Noam Chomsky vs William F. Buckley Part 2
Part 2 of this famous debate, from 1969, shows two great political thinkers debating each other. The debate centers around American foreign policy during the time period. The thoughts and ideas put forth by both men are still relevant today.
When Worlds Collide
'Nearly 60 years ago, audiences thrilled to the destruction of the Earth in George Pal's classic film, "When Worlds Collide." The idea of a planetary smash-up is a staple of science fiction, but can it really happen? Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope think they've actually seen the aftermath of such a collision around another star. It can even help us understand similar calamities that happened long ago in our own solar system.' (05:31)
How the Body Works : Skeletal Muscles
The voluntary or skeletal muscle system consists of more than 650 muscles, which produce body movement and help maintain an upright posture. Voluntary muscles are The voluntary or skeletal muscle system consists of more than 650 muscles, which produce body movement and help maintain an upright posture. built onto the skeletal framework in several layers; the ones shown here are those directly under the skin. Facial muscles are involved in speech, eating, and expression. Muscles across the chest
Muscular System Structure and Function
An overview of the main structures of the Muscular system. PowerPoint style video-easy to take notes from. (7:18)
RFK - Bobby Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis
At the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Bob Kennedy was the country’s attorney general. At first he advocated a strike against the island, ninety miles south of Florida, where the Soviet Union was installing offensive ballistic missiles. As he listened to the debate amongst the President's closest advisors, however, he changed his mind.
Move the video forward, to 1:10, to view a short clip of Bobby’s role in the crisis. Included are recreated scenes, hist
Debate Tips: Recording Thoughts
Recording thoughts works when you know you need more info in a
debate. Learn how writing thoughts helps in debating claims from a
communications and public speaking expert in this free instructional
American Capitalism (1948)
The superiority of the capitalistic system explained by Prof. Clifton L. Ganus (1948). Modern day socialists call this a "capitalist propaganda" film. (B/W video)
World Trade Organization
This video explains the WTO through member governments' eyes. It
seeks to shed light on how the WTO system works, through the experience
and motivations of two very different countries: Brazil, a large
developing nation, and Norway, a small but economically advanced state. A professional video of good quality.
Discovery Kids - Doki Descubre - Los Planetas
This one-minute animated Spanish video offers information to younger learners about the planets in our Solar System.
Accelerated motion in one dimension
The nature of acceleration is determined by the net external force for constant mass system. Depending on the nature of force, there exists wide range of possibilities like zero, constant or varying accelerations in one dimensional motion.
NASA KSNN What changes make the shuttle safer?
Find out more about how NASA is making the shuttle safer and construct an emergency escape system.
Using Apple Computers : History of Apple Computers
The history of Apple computers begins in 1971 when two friends developed the Apple 1, a simple configuration of RAM, a motherboard and a textual video chip. ...
The Digestive System
This is a student-created video about the digestive system. (Musical selections could have been better.)
Hypermedia as a means for learning and for thinking about learning
This paper is about the design and realization of an experimentation with a hypermedial system, IPER-3, facing the three ‘classical’ problems in the history of mathematics (trisection of the angle, quadrature of the circle, duplication of the cube) and some issues which have developed around them. The aim of the work is to study the opportunities provided by hypermedial systems in dealing with topics of interest for the training of teachers and/or for class work, exploiting the possibility o
The Service Architecture in the ACTIVEMATH Learning Environment
We discuss the usage of web-services in the ACTIVEMATH learning environment, describe the prototypes implemented and the experience gained. Requirements for an ideal web-service technology are described. They include the notion of event propagation as well as the consideration for stateful web-services. Finally we propose models to make the web-services of ACTIVEMATH available to client components without affecting privacy or security. Further work, within the LE ACTIVEMATH EU project is describ
What are Statistics?
This module describes the various ways the term "statistics" is used.
History of the Internet
'History of the internet' is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet. The clip shows a brief overview of this history and shall animate people to go on discovering the history of the internet.
The history is told with help of the PICOL icons - PICOL standing for PIctorial COmmunication Language and is a project to find a standard and reduced sign system for electronic communication.
History of the Inte
How To Optimize Your Mac's Performance
How To Optimize Your Mac's Performance. Learn how to turn off login items and useless widgets to optimize your Mac's performance with these steps.
Step 1: Remove startup items
Remove unneeded startup items. Click the apple, go to System Preferences, and click on Accounts. Go to the Login Items tab, and deselect any applications that you don’t want to launch every time you login.
Step 2: Shrink dock
Step 3: Turn off sharing
Turn off Shar
How to Better Calibrate Your Computer Monitor?
http://geeks.pirillo.com - http://live.pirillo.com - When you see and hear the testing for the Emergency Broadcasting System on tv, how do you know those colors are really the right colors? Maybe your tv or monitor isn't displaying them correctly. How do you test your monitor screen? http://chris.pirillo.com Distributed by Tubemogul
History of the Mac OS; part 1
A small calibration of videos I threw together. It's main point focuses on the good and bad of the Mac operating system. In 1977 the Apple II was created. One year after Lisa the system I OS was created. This shows the history of the Apple OS. (10:05)