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An advertisement for Franklin Federal bank in which a postal worker opens a mail box to find it full of letters addressed to the bank. Submitted for Clio Awards category Banks.
An advertisement for Ohio Federal Bank in which a man gambles money at a horse track and instructs the viewer on saving money at the bank. Submitted for Clio Awards category Banks.
The causes of radioactivity, how it is detected, measured and controlled are noted by Dr. Warren F. Witzig and guest Edward Sanford. They also demonstrate the instability of energy and discuss the different types of radiation. Sanford explains the meaning of alpha, beta and gamma rays and explores the uses and dangers of radioactivity.
Discusses and demonstrates matter in its various states: solid, liquid, and gas. Shows how matter is broken up into its smallest components. Explains how energy is obtained from matter. Defines the fission and fusion processes. Concludes with a demonstration of a chain reaction. (WQED) Film.
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
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Introduces Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis, known as color-field painters among the New Abstractionists. Discusses their attitudes toward their works, and the factors and people influencing them. Shows examples of their works and those of Helen Frankenthaler.
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
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Depicts Frank Stella and Larry Poons, two young New Abstractionists, in their studios painting and discussing their work.Concludes that these artists have instituted an innovation by exploiting repetition, emptiness, and monotony to produce their abstract works. Describes Stella's productions as high geometric polygons and Poon's current work as a counterpoint of dots on canvas.
Discusses the values of a hobby as a source of fun and relaxation, friendship, recognition, and health. Presents people and their hobbies, how they came to choose a particular hobby and the values they receive from their hobbies. Suggests different hobbies and where to secure information about each. (KOMU-TV) Kinescope.
Shows how to choose a job by first knowing one's self as revealed by performance in intelligence, aptitude, and personality tests, by learning the characteristics of different jobs, and by fitting these two together. Illustrates these steps by following a series of counseling sessions between a counselor and a counselee. (KOMU-TV) Kinescope.
Discusses ways of getting along with people and through interviews shows why some people can more easily get along wit h others. Emphasizes interest in others, acceptance, and understanding, as well as cheerfulness, helpfulness, and neatness and basic factors in getting along with people. (KOMU-TV) Kinescope.
This panel explores the role of race, class, gender, and generation in shaping the multiple identities of participants in rock, as well as the ways that African American rock musicians have negotiated these identities within the context of the music industry, mainstream society, and African American communities. Video files consist of 29 sec. calibration pattern (not included here) and 115 minutes of footage from main camera and two files totaling 115 minutes of simultaneously recorded footage from side camera. One of the four video files is only 2 seconds long and does not contain any useable content (not included here).
Uses stained cells, animation, and time-lapse cinephotomicrography of living cells to compare mitosis and meiosis. Shows onion root tip, whitefish embryo, salamander epidermal, and living Tradescantia staminal hair cells photographed in time-lapse photography to present the details of mitosis. Portrays the basic features of meiosis by using lily anther cells and living sperm cells of a grasshopper photographed by time-lapse photography. Animation sequences give a side-by-side comparison of the two processes and show how mitosis, meiosis, and fertilization fit into the life cycle of common organisms.
Shows Eliot O'Hara illustrating how to paint crowds of people as he starts from the beginning of a painting and demonstrates how to paint figures in perspective. Explains his method for making figures with dabs from a brush and his techniques for painting special effects such as a horizon, wet street, and suntanned bodies. Presents famous masterpieces by several world famous artists to illustrate the various points made.
While painting his impression of crowds on a street and at a seashore, Eliot O'Hara demonstrates brush strokes and techniques which he uses in producing a feeling of movement in crowd pictures. Shows how colors can intensify the sense of motion in a painting. Includes views of painting of crowd scenes by Marin, Daumier and Dufy.
Includes the squirrel, rabbit, raccoon, porcupine, otter, mink, beaver, opossum, skunk, ad woodchuck. In each instance the distinguishing characteristics of the animal are shown, such as the ability of the beaver to build a dam and the mother opossum's carrying her young on her back.
Uses animation to demonstrate the meaning of (a + b)² in a way intended to convey to students the idea that algebraic statements have concrete meaning and visual form.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., Isabel B. Wingate
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Demonstrates each step in the manufacture of a child's cotton dress in a modern clothing factory. Reveals how the original is designed, and then portrays simple making, pattern making, cutting, sewing, finishing, pressing, and packing. Emphasizes the economy of mass-production methods. An instructional film.
Describes the basic articles for make-up and shows the correct method of its application. In this film the make-up for the two female roles in the play "Tom Sawyer" is done by one girl to show the extent to which make-up can create a character's appearance.
The tourism and hospitality industry is a solid supporter for our local and domestic economy. Despite its importance, the industry is vulnerable to various adverse events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Professor Becky Liu-Lastres' primary research interests involve risk and crisis management in tourism and hospitality.
In this presentation, Professor Liu-Lastres shares some of her major findings in previous research and provides insights into the lessons we have learned from the industry's experiences with COVID-19 and how we can adapt to the new normal.
Professor Becky Liu-Lastres briefly discusses her translational research that deals with risk and crisis management in the tourism and hospitality industry.
Most natural resource problems are ultimately human problems – matters of human social behavior and choice. The structures and processes of decision making that we use in trying to deal with those problems are therefore very important. Professor Blomquist's goal is to aid in understanding how we make decisions about our water resources and how we can do that better, based on studies of past and current efforts.
Professor Andel briefly discusses her translational research that deals with identifying empirically-based solutions that help employers and employees reduce the negative impacts of stressful work situations.
Professor Urtel studies programs and interventions at schools that not only focus on the health outcomes from physical activity, but the academic readiness and positive behavioral outcomes that are associated with consistent physical activity.
In this presentation, Professor Cochran discusses how organizations do and should respond to types of major crisis that are often referred to as “Black Swans”. Black Swans are extremely rare events with severe consequences. There are many other potential Black Swans. A current example of a Black Swan the COVID-19 pandemic. This historically happens once every 100 years.
Professor Cochran seeks to understand why society ignores Black Swans and how successful organizations respond to them. Current research findings suggest that organizations respond by (1) knowing that such events can occur, (2) engaging in scenario planning, (3) building their organizational resilience, (4) creating redundancy in their supply-chains, and (5) building sustainable business practices.
This week: The NOAA predicts above-average levels of rainfall and flood risk this spring, the Department of Defense it has identified many more military installations in the U.S. that may be contaminated with toxic PFAS chemicals.
The Conservation Foundation, New York Zoological Society, John H. Storer, John C. Gibbs, George E. Brewer, Jr.
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The fourth in the "Living Earth" series. Shows what happens when nature's balance is upset by exploitation of natural resources. Suggests that organized planning and conservation can arrest the dangerous destruction of the topsoil on which all life depends.
The Conservation Foundation, The New York Zoological Society, George Bryan, Tempo, Inc., John C. Gibbs, George Brewer, John H. Storer
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Presents nature's plan for the use and control of water. Explains the water cycle through animation and actual photography, and shows the effect of interaction between clouds and air currents through time-lapse photography. Describes the nature and function of watersheds, and indicates how nature has provided for the storing of this life-giving substance.
The first in the "Web of Life" series. Uses fossils and other prehistoric relics to trace the competitive struggle for survival among plants and animals. Still pictures show the trilobite, the dinosaur, and the sabre-toothed tiger--all of whom became extinct because they did not adapt themselves to their changing environment. Concludes with a diagram showing that all living things are units in a vast web of life powered by the sun and fed by plants which draw elements from water, air, and soil.
Dr. C. Arthur Knight, featured on this program, introduces his topic with a brief description of properties which characterize living things, and then explains to what degree viruses do or do not have these properties. What is significant, he points out, is that viruses are like other living things to the extent that they are capable of reproducing themselves. Because viruses have a chemical content, similar to that of chromosomes — the cells which determine heredity — and because they can be more easily isolated and fragmented than chromosomes, they are a source of much information for scientists who study life's creation and formation. In addition to his general points, Dr. Knight shows, through a remarkable series of micro-motion pictures, how mutations within viruses can be formed and identified.
Despite its microscopic size, a cell may contain several thousand highly complex chemicals. Nonetheless, molecules of carbohydrates, fats, proteins and nucleic acids consistently form part of the structure of living cells. These combine in various ways to make the cells which cause a tree to grow, an eye to see, or the brain to think. In this program, each kind of cell is analyzed through a combination of lecture and chemical demonstrations, together with a use of the models developed and used by Dr. Linus Pauling to study cellular structure.
In this program the audience hears a review and summary of all the information on the physical and chemical nature of living material discussed in previous programs. Dr. Roney uses sketch pad diagrams and models to picture the structure and organizations of living material, as it is understood today.
This week: Farmers face off against precipitation and pestilence to feed the country, and climate and medical professionals say there's a direct link between human health and the health of the environment.
Pictures the technique of plain and trick roping as it can be taught to children in schools and to patients in need of rehabilitative exercise. Includes a demonstration of a simple way to make a rope for roping.
Presents the life of the sunfish from the preparation of the nest, the laying and fertilizing of the eggs, the hatching of the eggs, and the development of the fish to maturity.
Story of "Smokey," the bear cub found clinging to a charred tree after a forest fire in New Mexico and later taken to the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. Stresses the importance of forest prevention.
Ralph Buchsbaum, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Michael Birch, William Kay, William Peltz
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Uses live-action photography, cinephotomicrography, and diagrams illustrating their activities and bodily structure to show how the classes of coelenterates are distinguished. Describes the characteristics of the phylum Coelenterata, including fresh and salt water examples; shows the typical coelenterate body plan; and provides examples of the three classes of coelenterates. Shows how coelenterates obtain and digest their food, how they reproduce by sexual and asexual processes, and how they move. Identifies and shows examples of the three classes of coelenterates: Hydrozoa, Scyphozoa, and Anthozoa. Pictures the hydra as a general representative of the phylum, describing it in detail and viewing experimentally its reaction to the chemical glutathione. Views reproduction in hydra. Concludes that coelenterates are the simplest animals to have tissues, and though they appear to be peaceful animals, they are always attempting to feed.
A documentary of the steam engine and the part it played in the westward expansion of the United States, from its earliest beginnings in 1831 when the John Bull was brought from England, to the last run of a mainline steam locomotive in 1960. Shows most of the historically important locomotives in action, and illustrates the development in design and increase in size and power over the years. Includes scenes of the race in 1831 between the Tom Thumb and a horse pulling a wagon, the Pioneer, the William Mason, and other famous engines and events of historic significance.
Animated experimental film of the painting 'Isle of the dead' by nineteenth century painter Arnold Böcklin. The ghost-like island wakes to mysterious life, flickers momentarily in a corpse-candle light and fades into darkness.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Edward A. Krug, Hal Kopel
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A view of the postal system. Shows how the mail is handled in a modern suburban post office, how money orders and stamps are sold, and how mail is transported to railroad stations and airports, where it is sorted and loaded for delivery to post offices all over the country.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Indiana University. Audio-Visual Center
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Shows Chilean mountains, deserts, glaciers, mines, ports, pastoral areas, and an estate in the agricultural Central Valley. Here the role of the estate is seen in relation to the visiting owner and his family, the farming population, and Chilean agriculture generally. On the family's return to Santiago, varied aspects of Chile's capital city are featured. Includes some Spanish dialogue.
Discusses how to simplify a mathematical word formula by restating it in letters and signs. Explains the mathematical formula for distance by graphic and pictorial examples and by practical application of the formula to problems in science and industry.
Immediately following Pearl Harbor, one of the critical problems facing the United States was what to do with the 100,000 people of Japanese descent living up and down the Pacific Coast. The immediate step was to remove all Japanese from critical areas around air fields, harbors, and industrial plants, to forestall sabotage and espionage. This mass migration accomplished by the Army working with the War Relocation Authority is shown in the film--from the first registration through the movement to temporary quarters established in race tracks and fair grounds to the final migration to settlements in Arizona, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming.
During this conversation, Dr. Broxton Bird gives an overview of his paleoclimate research in the midcontinental US that seeks to determine the relationship between past climate change and flooding and how this information can be used to understand how human impacts on the climate and landscape have altered these natural systems and what it means for the future.
Professor Christine Picard is a member of the groundbreaking team that established the world’s first research center dedicated to insects as feed and food, known as the Center for Environmental Sustainability through Insect Farming (CEIF), funded by the National Science Foundation and other industry members. Professor Picard’s research focuses on unraveling the genetic basis of postmortem-feeding insects in the field of forensic entomology and exploring insects as sustainable protein sources for humans and animals. During this presentation, Christine Picard shares how she and her research team are developing strategies to optimize insect production as a sustainable solution to address the protein needs of a growing global population.
Professor Lea Bishop is recognized internationally as a leading expert on book hunger and the right to read. Her research on intellectual property and distributive justice has shaped human rights law at the United Nations and informed her proposal for a plan to end childhood book hunger globally by 2030. She is tenured at Indiana University's Robert H. McKinney School of Law, where she teaches copyright law and human rights and studies the impact of ChatGPT and other generative AI. During this presentation, Professor Bishop talks about her research on how emerging technologies can be harnessed to empower individuals and expand access to educational resources globally.
Trust is crucial in community-engaged research for fostering mutually respectful relationships. Measuring trust is important for evidence-based strategies to improve recruitment and engagement in biomedical research, and for practitioners and researchers to reflect on their own trustworthiness. During this conversation, Professor Sotto explores the concepts of trust and trustworthiness and offers practical approaches.
Professor Broxton Bird gives an overview of his paleoclimate research in the midcontinental U.S. that seeks to determine the relationship between past climate change and flooding and how this information can be used to understand how human impacts on the climate and landscape have altered these natural systems and what it means for the future.
In this short video, Professor Sotto describes her community-engaged translational research. She enjoys championing faculty and trainees from historically marginalized and minoritized backgrounds along all career stages.
Many teachers and faculty do not want, for various reasons, to come back to the classroom and school environment. Our children need you. Please do not cancel their success. Adults experience a lot of complexity in their own lives which they bring to the lives of their own children and those they teach. Yet, children of all ages, especially before the age of 12, require only two things for their student success. 1) that their basic Maslow Hierarchy of Needs be met and 2) that we "Show Up" in their lives. Showing up means finding ways to bond via people, places, and things or through social bonding attachment, commitment, involvement, and belief. During this presentation, Professor Carolyn Gentle-Genitty shares ways you can encourage student success.
In this video, Professor Christine Picard describes her translational research. Professor Picard and her research team are developing strategies to optimize insect production as a sustainable solution to address the protein needs of a growing global population.
Personal and community networks are dimensions where information, resources, and norms about health are clustered and spread through groups of people. In the case of Hispanic health in the U.S., networks are thought to be both protective (through the provision of support and resources), but also a conduit of unhealthy behaviors and practices (such as reinforcing norms for episodic clinical care). It is not fully understood how these dimensions were affected during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the VidaSana Study 2015-2022, Dr. Maupome and his team of researchers collected data from 558 Hispanics from Central America and Mexico. Their goal was to examine the evolution of social networks, health beliefs and health-related behaviors among these population groups. During this presentation, Dr. Maupome talks about the findings of the VidaSana study (and other ancillary studies) and how data will be used to better understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Hispanic populations.
Dr. Susana Mariscal and her community partners describe how Indiana is part of the nationwide shift toward prevention through community collaborations using a strengths-based approach, integrating various efforts, tailoring responses to needs, using digital campaigns, aligning funding, and gaining champions’ support. The Strengthening Indiana Families project, funded by the Children’s Bureau, has strengthened cross-system collaborations at the state and local levels in Indiana and has garnered buy-in from leaders and policymakers, leading to funding alignment and increased financial support.
In this video, Dr. Susana Mariscal describes her translational research. Indiana is part of the nationwide shift toward prevention through community collaborations using a strengths-based approach, integrating various efforts, tailoring responses to needs, using digital campaigns, aligning funding, and gaining champions’ support. The Strengthening Indiana Families project, funded by the Children’s Bureau, has strengthened cross-system collaborations at the state and local levels in Indiana and has garnered buy-in from leaders and policymakers, leading to funding alignment and increased financial support.
Professor Lasana Kazembe’s translational research project is a literacy and creative arts program that introduces participants to the cultural, historical, and political impact of (six) 20th century global Black Arts Movements.
In this presentation, Professor John Goodpaster discusses his translational research on “Chemical Analysis as a Tool in Arson and Explosives Investigations.” He explains how his laboratory uses science to design better approaches to identify trace amounts of explosives on post-blast debris from improvised explosive devices or ignitable liquid residues in debris from suspicious fires. He also talks about the best methods for training dogs to detect explosives of all kinds.
During this presentation, Dr. Jamie Levine Daniel discusses the need to acknowledge, address, and mitigate bias in order to best serve our communities. She highlights how her initial focus on addressing antisemitism in the classroom led her to a broader research focus on equity and justice in process and policy that involves knowledge co-creation with community partners. Examples that she highlights include dismantling racism in philanthropy, tracking cross-border philanthropy, and advocating for science-based health policy.
During this presentation, Dr. Lisa Staten discusses the "Diabetes Impact Project – Indianapolis Neighborhoods (DIP-IN)". This a multi-year, multisector, community engaged project with a holistic approach to reducing the diabetes burden in three Indianapolis communities. She provides an overview of the project and then focuses on the diverse partnerships that are central to the project.
In this presentation, Dr. Catherine Mosher presents an intervention study that her team conducted to reduce the negative impact of symptoms in patients with advanced cancer and improve family caregivers’ well-being. This study used a telephone-delivered approach to reach participants throughout the state of Indiana. Also, a community partner shares her experiences as a cancer survivor.
Racism is a devastation that exists in communities throughout the world. It thwarts societies from evolving into their potential as socially, economically and politically viable settings in which to live and thrive. Drawing from her work on racialized violence, Dr. Chalmer Thompson addresses how some scholars and practitioners perpetuate forms of systemic violence and she demonstrates how liberation-based psychology can help end oppression.
Dr. Chalmer Thompson briefly discusses her research interests and goals. Her research focuses on how people interact with one another verbally and non-verbally, and on creative ways to reach children in resisting the negative manifestations of racism while simultaneously, advancing strategies that build their identities as sociopolitical beings. She also talks about the work she does abroad in Uganda and the work that she does locally in Indianapolis.
Dr. Hyatt talks about some of the most memorable collaborative projects that she has engaged in over the past 19 years in Indianapolis, and shares what each project has contributed to the mission of supporting translational research at IUPUI. Colleagues of Dr. Hyatt share what she and her research means to them, IUPUI, and the Indianapolis and international communities.
Professor Paul Mullins is a historical archaeologist who studies the intersection of materiality and the color line, focusing on the relationship between racism, consumption, and urban displacement. Dr. Mullins’ research has focused on urban displacement in Indianapolis, examining how a century-old, predominately African-American community was displaced and is now reconstructing its history. His scholarship has included archaeological excavations, documentary research, and oral history in Ransom Place, Flanner House Homes, the present-day IUPUI campus, and postwar African-American suburbs.
During this special event, several of Dr. Mullins’ colleagues share how his work has and continues to impact their lives and academic careers. This presentation also shows how Paul Mullins’ research is an exemplary model of IUPUI faculty members translating research into practice for the betterment of their fields and communities.
English learners make up 10.4% of the U.S. student population. Professor Annela Teemant’s research focuses on preparing teachers for these learners using critical sociocultural perspectives on teaching and learning. Using quasi-experimental, qualitative, and mixed methods research designs, she studies how teacher pedagogy, job-embedded coaching, and in-service teacher credentialing impact student (language) learning. In this short video, Professor Teemant goes into further detail about her research.
English learners make up 10.4% of the U.S. student population. Professor Annela Teemant's research focuses on preparing teachers for these learners using critical sociocultural perspectives on teaching and learning. Using quasi-experimental, qualitative, and mixed methods research designs, she studies how teacher pedagogy, job-embedded coaching, and in-service teacher credentialing impact student (language) learning.
A travelogue-type film which shows some of the famous castles which gave Castille its name; includes the Alhambra, some historic monasteries, and the Gothic Cathedral of Burgos. With few exceptions, the vocabulary is restricted to the 2000 most common words and idioms from Hayward Keniston's A standard list of Spanish words and idioms. For second semester Spanish students.
A map is used to locate Hamburg, Germany. Then tours the harbor section of the city and the business and shopping districts. Visits a typical middle-income home during a family gathering, the inner and outer lakes, the botanical gardens, and the zoo.
Describes the productive power of ranchers and their role in supplying America's war effort during World War II.
Portrays ranch life and western range country. Shows waterholes, windmills and watering tanks. Stresses improvements made through government range programs.
Uses animation to show the mechanism of meiosis, the chromosome halving cell division preceding the formation of sperm and egg cells and forming the basis of genetics.
Illustrates the different methods used by various salespeople. Shows how suggestive and descriptive selling aids the customer, the individual salesclerk, and the store.
Demonstrates the concept that electric current is a flow of electrons controlled by circuits. Describes have electrical circuits. Describes home electrical circuits and illustrates a short circuit caused by faculty insulation. Reveals functions of conductors and insulators, and measurements of electric flow by application of Ohm's law. Explains Ohm's law in terms of resistance, current, and electromotive force. For junior and senior high school, and adult groups.
Presents scenes of the chameleon in its normal habitat, with extreme close-ups to show the functioning of the feet, eyes, and tongue. Shows how the skin color changes in response to light and temperament. Includes slow-motion sequences.
Describes the constant activity of the industries and public services of a typical American town, and shows how inhabitants of the town are dependent upon each other for their comfort and well being.
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Illustrates community institutions, their services and activities, by portraying a day in the life of ten-year-old Richard. Points out ways in which the members of a community serve each other, and emphasizes the responsibility of membership in a community.
Because it is raining, Françoise and her pet rabbit must spend the morning doing something indoors. Françoise draws a picture with crayons, and Hopper, her rabbit, helps her. Written for children with fundamental French vocabulary, the film has entertaining visuals and includes a range of French basic action verbs, names of colors, and important prepositions.
"Roadrunner conquers rattlesnake" is an excerpt from the feature "Adventures of Chico." A young boy, Chico, is sleeping while his roadrunner pet explores nature. The roadrunner comes across a dangerous rattlesnake and the two go head to head.
Presents a cartoon movie of Soglow's Little King. On Christmas Eve, the Little King sneaks two tramps into the castle. The next morning, the three men are thrilled by the presents Santa left behind.
Portrays running water as the most powerful of all forces tending to alter the earth's surface. Describes the water cycle, and through stream table demonstrations, animated drawings, and natural photography, explains the growth of rivers, erosion cycle, rejuvenation, and deposition. Illustrates the formation of ox-bows, sand bars, and deltas. Shows examples of valleys, meanders, water gaps, and alluvial fans.
Shows the response of today's Egyptians to new ideas of progress and change amidst a way of life unchanged for centuries. Discusses methods of agriculture, the importance of the Nile River, developments in education, the place of women in society, the racial structure of Egyptian society, the marketplace, and the traditional rural village.
Describes electrical current and its creation as Bob and his science teacher assemble a generator. Applies this learning diagrammatically to electrical power in a house.
Film depicts life at an orphanage for boys in Mexico - their chores (husking corn, milking cows) their pets, their daily routine, their games. Sentences of the Spanish narration are nearly all declarative, and in the present indicative. For second semester Spanish students.
Discloses sources of inspiration in man's environment and interprets these forms through the eyes of the creative artist in order to stimulate students to see opportunities for using art in their own living.
Demonstrates safe handling and storage of petroleum products on the farm and ranch; emphasizes danger of using kerosene, gasoline, cleaning fluids and other everyday items improperly.
Explains how the physical structure of birds is adapted to the kind of food they eat, and points out characteristics of birds that eat insects. Draws attention to the strong wings and wide bills of birds that chase insects in the air; the small size and agility of birds that hunt in bushes; and the strong chisel-shaped bill of woodpeckers. Shows the swallow, nighthawk, kingbird, chestnut-sided warbler, black-billed cuckoo.
In America today, many of us can feel overwhelmed by the simultaneous political, economic, and climate crises upon us. Frances Moore Lappé discusses these three interacting roots of our problems: a brutal form of capitalism, big money's grip on our democracy, and climate catastrophe. She shows us how realizing their unity can be empowering, not overwhelming. They open historic opportunity. Addressing one crisis, we are working to solve all three. Through inspiring stories and startling facts, Frances helps us realize our own power to generate a new story as we tackle these root causes with exhilarating, courageous action—together.
The COVID-19 pandemic has provided further evidence that a world of increasingly complex challenges requires a commitment to reaching beyond boundaries, crossing disciplines, bridging research and practice, and welcoming diverse perspectives. David Oxtoby, President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, describes how one of the nation’s oldest learned societies is reinventing itself to address the challenges of today—and how we can all work together across institutions, professional societies, and disciplines to serve the common good.
