Atoms and the Large Hadron Collider- September 10

Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Today is Suicide Prevention Day, Blame it on the Large Hadron Collider Day, Makeup Day, and TV Dinner Day.

• 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

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 Collection - 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

Pressroom Contact

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