Atoms and the Large Hadron Collider- September 10

Saturday, September 10, 2022

• Today is Aunt's Day, Blame it on the Large Hadron Collider Day, German Language Day, National Clean Out Your Garage Day, Prairie Day, and 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.
  
• Daily Hispanic Heritage Resource of the Day: Hispanic, Latino, Latinx: What's in a name?
  
• Classical Music Resource of the Day: Rimsky Korsakov - Flight of the Bumblebee

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
NHPBS EXPLORE  - 11.2   Comcast (801)   More Options
NH WORLD - 11.3   Comcast (965)  More Options
NH KIDS - 11.5  Schedule   Live Stream   More Options

SCIGIRLS - Turtle Mania
Saturday, 9/10 from 7:30-8 am NHPBS EXPLORE
SciGirl Annie and her friends make a local wetland more attractive to turtles. SciGirls Streaming Video in English and Spanish

HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: YOUTH MENTAL ILLNESS - Resilience
Saturday, 9/10 from 8-10 pm NH WORLD
In this episode, our "heroes" speak about finding help, inpatient and outpatient therapy, the added stigma of racial or gender discrimination, the criminalization of mental illness, and youth suicide. HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT Streaming Video

SECRETS OF THE DEAD- The Woman in the Iron Coffin
Saturday, 9/10 from 11 am-12 pm NHPBS EXPLORE
Follow a team of forensic experts as they investigate the preserved remains of a young African American woman from 19th century New York and reveal the little-known story of early America’s free Black communities. SECRETS OF THE DEAD Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
(603) 868-4339