Wondering how to improve your credit score and why that matters? Whether it's time to buy gold or Bitcoin, or if the bubble's about to burst? How your investments can work hard for you without constant worry? After a group game, HGP's Jeremy Knowles will lead a dive into the world of personal finances and the obstacles preventing you from attaining financial security. With an economics BS, an MBA, work in banking and investments, and personal finance teaching, Jeremy loves helping decipher the world of money.
Most people only have a vague idea of what soil is and how it works. You will learn it here, how soils form, the reason you are alive, what nutrients are, how soil stores water and nutrients, and how to access published on-line soils data to improve your understanding of this critical resource. After 40+ years in the music industry, James Cassidy has been an Instructor of Soil Science at OSU for over 20 years, and is the founder and faculty advisor for OSU Organic Growers Club, OSU's student farm, which has over 300 student volunteers and growing, largely self-supported through produce sales.
Discussion around the Feature-length movie "The Palestine Exception" is an extended Q&A with director Jennifer Ruth (She does not speak for PSU). Synopsis: As students across the country organize protests against Israel's war on Gaza, decades-long taboos in academia around criticism of Israel–the "Palestine exception"–are shattered. The film features professors and students as they join calls for a ceasefire and divestment from companies that do business with Israel and face waves of crackdown from administrators, the media, the police and politicians. Jennifer Ruth is a professor in the School of Film at PSU, writes about academic freedom and higher education in many national outlets, co-directed this film (with Jan Haaken), and has (co)authored or edited four books.
Movie: https://PalestineExceptionFilm.com
https://WatermelonPictures.com/films/the-palestine-exception
https://Amazon.com/amazonprime (After Dec. 9)
Observing the night sky and pondering the vastness of the universe can be both inspiring and humbling. Todd Duncan combines visual highlights from human space exploration with ways to experience ourselves as part of the universe. Dr. Duncan teaches physics and astronomy at Pacific University, and "science integration" – distilling key insights from science down to their conceptual essence, a form that helps inform our worldviews. He has degrees from the University of Illinois, Cambridge, and University of Chicago, and co-authored the college textbook, "Your Cosmic Context: An Introduction to Modern Cosmology."