Fifty years since Sputnik - Piers Bizony
Award-winning space historian, Piers Bizony, presents an illustrated account of the Space Age, from the first tiny satellites to America's colossal project to land men on the moon.
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Rocks, Water but no Life? - Philippe Blondel
Philippe Blondel from the University's Centre for Space, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences takes a planetary journey through the solar system and discusses whether the discovery of water means there must be life on other planets
Elliott Gould on Non-conformity
Sometimes, it pays to not fit in; as Groucho Marx said, he didn't want to belong to a club that would have him as a member. Enduring and endearing actor Elliott Gould raises a toast to and the bar for... non-conformity.
Produced 6/8/2012
Undertaking HRD research in HE
This presentation explores the challenges encountered in researching the impact of enterprise modules in HE on students own perceptions of self efficacy and motivation to particular career intentions
March of TIME: FDR in 1936
In this excerpt from the March of TIME Archives, the 1936 newsreel recaps the first four years of the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. (2:58)
The history and development of Buddhism - Robert Heath
Dr Robert Heath, lecturer at the school of management at the University of Bath and study lecturer on Buddhism, talks about the history and development of the religion from its inception in India to the present day.
Devices and Desires
Organic devices are revolutionising lighting and solar cells, Professor Alison Walker will describe how this change will impact our lives. Light emission from organic materials is not very common in everyday life. However, some living creatures, such as fireflies and many sea creatures, emit light with amazingly high efficiencies.
Climate change: challenge or swindle?
Reverend Professor Ian James questions whether climate change is a challenge or a swindle and presents some of the certainties, complexities and controversies from the science of climate change.
The Painted Garden
A freelance garden historian, Russell Bowes, will use the clues displayed or hidden in paintings to look at the major developments of gardening styles from ancient times to the present day.
Avebury - megaliths and myths - Roger Vlitos
Freelance and professional writer Roger Vlitos examines the theories and myths about Avebury.
Have Economists gone mad? - Paul Ormerod
Paul Ormerod, the author of three best-selling books on economics talks about what mainstream economists have to say about the turmoil of world economy.
Reading For Life - Jane Davis
Dr Jane Davis tells stories about the value of great books in ordinary lives. Jane left school at 16 with 2 GCSEs but now leads an organisation which wants a bigger place in the nation's heart for books and reading. Later in life she returned to education and graduated with a 1st class degree in English and spent 3 years writing a PhD.
The rise of the Grid & the Large Hadron Collider - Glenn Patrick
Particle Physicist Dr Glenn Patrick talks about the Large Hadron Collider. Based at CERN, in Geneva, the collider is the largest scientific machine in the world. It started operation in the summer of 2008 and aims to produce colossal amounts of data, which thousands of scientists around the world will analyse to further our understanding of the universe.
Poem: Cats
This video segment from Between the Lions features an animated and rhyming poem about cats. The poem tells about places that cats sleep and the video shows cats snoozing in these various locations. This video segment provides a resource for Fluency and Phonological Awareness. (0:35)
The Death of Politics 6.5 Multienzyme complexes In free solution, the rate of an enzyme-catalysed reaction depends on the concentration of the enzyme and the concentration of its substrate. For an enzyme operating at suboptimal concentrations, the reaction is said to be diffusion-limited, since it depends on the random collision of the enzyme and substrate. If we consider a metabolic pathway, the product of one reaction is the substrate for the next enzyme in the pathway. Direct transfer of a metabolite from one enzyme to another wo Cindy Heeralal - MSc Corporate Social Responsibility Ken Burns Discusses His Civil War Documentary
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Hear from Cindy Heeralal - MSc Corporate Social Responsibility from Nottingham University Business School.
In this clip, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, discusses his documentary The Civil War at the Daily News and the implications the war had on the United States. (2:41)
