Research Revolution

Over the years that I have served in the Westmoreland Library Network there have been programs promoted and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). One of them, which I facilitated at WLN Libraries, was entitled “Research Revolution: Science and the Shaping of Modern Life.” It is a film program for adults and teens. There are six films in all, which I showed and discussed with participants at numerous Libraries from 2003 to 2011, and then in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Pittsburgh from 2012 to 2014. I never tired of watching those films or talking about them. They are all, despite being about 20 years old now, as relevant and fresh today as they were then, so I still want to talk about them. Here are their titles: Atomic Age - I Am Become Death:…