http://www.teachastronomy.com/ Charles Darwin was born into a wealthy family in England in 1809. He had two famous grandfathers. One, Erasmus Darwin, was a noted scientist, and the other, Josiah Wedgwood, was one of the first entrepreneurs of the industrial revolution. Darwin enrolled i
From playlist 24. Chemistry and Context for Life
Sir Charles G. Darwin - This I Believe (1950s) - Radio broadcast
Charles Galton Darwin, the grandson of Sir Charles Darwin, was an English physicist. Director of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) during the Second World War.
From playlist Voices of History
Godfrey Hodgson, “Colonel Edward M. House: Woodrow Wilson’s Right Hand Man”
October 18, 2006. Lecture and discussion with Godfrey Hodgson, Journalist, Historian, and Biographer, “Colonel Edward M. House: Woodrow Wilson’s Right Hand Man.”
From playlist MacMillan Center Archives
Hangout with CERN: Going pear-shaped (S03E05)
In this week's hangout we're joined by scientists from the ISOLDE facility at CERN to find out their latest news of pear-shaped atomic nuclei and a fundamental property of the rarest element on Earth. Host ATLAS physicist Steven Goldfarb is joined by Bruce Marsh and Valentine Fedosseev, in
From playlist Hangouts with CERN
People of Science with Brian Cox - Sir David Attenborough on Charles Darwin
Sir David Attenborough talks to Brian Cox about his admiration for the achievements of Charles Darwin, and how On the Origin of Species inspires him in his work in the natural world. (1/6) Explore our Google Arts and Culture collection on Charles Darwin's life - http://ow.ly/Kwsd30hPC6x
From playlist People of Science with Brian Cox
Duke of Windsor (Edward VIII) on Winston Churchill
Excerpt from interview with Kenneth Harris, 1970.
From playlist King Edward VIII Recordings
Jane Austen’s novels are so readable in part because she wasn’t an ordinary kind of novelist: she wanted her work to help us to be better and wiser people. Her novels had a philosophy of personal development at their heart. Please subscribe here: http://tinyurl.com/o28mut7 If you like our
From playlist GREAT IDEAS
Lady Alexandra Metcalfe's recollections about Edward VIII - 1977
Lady Alexandra Metcalfe, the wife of Edward VIII's best friend and equerry Major Edward Dudley Metcalfe, recollects their friendship with the Duke of Windsor. Lady Alexandra Naldera Curzon, was the third daughter of George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston and Viceroy of India. B
From playlist King Edward VIII Recordings
Dr Calvin Goddard and the St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Next Thursday, February 14 , 2019, marks the ninetieth anniversary of the St. Valentine's Day massacre. The crime shocked the nation and led to the downfall of arguably the most famous mobster of all time, Al 'Scarface' Capone. But perhaps the most important impact of the infamous crime w
From playlist US History
Bleeding Kansas - John Brown #3 - Extra History
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From playlist Extra History: John Brown - The Army of the Lord
This is an episode of the THG Podcast, which posts to YouTube once every two weeks in addition to regular History Guy content, about a month after it releases to podcast services. Subscribe to the RSS feed: https://feeds.captivate.fm/thehistoryguy/ Check out our new community for fans and
From playlist Podcast
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From playlist OverSimplified History
Best of The History Guy: Christmas History
From the vaults, four History Guy episodes about Christmas! Ho ho ho! 0:00 - History of Nutcrackers 10:44 - Christmas Trees 25:20 - Christmas Cards 37:20 - History of "Silent Night" Check out our new community for fans and supporters! https://thehistoryguyguild.locals.com/ This is orig
From playlist History of Holidays
Nutcrackers and Forgotten History
Decorative nutcrackers began as folk art in the Ore Mountains of Germany. The History Guy recalls the history of an enduring symbol of the holidays. This is original content based on research by The History Guy. Images in the Public Domain are carefully selected and provide illustration
From playlist History without War
In this lecture, Dr Davide Bruno (Liverpool John Moores University) explores the workings of human memory, focusing in particular on: (i) the multi-store model of memory as developed by Atkinson and Shiffrin in 1968; (ii) the three components of the multi-store memory model, including the
From playlist Psychology
RubyConf 2021 - Meet Shopify's Ruby and Rails Infrastructure Team
urious about the Ruby and Rails Infrastructure team at Shopify and the projects the team is working on? Got questions from the various Shopify sessions at RubyConf so far? Join us at this meet-great-and-ask session to engage with Shopify's engineers in the Ruby and Rails Infrastructure tea
From playlist RubyConf 2021
!!Con 2021 - Dithers of the Error-Diffusion Kind! by Daniel Temkin
Dithers of the Error-Diffusion Kind! by Daniel Temkin Error-diffusion dithering is perhaps the fundamental algorithm of computer graphics. When an image is displayed in a reduced palette (such as black and white), a cloud of pixels return some detail to an image that otherwise would look
From playlist !!Con 2021