Top Rated iTunes U Podcasts

The School of Architecture at the Academy of Art University is dedicated to advancing the art of architecture. Students are encouraged to explore the visual, functional and compositional possibilities associated with design within our physical, natural and social environments. With an emphasis on design and guided by knowledgeable faculty, the School of Architecture seeks to endow students with valuable professional skills. Design Studios will address the development of sustainable buildings and communities. The academic programs at the architecture school nurture creativity, support artistic vision and integrate critical thinking with technical information, thus preparing students to become active and engaged leaders in the architectural profession.

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As part of the run up to the 2011 Tony Awards the American Theatre Wing posts videos with "cues" from many Tony Award nominees.

Literature Studies at the School of Advanced Study.

What is ecology? What is nature? What is ecological literature? In this class Timothy Morton, professor of English and nature and culture, investigates these profound and very urgent questions. In Morton’s recent book Ecology without Nature, he argues that environmental art needs rethinking on a deep and massive scale. Literary studies needs to acknowledge the extent to which every work of art is environmental, in the same way as every work of art is about gender, race, and class. This means that even texts that are not explicitly “about” the environment (animals, trees, mountains … etc.) have what Morton calls “environmentality.” Thus there are some texts that are environmental in form as well as in content. This class will challenge you to develop reading skills and philosophical depth to investigate one of the most important areas of literature and culture today.

This podcast is the didactic lecture audio and procedure video from the University of Iowa Department of Emergency Medicine.

Conférences organisées à l'université P.M. Curie, ouvertes au public.

The law and aspects of the legal system have a massive impact on the lives of social workers, from defining policy and procedure to the actual process of day-to-day working. This album presents an encompassing and engrossing look at the interaction between legal and social teams, and how different professions and groups interact to ensure equality and representation for all members of society. Not only do these discussions offer an insight into the justification and implementation of policy, they also provide illumination onto the realities and experience of working with vulnerable and disadvantaged people. This material forms part of The Open University course K269 Social care, social work and the law (England and Wales).

Supported by a Wellcome Trust Public Engagement grant (2006-2008) in the History of Medicine to Professor Tilli Tansey (QMUL) and Professor Leslie Iversen (Oxford), the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group at Queen Mary, University of London presents a series of podcasts on the history of neuroscience featuring eminent people in the field: From 1975 to 1995, Professor Moncada worked at the Wellcome Research Laboratories, first as Head of Prostaglandin Research and then as Director of Research. He described the structure of prostacyclin, which acts as an effective vasodilator and also prevents blood platelets from clumping. In 1980 came the discovery by Robert Furchgott of ' endothelium-derived relaxing factor' (EDRF) which causes smooth muscle in the vessel walls to relax. Moncada and his team showed that EDRF was, in fact, Nitric oxide, which has since become appreciated as a neurotransmitter, a modulator of inflammation and a sensor of cellular distress as well as a regulator of vessel tone. Nitric oxide is both the target and effector of a range of compounds now being used for the treatment of cardiovascular and rheumatic diseases. Professor Moncada was appointed Director of the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research at University College in 1995. He has won numerous awards from the international scientific community including a Dart/NYU Biotechnology Achievement Award, the Prince of Asturias Scientific and Technological Research Award and the Dr AH Heineken Prize for Medicine from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science.

Student ist man nicht nur im Hörsaal. »KIT Campus« stürzt sich auch schon mal ins Karlsruher Nachtleben oder nimmt die besten Wohngegenden unter die Lupe. Neben handfesten Tipps zu Stipendien und Auslandsaufenthalten ist auch Raum fürs Persönliche. »KIT Campus« porträtiert Studierende, interviewt Personaler, streitet über »Bologna« oder geht mit dem Mikro auf Stimmenfang. Und für zwischendurch gibt es statt Mensa-Essen edle Pop-Kost.

Für den »Campus Report« der Baden-Unis Heidelberg, Mannheim, Freiburg und Karlsruhe produziert die Radio-KIT-Redaktion wöchentlich einen populärwissenschaftlichen Beitrag. Die Sendungen laufen montags bis freitags um 19.10 Uhr im Programm von »Radio Regenbogen«.

The 2011 Bridges Conference, codirected by Penousal Machado, was held at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, during July 27–31, 2011. (http://bridgesmathart.org)

Is creativity a mind-set or can it be developed? How much influence does organisational culture have on creativity in the workplace? And is there space for innovation within all business environments? Managing a successful business is never simple, especially when it’s necessary to navigate a company through a changing landscape. Featuring a series of interviews on topics such as flexible working, the role of leadership and creating under constraint, this collection also takes a closer look at fear, bias and intuition and the role they play on shaping creative environments. It examines approaches used by both private and public sectors and gives an insight into how they use different aspects of creativity to run their organisations. Martin Miller of independent music label Beggars Banquet talks about managing change, while NHS Chief Exec Samantha Jones talks about managing creativity when faced with the pressures of running NHS trust. Also featuring contributions from Microsoft, Cloud Reach, Morgan Lovell, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and Milton Keynes Dons football manager, Karl Robinson.

Inaugural Professorial Lectures, public lectures and events from the Division of Sciences.

A series of podcasts by the Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research (ACE) at QUT, including recent research, practitioner-oriented seminars, spotlight interviews and conference keynote sessions.

A series of video seminars by the Australian Centre for Health Law Research discussing innovative research into current and emerging health law issues in Australia and globally.

This album features seminars on theoretical and experimental particle physics. Topics include supersymmetry, the Large Hadron Collider, electroweak symmetry breaking, cosmology and gravity.

These unique gems of the Biodiversity Heritage Library collection represent some of the rarest natural history works to ever hit the digital world.

Some of the firsts in their fields, this selection of works features women who have made significant contributions to the historic literature of Botany and Zoology.

Plant Science focusses on the green, silent, and motionless life forms we take for granted. Plants are amazing organisms. Literally rooted in one spot, they are able to cope with a wide range of environmental conditions, while at the same time using only light, carbon dioxide and water to generate energy-rich sugars that drive and support the vast majority of life on the surface of our planet.

In this series of short interviews we look at what Geographers do, the broad diversity of the subject, and its relevance today.

República do Saber é um programa de televisão que visa divulgar a atividade científica desenvolvida na Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra (FCTUC), cofinanciado pelo COMPETE - Programa Operacional Fatores de Competitividade - e Ciência Viva. Abordará as diversas áreas de investigação da FCTUC e a sua ligação à sociedade, através dos seus centros de investigação e laboratórios associados, do Instituto Pedro Nunes e da sua incubadora de empresas. O programa, dividido por 4 séries de 15 episódios, mostra, em cerca de 15 minutos, «a ciência que se faz a partir da Universidade de Coimbra para a cidade, a região, o país e o mundo» Apresentação: António Durães (ator)

Thanks to cutting-edge radio and infra-red astronomy, our understanding of the universe is moving very fast. Ideas about black holes and cosmic jets are constantly being refined as new discoveries are made using new, more powerful telescopes. This album explores the incredible discoveries and theories developed in recent years and introduces the astronomical observatories, space missions and satellites that have made it possible. The 12 video tracks reveal that our sun, though essential for our existence, is an unremarkable member of the stellar menagerie. They describe how astronomers study the structure and dynamics of our galaxy, the Milky Way and they introduce the challenges inherent in mapping the geometry and expansion of the universe. This material forms part of the course S282 Astronomy.

Darwin's Library is a special digital reconstruction of the working library of Charles Darwin, drawn from Darwin's own copies held at Cambridge University Library. Our iTunes U selection includes some of the most significant and highly annotated books on Darwin's shelves, all digitized from the originals at Cambridge. The Darwin's Library project was funded by the JISC and the National Endowment for the Humanities, worked on in collaboration with the Darwin Manuscripts Project at the American Museum of Natural History, and undertaken with the permission of the Darwin estate. The materials made available through iTunes U are available for non-commercial use.

What do scientists do outside of the lab? To find out, dive into BHL's first collection of primary source material! Learn about the activities of 19th and early 20th century naturalists as they investigate wild areas throughout the United States and the Galapagos Islands. These field notes are part of the Connecting Content project; for more information: http://research.calacademy.org/library/fieldnotes.