TRACE: Viewing a Coronal Loop
Zooming into the sun to show an animation of the Bastille Day solar flare from TRACE imagery
Fiction and Reality: writing novels in a world weirder than anything you could make up
Lionel Shriver in conversation with Daniel Johnson. Daniel Johnson is editor of Standpoint. Lionel Shriver is a novelist. Her seventh novel, We Need to Talk About Kevin, won the Orange prize.
Court Documents Related to Martin Luther King, Jr., and Memphis Sanitation Workers
This lesson provides fliers and other documents related to the demonstration in Memphis on March 28, 1968. On that day, students near the end of the march broke windows of businesses. Looting ensued. The march was halted. King was deeply distressed by the violence. He and fellow leaders negotiated a commitment to nonviolence among disagreeing factions in Memphis, and another march was planned for April 8. On April 4, as he stepped out of his motel room to go to dinner, he was assassinated.
LSE Literary Weekend -The Future of Teen Fiction
The culmination of LSE's second creative writing competition for London state schools, this panel of award-winning and innovative authors, alongside one teenager with her finger on the pulse of young-adult writing, will be discussing, and asking you in the audience, what's in store for teen fiction?
LSE Literary Festival - The Fiction of Development?
Editors note: We apologise for the poor audio quality of this podcast. Do we learn more about global poverty issues and the worlds of international development agencies from works of popular fiction such as Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance or Helen Fielding’s Cause Celeb than we do from official reports and academic research? A recently-published paper written by David Lewis, Dennis Rodgers and Michael Woolcock suggests that fiction is an important and sometimes under-recognised source of kn
Geopolitics and Imperialism: the British Empire and Halford Mackinder 1890-1940
It was perhaps no coincidence that Halford Mackinder, the most famous exponent of geopolitical theory, wrote his seminal essay in 1904 when British world power seemed on the verge of a secular crisis. This lecture examines how far the insights contained in Mackinder's four major works explain the geopolitical fortunes of the British world system in its age of blood and iron.
Mind-Body Problems: Science, Fiction, and God
What happens when a novelist and philosopher talks to a cognitive neuroscientist about faith, reason, fiction, and God? Listen in as Rebecca Newberger Goldstein and her husband Steven Pinker explore what Spinoza would say about Darwin, what role fiction should play in intellectual life, whether any of the arguments for the existence of God are any good, and other topics at the interface of literature, science, and philosophy.
Mr Wiggle and Mr Waggle - King County Library System
In this video, a librarian tells a fingerplay story about Mr. Wiggle and Mr. Waggle. (3:15)
Bubblegum - King County Library System
This video shows a librarian doing the fingerplay "Bubblegum" during a storytime. (3:09)
Roly Poly Song - King County Library System
See if you can follow along and keep up with the motions during this active fingerplay. Each time it is recited, the motions go more quickly! Running time is :42.
Bacons Rebellion and King Philip's War of the 1670s
Bacons Rebellion and King Philip's War of the 1670s
Georgian Britain - the second British Empire
Georgian Britain - the second British Empire
British Parliament - introduction to eighteenth century politics
British Parliament - introduction to eighteenth century politics
British Parliament - elections and voting
British Parliament - elections and voting
British Parliament - The Revolutions of 1688-9
British Parliament - The Revolutions of 1688-9
British Parliament - politics in the age of Anne
British Parliament - politics in the age of Anne
Pagans, Christians and Heretics in Medieval Europe: King Clovis and the Franks
Pagans, Christians and Heretics in Medieval Europe: King Clovis and the Franks
British Parliament: The Age of Oligarchy, Jacobites and Opposition Politics
British Parliament: The Age of Oligarchy, Jacobites and Opposition Politics
British Parliament: George III and the politicians
British Parliament: George III and the politicians
British Parliament: Radicalism, 1760-90
British Parliament: Radicalism, 1760-90
