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1902 Voyage dans la lune, Le A Trip to the Moon
2 years ago
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1901 Barbe bleue Bluebeard
2 years ago
876 views
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[MELIES] 1906 - Les Affiches en goguette (The Hilarious Posters)
2 years ago
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[MELIES] 1903 - Le Mélomane (The Melomaniac)
2 years ago
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[MELIES] 1904 - Les Cartes vivantes (The Living Playing Cards)
2 years ago
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[MELIES] 1904 - Le Roi du maquillage (The King of the Mackerel Fishers)
2 years ago
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[BBC] Britains Most Fragile Treasure
2 years ago
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[BBC - HISTORY COLD CASE] The Woman and Three Babies
2 years ago
129,070 views
There it is :)
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[BBC] A Renaissance Education
2 years ago
232,440 views
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The Perfect Vagina
2 years ago
1,030,964 views
NO, IT'S NOT X-RATED.…
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[BBC - HISTORY COLD CASE] The Bodies in the Well
2 years ago
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[BBC - HISTORY COLD CASE] The York 113
2 years ago
89,719 views
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[BBC - HISTORY COLD CASE] The Skeletons of Windy Pits
2 years ago
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[BBC - HISTORY COLD CASE] Crossbones Girl
2 years ago
196,264 views
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[BBC - HISTORY COLD CASE] Stirling Man
2 years ago
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[BBC - HISTORY COLD CASE] Mummified Chi
"Posted by Dario Taraborelli on August 2, 2012
Improving the quality of articles has long been one of the primary aims of contributors to Wikipedia, and is one of the Wikimedia movement's 2010-15 strategic priorities, but measuring it objectively has remained a challenge. In 2005, Nature famously reported that Wikipedia articles on scientific topics contained just four errors per article on average, compared to three errors per article in the online edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Britannica objected to the report, but Nature stood by it, and the report remains widely cited today.
Since that time, however, there have been relatively few independent analyses of Wikipedia article quality, despite the enormous growth of the project. Wikipedia today counts more than 23 million articles across languages (more than 4 million articles in the English Wikipedia alone) compared to 3.7 million total articles in 2005; today it ranks 6th by overall traffic according to Alexa, while it ranked 37th in 2005. (...)
The Wikimedia Foundation is announcing the release of a pilot study conducted by Epic, an e-learning consultancy, in partnership with Oxford University - "Assessing the Accuracy and Quality of Wikipedia Entries Compared to Popular Online Alternative Encyclopaedias: A Preliminary Comparative Study Across Disciplines in English, Spanish and Arabic."
The study compared a sample of English Wikipedia articles to equivalent articles in Encyclopaedia Britannica, Spanish Wikipedia to Enciclonet, and Arabic Wikipedia to Mawsoah and Arab Encyclopaedia. 22 articles in the sample were blind-assessed by 2 to 3 native speaking academic experts each, both quantitatively and qualitatively.
The small size of the sample does not allow us to generalize the results to Wikipedia as a whole. However, as a pilot primarily focused on methodology, the study offers new insights into the design of a protocol for expert assessment of encyclopedic contents. For our editor community a
"What Are Rubrics
Students have been known to refer to rubrics as "those things with the little boxes", while teachers know rubrics as a set of scoring guidelines that evaluate students' work and provide a clear teaching directive. Rubrics are a powerful, authentic tool used to assess students' work. This scoring tool lists specific criteria for a project or piece of work. The criterion helps students to have a concrete understanding and visualization of "what counts". Each standard or criteria also includes a gradation scale of quality. The rating scale could be numerical, qualitative, or a combination of both. Rubrics seek to evaluate assignments based on the sum of a full range of criteria rather than a single numerical score."
Filmed Feb 2004 * Posted Apr 2007 * TED2004
"Al Seckel, a cognitive neuroscientist, explores the perceptual illusions that fool our brains. Loads of eye tricks help him prove that not only are we easily fooled, we kind of like it.
Cognitive neuroscientist Al Seckel explores how eye tricks can reveal the way the brain processes visual information -- or fails to do so. Among his other accomplishments: He co-created the Darwin Fish"
From http://www.stanford.edu/~efs/693b/TED1.html :
"1. length: 14:30
2. overall speed (WPM): 117
3. vocabulary profile: 3K-92.3%; 5K-95%; 10K-96.6%; OL-3.2%
4. accent: US standard
5. comments: there are times when the speaker is quiet and the audience is viewing--actual speech rate is higher
6. Al Seckel, a cognitive neuroscientist, explores the perceptual illusions that fool our brains. Loads of eye tricks help him prove that not only are we easily fooled, we kind of like it."