Introduction This unit looks at the ways in which technology has influenced the music industry and how this has changed the way we listen to music and buy records. It is a brief history of the recording industry from its beginnings at the end of the nineteenth century. Step changes in technology will be highlighted in a story that often is as much about the people who built the industry and the recordings they made as about the technologies that were developed and used. Please note that Author(s):
Culture File: Mexico #22 - Pharmacies
Learn essential Mexican cultural information with SpanishPod101.com! In this 25-lesson English-language series, you’ll hear about cultural topics ranging from important economical activities and tourist destinations to history, influential figures, and traditions in Mexico. You’ll know more about Mexico than the locals in no time!
In this lesson, you’ll learn about Pharmacies, while building your Spanish vocabulary. [...]
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Lesson 01 - One Minute Romanian
In lesson 1 of One Minute Romanian you will learn how to say 'hello' and 'goodbye' in Romanian. Remember - even a few phrases of a language can help you make friends and enjoy travel more. Find out more about One Minute Romanian at our website - http://www.oneminutelanguages.com.Author(s):
17.537 Politics and Policy in Contemporary Japan (MIT)
This subject is designed for upper level undergraduates and graduate students as an introduction to politics and the policy process in modern Japan. The semester is divided into two parts. After a two-week general introduction to Japan and to the dominant approaches to the study of Japanese history, politics and society, we will begin exploring five aspects of Japanese politics: party politics, electoral politics, interest group politics, bureaucratic politics, and policy, which will be broken u
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NASA Public Affairs Lori Meggs interviews Kim de Groh, MISSE investigator, Glenn Research Center, and Miria Finckenor, MISSE investigator, MSFC. The MISSE, or Materials on the International Space Station Experiment, has studied the way materials behave in microgravity since 2001. Hundreds of scientists and engineers have had materials fly as part of MISSE. This segment aired during Space Station Live on July 30, 2014.
Introduction This key skill focuses on developing your skills in Working with others and applying these skills in your studies, work or other activities over a period of time. To tackle all of this key skill you will need to plan your work over at least 3–4 months to give yourself enough time to practise and improve your skills, to seek feedback from others, and to monitor and evaluate your performance. A main purpose of this key skill is to guide you through the management of a group activity cul
Polar Bear vs Walrus | Planet Earth | BBC Earth
Filmed on a remote island in the Arctic, shrouded in fog, we are treated to stunning footage of a Polar Bear in pursuit of a Walrus. Faced with an imposing wall of blubber and hide, it appears that the world's largest land carnivore may have met his match. (03:49)
Keep on learning There are more than 800 courses on OpenLearn for you to choose fro Job Growth Doesn’t Mean We’re Getting Richer In response to recent claims by the Obama administration and others that “millions of jobs” have recently been created, I examined the data here at mises.org to see if the claims were true. It turns out that job growth since the 2008 recession has actually been quite weak, and hardly something to boast about. Nevertheless, our conclusions from these analyses tend to rest on the idea that job growth is synonymous with gains in wealth and economic prosperity. But is that 1 Computers and processors: introduction Computers have become a vital part of everyday life. It is almost inconceivable that you could spend a day without at least one event being influenced by a computer. Perhaps the word ‘computer’ automatically conjures up the image of a personal computer sitting on a desk, but in fact it is the computers you cannot see that influence your life the most. Typical examples of common products that may use these ‘invisible’ computers are: cars Exemples d'économie de fonctionnalité (Vidéo) Eric Fromant présente trois exemples emblématiques de mise en oeuvre du modèle d'économie de fonctionnalité dans une entreprise : Michelin, Xerox, Dow Chemicals. Acknowledgements Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence Haunted Hawaii Keep on learning   There are more than 800 courses on OpenLearn for you to choose from on a range of subjects. Find out more Learning outcomes After studying this course, you should be able to: describe the difference between marketing as a function and the concept of being market led evaluate whether an organisation is market led evaluate the relevance of marketing concepts to organisations, whether commercial (for-profit) or non-profit identify customers and consumers list the tangible and intangible elements of products and services. 2.3 Wales In 1282, Edward I conquered Wales and the Statute of Rhuddlan (or Statute of Wales, 1284) established English rule. Rather than involve the assimilation of the Welsh by the English the conquest saw ‘a colonial system … established in those parts of Llywelyn's Principality which were by 1284 in the hands of the king’ (Davies, 1991, p. 166). In 1400, Owain Glyndwr led the most outstanding and successful rising in Wales against the new order and the tyranny of the English border barons, wh A Choral Reading of Shakespeare 7.4 Visual tools Organising thought can be assisted greatly by the use of visual tools. These can include diagrams, mind-maps, tables, graphs, time lines, flow charts, sequence diagrams, decision trees or other visual representations. The process of making visual representations can itself involve using and developing a range of thinking skills, particularly higher order skills. So, whether you need the resulting product or not they can be worth doing. However, the resulting product can also provide an 12.114 Field Geology I (MIT)
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This eight minute video is the second in a series, but stands by itself if needed. The video is about the haunting of northern Hawaii and what they believe. A good video to show for students reading or writing on the subject of the supernatural and setting. Also, a good video to motivate students to debate such experiences.
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A student made video of a choral reading being performed by students in a combined junior and senior English class. The students performing the video are tenth, eleventh, and twelfth graders. (2:57)
The course provides students with (1) an introduction to the geologic history of western North America, with particular emphasis on our field camp location and (2) an introduction to both digital and traditional techniques of geological field study. The weather permitting, several weekend field exercises provide practical experience in preparation for Field Geology II (12.115). It presents introductory material on the regional geology of the locale of 12.115.
