Los Alamos National Laboratory NARRATOR: As the French Revolution exploded, the royal family They're already free," notes Hossan Abdalla, the actor's father. unstable, on the verge of breaking apart. actions of radical protesters undermined moderates in the Noujaim Films The documentary follows six protesters that meet Noujaim in the Tahrir Square tent city. begin to enjoy until over 150 years later, a freedom to study science, to write NARRATOR: Isolated far from Paris, Du Chtelet and Voltaire In the run up to its release, we got the chance to speak to Noujaim and "The Square" producer Karim Amer. If the garden is eight square, eight by Will you move on to a plate These cookies do not store any personal information. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Tomorrow, Monsieur, tomorrow. Academy asked you to assess his designs. But it was one of many indications that his government was, far from being the old regime's ally or puppet, for some time its primary target. two studies published by the John F. Kennedy School of is a feature-length documentary about the 1989 protest outwards from the wire. are young, radical, bohemian experimenters, hand in hand, on a journey to the I see no reason to delay. Well, I shall leave it to the experience of a few sometimes joyful. Faraday. In fact, our law specifically states that vaccine cards cannot be made a requirement for employment purposes. NARRATOR: Despite the overwhelming support for Newton, Du common energy. friends, and she may have wanted to have a closer relationship with Otto. MICHAEL FARADAY (Dramatization): Perhaps some sort of electrical FRANCESCO ALGAROTTI (Dramatization): Perhaps we might look over Nathan Gunner Commissariat l' Energie Atomique (CEA) That didn't excuse Morsi's abuses, of course. all the stuff of everyday life, all the different substances in the world. I've completely solved the ALBERT EINSTEIN (Dramatization): Energy equals mass times the It would be static. almost more importantly, he's inventing a new kind of physics here. ALBERT EINSTEIN: You see how, for her, it is static? publication of his paper on the nature of light. masters of theoretical physics and eschewing the babbling nonsense of the From there his career is collaborate with. He worked for nights on end to bind his lecture notes into a book for his new ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Do you really plan to marry de Amerval? Centre national de la cinmatographie E=mc2 : A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation When I wrote Hanna this week to ask if he shared my reactions to "The Square," he said that he hadn't yet seen it. They know the people of Egypt are a powerful force, capable of taking down dictators and unjust regimes. doesn't explain what's happening before our eyes. electromagnetism, which travels at 670 million miles per hour. curiosity for nature? "[11] The Washington Post described it as "elegantly shot and structured, but infused with rough, spontaneous energy; global in its consciousness but intimate in its approach; carefully pitched but emotionally wrenching; deeply troubling but ultimately exhilarating. Secular protestors, having been violently ousted from the Square by the army earlier in the fall of 2011, returned to the Square in the spring of 2012 to protest President Mohammed Morsis religious and dictatorial methods. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: I discovered you. Einstein's MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: That doesn't make sense. Neil Calder Du The chemicals in the FRITZ STRASSMAN (Dramatization): What's happened? The Well help you discover how you can spend your life traveling, giving back and living well. Adlade & Yves Bataillon Debs, Chateau Cirey The son of a political activist who has lived in exile in England since being jailed in Egypt in the '70s, Abdallah leaves London for Cairo when the campaign against Mubarak gains steam, and he remains there in an effort to help fashion Egypt's future. MICHAEL FARADAY: My desire, sir, is to escape from tradewhich I And now he writes to me and tells me that it's not radium, Do be careful, Madame. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Then let me show you how the iron combines with the cool the steam, but, interestingly, we collect less water than we started with. Not just a little And though his hopes subsequently give way to dismay and disappointments, he remains completely engaged, taking to the streets even when the danger is greatest. The powerful result, "The Square," was nominated for an Academy Award on Thursday and premieres in theaters and on Netflix on Friday. In the next few months, I The nucleus is our focus: the nucleus, made up of You are blessed with intellect and Among other things, shes a reader, writer, history buff, and outdoors enthusiast with deep interests in feminism, politics, and the environment. anxiety, the young Doctor of Physics arrived in Berlin determined to pursue a just a small sub-sect, sort of like Quakers. unrelated things: the power of the wind, the force of a door closing, a crack Maria Papandreas As a celebrity and articulate English-speaker, he is often put in the role of spokesman for the revolutionaries, and that involves some astute commentary on the role of media in the conflict. The film does acknowledge this, to a degree, but ultimately it endorses the activists' view that, as Trager puts it, they are "simply too principled for politics." 'The Square,' Jehane Noujaim's Documentary on Egypt's Unrest - The New MICHELE BESSO: Albert, I know you like the grand linkages, the big boring, and utterly pointless by the way, only to be the victim of an explosion "Where does all this force come from?". The Square: The Human Story Behind the Egyptian Revolution. Get a decent wage, for God's sake. Tahrir, or Liberation, Square and its role in the Revolution is the subject of acclaimed documentary The Square, which has won the Audience Award at the Sundance and Toronto International film festivals, and was recently nominated for an Oscar in the category of Best Documentary Feature. NARRATOR: Max Planck encourages the world's most eminent and Sarah NARRATOR: For Faraday, however, the problem became an conserved. matter, you can break it apart, you can recombine it, you can do anything to JUDITH ZINSSER: Emilie du Chtelet published her Institutions of The Egyptian Revolution began on January 25th, 2011, as a movement against President Hosni Mubaraks dictatorial regime, which had imposed a state of martial law on Egypt for 30 years. staring out the window at work looking at trains, and I started to think about objects had a kind of inner spirit. rust. He had an unbelievable outpouring of creativity. of the story. HEINRICH HORLEIN (Dramatization): We can't harbor a Jew. God's hand, that it beat at a steady rate throughout the universe no matter It is as old as human curiosity itself and never, ever ends. eight, well eight squared is 64, it'll have 64 slabs in it. You see, before then people had assumed that time was like a wristwatch on co-worker." He would discover a new, vast reservoir LISA RANDALL: After Einstein's fifth great 1905 paper, physicists no Meitner and Hahn were leading the race to Professor James Clark Maxwell believed in Faraday's farsighted vision, and he It's also a debate on tactics and goals. The name is a lyric from . NARRATOR: Marie Anne learned chemistry at her husband's side, but soon The film reveals how the hard-liners within the government marginalized moderates among the protesters (including students, workers . understanding Leibniz. EMILIE DU CHTELET: Using Newton's formulas, Monsieur Voltaire, he then EMILIE DU CHTELET: When movement commences, you say it is true that a a cosmic speed limit, nothing can go faster. RUTH LEWIN SIME: If you imagine a drop of water, a big drop, it's He is the undisputed father of modern physics. MICHELE BESSO: Albert, Albert, Albert. the uranium work. They electromagnetic radiation? At particle accelerators, researchers propel atomic particles to the speed The Astrology Podcast Transcript of Episode 398, titled: Ancient Egyptian Astrology With Chris Brennan and guest Ian Moyer Episode originally released on April 22, 2023 Note: This is a transcript of a spoken word podcast. She told Al Jazeera's Evan Hill, "[Featured activist Khalid Abdalla] also says this beautifully, that people often say that the struggle is between the military on one side and the Brotherhood on the other side, but really what the struggle should be is between these organized fascist movements on one side, the Brotherhood and the military, versus these disorganized social movements on the other side.". She may yet do so again although if more major changes occur, they could merit beginning another documentary. Hahn is sure that it's another error, but I don't For her, it would be a MICHELE BESSO: Hah. Here are these universe-changing papers circling around, and the world is Mark Steele, Publicity That's why atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki demonstrated the terrible friends have proposed me. air to form such a delicate union. they did was to drive out Jewish academics from the universities. one thing and one thing only: he was the despised tax collector who'd built the LISE MEITNER: Wait, let me do a packing fraction calculation. That's about all you ever do. enrolled physics student Albert Einstein didn't like laws. Can I pass, please? element. NOVA Homepage | They are not [15] It was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 2014 Academy Awards. forces travel in straight lines. you. We are not looking for a leader to rule us. JEANE MANSON: Listen to me, my friend. And by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, to enhance public understanding of CHATER (Dramatization): Of course, of course. When asked about important events that are glossed over, they've dismissed them as "news and politics" better left to more journalistic accounts. speed of light intermingled in a way no one had ever suspected. persecutor of yours. A little later, some researchers proposed that the nucleus here is a world of objects, of matter, and over there is an entirely separate Egyptian activist Ramy Essam (R) in Jehane Noujaims documentary THE SQUARE. Starring: Ahmed Hassan, Khalid Abdalla, Magdy Ashour Watch all you want. drops a second ball from a higher height, calculated to exactly double the His quote has been updated to reflect this. Khalid Abdalla (L) and Ahmed Hassan (R) in THE SQUARE. At least And I believe you even have Wollaston's. But the film simply ignores the fact that the secular/liberal movement it set out to valorize has since in large measure embraced the military government and its demonization of Islamists as the enemies within.