Systemic functional linguistics
John Rupert Firth (June 17, 1890 in Keighley, Yorkshire – December 14, 1960 in Lindfield, West Sussex), commonly known as J. R. Firth, was an English linguist and a leading figure in British linguistics during the 1950s. (Wikipedia).
The Accidental Death of John Tyndall - Objectivity 93
Brady and Rupert look at two portraits and discuss the sad story of Royal Society fellow John Tyndall's death. Subscribe to Objectivity: http://bit.ly/Objectivity_Sub Films by James Hennessy and Brady Haran Image credit: The Royal Institution https://www.flickr.com/photos/67474303@N06/12
From playlist Books and Journals on Objectivity
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
London by William Blake - Read by Ralph Richardson
London by William Blake read by Sir Ralph Richardson.
From playlist Ralph Richardson - Recordings
The life of Robert James Phillips in pictures (the slideshow shown at his memorial).
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The Dead by Rupert Brooke - Read by Sir John Gielgud
The Dead by Rupert Brooke - Read by Sir John Gielgud
From playlist John Gielgud's Recordings
'Lord of the Flies' Character Analysis: Piggy
In this video we analyse the character of Piggy from ‘Lord of the Flies’. Sources referenced: ‘William Golding: The Dark Fields of Discovery’ by Virginia Tiger (1974); ‘William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies’, by Professor John Carey, (2009); ‘William Golding : Lord of the F
From playlist 'Lord of the Flies' by William Golding
Information Service Engineering 2021 Prof. Dr. Harald Sack Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Summer semester 2021 Lecture 12: Basic Machine Learning 3 4.9 Word Embeddings - Distributional Semantics - Word Vectors - Word2Vec - Evaluation - Analogy Questions Playlist: https://www.youtube.c
From playlist ISE2021 - Lecture 12 - 07.07.2021
Radiometer Tie Pin - Objectivity 4
Brady and Keith examine some interesting variations of Radiometers, as invented by Sir William Crookes - former President of The Royal Society. Follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ObjectivityVideos And Twitter at https://twitter.com/objectivity_vid Royal Society: http://bit
From playlist Objectivity
Lord Walter Thomas Layton - This I Believe (1950s) - Radio broadcast
Walter Thomas Layton, 1st Baron Layton. A British economist and Liberal Party politician. 1922 - 1938 Editor of The Economist. 1930 - 1940 Editorial director of the News Chronicle.
From playlist Voices of History
Web 2.0 Summit 09: Jonathan Miller, "A Conversation with Jo
Jonathan Miller (News Corporation), John Battelle (Federated Media Publishing), "A Conversation with Jonathan Miller"
From playlist Web 2.0 Summit 2009
Anna Atkins & the World's First Photo Book - Objectivity 5
Brady joins Rupert Baker of The Royal Society to look at the world's first ever photo book - published by botanist and photographer Anna Atkins in 1843. Follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ObjectivityVideos And Twitter at https://twitter.com/objectivity_vid Royal Society: h
From playlist Books and Journals on Objectivity
John Gielgud - Henry IV by William Shakespeare: Part 1, Act I, Scene 3 (Harry Hotspur's Speech)
Sir John Gielgud - Henry IV by William Shakespeare: Part 1, Act I, Scene 3 Read by Sir John Gielgud. Source: Ages of Man by Sir John Gielgud. Caedmon Records, 1959.
From playlist John Gielgud's Recordings
Tycho and his Instruments - Objectivity 202
We look at the fascinating life of astronomer Tycho Brahe, and examine a ‘first edition’ of his book Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica... More links below ↓↓↓ Featuring Rupert Baker from The Royal Society speaking with Brady. A very special thanks to Ruth Sargent Noyes for her correspond
From playlist Books and Journals on Objectivity
Battlebots and Kingsman - Still Untitled: The Adam Savage Project - 6/16/2015
Adam, Will, and Norm discuss the return of Battlebots, and Adam's involvement in robot combat, as well as a spoiler-free discussion of Kingsman: The Secret Service that culminates in a mini-SPOILERCAST. Enjoy!
From playlist The Adam Savage Project
How the Wolseley Expedition helped define modern Canada
The History Guy remembers when, in the early days of the Canadian confederation, one of the greatest officers of the British Victorian Army, Garnet Wolseley, takes 1000 soldiers on an impossible march through the wilderness. Its importance to Canadian history deserves to be remembered. Sk
From playlist The British Empire
The De Vicci Cube – Greg Huber
The De Vicci Cube is the largest cube that fits entirely within a unit tesseract -- a problem with roots that go back centuries, and one that greatly interested Gardner. I present some a progress report on the natural generalization of this problem, the generalized Rupert Problem, includi
From playlist G4G12 Videos
The Lighthouse Designer (feat. Real Engineering) - Objectivity 155
We look at the work of John Smeaton FRS - one of the all time great engineers. More links below ↓↓↓ Featuring Brian McManus from Real Engineering speaking with Brady. Real Engineering on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR1IuLEqb6UEA_zQ81kwXfg Objectivity on Patreon: https://ww
From playlist Special Guests on Objectivity
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Six Napoleons - John Gielgud & Ralph Richardson
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Six Napoleons Radio Drama Starring: Sir John Gielgud as Sherlock Holmes Sir Ralph Richardson as Dr. John H. Watson Co-produced by BBC and ABC in 1954.
From playlist John Gielgud's Recordings