lampton, Johns Hopkins University-SAIS, Scalapino prize winner
This conference is jointly sponsored by the Institute of East Asian Studies,
A surface is non-orientable if there is no consistent notion of right handed versus left handed on it. The simplest example is the Mobius band, a twisted strip with one side, and one edge. An important deformation gives what we call a crosscap.
This is the sixth lecture in this beginner's course on Algebraic Topology, given by Assoc Prof N J Wildberger of the School of Mathematics and Statistics at UNSW.
Modern science is increasingly faced with problems of ever greater complexity, straddling across the traditional disciplinary boundaries between physics, chemistry, material science and biology. Computational science is responding to this challenge with a steadfast development of innovative modeling techniques, designed in such a way as to offer an optimal handling of the information transfer procedures connecting the different scales/levels involved in the quantitative description of the aforem
Militant attack on Kabul International Airport ends after gun battle with Afghan forces. Paul Chapman reports
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This lesson provides an introduction to the problems associated with ground-level ozone ('smog'). It reinforces the idea that ozone at ground level is harmful while that in the upper atmosphere has a beneficial effect.
Editor's note: Unfortunately the first few minutes of the introduction are missing from the podcast. Saad Hariri is President of the Council of Ministers of the Lebanese Republic, a position he has held since November 2009. He is the leader of the Future Movement, which currently holds the majority in Lebanon's parliament. He entered the political domain in 2005 following the assassination of his father, former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri. Prior to politics, he held several high level roles in b
Cervical cancer: basic information, guidelines, statistics, female gynocologic anatomy, causes, and treatment.
This course offers an introduction to Women's and Gender Studies, an interdisciplinary academic field that asks critical questions about the meaning of gender in society. The primary goal of this course is to familiarize students with key issues, questions and debates in Women's and Gender Studies scholarship, both historical and contemporary. Gender scholarship critically analyzes themes of gendered performance and power in a range of social spheres, such as law, culture, work, medicine and the
This module introduces the concept of logarithms.
In customary, loose-limbed form, Arnold Barnett reprises two of his favorite themes: improvements to the U.S. Electoral College, and aviation safety.
First up, Barnett’s suggested fix for national elections, which through the “fun-house mirror” of the Electoral College, permit winner-take-all results. His
