Education

San Fernando Valley students win prizes in C-SPAN’s 17th annual short documentary competition

  Sofia Gevorgian and Anahit Malumyan, students at AGBU Manoogian-Demirdjian School in Canoga Park, are first prize winners for their short documentary in C-SPAN’s 2021 StudentCam competition. (Photo courtesy of Sofia Gevorgian and Anahit Malumyan)   Sofia Gevorgian and Anahit Malumyan, students at AGBU Manoogian-Demirdjian School in Canoga Park, are first-prize winners in C-SPAN’s national 2021 StudentCam competition. Middle and high school students were invited to create short documentari...
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JPL begins assembly work on asteroid-exploring spacecraft in La Cañada Flintridge

Technicians at Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Monday, March 29, were beginning final assembly and testing work on a spacecraft designed to explore a largely metallic asteroid in hopes of gaining insight on the formation of planets. The van-sized chassis of the Psyche spacecraft arrived at JPL in La Cañada Flintridge over the weekend from Maxar Technologies in Palo Alto. Over the next year, JPL technicians will do the final assembly work on the craft and then conduct extensive testing leading up to...
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‘Not throwin’ away her shot!’ Whittier doctor parodies Hamilton to encourage vaccination

After a devastating year, a Whittier-area doctor wants to see everyone get vaccinated against the coronavirus — and she’s delivering the message with a pandemic-themed parody of Broadway’s “Hamilton” posted on YouTube. Armed with a selfie stick and her phone, Artesia resident Dr. Julie Borba was frustrated with peoples’ behavior during the pandemic, so she sat down to write some lyrics: I’m not throwin’ away my shot Hey yo, I’m not even foolin’ That I’m tired of home schoolin’ And I’m not t...
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LAUSD works to persuade parents it’s safe on campus; less than half sending kids back, survey says

With fewer than two in five elementary students and less than a quarter of middle and high schoolers returning to in-person learning if campuses were to reopen today, Los Angeles Unified School District officials are pushing hard to convince families it’s safe to send their children back and are focusing a large part of their effort on getting the word out that, starting with two communities hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic, adults in households served by LAUSD soon will have access to vacci...
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Want to know about The Cold War? Ask these Granada Hills Charter High School students

GRANADA HILLS — Granada Hills Charter High School will vie for its eighth national Academic Decathlon championship next week, after emerging victorious in the California statewide competition. Granada Hills won the California decathlon by scoring 54,021.1 out of a possible 60,000 points. That was good enough to edge out its long-time rival, El Camino Real Charter High School in Woodland Hills, which placed second with 53,665.5 points. Mark Keppel High School, which won the Los Angeles County Aca...
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The Louvre’s Entire Collection Goes Online: View and Download 480,00 Works of Art

If you go to Paris, many will advise you, you must go to the Louvre; but then, if you go to Paris, as nearly as many will advise you, you must not go to the Louvre. Both recommendations, of course, had a great deal more relevance before the global coronavirus pandemic — at this point in which art- and travel-lovers would gladly endure the infamously tiring crowdedness and size of France’s most famous museum. But now they, and everyone else around the world, can view the Louve’s artworks online,...
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Is pornography to blame for rise in 'rape culture'?

Analysis: experts split on whether easy access to porn has fuelled sexual harassment, abuse and assault between young peopleThe harrowing reports of sexism and assaults in schools detailed on the everyonesinvited.uk website has fuelled concerns of a “rape culture” in educational settings.The disclosures have raised concerns that easy access to pornography is part of the problem. Continue reading...
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Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless: How World War II Changed Cinema & Helped Create the French New Wave

Did World War II help create the French New Wave? In a roundabout way, yes, according to this video essay by Nerdwriter. Although Jean-Luc Godard’s A Bout de Souffle (aka Breathless) was not technically the first Nouvelle Vague film, it was the film’s revolutionary look and feel, and Godard’s exquisite sense of how to work the promotional machine, that caused it to reverberate around the world. A few years later, many other countries would be launching their own New Waves: Britain, Germa...
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Avani Gregg’s Style: How to Dress Like Avani

Your guide to the ultra-cool personal style of Avani Gregg, 2020's TikToker of the Year.
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Hear the Beautiful Isolated Vocal Harmonies from the Beatles’ “Something”

How many songs did Pattie Boyd — fashion model, photographer, muse, and wife of George Harrison and Eric Clapton — inspire? It’s hard to say, since some of the lyrics purportedly written for her, like those in Harrison’s breakout “Something,” may have been for someone else, then diplomatically attributed to Boyd. Or, in the case of “Something” — the first Harrison song to come out as a Beatles A-side single and the song that convinced the world of his formidable songwriting talents — the...
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‘I’m Helping Save Lives’: UC Davis Cash Incentive Working As Students Skip Spring Break Travel

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Udacity Running a 60% Off Sale on Online Courses Through April 13

A quick heads up: Udacity is running a 60% off sale through April 13 in the US (and April 20 in all other countries). Founded by computer scientist and entrepreneur Sebastian Thrun, Udacity partners with leading tech companies and offers an array of courses (and Nanodegree programs) in data science,  cyber security, machine learning, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and autonomous systems. To get the 60% off discount, click here, select a course/program, and then use the code CYBER60 d...
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