Does Investing in Cutting-edge Tech Attract Better Workers?
Recent Wharton research examines the shifting priorities of the tech labor market and its implications for workers – and for other industries.
5.6 The history of medicine: a Scottish perspective This unit looks at how historians seek to understand past diseases and epidemics. These had social, political and medical implications as they inevitably damaged the economic resources of a community. An example based in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary is used to illustrate how changes in medical delivery affected the local population. In addition there is a description of the work of the eminent Scot William Cullen, professor of medicine at Edinburgh University (1752), who described the
Silicon Valley's movers and shakers come to Cambridge
Have you ever thought of starting up an entrepreneurial business of your own or dreamed of joining one of those famous names of the start-up industries such as Google, Flickr, LinkedIn, Kiva, Twitter, or the Carbon War Room? Well while you may not have been able to hop over to Silicon Valley to see what's going on there, serial entrepreneurs Sherry Coutu and Reid Hoffman helped Cambridge Judge Business School bring Silicon Valley here instead for the second time. The idea was to foster and devel
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2.2 Economic valuation: towards ecological economics The blue whale could have supplied indefinitely a sustainable yield of 6000 individuals a year. This is one of the earliest references to sustainability in the literature, taken from the 1971 edition of the science journal Nature (cited in Senge et al., 2006, p. 45). Here, the blue whale is given instrumental value – a means of measuring not the survival of the blue whale for its intrinsic v
Liberty, State, and Union Bassani shows that Jefferson was a special kind of libertarian. He did not believe in government, but for one or two areas. Nor did he believe in the "union" much less the nation state. He was a radical individualist who had no use for the political collective. This is where we find the very core of his thought. Author of the Declaration of Independence, diplomat in France, leader of the opp
HST.721 The Peripheral Auditory System (MIT)
In this course, experimental approaches to the study of hearing and deafness are presented through lectures, laboratory exercises and discussions of the primary literature on the auditory periphery. Topics include inner-ear development, functional anatomy of the inner ear, cochlear mechanics and micromechanics, mechano-electric transduction by hair cells, outer hair cells' electromotility and the cochlear amplifier, otoacoustic emissions, synaptic transmission, stimulus coding in auditory nerve
Acceleration
Learn what acceleration is and how it effects the velocity of objects in this short, computer animated video. Key concepts covered are: acceleration, velocity, constant velocity, constand acceleration, distand per second, and constand acceleration rate. Video ends with a 10 question, fill in the blank quiz.
Syrian army helicopter crashes, crewmembers captured - amvid
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A Syrian military helicopter crashes in northwestern Syria and rebels capture at least four crewmembers, video posted to a social media website purports to show. Gavino Garay reports.
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7.3 Monitoring your progress Use your records or logbook to help you present a commentary that includes what you did to: obtain the necessary resources and support from others; allocate/negotiate responsibilities; comply with particular requirements, health and safety, company policy, etc; establish and maintain co-operative working relationships; exchange feedback on progress; resolve problems a
21M.410 Vocal Repertoire and Performance: Women Composers (MIT)
This course is for the singer and/or pianist interested in collaborative study of solo vocal performance. This term we will focus upon the works of Women Composers. Students will gather biographical data and explore art songs, operatic arias, choral masterpieces, and arrangements employing sacred and secular texts. Additionally, students will conduct inquiry into works indicative of their own heritage.
4.3 Dilemmas of climate change In Section 4.1, we looked at claims that climatic change thousands of years ago triggered the movement of people into the ocean, eventually leading to the settling of islands like Tuvalu. We have also seen that these islands only rose out of the ocean because of dynamic geological processes coupled with dramat
Buddhism: Siddhartha Gautama
A short video giving an overview of Siddhartha Gautama the founder of Buddhism his history according to legend, and his founding of the religion.
Profiles in Innovation: Carlos Gomez-Uribe
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2.4 Models as part of systems work Thinking systemically involves identifying systems relevant to some situation, and models are invariably used as part of this process. An example of this forms part of Checklands' Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) (Checkland, 1981). One aspect of this methodology concerns the formulation of a root definition of some system that is relevant to the situation of interest and the construction of a conceptual model of this system. The root definition is a concise, verbal description of what a
Big fish sucks up little fish
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Virtual Maths - 3D shapes, area of cylinder
Interactive simulation demonstrating the formula and calculation of the area of a cylinder
German students weep for classmates killed in plane crash
The mayor of Haltern-am-See says the town is "in a state of shock" as students mourn 16 classmates among the dead in Tuesday's German Airbus crash. Vanessa Johnston reports.
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5.2 The origins of the wars of the three kingdoms From Catholic rebellion to Civil War, what happened during the latter years of the reign of Charles I that caused people to take up arms against their fellow citizens? This unit looks at the background of the wars between England, Scotland and Ireland and how the King's actions led to the rift between royalists and parliamentarians. To access this material click on the unit link below. It leads to a separate OpenLearn unit and will open in a new window.
Shattering the Glass Labyrinth of Female Leadership
Leadership development programmes play an important role in forging an equal opportunity path through the complex business world to the C-Suite.
