A team project for school to make an infographic about earthquakes.
The sound design was made by Yonny Vizcaya.
Irving Diaz and Luis Barros were the team members for this project.
Vesuvius enters into the history of volcanology with the 79 AD eruption, which was described very accurately in the letter sent to Tacitus by Plinius the Young, who could observe its whole development from Miseno (20 km far from Vesuvius). More recent, qualitative and quantitative (numerical simulations) studies allow to describe deeply the dynamics of sustained and collapsing plinian eruptions, as well as of the pyroclastic currents associated to this kind of eruptions.
A 3-minute journey through the last 250 years of our history, from the start of the Industrial Revolution to the Rio+20 Summit. The film charts the growth of humanity into a global force on an equivalent scale to major geological processes.
Why are most people in industrialized societies so tired? The reason lies in an increasing discrepancy between our body clocks' internal time and the social demands on work/school days (social jetlag). Because we predominately work inside, our body clocks have become later over the years while work times have stayed approximately the same.Body clocks use the light-dark cycle to synchronize to the 24-hr day, while society manipulates social time (e.g., time zones and daylight saving time) ignoring the internal time of an individual.
Economic growth is the priority of every European government, and it can't come soon enough. How can universities help?
Europe's research universities are already making a huge economic contribution: that much is obvious. We educate the future workforce, we perform research which governments, business and industry commission through research contracts, and we make discoveries and inventions which, formalised in recent years as 'technology transfer', are put directly to work by the private sector to generate economic return.
The following is a summary of the speech that Sir Leszek Borysiewicz - Rector of the University of Cambridge - will give on May 10, in Barcelona, at the 10th anniversary conference of LERU, the League of European Research Universities which includes 21 universities, including the University of Milan. "...Separating “applied” from “not-yet-applied” research would certainly not be wise, and may not even be possible.
The OECD Factbook App presents 100 economic indicators in a format specially designed for smartphones. An easy way to access to a statistical picture of the world’s major economies from OECD.
A macrophage (pale brown) interacts with Borrelia cells (blue), the spirochete bacteria that cause Lyme disease.
What's the key to using alternative energy, like solar and wind? Storage, so we can have power on tap even when the sun's not out and the wind's not blowing.
In this talk MIT professor Donald Sadoway takes to the blackboard to show us the future of large-scale batteries that store renewable energy.
