Models for Relating Science and Religion
Prof. Mikael Stenmark : Course
Should We Be Afraid of the Muslim Brotherhood? - The Arab Revolutions with Professor Allen
Should the west be afraid of the Muslim Brotherhood's role in the Arab revolutions? Professor Allen provides some insight and analysis.
Dr. Roger Allen has been an Arabic language and literature professor at the University of Pennsylvania since 1968. This position is the oldest professorial post in Arabic in the United States, dating back to 1788.
In this series of videos produced by the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Allen provides context and analysis of the Arab revolutions sweeping Africa
The Fallacy of Scientism as a Worldview
Prof. Mikael Stenmark : Course
3 Audio activity
This unit enables you to hear some of the founding members of the Bedfordshire Mencap organisation talk about how the organisation was established and the wide range of support services it offers. The work that individuals exerted to promote change is a source of pressure towards the ideal that parents should be supported in their task of bringing up children with learning difficulties.
Beginner S6 #17 - A Lonely Birthday in Japan
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Despite being way too busy with work, you have a hard time saying no to people in Japanese. Your boss heaps more work on you, and you tell him yes, even though he knows you are overloaded. Your Japanese friends ask you for help (probably because they know you’ll say yes), [...]
Evolution and Fine-Tuning in Biology - Part 2
Prof. Simon Conway Morris FRS: Course
3 Sound production in musical instruments
How do different instruments produce the sounds we classify as music? How do we decide whether something – a piano, a vacuum cleaner – is actually a musical instrument? In this unit we investigate the way vibrations and sound waves are harnessed to create music.
3.3 Care: a contested word
Care is needed at all stages of life. This unit makes care in the family its focus because the overwhelming majority of care, including health care, is supplied in families, much of it in private, much of it unnoticed and unremarked upon. The meaning of the term (informal carer) and the word (care) itself are explored.
13 Products for markets
Designed products surround us all and range from bus tickets to buildings. This unit focuses firmly on usability and the increasingly important phenomenon of people-centred design. It aims to inform consumers of design (i.e., all of us) about this crucial characteristic of design. The unit is derived from the Open University course T211 on Design and Designing, but as well as stimulating interest in areas of concern for producers of design it might also provide an introduction to engineering, ma
On Happiness [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor Andrew Clark, Dr Antti Kauppinen | Is there more to happiness than pleasure or belief that life is going well? Should public policy aim at increasing happiness instead of prosperity or social justice? Andrew Clark is a CNRS research professor at the Paris School of Economics and a research associate at the Centre for Economic Performance, LSE. Antti Kauppinen is lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin.
3.2.1 Ever-changing labels
Care is needed at all stages of life. This unit makes care in the family its focus because the overwhelming majority of care, including health care, is supplied in families, much of it in private, much of it unnoticed and unremarked upon. The meaning of the term (informal carer) and the word (care) itself are explored.
Numeracy for Professional Purposes (9/10): Presenting Tables and Charts: 1
Numeracy & Quantitative Methods
Numeracy for Professional Purposes
3.2 Business operations: function or process?
The management of processes or operations is the very essence of any kind of business enterprise, and it is critically important that they are designed and managed well. This course taster uses case studies and models to illustrate the importance of effective operations management and outlines the steps to preparing your own operations proposal.
Confidence Interval for a Population Mean, Standard Deviation Unknown, Student-T (modifed R. Bloom)
This module explains how to construct a confidence interval estimate for an unknown population mean when the population standard deviation is unknown, using the Student-t distribution. This module has been revised from the original module by S. Dean and Dr. B. Illowsky in the textbook collection Collaborative Statistics to include step by step solutions for all examples.
4.2 Making the most of the Vue video case study
The management of processes or operations is the very essence of any kind of business enterprise, and it is critically important that they are designed and managed well. This course taster uses case studies and models to illustrate the importance of effective operations management and outlines the steps to preparing your own operations proposal.
5.9 Membrane filtration
Without it we are dead! Water is essential, but what processes must it go through to become fit for human consumption? This unit will guide you through the continuous cycling of water between land, open water surfaces and the sea before moving on to an overview of the water treatment and supply process.
AppFabric.tv - ServiceBus HTTP / REST API Recently the ServiceBus team released some great new support for Queues and Topics, allowing you to access queues via a client library as well as HTTP. In this episode, I'm joined by Will Perry, a tester on the ServiceBus team, who shows us how you can use the HTTP API with ServiceBus queues. Ron Jacobs
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SUNY Oswego College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
From American studies to zoology, SUNY Oswego's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers dozens of outstanding majors, plus interdisciplinary programs and minors. The biggest of Oswego's four schools, it provides the strong teaching, hands-on learning opportunities and helpful connections that are Oswego's academic hallmarks.
Beginner S6 #13 - You Got a Japanese Call While You Were Out
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! When you return to your Japanese apartment, you see that you’ve missed five calls! You were only gone briefly to pick up groceries from the Japanese market, so you couldn’t have missed that much. It turns out the five calls were all from the same Japanese friend. Apparently, something important happened [...]
