Atoms and the Large Hadron Collider

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Friday, September 10, 2021

Today is World Suicide Prevention Day.

September is National Square Dancing Month, National Food Safety Education Month, Classical Music Month, Library Card Sign-up Month, National Hispanic Heritage Month, National Save A Tiger Month, College Savings Month, and Be Kind To Editors & Writers Month.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  Atoms and the Large Hadron Collider
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ON THIS DATE

• 1846 - Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
• 1897 - 19 unarmed immigrant miners are killed by a sheriff's posse in Lattimer, Pennsylvania in what came to be called the Lattimer Massacre. 
• 2008 - The Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland is powered up.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1852 - Seminole Nation of Oklahoma tribal chief  Alice Brown Davis
• 1890 - Fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli
• 1933 - Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld
• 1935 - Poet Mary Oliver
• 1945 - Singer-songwriter and guitarist José Feliciano
• 1950 - Musician Joe Perry
• 1960 - Actor Colin Firth
• 1964 - Former NH U.S.Senator John E. Sununu

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science - LISTEN
• Pet Shop Boys - The Sound of the Atom Splitting - LISTEN
• José Feliciano - Light My Fire - LISTEN
• Aerosmith - Dream On - LISTEN

THEME: ATOMS

• Grades K-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Smithsonian - Good Thinking! -What's the "Matter" with Cells and Atoms? (8:37) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - What Does an Atom Look Like? (3:26) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Physics in Motion - Fusion (8:12)  - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Physics in Motion - Fission (8:39)  - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - SciTech Now - How Do Atoms Keep Time? (5:55)  - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Atoms & Electrons (1:22) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - A Space Odyssey - Atoms: The Space Between (Available in Spanish) (1:15) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Atomic Arrangements in Solids (1:30) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Atomic Structure of an Alloy (Available in Spanish) (4:32) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Explore Materials - Moving Atoms (3:06) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Metropolitan Opera - Dr. Atomic (opera about the Manhattan Project) (1:21:06) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Bend, Twist and Break: The Bridge (1:27) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Genius by Stephen Hawking The Atomic Structure, Quantum Physics, and Counting Electrons (6:37) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Chem Think - Atomic Structure  Interactive  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Chemistry: Unit 1 - Matter and the Rise of Atomic Theory (28:25) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Chemistry: Unit 2 - The Behavior of Atoms (28:26) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Chemistry: Unit 3 - Atoms and Light (28:25) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Chemistry: Unit 4 - Organizing Atoms and Electrons (28:25) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Crash Course Chemistry - The History of Atomic Chemistry (9:40) - VIEW
  

THEME: LARGE HADRON COLLIDER

• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Quest - Homegrown Particle Accelerators (12:15) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Learning Media  - Physics Girl - Seeing the Smallest  Thing in the Universe (5:38) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Physics Girl - Inside the World's Largest Science Experiment (14:00) - VIEW
  
• Grades 11-12 - NHPBS Learning Media - PBS Space Time -The Higgs Mechanism Explained (7:49) - VIEW

Watch 

NHPBS  - 11.1   Comcast (802)   Live Stream   More Options

• 7:30-8:30 am NHPBS - Arthur's First Day
• 8:30-9 am NHPBS - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - I Am Mark Twain/I Am Abigail Adams
• 2:30-3 pm NHPBS - Let's Go Luna! - Didgeridoo And Carmen Too/Not Home On The Range
• 3-4 pm NPBSS - Arthur's First Day
  
• 9-11 pm NHPBS - Generation 9/11
  

NHPBS EXPLORE  - 11.2   Comcast (801)   More Options

• 12:30-1 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Rosanne Cash at Macdowell
• 1-2 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Saving Songbirds
• 4-4:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Let's Go Luna! - The Mystery Of The Mask/Movie Monday
• 4:30-5 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Odd Squad - Rookie Night/Who Let The Doug Out?
• 5-5:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Wild Kratts - Rattlesnake Crystal
• 9:30-11:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Frontline - America After 9/11

NH WORLD - 11.3   Comcast (965)  More Options

• 8-9  am NH WORLD - Nova - Extreme Animal Weapons
• 9-10 am NH WORLD - Future of Work - Futureproof
• 10-11 am NH WORLD - Trauma Healers
• 3-4 pm NH WORLD - America ReFramed - Care
  
• 4-5 pm NH WORLD - Freedom Writers: Stories from the Heart
• 8-10 pm NH WORLD - Frontline - America After 9/11

NH KIDS - 11.5  Schedule   Live Stream   More Options

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