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A Journey to the Centre of the Sun - with Lucie Green
A Journey to the Centre of the Sun - with Lucie Green Ambakisye-Okang Dukuzumurenyi 28 Views • 5 years ago

Lucie Green takes us on a journey from the centre of the sun to planet earth in a run-down of the latest solar physics research.
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Lucie's book "15 Million Degrees: A Journey to the Centre of the Sun" is available to buy now - https://geni.us/2oB8V

110 times wider than Earth; 15 million degrees at its core; an atmosphere so huge that Earth is actually within it: come and meet the star of our solar system.

Light takes eight minutes to reach Earth from the surface of the Sun. But its journey within the Sun takes hundreds of thousands of years. What is going on in there? What are light and heat? How does the Sun produce them and how on earth did scientists discover this? Since the Royal Institution was founded in 1799 our knowledge of the Sun has changed dramatically and much of the work was carried out at the Ri.

Join Lucie Green for an enlightening talk, taking you from inside the Sun to its surface and to Earth, to discover how the Sun works, how a solar storm can threaten the modern technology that society relies on and more of the latest research in solar physics.

Lucie Green is a Professor of Physics based at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL’s Department of Space and Climate Physics. She studies activity in the atmosphere of our nearest star, the Sun. In particular, she looks at immense magnetic fields in the Sun’s atmosphere which sporadically erupt into the Solar System.

Lucie is very active in public engagement with science, regularly giving public talks and appearing on TV shows like Sky at Night.

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Cracking Ancient Codes: Cuneiform Writing - with Irving Finkel
Cracking Ancient Codes: Cuneiform Writing - with Irving Finkel Ambakisye-Okang Dukuzumurenyi 28 Views • 5 years ago

Writing is generally agreed to be among the greatest inventions in human history, perhaps the greatest invention, since it made history possible.
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You can read more about Irving's quest to explore the Noah's Ark myth in "The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood": https://geni.us/zU95bVO
or learn more about cuneiform writing in "Cuneiform": https://geni.us/eMPb

Writing seems to have been invented in the late fourth millennium BC in Mesopotamia in the form of wedge-shaped marks pressed into soft clay with a reed stylus: the script known as cuneiform. Through his work on this ancient language, Irving Finkel, has uncovered amazing secrets from over five thousand years ago, including the story behind Noah’s ark.

Irving Finkel is the curator in charge of cuneiform inscriptions on tablets of clay from ancient Mesopotamia at the British Museum, of which the Middle East Department has the largest collection of any modern museum. This work involves reading and translating all sorts of inscriptions, sometimes working on ancient archives to identify manuscripts that belong together, or even join to one another. He is the author of The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood.

This talk was filmed in the Ri on 18 January 2019.

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Love Under Siege in Maiduguru, Nigeria | Unreported World - 20 June 2021
Love Under Siege in Maiduguru, Nigeria | Unreported World - 20 June 2021 Ambakisye-Okang Dukuzumurenyi 28 Views • 5 years ago

Meet the brides and grooms defying the jihadist militants who have been laying siege to the Nigerian city of Maiduguri.

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Maiduguri is the spiritual home of Boko Haram, a terrorist group at the centre of an insurgency that has killed more than 36,000 people, and displaced over two million more.

With Covid lockdowns over, and the militants driven out, reporter Yousra Elbagir discovers a city determined to reclaim the joy of weddings despite the ongoing risk of kidnappings and attacks.

Producer/Director: Wil Davies
Executive Producer: Nevine Mabro
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Production Company: ITN/Channel 4 News

#AffirmingBlackManhood Live Chat • OMOWALE MALCOLM X - Lessons from Our "Living Black Manhood..
#AffirmingBlackManhood Live Chat • OMOWALE MALCOLM X - Lessons from Our "Living Black Manhood.. ShakaRa 28 Views • 5 years ago

OMOWALE #MALCOLMX: Lessons from "OUR LIVING BLACK MANHOOD"

ShakaRa will be exploring the influence of Omowale Malcolm X, in shaping his ideals of Manhood.

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Affirming Black Manhood
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It has almost become unpopular to talk about what it means to be a man, to deal with the concept of Manhood. You’ve got to deal with it.
About this event.

WE ARE BLACK MEN!

“It has almost become unpopular to talk about what it means to be a man, to deal with the concept of Manhood. You’ve got to deal with it. You can’t get around it.” – Nana Amos Wilson

“Affirming Black Manhood” attempts to contribute to the process of Black man taking back the power to define, develop & project what it means to be a Black Man. Our facilitators approach Black Manhood from varying perspectives, with an emphasis on promoting the values, principles & ideals that represent the best of who we be... And need to become.

We will engage a series of workshops on various aspects of Black Manhood, including space for general discussion. Our special guest facilitators are all Black Afrikan Men with a proven track record of sustained work with Black Men; addressing issues pertaining to Black Manhood!

We feature:

BABA MWALIMU BARUTI • DEFINING PRINCIPLES OF BLACK MANHOOD

ROBIN WALKER • THE ECONOMICS OF BLACK MANHOOD

IFAYOMI GRANT • CHALLENGING MISOGYNY: REBUILDING AFRIKAN MANHOOD

BRO. LDR. MBANDAKA • BLACK MANHOOD, FATHERHOOD & RITES OF PASSAGE

BABA BUNTU • THE POWER OF BLACK BROTHERHOOD

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20th june 2021 • 12pm-8pm GMT •Tickets £10 • available from ShakaRaSpeaks.com

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