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Rogers brought this level of care and attention not just to granular details and phrasings, but the bigger messages his show would send. Hedda Sharapan, one of the staff members at Fred Rogers’s production company, Family Communications, Inc., recalls Rogers once halted taping of a show when a cast member told the puppet Henrietta Pussycat not to cry; he interrupted shooting to make it clear that his show would never suggest to children that they not cry. In working on the show, Rogers interacted extensively with academic researchers. Daniel R. Ella Augusta Johnson Dinkins, Champion Of Zora Neale Hurston's Hometown, Dies At 102 : NPR. (7) Facebook. Black Hole Hunter: Andrea Ghez. Celebrate 50 Years of PBS. Untitled. Meet the woman who gave the world antiviral drugs.
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In the 1850s, Eunice Foote, an amateur scientist and activist for women’s rights, made a remarkable discovery about greenhouse gases that could have helped form the foundation of modern climate science. But the scientific paper she published that might have added her name to the pantheon of early climate scientists was quickly forgotten, and she faded into obscurity. There isn’t even a known photograph of her today. The idea that greenhouse gases warm the planet is anything but new, and anything but unsettled. Foote’s ingenious and elegant experiment involved two glass cylinders filled with various substances, including moist air and carbon dioxide. In her 1856 paper about the experiment, “Circumstances Affecting the Heat of the Sun’s Rays,” she wrote that a cylinder with moist air became warmer than one with dry air. Overlooked No More: Brad Lomax, a Bridge Between Civil Rights Movements.
Alabama in 1963 was an epicenter of the civil rights movement, with lunch counter sit-ins, protest marches and other actions aimed at dismantling state-sponsored segregation.
There, for the first time, Brad encountered signs designating some public spaces for white people and some for Black people. After graduating from Benjamin Franklin High School in Philadelphia in 1968, Lomax considered joining the military, but as the war in Vietnam raged, with Black soldiers bearing a disproportionate share of the burden, he decided instead to attend Howard University in Washington.
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Nuclear fission – the physical process by which very large atoms like uranium split into pairs of smaller atoms – is what makes nuclear bombs and nuclear power plants possible.
But for many years, physicists believed it energetically impossible for atoms as large as uranium (atomic mass = 235 or 238) to be split into two. That all changed on Feb. 11, 1939, with a letter to the editor of Nature – a premier international scientific journal – that described exactly how such a thing could occur and even named it fission.
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Tony Mendez, The 'Argo' Spy Who Rescued Americans In Iran, Dies At 78. Tony Mendez, the former CIA officer who rescued six American diplomats from revolutionary Iran in 1980, died Saturday.
He's shown here in 2012 in Washington, D.C., at the premiere of Argo, a film based on his operation in Iran. Cliff Owen/AP hide caption. A Close Look At Frank Ocean's Coming Out Letter : The Record. The singer and songwriter Frank Ocean, whose first full-length studio album, Channel Orange, will be released on July 17.
Nabil Elderkin/Courtesy of the artist hide caption toggle caption Nabil Elderkin/Courtesy of the artist The singer and songwriter Frank Ocean, whose first full-length studio album, Channel Orange, will be released on July 17. Tuesday night the rising R&B star Frank Ocean did something important. 'Ha, I love this question!': Michelle Obama interviewed by Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, Sadiq Khan and more. How has America changed since the former first lady was little?
Is she still dancing? She takes questions from pop stars, politicians, artists – and schoolchildren Read and listen to an exclusive extract from Michelle Obama’s memoir How did your mother, Marian Robinson, help you to be effective as a first lady? Remembering Stan Lee. The early-20th century German trans-rights activist who was decades ahead of his time. The Trump administration continues its assault on transgender rights.
Joachim Ronneberg, Leader of Raid That Thwarted a Nazi Atomic Bomb, Dies at 99. A 35-man British commando team had been lost on a 1942 mission to sabotage the plant. Britain then enlisted the Norwegian volunteers under Mr. Ronneberg for Operation Gunnerside, endorsed by Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Air attacks were not ordered for fear of heavy casualties to Norwegian workers and a low probability of success because the heavy water had been distilled in a basement fortified against bombs. Alex Honnold: How I climbed a 3,000-foot vertical cliff. Monty Python's Eric Idle Looks Back On The 'Bright Side' Of A Life In Comedy.
Monty Python co-founder Eric Idle's memoir "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography" comes out Tuesday. I was an Isis sex slave. I tell my story because it is the best weapon I have. The slave market opened at night. My friend Denis Mukwege is a beacon for all men to follow. WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT . . . JACO PASTORIUS: High times and low notes. NPR Choice page. Anonymous - The Story of Aaron Swartz Full Documentary. Culture - International Women’s Day: Iconic images of women protesters. Jane Fonda - relationship parents. Serena Williams burns the house down as Naomi Osaka's brilliance is forgotten. Serena wears tutu after catsuit ban to Open.