The Business Professor
The Shelter Principle for Negotiable Instruments
The Shelter Principle for Negotiable Instruments
The March of Time
1953: PALOMAR OBSERVATORY: WS Hale telescope dome rotating. HA WS 200 inch Hale telescope on angled equatorial mount, VS Moving, Unidentified technician operating control board. Private, Caltech. Note: Largest aperture optical telescope 1948 to1976
MOT 1953: PALOMAR OBSERVATORY: WS Hale telescope dome rotating. HA WS 200 inch Hale telescope on angled equatorial mount, VS Moving, Unidentified technician operating control board. Private, Caltech. Note: Largest aperture optical...
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NASA Surveys Hurricane Damage to Puerto Rico’s Forests
On September 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria barreled across Puerto Rico with winds of up to 155 miles per hour and battering rain that flooded towns, knocked out communications networks and destroyed the power grid. In the rugged central...
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NASA | The Van Allen Probes - Instrument Overview
Dr. David Sibeck explains the instruments on the twin Van Allen Probes (formerly the Radiation Belt Storm Probe, RBSP). The Van Allen Probes will explore the Van Allen Radiation Belts in the Earth's magnetosphere. The charged particles...
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NASA | Magnetometry 101
NASA satellites use very sensitive devices called magnetometers to measure the magnetic fields of planets. Like very sensitive compasses, these devices can measure both direction and strength of planetary magnetic fields. Learn more...
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Lucy's Journey: Episode 4 - "Instruments"
Meet Lucy as she prepares for the first ever journey to the Trojan asteroids, a population of primitive small bodies orbiting in tandem with Jupiter. Music is "Lazy Days" by Arch Bacon, via Universal Production Music Video credit: NASA's...
The Business Professor
Holder in Due Course - Discharge of Underlying Obligation
Holder in Due Course - Discharge of Underlying Obligation
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Radiant
Pianist Stephen Hough plays and discusses the 5th theme of Liszt's Sonata and it's melodic, radiant characteristics.
NASA
NASA | Our Wet Wide World
The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) is an international satellite mission to provide next-generation observations of rain and snow worldwide every three hours. NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will launch a...
NASA
Landsat 9: part 2, Designing For The Future
The soon-to-be-launched Landsat 9 is the intellectual and technical product of eight generations of Landsat missions, spanning nearly 50 years. Episode 2 takes us inside the spacecraft, showing how Landsat instruments collect carefully...
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Hubble’s Servicing Mission 4 Celebrates its Ten-Year Anniversary
On May 11, 2009, the brave crew of Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off to make NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope more powerful than ever before. Hubble's Servicing Mission 4 (SM4) was the most ambitious and complicated to date. Changing out...
Amphio
Climactic
Pianist Stephen Hough performs and discusses the climactic moment of Liszt's Sonata.
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Student Scientists: Building REXIS
College students in Boston are getting the chance to help NASA explore an asteroid. These student scientists have built an instrument called REXIS, which will fly on the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft that is scheduled to launch later in 2016....
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Working on a NASA Mission: Lucy Goes to Space
Discover the mysteries of the solar system through the eyes of the Lucy mission and its team members. This fifth episode features a variety of team members who discuss their roles on the Lucy mission. Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space...
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NASA | Glory: The Particle Puzzle
This episode explores the complexity of atmospheric aerosols- how they impact climate and how researchers study them. Glory's Aerosol Polarimetry Sensor and Cloud Camera will provide an unprecedented data set for helping scientists...
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NASA | GLASTcast 2008 Mission Update
The GLAST mission launched on June 11, 2008 and has been returning remarkable and revolutionary discoveries ever since. Recently renamed to the Fermi Space Telescope, after Nobel Prize winner Enrico Fermi, the mission is expected to...
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Goddard Team Reflects on 20 Years of Cassini
The people behind Cassini's Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) reflect on their years-long experience working with their team - relationships formed, children born, challenges conquered, and their feelings as the Cassini mission...
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NASA | Intro to LIDAR - 3D Version
Want to know the 3D shape of terrain on another planet? Want to study the height and density of Earth's forests? An amazing tool called LIDAR can help! Learn more in this video. This version of the video is presented in several formats...
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ATom Postcard - Azore Islands to Kangerlussuaq
Atmospheric scientists Bernadett Weinzierl of the University of Vienna, Paul Newman of Goddard Space Flight Center, and Róisín Commane of Harvard University sent back a video postcard from the last three legs of the Atmospheric...
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How a NASA Science Flight is No Ordinary Journey
A group of scientists and pilots conducted a series of science flights over Western Colorado for a new five-year NASA-led airborne mission called SnowEx. SnowEx is exploring better ways to measuring how much water is stored in...
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NASA | Katrina Retrospective: 5 Years After the Storm
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast. Five years later, NASA revisits the storm with a short video that shows Katrina as captured by satellites. Before and during the hurricane's landfall, NASA...
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SPEXone: Dutch Instrument Arrives for PACE Mission
Aerosols are small solid or liquid particles suspended in the air that affect climate change directly through interactions with solar radiation. Aerosols affect climate indirectly by changing the micro- and macro-physical properties of...
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NASA | TRMM at 15: The Reign of Rain
TRMM Project Scientist Scott Braun looks back at the legacy of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission and a few of the major scientific milestones the satellite has helped achieve.
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NASA | On Board NPP: The Five Instruments
The NPP satellite has 5 instruments on board: VIIRS, CERES, CrIS, ATMS, and OMPS. Each one will deliver a specific set of data helping weather prediction and climate studies. This video is a quick overview of each instrument and its...