Arthur Herman: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World
Arthur Herman on his book "To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World".
Billionaires Aren't Quite As Rich as We Think They Are One of the most enduring justifications for state intervention in an economy is the concept of wealth inequality. As the story goes, just 1% of the population owns roughly half of the wealth in the world. This is used as justification for a long range of programs, such as welfare, the graduated income tax, and multiple components of the Green New Deal. However, the problem with this narrativ
Transformations - Translation, Reflection, Dilation, and Rotation
Models of translations, reflections, dilations and rotations. Teacher explains clearly and slowly. Shows alternate methods for performing the operations. Contains 4 different sections, so the video can be stopped after each section for practice. The background is a bit distracting.
3.3 Seeing red Watch the TV programme from 20.37-24.06 and reread LoM pp. 247-248 and 255. Write a paragraph of about 120 words explaining why the inability to detect the colour red would disadvantage anthropoid primates. Introduction Historians on both sides of the Atlantic have argued that the empire was not an issue of popular interest in the late nineteenth-century Britain and the United States. This unit examines some of the evidence available to assess the truth of this claim. More broadly, the unit raises questions related to evidence: is it possible to discover what ‘ordinary’ people thought about expansionism? ‘I couldn't give a damn’; ‘I don't know anything about politics’; ‘Why don't they lea Faithful attend Palm Sunday processions in the Holy Land IASFM 12 Conference: State of Forced Migration Address Podcast 5.4 Inclusion and exclusion Contemporary Europe is, like that of earlier times, divided on several counts and reflects the continuing existence of several major identities. Individuals and groups invariably have several, overlapping or nested, identities at the same time. But there is also a hierarchy of different identities, with some groups having preferential access to particular European values and resources and others being partly or wholly excluded from them. Contemporary patterns of inclusion and exclusion Virtual Maths - Numbers, Find the angle quiz ESD.260J Logistics Systems (MIT) Matt Grocoff: "10,000 Years of Home Comfort" Lea Salonga | Talks at Google Joseph Lorenzo Hall: "War Stories from Technology Policy" | Talks at Google Beth Greer: "Missing Shade of Green, Creating a Super Natural Home" | Talks at Google Talks at Google presents The Gershwins' Porgy & Bess Neil Gaiman & Amanda Palmer, "An Evening With" | Musicians at Google Joshua Klein, "Reputation Economics: Why Who You Know is Worth More Than..." | Talks at Google Using the Recompose tool The painted garden Introduction Most contemporary evolutionary biologists study evolution experimentally using laboratory organisms such as Drosophila or natural systems in the wild. However, 18th and 19th century evolutionary biologists, including Darwin, emphasised the similarities between natural evolution and artificial ‘ improvement’ of livestock under domestication. They believed that studying domesticated animals and plants could illuminate the mechanisms of natural evolution. Indeed, Chapter 1 of On th
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Hundreds of worshippers attend Palm Sunday processions in Jerusalem and the West Bank to mark the beginning of Easter festivities. Vanessa Johnston reports.
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This podcast was recorded at opening address of the 12th International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) conference. This podcast was recorded at opening address of the 12th International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) conference, which was held on Sunday 29th June 2009 in Nicosia, Cyprus. Presented by Dr. Nicholas Van Hear, University of Oxford.
Interactive simulation quiz, 8 questions, Find the Angle using the simulation and enter the answers
This subject is a survey of the fundamental analytic tools, approaches, and techniques which are useful in the design and operation of logistics systems and integrated supply chains. The material is taught from a managerial perspective, with an emphasis on where and how specific tools can be used to improve the overall performance and reduce the total cost of a supply chain. We place a strong emphasis on the development and use of fundamental models to illustrate the underlying concepts involved
Matt Grocoff is the founding principal of the THRIVE Net Zero Energy Consulting Collaborative. He has America's oldest and Michigan's first net-zero energy home. He explains how he did it, and shares tips to help you follow a similar path.
Filipino Googlers Networks & PhilDev kicked off Filipino American History Month with Tony award winning singer and actress Lea Salonga! She's the first Filipino to be signed to an international record label - Atlantic Records in 1993. Lea's the first Asian to play the roles of Éponine and Fantine in Broadway's Les Misérables. She portrayed both roles on the musical's 10th and 25th anniversary show in London respectively after starring as Kim in Ms Saigon. She was also the singing voice of Jas
Joseph Lorenzo Hall, Chief Technologist at The Center for Democracy & Technology, works on issues of technology policy and digital rights. In this talk Joseph will take you through a technical report he coordinated, authored by twenty of the world's top computer security and cryptography experts. He'll talk about the doubt cast this September when documents leaked by Edward Snowden exposed a systematic effort by the U.S. National Security Agency to subvert encryption software, hardware, standard
"Beth Greer, aka Super Natural Mom®, is an award winning journalist, corporate wellness consultant, healthy home expert and impassioned champion of toxin-free living. She's also a Huffington Post columnist, radio talk show host, and trusted consumer advocate, who is leading a movement of awareness and responsibility about healthy home, school and work environments. Her bestselling book, Super Natural Home: Improve Your Health, Home and Planet...One Room at a Time (Rodale), a Books for a Better
Winner of the 2012 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical, the Broadway musical of The Gershwins' PORGY AND BESS visits GOOGLE! See performances from award-winning members of the Broadway touring cast and meet members of the visionary force behind this stunning and stirring new staging, including Tony Award-winning director, Diane Paulus, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Suzan-Lori Parks and Trustee of Ira and Leonore Gershwin estate, Michael Strunsky.
A performance of spoken word, songs, stories, chats with the audience, and more than a few surprises with author Neil Gaiman (Coraline; The Graveyard Book) and musician/cult figure Amanda Palmer (Dresden Dolls; Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra).
Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer released a 3-disc set, titled An Evening With Neil Gaiman & Amanda Palmer on November 19th.
Previously unreleased to the general public, and culled from hours of live recordings, one CD features Gaiman and Palm
Reputation Economics: Why Who You Know is Worth More Than What You Have
Klein details the ins and outs of reputation economics and how it incorporates all of the intangibles that make us human beings, such as the things we value, what kind of customer service we prefer, and what types of goods and services speak to us as individuals. Readers will be shocked to learn why exchanges in the realm of reputation economics don't require financial systems to operate, and that a person's reputation can
Learn how to use the Recompose tool to adjust the composition of a scene that needs tweaking. Keep important elements and eliminate or minimize unwanted elements.
A freelance garden historian, Russell Bowes, will use the clues displayed or hidden in paintings to look at the major developments of gardening styles from ancient times to the present day.
