ISS Update - March 11, 2011
The International Space Station video update for March 11, 2011.
Illustrated Story: The "Art" of Editing
This video teaches how to use software to do story-editing. It does not give too many examples, but provides some insight into how the software program, Prezi, works.
The Advantages of Satellite Tracking
The Advantages of Satellite Tracking - Learn about how Europe is using satellite tracking in reducing the crime rate. (01:05)
The History of the First Satellites in Space
The History of the First Satellites in Space - Learn about the history of the first satellite launches, such as the Sputnik 1, Sputniks 2 and the Explorer 1. Also, learn about when the Van Allen Belt was discovered.
Trust and education: a way out of corruption - A Public Lecture by Antanas Mockus Sivickas
Corruption and generalized mistrust against public officers and against fellow citizens are mayor problem in several Latin-American Cities. This mistrust could be a consequence of corruption. But it could also be a cause. Surveys show that teachers are one of the most trustable categories of citizens. Understanding that at least part of government action is teaching might be a solution. Very elementary education exercises linked to strict anti/patronage behaviors implemented in Bogota seemed to
Mobility, place-making, and economic competitiveness
Professor Robert Cervero, University of California, Berkeley, gives a seminar for the Future Research in Transport 2011 Hilary Term seminar series.
2011LavinAwardInterview.mov
Clips from an interview with 2011 Lavin Award Winner Dr. Thomas McEnaney
2011HumanitarianAwardInterview.mov
Clips from an interview with 2011 Humanitarian Award Winner Ryan Schlief
Identifying and Responding to Threatening Student Behavior
Tragic shooting events in recent years on our campus and in our community have challenged our confidence in our abilities to notice and respond to threatening student behavior, particularly in our classrooms. This panel presentation entitled, "Identifying and Responding to Threatening Classroom Behavior," was directed to anyone with instructional responsibilities at the University of Arizona or other school or college campuses in Southern Arizona.
Classroom instructors, including teaching ass
Corporate Environmental Responsibility: The Legacy of Bhopal
Symposium presenters included playwright Rahul Varma, Illinois State faculty and staff presenters Joan Brehm, Sociology and Anthropology, The Value of Watersheds; Dale Fitzgibbons, Management and Quantitative Methods, Bhopal: The Consequences of Maximizing Profit; Tom Bierma, Health Sciences, Path to Prevention: The EH&S Response to Bhopal; Do-Yong Park, Curriculum and Instruction, Bhopal's Lessons to Act out in Environmental Education; and Enid Cardinal, Office of Sustainability, Corporate Soci
Introduction to the Brauer Museum of Art
Located in the state-of-art Center for the Arts on the Valparaiso University campus, the Brauer Museum of Art is home to a nationally recognized collection of 19th, 20th, and 21st-century American art and includes works by Frederic Edwin Church, Asher B. Durand, Childe Hassam, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Ed Paschke.
It also houses the largest known collection of works by Junius R. Sloan (1827-1900), a Hudson River School painter who lived and worked in the Midwest. Other focus areas within the collec
Noam Chomsky - UCL Rickman Godlee Lecture 2011
Professor Noam Chomsky, UCL Rickman Godlee Lecture 2011 - Contours of global order: Domination, stability, security in a changing world. Playlist of lecture excerpts: http://bit.ly/dKk2qY
Further links:
Blog post on the event: http://bit.ly/hwklig
Professor Chomsky's MIT page: http://bit.ly/gon5cT
Understanding Penal Practice
This is a free textbook that is offered by Amazon for reading on a Kindle. Anybody can read Kindle books—even without a Kindle device—with the free Kindle app for smartphones and tablets. Download the app for your device and start reading for free.'Criminological and penological scholarship has in recent years explored how and why institutions and systems of punishment change – and how and why these changes differ in different contexts. Important though these analyses are, this book focu
Introduction Ensuring good quality air is essential for the protection of public health. Governments worldwide have adopted a range of increasingly demanding measures to curb air pollution with a particular focus on the emissions from motor vehicles. An important part of this strategy has been the development of the three-way catalytic converter to remove exhaust pollutants such as carbon monoxide, unburnt hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides. This unit takes an in-depth look at the construction of this conve
PSA-Something Fishy About Smoking
This short animation produced by students makes a clear point in a creative way that smoking kills. This is a good teaching resource to use a conversation starter and introduce the topic of bad habits, unhealthy choices, and/or lung cancer. (0:33)
Blood Oil: tyrants, violence and the rules that run the world [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor Leif Wenar | Natural resources empower the world's most coercive men. Autocrats like Putin and the Saudis spend oil money on weapons and repression. ISIS and Congo's militias spend resource money on atrocities and ammunition. For decades resource-fueled authoritarians and extremists have forced endless crises on the West - and the ultimate source of their resource money is us, paying at the petrol station and the mall. In this lecture, Leif Wenar will talk about his new boo
1.3.1 Who is affected by cardiovascular diseases? Cardiovascular diseases are the main cause of premature death (before the age of 75) in the UK, across Europe and the USA – indeed, across many parts of the world (Figures 3 and Author(s):
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Confronting the National Debt: The Aftermath of the French and Indian War
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