Mabel Gweneth Humphreys was a Canadian-American mathematician and Professor of Mathematics at Randolph-Macon Women's College.The M. Gweneth Humphreys Award of the Association for Women in Mathematics was established in her honor. (Wikipedia).
Dorothy Horstmann: Polio Pioneer
Yale researcher Dorothy Horstmann made seminal discoveries about the course of polio that supported the ultimate development of a vaccine. Her former mentee, George Miller reflects on Horstmann's science and life. Deputy Dean Carolyn Slayman talks about Horstmann's groundbreaking role as a
From playlist Bicentennial Voices
Voices of Women at IHES - Erica Flapan
In preparation for our Gala on Women in Fundamental Research, we collected testimonies from women related to IHES: previous and current visitors, as well as female scientists currently at IHES or connected to the Institute. Discover the testimony of Erica Flapan, American, mathematician,
From playlist Voices of Women at IHES
Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor - 'This I Believe' (1950s) - Radio broadcast
Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess Astor, CH (1879 - 1964), the first woman to be elected and to take a seat in House of Commons of the UK Parliament. An episode of the CBS Radio Network programme hosted by Edward R. Murrow from 1951 to 1955.
From playlist Voices of History
Meet Our Faculty: Elizabeth Reese
Elizabeth Anne Reese, Yunpoví, one of the youngest professors and the first Native American faculty member at the Stanford Law School, is working to shatter invisibilities that she says have been “comfortably the status quo” for far too long. 🗞: https://stanford.io/3tjxij8 MB01IFXOF4CYAAO
From playlist Stanford Highlights
The 102-year-old woman who changed British fashion - BBC REEL
Ethel Kerr can be seen as one of the earliest black British style influencers of her time. Through the 1970’s to 1990’s – Ethel Kerr ran progressive and fierce fashion shows and beauty competitions in London and across Europe – around a time where not many events like this existed for bla
From playlist Reel World
Lady Violet Bonham Carter - 'This I Believe' (1952) - Radio Broadcast
Lady Violet Bonham Carter in This I Believe, 1952. Lady Helen Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, DBE (1887 - 1969), was a British Liberal politician and author. The daughter of Sir Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, the Liberal Prime Minister of the
From playlist Voices of History
Dame Edith Evans - This I Believe (1950s) - Radio broadcast
Dame Edith Mary Evans, DBE (1888 - 1976), a famous English actress, best known for her work on the stage. An episode of the CBS Radio Network programme hosted by Edward R. Murrow from 1951 to 1955.
From playlist Voices of History
The bug that poops candy - George Zaidan
Download a free audiobook version of "Ingredients" and support TED-Ed's nonprofit mission: https://www.audible.com/ted-ed -- Aphids can reproduce incredibly fast: they can make 20 new generations within a single season. And that means lots of poop. Some aphid populations can produce hund
From playlist New TED-Ed Originals
Fitness exercises. Correct posture. Lansdowne Road, Dublin (Southern Ireland, Eire, Republic of Ireland). C/U skull on top of skeleton, camera pans to Mabel's head. M/S side view showing the posture of both of them. M/S as Charles Neil straightens Mabel's neck and goes out of frame
From playlist Vintage Keep-Fit | British Pathé
Princeton/IAS Symplectic Geometry Seminar - Keon Choi
Keon Choi University of California, Berkeley March 7, 2014 Embedded contact homology is an invariant of a contact three-manifold, which is recently shown to be isomorphic to Heegaard Floer homology and Seiberg-Witten Floer homology. However, ECH chain complex depends on the contact form on
From playlist Mathematics
Helen Keller: Biography of a Great Thinker
Helen Keller (1880-1968) was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor's degree. Her teacher and companion was Anne Sullivan, and the story of how Sullivan broke through Keller's isolation to teach her language was the subject of the play and Academy Award winning movie "The Mira
From playlist It Starts With Literacy
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Father of Lord of The Rings I WHO DID WHAT IN WORLD WAR 1?
[AFFILIATE LINK] John Garth' Book about JRR Tolkien in The Great War in our Amazon store: http://bit.ly/TolkienGreatWar John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (JRR Tolkien) served on the Western Front of World War 1. It is believed that his experiences of the horrors war were a direct inspiration for
From playlist Who Did What In WW1?
The Lady's Not For Burning (1950) - Starring John Gielgud, Pamela Brown, Richard Burton (Very Rare)
The Lady's Not For Burning by Christopher Fry. Radio drama directed by John Gielgud. Starring John Gielgud as Thomas Mendip Pamela Brown as Jennet Jourdemayne Richard Burton as Richard Act I - 00:28 Act II - 30:57 Act III - 57:35 A Decca original cast album featuring members of orig
From playlist John Gielgud's 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
Giving Robots a Life: Writing Personality and Backstory for AI Assistants
From the Interactive Media & Games Seminar Series; Elizabeth Arredondo, a writer focused on created compelling characters for television and interactive mediums covers her real-world experiences developing and user-testing the personality and conversations for a robot wellness coach, inclu
From playlist Interactive Media & Games Seminars Spring 2017
John Gielgud reads Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh - Audiobook (Abridged)
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh read by Sir John Gielgud.
From playlist Old Audiobooks
One Mini Mama | The Incredible Dr. Pol
Dr. Pol performs a pregnancy check on a mini Jersey at the Humphrey’s family farm. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoWILDSubscribe ➡ Watch all clips from The Incredible Dr. Pol here: http://bit.ly/WatchTheIncredibleDrPol ➡ THE INCREDIBLE DR. POL AIRS SATURDAYS 9/8c. #NatGeoWILD #Cows #DrP
From playlist Animals & Wildlife | Nat Geo Wild
Underground Unboxing - Objectivity 113
We're back in the underground storage facility looking through some boxes! Objectivity on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/objectivity Subscribe to Objectivity: http://bit.ly/Objectivity_Sub John Herbert Humphrey image credit: MRC National Institute for Medical Research Films by James
From playlist Object Unboxing on Objectivity
Mrs. Lyndon Johnson Tours Space Centre AKA Mrs. Johnson Tours Space Centre (1964)
Unissued / unused material - dates and locations may be unclear / unknown. Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America / USA MS Out of plane window of propeller turning during flight. Various shots inside the small plane First Lady Mrs LadyBird Johnson, wife of US President Johns
From playlist First Ladies of the USA | British Pathé
Alexander Graham Bell Biography: The Telephone & A Remarkable Deaf Woman Named Mabel
Alexander Graham Bell invented and promoted the telephone under the influence of a deaf woman named Mabel Hubbard. The invention of the telephone is a love story involving vibrating reeds, crying baby machines, and a dead man's ear! Check it out! As usual, the lovely and talented Kim Na
From playlist "The Lightning Tamers": A History of Electricity