Geckskin Does Some Heavy Lifting!
For years, biologist have been amazed by the power of gecko feet, which allow these 5-ounce lizards to produce an adhesive force roughly equivalent to carrying nine pounds up a wall without slipping. Now, a team of polymer scientists and a biologist at UMass Amherst have discovered exactly how the gecko does it, leading them to invent Geckskin, a device that can hold 700 pounds on a smooth wall. http://umass.edu/
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Songs from India: A Music Lesson
Catherine Schmidt-Jones,
Sadhana S.
This is a lesson plan for introducing students to the music of India by teaching them two short traditional Hindustani songs. Students are encouraged to explore and appreciate both the musical […]
6.189 A Gentle Introduction to Programming Using Python (MIT)
This 6-unit P/D/F course will provide a gentle introduction to programming using Python for highly motivated students with little or no prior experience in programming computers over the first two weeks of IAP. The course will focus on planning and organizing programs, as well as the grammar of the Python programming language. Lectures will be interactive, featuring in-class exercises with lots of support from the course staff.
This class is designed to help prepare students for 6.01 Introductio
22.106 Neutron Interactions and Applications (MIT)
This course is a foundational study of the effects of single and multiple interactions on neutron distributions and their applications to problems across the Nuclear Engineering department - fission, fusion, and RST. Particle simulation methods are introduced to deal with complex processes that cannot be studied only experimentally or by numerical solutions of equations. Treatment will emphasize basic concepts and understanding, as well as showing the underlying scientific connections with curre
The Good News Club: R. Elisabeth Cornwell interviews Katherine Stewart
Video and editing by J.D. Mack - http://www.stage2.com/
21A.226 Ethnic and National Identity (MIT)
An introduction to the cross-cultural study of ethnic and national identity. We examine the concept of social identity, and consider the ways in which gendered, linguistic, religious, and ethno-racial identity components interact. We explore the history of nationalism, including the emergence of the idea of the nation-state, as well as ethnic conflict, globalization, identity politics, and human rights.
Pictogrammen in meerdere talen De site is een initiatief van het onderwijsopbouwwerk van de stad Antwerpen. Doel is de communicatie met anderstalige ouders te vergemakkelijken.
Tiziano a Augsburgo - La Gloria
Descripción escrita por Arte Historia. El segundo viaje de Tiziano a Augsburgo para trabajar a las órdenes de Carlos V fue muy productivo. En dicho viaje recibió el encargo de pintar una de sus mejores obras: La Gloria o La Adoración de la Santísima Trinidad. (01:57)
El sistema nervioso
Este video describe el sistema nervioso. El video tiene dibujos que ayudan a explicar el sistema. (2:08)
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The Use of Satellite Navigation in Automatic Train Control Systems (IRR Poster)
The Use of Satellite Navigation in Automatic Train Control Systems (IRR Poster)
The Search for the "God" Particle
The Texas Tech Physics department has aided in research in the discovery of what may be the elusive higgs boson particle. This research has included thousands of people throughout the world, and part of this breakthrough research has been done by Texas Tech faculty and students.
Science Bulletins: Will the Fish Return?
A series of immense banks—plateaus submerged in relatively shallow ocean waters—stretches from Newfoundland to southern New England. At the southwestern end of this chain lies Georges Bank, where vast numbers of fish feed and grow. Legend has it that the first European sailors found cod so abundant that they could be scooped out of the water in baskets.
Until the last decades of this century these banks were one of the world's richest fishing grounds—until overfishing on a massive scale b
Historia de España - parte 11 de 12
Este documental se trata de los aspectos más importantes de la historia española. El documental está organizado en 12 partes y son los siguientes: parte 1 (prehistoria y culturas antiguas), parte 2 (hispania romana), parte 3 (visigodos y musulmanes), parte 4 (España de la reconquista), parte 5 (expansión de Castilla y Aragón), parte 6 (Austrias mayores), parte 7 (el siglo de oro), parte 8 (España de los Borbones), parte 9 (España de las rev
A Deficient Understanding Alan Uke, author of Author(s):
Speak Italian with Your Mouth Full - Lesson 12, part 2 (cooking instruction) ESG seminar on Italian language, culture, and food: ES.S41, Lesson 12, part 2 (2 of 3).
