Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Denis Avey - The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz

The incredible story of one British soldier's brave choice to exchange places with a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz.

Denis speaking to an audience at the Kingfield Center in Sheffield about his war experiences and time spent in Auschwitz


Amazon Books The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz:

Denis Avey: The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz

A True Story of World War II - Hardcover (7 July 2011) by Denis Avey and Rob Broomby

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval university

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval universities. Within the 11th and 12th centuries a brand new kind of institution began to seem within the main cities of Europe. The very first universities were these of Bologna and Paris; within a hundred years comparable educational organisations had been springing up all more than the continent. The first universities primarily based their research around the liberal arts curriculum, a mix of seven separate disciplines derived through the educational theories of Ancient Greece.


The universities provided coaching for all those intending to embark on careers in the Church, the law and education. They provided a new focus for intellectual life in Europe, and exerted a substantial affect on society around them. And also the university model proved so robust that many of those institutions and their medieval improvements nonetheless exist today.



On Radio 4 Now Latest Programme The Medieval University Available to listen.



With:
Miri Rubin
Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London

Ian Wei
Senior Lecturer in Medieval European History at the University of Bristol

Peter Denley
Reader in History at Queen Mary, University of London.

Producer: Thomas Morris.

Coming to America Victoria Beckham 1/8

The one and only episode that was aired for this show. This is when the Beckhams were moving to the USA and Victoria came to prepare everything for David and the Kids arrival. Victoria had a blast with this and makes fun of herself every chance she gets. A great show I thought anyway.


This revealing special hour delves into Victoria's larger-than-life world to reveal, among other things, her wicked sense of humour and style. Her willingness to poke fun at her image leads to some of the most insightful and hilarious moments, as Victoria enlists her tight circle of friends to shop for a new home and settle into life in Los Angeles.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Our World, What, When, Why,

The president of Earth Policy Institute presents his thesis on how best to save mankind. Past stabilizing global warming, he advocates many actions, such as maximizing utilization of the world's land to better feed the globe population, stabilizing the world's population through world-wide entry to family members planning methods and redesigning metropolitan areas. The occasion is in Chicago.


 Lester Brown is the writer of the lately printed guide World on the Edge - How you can Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse.

He thinks the world has to mobilize to embrace sustainability within the same way that the much from the western globe mobilized to battle in Globe War II. With his Washington policy makers' concentrate, he calls it the Pearl Harbour model. Tune in to this podcast is a must

We require to know the accurate costs of performing company inside a fragile globe, he says. This will help to offer a technique for avoiding what he foresees as decline and collapse.



Wind power, small hydro, landfill gas, and concentrated solar power technologies will all fetch a higher price for the electricity they produce, from Eskom, which will run the single buyer office.
This higher tariff allows renewable energy project developers to cover their costs and make a decent return on invest, because renewable energy is more expensive to generate than coal-fired power. The Refit has been outlined, and now the details are being finalised.

 Thanks so much to those who have watched this video, which has reached over 28,000 views!

Tuesday, March 08, 2011

Short video and podcast about the famous Phineas Gage

Check out this YouTube video then go listen to the podcast below a special programme on the extraordinary case of Phineas Gage, a 19th century railway worker who survived a bizarre accident that changed him and the study of neuroscience forever.



BBC Word Sevice PodCast Claudia Hammond visits Harvard Medical School Museum in Boston to see for herself what remains of the man with the hole in his head. At the Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation in Ely, Cambridgeshire she meets clients with brain injuries similar to those suffered by Phineas Gage and discovers how far we've come in understanding and treatment since Gage suffered his appalling trauma. More Phineas Gage Information