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Lecture delivered by Bijal J. Trivedi (Senior Science Editor, National Geographic; freelance journalist). As recently as 2012, cystic fibrosis was considered a fatal genetic lung disease with most patients dying in their 20s, if not much earlier. But beginning in the 1950s, four couples, desperate to find treatments for their sick children, launched a foundation that would eventually use venture philanthropy to develop a radical type of life-saving personalized medicine that works for 90 percent of Cystic Fibrosis patients. Other disease foundations are striving to replicate the model and the NIH is using the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s strategy to accelerate cures for diseases, rare and common.
This event was co-sponsored by the John Shaw Billings History of Medicine Society; IU School of Medicine Department of Medicine, Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, and History of Medicine Student Interest Group; IU Indianapolis Medical Humanities & Health Studies Program; and the Ruth Lilly Medical Library.
Indicates the basic principle of the standard plain milling machine. Each part of the machine is named and explained, and some elementary setups are demonstrated.
This film documents the annual South Carolina agribusiness tour, a week long trip by bus that takes bankers, businessmen, farmers, and agricultural leaders in search of new ideas that can be put to use in South Carolina. This particular trip takes the group to Michigan and Canada.
This film documents the fourth annual South Carolina Agri-Business Caravan tour, a 2000-mile flying trip to the Mississippi Delta in search of new money-making ideas to bring back and put to use in South Carolina agriculture. Traveling between Memphis and New Orleans, the camera visits farms, plants, plantations, experiment stations and research laboratories, and captures the agribusiness activity of the New Orleans harbor.
Deals with the technology and geography of food production by depicting the role of land in production, the methods employed in the production of plant and animal products, and the relation of animal food production to plant foods. Problems concerning the increase in world production of foods are posed and possible solutions suggested.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., W. L. Burlison
Summary:
Shows the interdependence of science and agriculture in modern life. Presents, as an example, the soybean's characteristics, problems of its cultivation and harvest, and the preparation and use of soybean byproducts in home and industry. Revised version.
Shows the steps involved in felling a tree, getting out logs, floating them to the pulp mill, making wood pulp, and making paper ready for printing in a newspaper plant. Also describes life in a logging camp. A silent teaching film.
Discusses practical applications of nuclear energy in industry. Stresses the use of radioactivity in determining the age of the solar system, the age of an ancient site in Texas, and in solving the sewage disposal problem in Los Angeles.
John T.R. Nickerson, Robert Longini, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Summary:
Presents a survey of the meat industry, tracing the steps in the production, processing, and distibution of meat. Shows herds grazing on western grasslands, cattle being shipped to the Corn Belt for fattening prior to slaughter, the dressing, inspection, and grading of beef, pork, and lamb, and the cutting, processing, and packaging of graded meat. Describes modern cold-storage and shipping facilities. Traces the discrimmination of processed meat from the packing plant to the consumer. Shows commonly-used by-products of the meat industry.
Traces in detail the production of cane sugar. Shows the ground-breaking operations in the spring, the planting and cultivation during the summer, and the cutting and the preparation of the stalks for delivery to the refinery in the fall. Illustrates the mechanized nature of these operations and depicts the numerous refining processes that ultimately produce white sugar crystals.
Brown, Mark, Holden, Wendy, Lowry, Mike, Reed, Sam
Summary:
Mike Lowry and Sam Reed discuss their efforts as co-chairs of the Vote 19 campaign in Washington State. Wendy Holden describers her role in a prior effort to lower the voting age in the state. They describe legislative lobbying and dynamics in state government. Mark Brown provides archival news from the time period.
Former Congressman John Anderson frames the youth vote in the turmoil of the 1960s, details his work with moderate and conservative Republicans to pass the 18-year-old vote, and describes how it impacted his own district.
MacGowan describes how he became involved with the Youth Franchise Coalition and the other groups that were associated with it, the involvement of the National Education Association, and the different U.S. Senators who supported the 26th Amendment and assisted with its passage. He also discusses the role played by Senator Birch Bayh (D-IN) in advising the YFC and working with other members on Capitol Hill. He talks about the ratification process, especially the work with the state legislatures; the value of grassroots organizing; and the long-term interest of several activists in political issues.
