June 30, 2019
Maya Before, Maya After: How a Tenseless Language Talks Past and Future
June 29, 2019
June 28, 2019
June 26, 2019
June 24, 2019
The American Revolution with Joanne B. Freeman
"The American Revolution entailed some remarkable transformations--converting British colonists into American revolutionaries, and a cluster of colonies into a confederation of states with a common cause -- but it was far more complex and enduring then the fighting of a war. As John Adams put it, 'The Revolution was in the Minds of the people... before a drop of blood was drawn at Lexington'--and it continued long past America's victory at Yorktown. This course will examine the Revolution from this broad perspective, tracing the participants' shifting sense of themselves as British subjects, colonial settlers, revolutionaries, and Americans."
June 23, 2019
June 21, 2019
June 20, 2019
June 19, 2019
June 17, 2019
Half-Lives: The Chernobyl Workers Now (2011)
"Released to coincide with the Fall 2011 issue of VQR, Maisie Crow's original short film introduces us to the city of Slavutych and its residents—survivors of the Chernobyl disaster and the workers still dismantling the plant."
June 15, 2019
June 13, 2019
Uncommon Knowledge - Why does Joseph Stalin matter?
"Joseph Stalin, Soviet dictator, creator of great power, and destroyer of tens of millions of lives …” Thus begins this episode of Uncommon Knowledge, which dives into the biography of Joseph Stalin. This episode’s guest, Stephen Kotkin, author of Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941, examines the political career of Joseph Stalin in the years leading up to World War II, his domination over the Soviet Union, and the terror he inspired by the Great Purge from 1936–38."
June 09, 2019
June 05, 2019
June 04, 2019
June 03, 2019
chernobyl 2013: radioactive ant bites & 115 mSv/h of pure gamma radiation
Also: eating radioactive apples from chernobyl? perfectly fine! [gamma spectroscopy]