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April 1, 2009 - Dan Arvizu, director of the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, discusses the current state of renewable energy technology and implementation in the U.S., as well as potential advancements in the near future.
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Being an entrepreneur is more than just starting a business, says Shutterfly CEO and dot-com veteran Jeff Housenbold. Entrepreneurial thinking involves an innovative mindset to create new products, new markets, and new ideas within any set of circumstances - from an existing Fortune 500 to a mom-and-pop shop.
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Professor Shapiro guides the class through some practical applications of his theory of democratic justice. As applied to governing children, a sphere in which power-based hierarchy is inevitable, he circumscribes the role of the state as the fiduciary over children's basic interests and the role of parents as the fiduciaries over children's best interests. In other words, the state ensures the provision of the resources necessary for surv...more
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PD Control, Control Partitioning, Motion Control, Disturbance Rejection, Steady-State Error, PID Control, Effective Inertia
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Taking off from a 2007 Gresham lecture "Stealing the Silver: How We Take From The Dispossessed, The Poor and Our Own Children", Michael intends to further explore equitable inter-generational economics. Starting with natural resources and long-lived infrastructure projects, then moving on to savings, business and fashion, we see a variety of commercial arrangements. But which ones are long-lasting? Which arrangements are fair to futu...more
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Professor Sylvia Ceyer investigates chemical reaction mechanisms: rate, order, molecularity, steady-state approximation, and rate determing steps.
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Environmental Politics and Law (EVST 255) The lecture discusses developments in air quality monitoring and regulation in the United States, with an emphasis on regulating vehicle emissions. Monitoring takes place at fixed points with results being averaged over three years, and this data informs air quality standard setting. Studies have found that this form of monitoring underreports the amount of pollution that children and other susc...more
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Long video explaining why entropy is a measure of the number of states a system can take on (mathy, but mind-blowing).
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Ignoring the solution or the solid state molecules when calculating the equilibrium constant.
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Dan Springer, CEO of Responsys, offers advice on how to raise venture money. Springer suggests that raising money depends on three factors: 1) What you have to offer, 2) The state of the venture market, and 3) An entrepreneurs long term goals. Springer argues that it is challenging for an entrepreneur with little experience or just an idea, as opposed to a business, to raise money and advises that entrepreneurs might be well served to rais...more
