Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq: Motivations and Implications [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor Peter Neumann | Editor's note: The question and answer session has been removed from this podcast. Large numbers of foreigners, including many Europeans, have joined jihadist groups in the Syrian/Iraqi conflict. Who are these people, why do they go, and what - if any - threat will they pose upon their return? Drawing on a large database with hundreds of social media profiles of Western fighters, dozens of interviews, and fieldwork, Professor Peter Neumann of King's College
Money, power and competition
Entrepreneur and journalist Margaret Heffernan takes a fresh look at money and power.
Heather Olins | Harvard Horizons Symposium
April 2014: Harvard Horizons Symposium, featuring Heather Olins, a PhD candidate in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, on "Life without Light: Microbes at Deep Sea Volcanoes"
Harvard Horizons, an initiative at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to celebrate the ideas and innovations of PhD students at Harvard, selected 8 finalists as 2014 Horizon Scholars. Their talks were delivered at the Harvard Horizons Symposium in Sanders Theatre on April 22, 2014.
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Want to Meet Your Ancestors?
A legendary expert in the evolution of early man, Richard Leakey, introduces a 15-year-old from 1.5 million years ago. (01:08)
15.511 Financial Accounting (MIT)
This six-week summer course teaches basic concepts of corporate financial accounting and reporting. This information is widely used in making investment decisions, corporate and managerial performance assessment, and valuation of firms. Students perform economics-based analysis of accounting information from the viewpoint of the users of accounting information (especially senior managers) rather than the preparer (the accountant). This course is restricted to MIT Sloan Fellows in Innovation
Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood on 2001 | #BFISciFi
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Actors Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood discuss how they first met with Stanley Kubrick, director of iconic sci-fi epic 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). The pair talk about the building of the film’s rotating set, the perfection of the script and the development of HAL 9000, the film’s computer.
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staatsvertrag.at : eine akustische Webausstellung zur Nachkriegsgeschichte in Österreich
Staatsvertrag.at: eine akustische Webausstellung zur Nachkriegsgeschichte in Österreich (State treaty: an acoustic Web exhibition on post-war history in Austria) is an online exhibition of historical sound samples presented by Österreichische Mediathek, the audio-visual archive of the Technical Museum of Vienna. The site offers samples that convey the mood of the period 1945 to 1955 in Austria, not only in terms of the international treaty that saw Austria's rebuilding under Allied occupation
GoingNative 29: Massive Improvements for Browsing in Large Codebases! | C9::GoingNative Some of you out there, especially those of you who frequently work with large codebases, might have seen this prompt at times while performing a basic browsing operation like Go To Definition or Find All References: This prompt blocks you from performing those operations, sometimes for more than 5 minutes! Well, with today's release o
International Society for Labour and Social Security Law World Congress 2009
Organised by International Society for Labour and Social Security Law, to be held at Sydney Australia from 2009-09-01 to 2009-09-04
4.3 Measuring your heart rate The most common way of measuring heart rate is by feeling the pulse at one of the arteries. The pulse is quite literally that – a pulse of blood running through the artery each time the heart does one pumping motion. Giving in the Digital World Art and architecture Fabian Society online archive Future Space Cities@Universe (Digi-City Vision) Post-Election 2016: Beyond the headlines Understanding and treating anxiety: Making sense of the transition between a necessary emotion and a Founders Day Lecture Do Re Mi Ear Training App for iOS Promo - One Minute Romanian {Suresh 757} Short sentences
For charitable organizations and initiatives, the Internet provides the opportunity to reach more people in more direct and personal ways. Are they grasping this opportunity? Following on the earthquake in Haiti in January 2010, generous individuals around the world used their mobile phones to make more than $40 million in gifts to aid organisations. More than $1 billion in gifts came in the next four weeks, a large percentage of which was donated online. But the real stories of how digital tec
The Louvre was designed to house a great art collection for the people of France. Was there a plan from the outset to build a canon of work where the relationships between artists, their origins, their schools and faiths could be traced across centuries? And how did architect I.M.Pei persuade President Mitterrand to allow a pyramid to be built at the Louvre? The album goes on to explore how architecture can reflect relationships between different traditions. Two great buildings, Palladio’s chu
The Fabian Society online archive is maintained by LSE Archives, which is based at the London School of Economics and political Science. It provides free access to an online library of over 580 full text pamphlets, minute books and tracts from the Fabian Society. The items have been published from 1884-1997 and cover a wide range of topics relating to British social, economic and political history. They include: electoral reform; foreign policy (such as colonialism, the Cold War and relations wi
A template for the future city has been carved into the heavens. Ever since the beginning of humankind, we have looked to the sky for the opportunity to make a new start in our imperfect world. Between the stars and the darkness we have imagined utopias beyond the reach of our travel technologies, colonizing space with our fantasies. Now we are in the first stages of an electronic revolution, but in the future 50 years later we will be in a mega-digital era which we have to predict, work and sea
Vanderbilt professors John Geer, Efrén Pérez and Tracy Sharpley-Whiting discuss the 2016 presidential election.
Professor Paul Salkovskis talks about understanding and treating anxiety
Lord Tugendhat, the Chancellor of the University of Bath, talks about trust and transparency in public life and business
'A portable Solfège practice partner from the developer of Do Re Mi Voice Training! Develop pitch recognition, memory, and transcription ability by repeating musical phrases in this ear trainer app. Take advantage of spare moments to brush up on your music theory and transcription skills!''Unlike other ear training apps, Do Re Mi doesn't just play simple intervals or one note at a time, but lets you choose the length of the tune you want to practice on. Progress through 50 ascending skill
Hello! My name is Roxana and I'd like to welcome you to One Minute Romanian from the Radio Lingua Network. In this podcast I'm going to be teaching you the basics of Romanian. The great thing about this language course is that you'll be learning all you need to know in just 60 seconds - or thereabouts! Each one minute language lesson will equip you with just enough Romanian to help you get by in lots of situations, either on holiday, or on a business trip to Romania, or just to impress your Roma
{Suresh 757}Short sentences लघु वाक्य (Laghu vaaky) हाथ से छड़ी गिर गई । (Haath se chhadee gir gai.) The stick fell from hand. वह छात्र को धकेलता है | (Vah […]
