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
Lyndon B. Johnson: A Tragic Figure (1963 – 1969)
Lyndon Johnson ascended to the presidency upon the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He was a large, imposing man, who had been an influential Senate Majority Leader and Vice President. And as President, it is difficult to say whether he is remembered better for his incredible domestic acc
From playlist American History
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Four-Term Phenomenon (1933 – 1945)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is a colossal figure in American History. He led the nation through the Great Depression, as well as World War II. He is the only president to be elected four times, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest presidents of all time, along with Washington and Li
From playlist American History
Jon Boorstin's 1974 film, Exploratorium, was nominated for the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject. This film explores the museum through imagery and sound, without a narrative voice-over.
From playlist Hands-on Exploratorium
John Tyler: His Accidency (1841 - 1845)
John Tyler was the first person to ever be president without being elected president. That's because he took over for William Henry Harrison when he died a month into his term, as it was decided that the vice president should become the president in such a circumstance. He turned his back
From playlist American History
What can Mary Shelley's classic, Frankenstein, teach us today?
Two hundred years after the book's publication, we're still grappling with how science affects society, and the role of scientists and engineers in managing that relationship. In a celebration of the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Philosophy Talk radio show hosts and S
From playlist Stanford Engineering Events
Henri Cohen - Introduction to asymptotics of number fields... [2011]
Introduction to asymptotics of number fields, conjectures, computation, experiments Introductory Workshop: Arithmetic Statistics January 31, 2011 - February 04, 2011 January 31, 2011 (09:10 AM PST - 10:10 AM PST) Speaker(s): Henri Cohen Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium http://www.msri.
From playlist Number Theory
The life of Robert James Phillips in pictures (the slideshow shown at his memorial).
From playlist Family
What's Really Happening When You're Hypnotized? - Dear Blocko #17
It's Dear Blocko #17 - We answer questions about hypnosis and venus fly traps! Check out Curiosity Stream: http://curiositystream.com/LifeNoggin Watch more: “Why Do We Talk In Our Sleep?” ►► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COD0IdS4grk&t=7s Subscribe: https://bit.ly/SubLifeNoggin Get your
From playlist Popular Uploads | Life Noggin
Martin Luther King Jr. | A Crusader For Liberation | Biography
Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. King, although he was an initial skeptic to religion he eventually became a Baptist minister, a civil-rights activist and had a seismic impact on race relations in the United States. Among his many efforts, King headed the Southe
From playlist Examine the Past | History
Abraham Lincoln | Assassination Conspiracy | Biography
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 to April 15, 1865) was the 16th president of the United States and is regarded as one of America's greatest heroes due to his role as savior of the Union and emancipator of the slaves. His rise from humble beginnings to achieving the highest office in the
From playlist Examine the Past | History
Robert Lipshitz - Computing involutive HF-hat
June 20, 2018 - This talk was part of the 2018 RTG mini-conference Low-dimensional topology and its interactions with symplectic geometry Hendricks-Manolescu's "involutive Heegaard Floer homology" is a variant of Heegaard Floer homology which capitalizes on the conjugation action on spin^
From playlist 2018 RTG mini-conference on low-dimensional topology and its interactions with symplectic geometry I
The Nature of Nothing | Space Time
Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/DonateSPACE It turns out that "nothing" is one of the most interesting somethings in all of physics. Signup for your free trial to The Great Courses Plus here: http://ow.ly/OOOp30
From playlist Space Time!
Episode 49: The Atom - The Mechanical Universe
Episode 49. The Atom: A history of the atom, from the ancient Greeks to the early 20th century, and a new challenge for the world of physics. “The Mechanical Universe,” is a critically-acclaimed series of 52 thirty-minute videos covering the basic topics of an introductory university phys
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Dependent and Independent Probabilities | Real World College Math | Study Hall
When planning for the future and attempting to make choices, chance and probability can play a trickier role than we might expect! Whether two events depend on each other or not, can drastically affect the results of your predictions. In this episode, we discuss independent, dependent and
From playlist Real World College Math: Course Foundations
What would a world without wheat be like? | The Royal Society
Imagine a world without wheat… No bread, no cakes, no pasta and no noodles. But as we speak, the world’s wheat supplies are being ravaged by a dangerous epidemic. 🚜 #farming #food #health #biology Join us for the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Lecture 2022 given by Professor Diane Saun
From playlist Latest talks and lectures
Jupyter Community Call - October 25, 2022
Recording from the Jupyter Community Call in October 2022. The notes from this call can be found here: https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter/issues/664 Read more about these calls on Discourse: https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/jupyter-community-calls/668
From playlist Jupyter Community Calls
Jesse Jackson: Crash Course Black American History #44
Today, Clint Smith is teaching you about the Civil Rights activist and Icon, Reverend Jesse Jackson. Jackson began his career working with Martin Luther King in the 1960s, and in the 1970s he founded PUSH, an organization to advance the cause of urban, poor, and predominantly Black communi
From playlist Black American History
BUTTER + EGGS = ART, sometimes
Fluxus was a network of artists who thought anything could be art, and anyone could be an artist. This video explores the food-related work of George Maciunas, Yoko Ono, and Alison Knowles, et al. Vote for your favorite novel here!: https://to.pbs.org/2Jes2X5 And learn more about PBS's T
From playlist Art Cooking