Descripción: Bringing stability to an African troublezone through development and security. The sight of tidal waves of villagers forced from their homes in the Democratic Republic of Congo raises once again the spectre of human misery in Africa. Tens of thousands of people: brutalised and on the move, unsure where they will end up. The massacres in Rwanda in the 1990s and in Darfur ten years later are still f...

Descripción: In this series, Robert Winston exposes the different stages of our growth and development, from birth to death, from a biological and personal point of view. In this episode Winston takes us on the rollercoaster of adolescence, a rollercoaster with sticky seats, flying sperm and three folks in the last seat taking turns to hump one another. Well, he doesn't reveal THAT rollercoaster ,we all ca...

Descripción: The Human Development Report 2007/2008 warns that the world has less than a decade to avoid a climate change crisis that could bring unprecedented reversals in poverty reduction, nutrition, health and education to the world's poorest people.

Descripción: The living world is made up of complex biological systems. At the level of the individual, the most complex of these systems is the human brain. But the process of evolution has produced even more complex systems, such as tropical reefs and rainforests, that are made up of millions of interacting species. UCSD Professor of Ecology Christopher Wills explores how this complexity evolved and what gen...

Descripción: In this series, Robert Winston exposes the different stages of our growth and development, from birth to death, from a biological and personal point of view. Robert Winston , in this episode, answers that nagging question of every curious 8 year old 'Where do babies come from?' , only to reveal some information in the process, that some adults might not know of. From the instant you want to hav...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks October 23, 2008 ABSTRACT GTAC 2008: The New Genomics - Software Development at Petabyte Scale The Third Annual Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC), Seattle, WA, Oct. 23rd and 24th. Speaker: Matt Wood

Descripción: Chris Somerville [Director of the EBI, UC Berkeley] Abstract: The earth receives approximately 4000 times as much energy from the sun each year as the total projected human energy use in 2050. Because plants can be deployed on a large scale to capture and store solar energy, I am interested in exploring the degree to which it may become possible to use photosynthesis for sustainable producti...

Descripción: This video shows the development of an unborn human being from conception to birth.

Descripción: The first global initiative to provide rigorous professional training for future leaders in the field of sustainable development was unveiled at Columbia University on October 15, 2008. The program, which was recommended in a newly released report by the International Commission on Education for Sustainable Development Practice, sets a new standard for other universities hoping to design their own...