Monday, December 12, 2011
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Thursday, December 08, 2011
New Battery Technology at Argonne Nat. Labs
Clean Skies News goes behind the scenes where new batteries are being developed at the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. Lee Patrick Sullivan reports.
Getting paid to break into things: Argonne's Roger Johnston on NBC
Roger Johnston and the Vulnerability Assessment Team at Argonne break into "foolproof" systems.
Wednesday, December 07, 2011
Sarah Kay: How many lives can you live?
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Sarah Kay
A performing poet since she was 14 years old, Sarah Kay is the founder of Project V.O.I.C.E., teaching poetry and self-expression at schools across the United States
http://www.project-voice.net/about-us/
Sarah Kay is a Spoken Word Poet who grew up in New York City and began performing her poetry when she was only fourteen years old. Even though she was often the youngest poet by a decade, Sarah made herself at home at the Bowery Poetry Club, one of New York's most famous Spoken Word venues. In 2006, she joined the Bowery Poetry Club's Poetry Slam Team, NYC Urbana, and competed in the 2006 National Poetry Slam in Austin, Texas. That year, she was the youngest poet competing at Nationals. Sarah was featured on the sixth season of the television series Russell Simmons presents HBO Def Poetry Jam, where she performed her poem "Hands." She has performed in venues across the country including the United Nations, where she was a featured performer for the launch of the 2004 World Youth Report. She has also performed internationally in the Czech Republic, the United Kingdom, India, and South Africa. Sarah is a published author, whose work can be found in literary publications such as Foundling Review, Damselfly Press, decomP, the Literary Bohemian, Pear Noir! among others. In 2004, Sarah founded Project V.O.I.C.E. and has since taught Spoken Word Poetry in classrooms and workshops all over the world, to students of all ages. Most recently, Sarah was a featured speaker at the 2011 TED conference (Technology, Entertainment, Design) on "The Rediscovery of Wonder" in Long Beach, California.
Sarah is featured on the CNN.com homepage
Sarah Kay is celebrating National Poetry Month on the YouTube homepage
Sarah Kay
A performing poet since she was 14 years old, Sarah Kay is the founder of Project V.O.I.C.E., teaching poetry and self-expression at schools across the United States
http://www.project-voice.net/about-us/
Sarah Kay is a Spoken Word Poet who grew up in New York City and began performing her poetry when she was only fourteen years old. Even though she was often the youngest poet by a decade, Sarah made herself at home at the Bowery Poetry Club, one of New York's most famous Spoken Word venues. In 2006, she joined the Bowery Poetry Club's Poetry Slam Team, NYC Urbana, and competed in the 2006 National Poetry Slam in Austin, Texas. That year, she was the youngest poet competing at Nationals. Sarah was featured on the sixth season of the television series Russell Simmons presents HBO Def Poetry Jam, where she performed her poem "Hands." She has performed in venues across the country including the United Nations, where she was a featured performer for the launch of the 2004 World Youth Report. She has also performed internationally in the Czech Republic, the United Kingdom, India, and South Africa. Sarah is a published author, whose work can be found in literary publications such as Foundling Review, Damselfly Press, decomP, the Literary Bohemian, Pear Noir! among others. In 2004, Sarah founded Project V.O.I.C.E. and has since taught Spoken Word Poetry in classrooms and workshops all over the world, to students of all ages. Most recently, Sarah was a featured speaker at the 2011 TED conference (Technology, Entertainment, Design) on "The Rediscovery of Wonder" in Long Beach, California.
Sarah is featured on the CNN.com homepage
Sarah Kay is celebrating National Poetry Month on the YouTube homepage
Luis von Ahn: Massive-scale online collaboration
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Luis von Ahn
Luis von Ahn builds systems that combine humans and computers to solve large-scale problems that neither can solve alone
Tuesday, December 06, 2011
Revolutionary Rap In Tahrir Square, Cairo
Reed Lindsey reports: Salman Abdul Aziz al-Balshi and Mohammad Mohammad Youssry mix music and politics in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt.
Sunday, December 04, 2011
Saturday, December 03, 2011
Rove interviews Kevin Clash - Elmo
Rove McManus interviews Kevin Clash who plays Elmo on Sesame Street.
Due to the high number of comments about Kevin making a joke about Rove's wife, I think it necessary to let you all know that Belinda Emmett was alive and well at the time.
Friday, December 02, 2011
Simulations have become commonplace in much of higher education in recent years, including at Northern Illinois University (NIU), where students use a
Anyone with a web connection can engage in the marketplace maneuvering, the pressure-packed decision making, and the inevitable price wars that break out among business students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
For four years, students in John Sterman’s [2] business management courses have gone toe to toe in simulated business arenas, with the latest being a concocted world of video game companies looking for an edge in marketing and selling their game consoles and software.
The university announced Nov. 30 that the simulation, known as “Platform Wars,” [3] would be freely available on the MIT Sloan Teaching Innovation Resources (MSTIR) website, following the lead of MIT’s OpenCoursWare program [4], a seminal experiment in higher education’s sharing of open source material.
Sterman, a professor in MIT’s Sloan School of Management, said the chance to employ out-of-the-box strategies in simulated business environments has proven perhaps more valuable to his students than strategizing in the real world.
“In many respects, simulation is superior to the real world when it comes to theory and learning,” said Sterman, director of MIT’s System Dynamics Group, a gathering of researchers. “[A simulation] is a safe container. Students choose strategies that may not work just to learn about it, and your actual bank account isn’t drained if you lose millions in the simulation. … Like a flight simulation, you risk nothing.”
In “Platform Wars,” students set the price of hardware, negotiate royalty rates with game makers, and decide if they should subsidize the first few games for their video game system, because, as Sterman said, “if there are no games to run on it, it’s just a big, heavy paperweight.”
“Platform Wars” often lures MIT students into price wars with their competitors. Companies in the online simulation see their prices undercut by the competition, and respond in kind.
Avoiding this vicious cycle of company destruction has served as a valuable classroom lesson for many MIT students on the precipice of the business world.
“The emotion comes into play,” Sterman said. “They know they’re supposed to signal willingness to cooperate and not trigger a price war, but feelings people have when they’re undercut are hard to overcome. … People’s not wanting to lose face gets in the way of making a good decision many times.”
Management simulations are nothing new for Sterman, who created three simulation programs before “Platform Wars.” “Salt Seller,” for example, teaches students about commodity pricing, and “Fishbanks” focuses on managing renewable resources.
These simulations take place over years or decades, helping students better understand short-term and long-term business strategies and the downfalls of getting big too fast.
Every simulator program is based on case studies read by MIT students. All four are available for free on the MSTIR website.
Simulations have become commonplace in much of higher education in recent years, including at Northern Illinois University (NIU), where students use a simulation [5] that lets users design a desired movement or action using the required formulas and algorithms that apply to all types of engineering.
Brian Coller, an associate professor of engineering at NIU, designed the simulation after showing students computer-generated NASA footage from the Mars Rover landings.
Using Coller’s program, students are required to complete the applicable formulas and algorithms to successfully steer a video game car around an oval track. Students must consider rate of speed, geometrical calculations, and all manner of mathematical information to do this.
“These projects are very open-ended, meaning that I’m not going to tell [students] everything they need to know,” Coller said. “They have to go find stuff, and they have to put things together. There’s no one right answer, … so different students can get to a solution in different ways, and that’s what real engineering is like.”
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With the Gymbl, you can use your iPhone® 4 hands free—at home, in a meeting, for FaceTime, when interacting with your apps, and everywhere else.
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The Gymbl has a gimbal, a pivoting, panoramic head that lets you rotate the iPhone® 4 around its optical center. Use the Gymbl to take accurate panoramic photos without optical distortion. Once you’ve created the source files, use your favorite stitching software to create seamless panoramas.
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Your Gymbl attaches to any full sized tripod or other specialty mounts like a Steadycam through an industry-standard 1/4-20 threaded hole in center pivot for even more flexibility.
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The stylish, hard-shelled case protects your iPhone® 4 and attaches to the Gymbl. Feels great in your hands anytime you use your iPhone® 4.
At the heart of the Gymbl™ is a gimbal.
The Gymbl™ is versatile as:
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• a tripod adapter
for taking images and videos with great fidelity.
Capture great panoramas with the Gymbl™.
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