Ultimate Space Telescope | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS

Jul 13, 2022

Discover how NASA engineers built and launched the most ambitious telescope of all time.

Official Website: https://www.pbs.org/nova/ | #NOVAPBS

How did NASA engineers build and launch the most ambitious telescope of all time? Follow the dramatic story of the James Webb Space Telescope—the most complex machine ever launched into space. If it works, scientists believe that this new eye on the universe will peer deeper back in time and space than ever before to the birth of galaxies, and may even be able to “sniff” the atmospheres of exoplanets as we search for signs of life beyond Earth. But getting it to work is no easy task. The telescope is far bigger than its predecessor, the famous Hubble Space Telescope, and it needs to make its observations a million miles away from Earth—so there will be no chance to go out and fix it. That means there’s no room for error; the most ambitious telescope ever built needs to work perfectly. Meet the engineers making it happen and join them on their high stakes journey to uncover new secrets of the universe.

U.S. faces extreme heat and wildfire outbreaks

Aug 13, 2022

It’s been a long, hot summer for much of the U.S. this year. Experts say there’s a link between the more frequent and prolonged heat waves and the historic wildfires in the southwest.

Burkina Faso’s interim leadership hosts talks on country’s future

Jul 10, 2022

Burkina Faso’s interim president Paul-Henri Damiba, on Friday, brought together the country’s former heads of state. The unprecedented meeting in Ougadougou was to discuss the future of the country, amid escalating extremist violence. Five former presidents were invited, but only two were in attendance at the meeting. As the efforts continue, CGTN’s Mahia Mutua explored Burkina Faso’s future with Paul Ejime, a Global Affairs Expert.

Sarah Churchwell | American White Supremacy

Aug 13, 2022

Sarah Bartlett Churchwell (born May 27, 1970) is a professor of American Literature and Public Understanding of the Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK. Her expertise is in 20th- and 21st-century American literature and cultural history, especially the 1920s and 1930s. She has appeared on British television and radio and has been a judge for the Booker Prize, the Baillie Gifford Prize, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and the David Cohen Prize for Literature. She is the director of the Being Human festival and the author of three books: The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe; Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby; and Behold America: A History of America First and the American Dream. In April 2021, she was long listed for the Orwell Prize for Journalism.

Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUjoL…

EMERGENCY PODCAST SYSTEM: WE ARE ALL IN KANSAS! | Ep. 251 Rumble with Michael Moore podcast

Aug 13, 2022

THIS JUST IN: The citizens of the State of Kansas — which is one of our reddest and most Republican states — has just voted in an overwhelming landslide tonight to keep abortion legal and available to all women! Here Michael Moore sends the word out to all that those who seek to take rights away from women shall not succeed and will be defeated in this fall’s election.

Voters in Kansas came out in droves on Tuesday to tell the Supreme Court where they could go. Their message to the rest of us is clear: We have 3 months to work as hard as we can to save our Democracy. All Democrats must sign a pledge to make Roe v Wade the law of the land — and to eliminate the filibuster. All Republicans who voted against certifying the legal results of the 2020 election must go to wherever traitors go. Give this emergency podcast a quick listen right now — and please share with others!

Europe asks Musk: can we use SpaceX rockets?

Aug 12, 2022

The European Space Agency has begun discussions with Elon Musk’s SpaceX over the temporary use of its rockets after the Ukraine conflict blocked Western access to Russia’s Soyuz launchers.

News Wrap: Trump’s lawyer told DOJ classified documents had been returned

Aug 13, 2022

In our news wrap Saturday, a Trump attorney told the Justice Department that all classified documents had been returned, the Southern Baptist Convention’s handling of sexual abuse claims is under investigation, Salman Rushdie’s alleged attacker is charged with attempted murder, Sen. Sinema’s campaign donations from Wall Street come under scrutiny, and Italy’s largest lake drops near historic lows.

How a Trump-era policy that separated thousands of migrant families came to pass

Aug 13, 2022

The Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy formalized the separation of over 5,000 children from their parents as a deliberately cruel measure to deter future migrants, with no tracking process or records that would allow them to be reunited. Atlantic staff writer Caitlin Dickerson joins Geoff Bennett to discuss her investigation into the policy.

“Only Love Remains” Workshop, Deerfield, Massachusetts, 26-28 August 2022

Aug 15, 2022

Details can be found at https://www.onlyloveremains.org/

The World of Ptolemy and the Birth of the Cartographic Atlas

Library of Congress – Streamed live on May 20, 2022

Lecture by Library of Congress curator of the Jay I. Kislak Collection, John Hessler, Ptolemy and the Foundations of Western Cartography, including images of these rare atlases printed between 1475 and 1600 which have never been shown together as a complete group. Opening remarks by Associate Librarian of Congress, Robin Dale, and closing remarks by Mark Dimunation, Chief, Rare Book and Special Collections Divisions.

See related:

• Seeing the World Anew: John W. Hessler, Chet Van Duzer (former John W. Kluge Fellows, Library of Congress).
• Sea Monsters on Medieval & Renaissance Maps | Chet Van Duzer
• The World in Maps, 1400-1600 | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
• Martin Waldseemuller’s Carta Marina: Its Originality and Diffusion | Chet Van Duzer
• 3 Chet Van Duzer – BAM Group February 5, 2022
• Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale
• Frames That Speak: An Introduction to Cartographic Cartouches | Chet Van Duzer

as well as:

• Africa & World Historical Cartography: Old Maps, New Technologies, New Questions & New Research Communities
• Early Days in African Historical Cartography ~ From the Portolan Charts to Printed Maps: Imagining and Imaging Africa in the Atlantic System
  and
• The Africa Map Circle – Introduction & Digital Resource Directory