Rose Center Anniversary Video Contest
Science is explosive. It's millions of years or the blink of an eye. Bright, loud and often imperceptible, science is volatile and all around us... and science makes for awesome videos.
In two minutes or less, show us how recent science breakthroughs have moved you or impacted your life. One lucky science-inspired winner will win a weekend for two in New York City to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History on October 10, 2
Bio Bulletin: The Ecology of Climate Change
The boreal forest, which stretches across northern latitudes just south of the Arctic Circle, is a key region for studying climate change—and not just the impacts. Follow ecologists into Alaska's boreal forest to learn more in this new Science Bulletins video.
Science Bulletins is a production of the National Center for Science Literacy, Education, and Technology (NCSLET), part of the Department of Education at the American Museum of Natural History. Each Bulletin is produced by AMNHs curator
Trailer: The Search For Life: Are We Alone? (Narrated by Harrison Ford)
The American Museum of Natural History is launching a double feature of the Museum's space shows as part of the year-long celebration commemorating the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and Space. The double feature includes the Museum's first two space shows: "Passport to the Universe" (narrated by Tom Hanks), which launches visitors on a thrilling trip through space and time; and "The Search For Life: Are We Alone?" (narrated by H
AMNH Public Programs
The American Museum of Natural History is one of the world's preeminent scientific and cultural institutions. Since its founding in 1869, the Museum has advanced its global mission to discover, interpret and disseminate information about human cultures, the natural world and the universe through a wide-ranging program of scientific research, education and exhibition.
Suggested General Admission, which supports the Museum's scientific and educational endeavors, includes admission to all 45 Muse
SciCafe: Travels with Tyrannosaurus
American Museum of Natural History paleontologists Mike Novacek and Mark Norell hosted "Travels with Tyrannosaurus: On the Trek for Dinosaurs and Ancient Mammals" at the Museum on May 5, 2010 as part of the ongoing free SciCafe series in the Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth.
Surrounded by magnificent geological specimens in the David S. and Ruth L. Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth, SciCafe patrons enjoyed the Museum after hours with music, drinks and thought-provoking conversation. The popular Sci
The Butterfly Conservatory: Tropical Butterflies Alive in Winter
The Butterfly Conservatory: Tropical Butterflies Alive in Winter, an annual favorite visited by millions of children and adults, returns to the American Museum of Natural History. Visitors can mingle with up to 500 live butterflies among tropical flowers and vegetation.
Watch as Hazel Davies, AMNH's Manager of Living Exhibits, and Whitney Doreen Ortiz walk through the vivarium and interact with butterflies from around the world -- blue morphos, striking scarlet swallowtails and large owl butte
AMNH: Cosmic Discoveries iPhone App
The American Museum of Natural History proudly presents American Museum of Natural History: Cosmic Discoveries, the next in its series of innovative apps.
Cosmic Discoveries takes you on a ride with the museum's astrophysicists through our Solar System, the Milky Way Galaxy, and beyond. Cosmic Discoveries is being launched as part of a year-long series of events to help commemorate the tenth anniversary of the opening of the museum's Rose Center for Earth and Space, a New York City icon and one
AMNH's 15th Annual Halloween Celebration
Celebrate Halloween at the American Museum of Natural History. The Museum's halls will be filled with trick-or-treating, live performances by David Grover and the Big Bear Band, arts and crafts, pumpkin carving and roaming characters including Curious George, Cat in the Hat, Toot and Puddle, Danny's Dinosaur and Clifford the Big Red Dog.
Admission is $10 per person ($9 for Museum Members). Special Monster Meal packages (choice of dino nuggets or hamburger, fries, and a soda), which include ad
From the Headlines: Bed Bugs with Louis Sorkin
Louis Sorkin, a scientific assistant who has worked at the American Museum of Natural History for over 30 years, maintains a small colony of a few thousand bed bugs in four jars in his lab and has become a media expert on this group of animals.
Watch as Sorkin feeds the museum's collection of live bed bugs using his hands, and hear him discuss the breeding habits and misconceptions associated with the hot topic creatures.
Produced/edited by James Sims. For more information visit http://www.am
Building the Brain: Exhibit Models
The American Museum of Natural History announced Brain: The Inside Story, an amazing and stimulating exhibition that will give visitors a new perspective and insight into their own brains using imaginative art, vivid brain scan imaging, and thrilling interactive exhibits that will engage the whole family.
Watch as the museum's exhibition department builds various exhibit pieces, including a 5-foot-tall sculpted model of the brain. Various parts of the model light up as they are described in th
Modern Women: Barbara Hammer on Feminist film
For more information please visit http://www.moma.org/modernwomen
Images courtesy of Barbara Hammer and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Clips courtesy of the Estate of Maya Deren, Anthology Film Archives, and Barbara Hammer (www.barbarahammer.com)
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© 2010 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Modern Women: Barbara Hammer on Maya Deren
For more information please visit http://www.moma.org/modernwomen
Images courtesy of Barbara Hammer and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Clips courtesy of the Estate of Maya Deren, Anthology Film Archives, and Barbara Hammer (www.barbarahammer.com)
Created by Plowshares Media www.PlowSharesMedia.com
© 2010 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Kennedy-Nixon First Presidential Debate, 1960
On September 26, 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon stood before an audience of 70 million Americans—two-thirds of the nation's adult population—in the first nationally televised Presidential debate. This first of four debates held before the end of October gave a vast national audience the opportunity to see and compare the two candidates, and ushered in a new age of Presidential politics.
Film footage © John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.
For more archival
The HP Phenomenon: Innovation & Business Transformation
[Recorded December 7, 2009]
Hewlett-Packard HP is now (Dec 2009) the largest high-tech company on the globe, with its roots and headquarters in Silicon Valley. However, HP has not always garnered the same attention from authors, historians and the media as given to other technology companies. So, what is it that drove the success of this large and profitable company?
The book, The HP Phenomenon, describes how it came to be that HP never really a computing company got to this leadership posi
1963 Timesharing: A Solution to Computer Bottlenecks
[Recorded: May 9, 1963]
This vintage film features MIT Science Reporter John Fitch at the MIT Computation Center in an extended interview with MIT professor of computer science Fernando J. Corbato. The film was co-produced by WGBH (Boston) and MIT.
The prime focus of the film is timesharing, one of the most important developments in computing, and one which has come in and out of favor several times over the last several decades as the dichotomy between remote and centrally-managed computing r
The Silicon Engine
[Recorded May 1, 2009]
The powerful and ubiquitous silicon chips that run the computers, smart phones and even the cars and appliances we use daily all spring from the transistor. That breakthrough invention later became the building blocks of the integrated circuit (IC), which later still blossomed into the semiconductors and microprocessors that have reshaped our modern lives. This video presents an overview of the 60-year history of innovation, invention and development that took us from vacu
The Atanasoff-Berry Computer In Operation
[Recorded: 1999]
The Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) occupies a special place in the history of computing in part for its technical accomplishments but also for being at the center of a landmark legal case. It was built by Iowa physics professor John Vincent Atanasoff and graduate student Clifford Berry.
Technically, the ABC was an electronic equation solver. It could find solutions to systems of simultaneous linear equations with up to 29 unknowns, a type of problem encountered in Atansasoff'
How Indian MIT and IIT Graduates Have Shaped Computer History
[Recorded July 15, 2010]
In the last fifteen years the very names Bangalore and Silicon Valley have become evocative of the important connections between India and the United States in the global IT industry. Historian Ross Bassett argues that the linkages between the two countries are far older and deeper than is widely known. In the course of his research, he found that Indian graduates of MIT significantly influenced the creation of modern technological India. In the colonial period, a small
Jean Bartik and the ENIAC Women
Jean Bartik, one of the earliest pioneering women in technology, talks about her memories of breaking into the then new field of computer science and working on the ENIAC in the 1940's The ENIAC and the story of the women behind it will be part of the upcoming Revolution exhibition at the Computer Science Museum in Mountain View, CA.
Opening in January 2011, "Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing" will be the first major museum exhibition to trace the history of computers and information
Delacroix - La Liberté guidant le Peuple - partie 2/3
Offrez-vous le film en qualité DVD : http://goo.gl/FNkiI (port offert pour le monde entier)
La Liberté guidant le peuple: un tableau devenu icône de la république triomphante. Pourtant telle n'a jamais été l'intention de Delacroix, dandy-conservateur effrayé par les émeutes populaires. La fortune de l'oeuvre reposerait-elle sur un immense contresens ?
