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To do any kind of history of classroom film, you need to understand the scholarship in a lot of fields, im going to be quoting and referencing and pulling together work that ive done, work thats been done by other historians of science. Film studies people. Communications studies scholars, even folk lorists. For reasons that should now be obvious, the topic is interdisciplinary. In particular were going to return to this question, right. What are the relations between art, science and entertainment and culture, in cinema . How do they reinforce one another in these particular contexts . Were g...

Deeply personal writings opens 'rare snapshot' into the mind of ORNL's Cold War era leader The Knoxville News-Sentinel 6 hrs ago Vincent Gabrielle, Knoxville News Sentinel Alvin Weinberg has an incredible resume, if you will.  He came to Oak Ridge in 1945 as a Manhattan Project scientist and stayed in the city until his death in 2006. He was an influential nuclear physicist and the longest-serving director of Oak Ridge National Lab, home of some of the country's most important scientific achievements. He was a scientific bridge between the use of the nuclear bomb to the im...

Alvin Weinberg has an incredible resume, if you will.  He came to Oak Ridge in 1945 as a Manhattan Project scientist and stayed in the city until his death in 2006. He was an influential nuclear physicist and the longest-serving director of Oak Ridge National Lab, home of some of the country's most important scientific achievements. He was a scientific bridge between the use of the nuclear bomb to the importance of climate change.  But the personal stories behind the man are far, far more interesting. His impact on science, and on scientific thinking in general, are becoming more appreciat...