11.203 Microeconomics for Planners (MIT)
Microeconomics for Planners, 11.203, will ground you in basic microeconomics - how markets function, how to think about allocating scarce resources, what profit maximizing behavior means in different kinds of markets, how technology and trade reshapes all of this, etc. Along the way, it will also give you a sense of several of the major economic issues in the presidential campaign. We will consider activities that markets don’t directly capture - the value of an historic preservation
The Busy World of Richard Scarry-Imagine That - Ancient Ruins
In this video Huckle and Lowly Worm learn about ancient ruins. A long time ago people built pyramids and statues and are now ruins. We can learn from ruins of how people lived long ago. Ruins are wonderful things to explore but they need to be kept safe. This is a good teaching resource for teaching about history and people of long ago. This video would work well in conjunction with a story on ancient times and is an additional resource to help build background knowledge for students (1:06)
Mukoma wa Ngugi
Kenyan-American writer, Mukoma wa Ngugi read from his work and discussed the state of contemporary African literature, highlighting African languages and culture.
Speaker Biography: Mukoma wa Ngugi was born in 1971 in Evanston, Ill., but raised in Kenya, before returning to the United States for his university education. An assistant professor of English at Cornell University he is the author of "Conversing with Africa: Politics of Change" and "Hurling Words at Consciousness." He is also a col
E-Portfolio Toolkit - Booklet
This E-Portfolio Toolkit is based on experience of developing the “Year Abroad E-Portfolio”, undertaken by the School of Languages at Leeds Metropolitan University. We use an E-Portfolio to assess our students on their period abroad because we think it encourages them to fully engage with culture(s) and language of the target country and to reflect on the resulting cultural and linguistic development. As part of our project, we have also developed a set of learning activities and materials,
CICERO: History beyond the Textbook
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The Evolution of Economic Science: Individual and Firm Behavior
The astonishing contributions MIT has made to the world of economics emerged from “a melting pot of analytical tools and mathematical methods, mixed with a healthy interest in real world questions, grounded in real world problems,” says James Poterba, crystallizing many of the themes of the symposium, and its inaugural session. A
Does Africa need the International Monetary Fund? International economist Dr Mark Ellyne asks ‘Does Africa need the International Monetary Fund?’ at the Go Holy Land, Holy Bones, Holy Image: Byzantine Pilgrimage Art La recherche d'information, les moteurs de recherche et le pageRank
Dans cet exposé, Jean-Paul Delahaye, nous parle de l'information au sens usuel du terme et nous montre les problèmes mathématiques et algorithmiques qui depuis quinze à ving ans ont été résolus pour arriver à cette mise à disposition quasi miraculeuse de l'information, au fil de l'exposé il nous fait partager les autres notions d'informations et nous permet de partager les grandes idées qui font de l'informatique, la science de l'information.
Présentation à destinat Duke Eye Center Living History: Dr. Gordon K. Klintworth Duke Medicine Profiles: Joyce A. Copeland, MD Uit jezelf communiceren : Training communicatievaardigheden Communicatie, ontwikkeling en zelfsturing spelen een heel belangrijke rol in het onderwijs en bij het opvoeden. Zowel de leerlingen als het personeel van de school, zowel de ouders als de kinderen, hebben er baat bij om duidelijk te … 1827, 1836, 1841: Documents Relating to the Business Affairs of Joseph Slocum Lawrence Bailey - Market Research Valedictory Lecture National Geographic- Leopard Frogs BoK surprises, RBA affirms rate hold Prepare site files and orders Siegfried Woldhek shows how he found the true face of Leonardo Engaging students, engaging industry and engaging enterprise U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx | Talks at Google
Presented by Gary Vikan, director, The Walters Art Museum.
Gordon K. Klintworth, MD, PhD, the Joseph A.C. Wadsworth Research Professor of Ophthalmology sits down with R. Rand Allingham, MD, the Richard and Kit Barkhouser Professor of Ophthalmology and discusses how he began working in ophthalmology and how he ended up at Duke after starting his medical career in South Africa. He describes the department when he arrived in the early 1960s and how research has received a larger emphasis at the Duke Eye Center over the past few decades.
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These images constitute a collection of documents which provide glimpses of the business dealings and reverses of Joseph Slocum, the father of Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage.,Joseph Slocum, Margaret Olivia Sage's father, was a clever inventor but commercial success eluded him all his life. Like many antebellum entrepreneurs his fortunes rose and fell with the volatile market conditions. Olivia was thirteen when, according to the Western State Journal reproduced here: "494 acres belonging to J Slocu
Colleagues from both academia and business were present on 27 January 2011 for Lawrence Bailey's guest lecture on Market Segmentation, Qualitative Research and Conversations Across the Garden Wall.
The garden wall of the lecture's title was Lawrence's metaphor for the potential divide between the two sectors.
The lecture reflected Lawrence's career-long wish to get qualitative researchers in the commercial world to talk to their counterparts in the academic world, and vice versa. He discusse
Watch leopard frogs leap among the leaves and dive into the water in this video. This is a great video to help build background knowledge with our students. This video would work well in conjunction with a story about frogs and/or a science unit about amphibians. Students will enjoy this naturalistic video (1:09).
Bank of Korea surprises by holding interest rates, but hike seen in March as BoK acknowledges price pressures; Aussie tumbles as RBA says on hold for time being.
This topic looks at the documents that make up a site file at a building site. It also looks at producing purchase orders and how they are used to make the call forward sheet.
This 4:21 video lecture is about the narrator's search for an image of Leonardo and the problem solving approach that he used. This is a wonderful video that shows students how they can use their powers of observation and deduction to reach conclusions.
This reflective case study and poster relates to a specific event staged by students and examines the phases and critical points within the whole process. It identifies some key learning outcomes for all involved
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx stops by the Googleplex for a conversation with Eric Schmidt on a new analysis from the U.S. Department of Transportation, “Beyond Traffic," which anticipates the trends and choices facing our transportation system over the next three decades.
