Higher Education Videos

Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! We hope that you’re enjoying learning to draw and pronounce Japanese Kanji with these awesome video lessons. It’s time to add to your knowledge with another cool Kanji. You’ll be a master of the On-yomi and Kun-yomi readings after you’re done with this lesson. This Japanese Kanji video lesson shows the right [...]

Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! Here at ItalianPod101.com, we’ve discovered the easiest way for you to learn Italian vocabulary words. Put us to the test with this video tutorial designed to teach you about something that you can’t live without. In this Italian video tutorial, you’ll learn common Italian words for plants. They’re presented so that you’re [...]

Today, we examine what makes a drum kit a good kit, and we discuss the differences between top of the line gear.  Simon Phillips is the drummer of the week, and we have news including Thomas Pridgen s departure from The Mars Volta!! Show Notes Similar and Related Posts ...Hudson Releases Modern Drummer Fest 2008 DVDMD 2008 Festival Lineup FinalizedDrummer Talk 10/22/2009 Drumathon 5/Anton FigDVD Review Simon Philips: CompleteDrum Digital for April 2008 Now OnlineDrummer Talk 01/26/2007 Upandcoming Drummers

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Sharon Lamb and Dr. Mark Tappan, co-authors of Packaging Boyhood: saving our sons from superheroes, slackers, and other media stereotypes with Dr. Lyn Mikel Brown published by St. Martin's Press. Dr. Sharon Lamb is Distinguished Professor of Mental Health at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, in the Department of Counseling and School Psychology. She is on leave from Saint Michaelâs College in Vermont where she is a Professor of Psychology. Originally from the Chicago area, she received her doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and her child psychology training at Mass. General Hospital in Boston. Sharon co-authored Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketersâ Schemes with Lyn in 2006 and is thrilled to be able to continue working with Lyn and her partner Mark on Packaging Boyhood. Sharon is author of The Secret Lives of Girls: What Good Girls Really Do, and Sex, Therapy, and Kids: Addressing their Concerns through Talk and Play (a book for psychotherapists). Dr. Mark Tappan is Professor of Education and Human Development and Chair of the Education Program at Colby College. He received his A.B. in Religion from Oberlin College, his M.A. in Education from the Ohio State University, and his Ed.D. in Human Development from Harvard University. He is co-editor (with Martin Packer) of Narrative and Storytelling: Implications for Understanding Moral Development and Cultural and Critical Perspectives on Human Development. Mark grew up in suburban Philadelphia but he now lives in Waterville, Maine with his partner Lyn Brown, their daughter Maya, their dog Heidi, and four cats. At Colby he teaches courses on education and social justice, contemporary children and youth, and boys development and education. Students in his âBoys to Menâ course also work with local elementary and middle-school boys on media literacy and leadership development. Visit their website. Visit KD Booksellers for affordable quality fiction and non-fiction books online

  Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You made it to Japan. You learned to speak Japanese. You made a lot of friends there. Now one of them is getting married, and she asked you to give one of the traditional speeches at her wedding. OH, THE HORROR! At a traditional, formal, Japanese wedding, you must stand up [...]

  Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! Your ears are ringing a little bit, but you’re still having fun at the Italian concert. You can’t get over the fact that your Italian boss bailed on you though, and you suspect he’s trying to be a matchmaker. So far, it’s been cool to hang out with his sister, and [...]

La corrección en el lenguaje de Juan José Millás ( Cuerpo y prótesis ) Un chico y una chica muy jóvenes, de instituto, discutían acaloradamente en el metro. Me acerqué disimuladamente a ellos en el momento en el que la chica decía: -¿Y por qué las mujeres tenemos que tomar somníferos en lugar de somníferas? Lo lógico es que hubiera somníferos para hombres y somníferas para mujeres. -Eso es lo mismo que decir que los hombres deberíamos tomar aspirinos en lugar de aspirinas. Pues mira, yo me he pasado la vida tomando aspirinas y soy tan hombre como el que más. -Ya está. Si no te sale el macho no te quedas contento. Naturalmente que los hombres deberíais tomar aspirinos. Yo, si algún día tengo hijos, les daré aspirinos, del mismo modo que a las hijas les administraré antibióticas cuando les haga falta. -Y los chicos se sentarán en sillos en vez de en sillas, me imagino. -Pues sí, se sentarán en sillos y dormirán en camos y comerán el sopo, no la sopa, con cucharos. Las cucharas son para las mujeres. -Tú estás loca. Vete al psiquiatra. -Y tú al psiquiatro. El tren se detuvo, se bajaron y yo continué perplejo cinco estaciones más pensando que la chica llevaba razón. ¿Cómo era posible que una lengua tan sexuada como la nuestra cometiera unos fallos, o quizá unas fallas, de ese calibre? Todo el mundo, muy pendiente de que los ni�os no jueguan con mu�ecas ni las ni�as con tanques, y sin embargo se obliga a las mujeres a viajar en el metro (en lugar de en la metra) y a los hombres a subir al tranvía (en lugar de al tranvío). Angustiado por esta imperfección que acababa de descubrir en mi lengua materna (perdón, en mi lenguo materno), miré alrededor y vi a una chica leyendo un libro, lo que me pareció una perversión (debería leer una libra) y a un hombre rascándose la rodilla, cuando lo suyo es que se rascara el rodillo y así sucesivamente. Llegué a casa (a caso en realidad) y le dije a mi mujer que todo estaba patas arriba. Cuando le expliqué por qué me miró de un modo raro y me pidió que hiciera unas tortillas para la cena. -Unos tortillos, si no te importa  -le respondí-, puesto que me voy a ocupar yo del asunto. Si quieres tortillas, las tendrás que hacer tú misma. Por la noche, la oí hablar con su madre por teléfono (por teléfona, para decirlo con propiedad), y tuve la impresión de que me criticaba. Al día siguiente, se fue de casa, dejándome una nota en la que me pedía que no intentara localizarla. Le daba miedo ( o mieda, por emplear tu lenguaje ) vivir conmigo. La echo de menos, pero no podría estar con alguien que se expresara tan mal como ella. Así es la vida, o el vido, qué le vamos a hacer. Glossary: instituto means high school in this context. Somnífero means sleeping pill. Si no te sale el macho no te quedas contento (Essentially, You re not happy if you can t be the tough, manly guy.) The verb quedarse is being used here with the same meaning as the verb estar. llevar razón = tener razón = to be right

Discussion Dialogue Exercises Vocabulary Expansion Tossing and turning, lack of appetite, moodiness; these are all symptoms of one very common condition: jet lag! But the worst is when you forget to change the time on your phone and you show up somewhere at the wrong time! Find out how to d...

  Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Do you feel uncomfortable when there’s nothing to talk about? Imagine the extra discomfort of having nothing to talk about in Japanese. You should follow that long-standing tradition of talking about the weather. You can imagine the situation. You see the weather change as you stand outside in Kyoto, Japan so [...]

Joint degree programs are proliferating and one of the most popular are the programs offering to join a graduate business degree (MBA) with a law degree (JD) for a joint JD/MBA. More and more schools are offering these combined programs in response to strong student demand driven by the potential for substantial savings of time and money. We talk to the experts to find out what the real value of these programs are, when a dual degree makes the most sense for a student, the procedures and standards for admission, what the academic challenges are, and we get the latest information about post-graduate career opportunities.

Ellen Goodman of Rutgers University School of Law and Jake Shapiro, Executive Director of the Public Radio Exchange (PRX), discuss public media s role in providing public discourses, advancing democratic capabilities, and empowering publics to communicate and organize. The two investigate whether the United States has a system of public media that is able to support [...]

Learn Italian with ItalianPod101.com! Perhaps you are just a fool in love after all. Have you really just said that line out loud in Italian? Have you seriously just told that girl in Italian that speaking with her was a matter of “national security?” Of all the Italian lines to use…you have to go and [...]

Discussion In today's show, we will tackle the most defining feature of Chinese business culture and society, Guanxi, 关系. John Chan, author of the Amazon bestseller

Avec Liina Pylkkänen, dans le cadre du cycle : EALing 2009. Enregistré le 18-09-2009 à 14:00. This course will review recent advances in our understanding of the neural substrates of syntactic and semantic processing. Instead of a comprehensive review of the extant cognitive neuroscience literature on these topics, I will focus on research that has been motivated and guided by linguistic theory. Four topics will be covered: 1. Morphological decomposition, 2. Early effects of syntactic category, 3. Syntactic composition, 4. Semantic composition. Prerequisites: Some familiarity with experimental research and cognitive neuroscience methods would be a plus, but I will unpack all concepts such that even students with purely theoretical backgrounds can follow. Courses (handouts downloadable): 1/ (partial recording) September 18, 2009 at 14:00 pm, 2/ September 19, 2009 at 14:00 pm, 3/ September 21, 2009 at 14:00 pm, 4/ September 22, 2009 at 14:00 pm.

Avec Emmanuel Chemla, dans le cadre du cycle : EALing 2009. Enregistré le 22-09-2009 à 15:30. There is currently a debate between proponents of pragmatic and grammatical accounts of scalar implicatures. In his lectures, Benjamin Spector will introduce the phenomenon and the main arguments present in the theoretical literature which pertain to this pragmatic/grammatical debate. In recent years, there have been experimental studies of this issue as well, most of which providing evidence in favor of pragmatic accounts. I will present new experimental results which (i) show that under certain conditions we can elicit so-called local implicatures, a phenomenon only predicted by grammatical approaches, and (ii) show however that local implicatures are more widespread than what current grammatical approaches predict. Prerequisites: This class will complement well the material presented in Benjamin Spector's course, but no background should be necessary to benefit from the methodological and theoretical discussions. Course (handout downloadable): September 22, 2009 at 15:30 pm.

Avec Asaf Bachrach, dans le cadre du cycle : EALing 2009. Enregistré le 18-09-2009 à 15:30. Talk I: This talk will be composed of three parts. The first section will consist of a brief introduction to neurolinguistics and the Broca/Wernicke model. An effort will be made to distinguish between a performance and a competence perspective on the instantiation of language in the brain. In the second part of the talk I will present some fundamental concepts and techniques in brain imaging (with particular focus on fMRI). The third part of the talk will consist of a critical review of recent paradigms and results in the domain of neuroimaging of sentence processing and syntax. Talk II: In this talk I will focus on my own neuro-imaging work. I will first present fMRI results of the manipulation of probabilistic and structural measures during naturalistic on-line sentence processing. Then, I will present data from on-going research where we distinguish between the effect of the complexity of the syntactic structure and the complexity of its (phase-wise) derivation. Courses: 1/ (no recording) September 18, 2009 at 15:30 pm, 2/ September 19, 2009 at 15:30 pm.

Discussion Dialogue Exercises Vocabulary Expansion Today's lesson takes place in a supermarket. We'll be following a conversation between two people who are having that sometimes frustrating conversation about what to do for dinner. And it's decision time: what will they be eating?...

Discussion Dialogue Exercises Vocabulary Expansion Despite the majority of our staff being passificus apatheticus when it comes to soccer football--we simply couldn’t ignore that World Cup thingy. In this podcast, Jenny, John and Aric teach “let’s go”, “great shot”, “REFEREE!!!”, and more,...