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VideoIEA Can History teach us Anything? 100 Years of the First World War - Panel 1
by Sandra Codo — published Dec 08, 2014 — last modified Sep 19, 2019 10:06 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Literatura, História e Histórias das Ideias: as análises de especialistas para explicar e entender o significado da Primeira Guerra Mundial.
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VideoIEA The Place of Race: Contemporary Caribbean Debates
by Sandra Codo — published Dec 04, 2014 — last modified Sep 19, 2019 10:06 AM — filed under: , , ,
This event has discussed racism in Cuba and Haiti in order to present the two cases in comparison. Professors Rachel Price and Nick Nesbitt, both from Princeton University, presented the theme focusing on cultural, historical and political issues.
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VideoIEA Conference on the Rainforest Continent Business School at the Brazil Institute
by Sandra Codo — published Dec 04, 2014 — last modified Sep 19, 2019 10:05 AM — filed under: , ,
Maritta Koch-Weser (Coordinator of IEA's 'Amazon Transformation: History and Perspectives' Research Group), Camilo Capiberibe (Governor of the State of Amapá), and André Guimarães (CI Brasil) gave presentations after a meeting that brought together representatives of government agencies, NGOs, universities, private companies and international organizations, aiming to discuss the pioneering initiative of creating the first business school dedicated to make the preservation of tropical forests not only an environmental priority but also a business proposal.
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VideoIEA Darwin's Special Difficulty: Worker Insects
by Sandra Codo — published Dec 04, 2014 — last modified Aug 25, 2023 12:32 PM — filed under: , , ,
Lecture that honors the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth presents the exhibition of Francis Ratnieks, of Sussex University, UK. Ratnieks - expert on Evolution - discusses the problem of social insects to Darwin and his own research on the topic.
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VideoIEA Behavioral Characters Perform well as Indicators of Phylogeny
by Sandra Codo — published Dec 04, 2014 — last modified Aug 25, 2023 12:31 PM — filed under: , , ,
Behavioral data are commonly used to produce evolutionary trees. Biologist John W. Wenzel, specialist in entomology, discusses this theme of evolution based on the central theme of Darwinian biology.
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VideoIEA Faith Literacies in Children's Homes and Community Settings
by Sandra Codo — published Dec 04, 2014 — last modified Sep 19, 2019 10:05 AM — filed under: , , , ,
The themes of poverty and malnutrition are addressed in this roundtable with Professor of Language and Culture Education Eve Gregory. She is one of the scholars who question the relationship of poverty and malnutrition as causes of not learning to read and write.
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VideoIEA The Importance of Genomic Imprinting for Understanding Human Psychology and Pediatric Disorders
by Sandra Codo — published Dec 02, 2014 — last modified Aug 25, 2023 12:31 PM — filed under: , ,
Social theory based on natural selection - which includes the theory of self-deception as an adaptive strategy - and biology of selfish genetic elements - which explains certain internal genetic conflicts - are the issues outlined in this lecture by the evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers, who began his studies investigating and developing theories of reciprocal altruism, parental investment in care of offspring, sexual selection, parent-offspring conflict, the ratio between the number of males and females, deception and self-deception.
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VideoIEA Changing Global Environments
by Sandra Codo — published Oct 31, 2014 — last modified Aug 25, 2023 11:15 AM — filed under: , , ,
Presentation and analysis of the third edition of the World Report on Social Sciences, which seeks to understand the causes and consequences of global environmental change.
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VideoIEA Nuclear Astrophysics: from Stars to Nuclei
by Sandra Codo — published Oct 08, 2014 — last modified Sep 19, 2019 10:03 AM — filed under: ,
The talk is focused on the interplay between astrophysics and nuclear physics, which is called 'nuclear astrophysics'. Professor Descouvemont gives an introduction about the way stars are born and how different they evolve. It is shown that nuclear reactions play a central role in the star evolution: they produce the energy released by the stars, and determine the nucleosynthesis of heavy elements.
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VideoIEA The University of Birmingham's Institute of Advanced Studies: The Year of Development and Plans for the Future
by Sandra Codo — published Apr 07, 2014 — last modified Sep 19, 2019 10:01 AM — filed under: , , ,
The Director of the University of Birmingham's Institute of Advanced Studies, Malcolm Press, presents the development of the institute in its first year of existence and plans for the future. Martin Grossmann, Director of the IEA, presents the new website of the institute.
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