Climate Change - January 25

Thursday, January 25, 2024

Today is Opposite Day, National Irish Coffee Day, and  Robert Burns Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Climate Change
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ON THIS DATE

• 1533 - England's  King Henry VIII  marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
• 1890 - Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
• 1915 - First U.S. transcontinental phone call occurs when Alexander Graham Bell in New York calls Thomas Watson in San Francisco. 
• 1924 - The first Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, France.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1759 - Scottish poet Robert Burns
• 1874 - English author W. Somerset Maugham
• 1882 - English author Virginia Woolf
• 1938 - Singer Etta James
• 1981 - Singer-songwriter Alicia Keys

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Etta James - At Last- LISTEN
• Alicia Keys - New York "Empire State of Mind" - LISTEN

THEME:  Climate Change

• Grades K-6 - PBS LearningMedia - What's a Climate? Collection - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Climate Change (5:48) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Climate Change in Djibouti (3:48) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Clue Into Climate - At the Core of Climate Change (19:29) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest - Redwoods and Climate Change (11:37) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Climate Change through History (5:29) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Sea Otters versus Climate Change (7:19) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Climate Change: The Facts Clips - VIEW
• Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - Hot Mess Series  - VIEW
• Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - It's Okay to Be Smart - Can Trees Really Fight Climate Change? (10:44) - VIEW

WATCH

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NATURE - Soul of the Ocean
Wednesday, 1/25 from 8-9 pm NHPBS
Take a deep breath and experience the complex world of ocean waters. NATURE shows a never-before-seen look at how life underwater co-exists in a marriage of necessity. NATURE Streaming Video

NOVA: BEYOND THE ELEMENTS - Life
Wednesday, 1/25 from 9-10 pm NHPBS
Without the chemistry of photosynthesis, ozone, and an enzyme called Rubisco, we wouldn't exist. So why do we? Discover the molecules that allowed life on Earth to begin, and ultimately thrive, and how scientists use evolution in chemistry. NOVA Streaming Video

SECRETS OF THE DEAD - Bombing Auschwitz
Wednesday, 1/25 from 9-10 pm NHPBS
Join historians, survivors and experts as they consider one of the great moral dilemmas of the 20th century. Should the Allies have risked killing Auschwitz prisoners and bombed the camp to stop future atrocities? SECRETS OF THE DEAD Streaming Video

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HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: YOUTH MENTAL ILLNESS - Resilience
Wednesday, 1/25 from 2-4 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

INDEPENDENT LENS - Owned: A Tale of Two Americas
Wednesday, 1/25 from 7-8:30 pm NH WORLD
Is the “American Dream” of home ownership a false promise? While the government’s postwar housing policy created the world’s largest middle class, it also set America on two divergent paths – one of perceived wealth and the other of systematically defunded, segregated communities. INDEPENDENT LENS Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

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