How Can a Smart City Fight Climate Change? Solving Tomorrow’s Problems Today
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How Can a Smart City Fight Climate Change? Solving Tomorrow’s Problems Today

By Alex Silverman The latest entry in Planet Classroom’s Problem Solver Series comes from student Diamond Middleton. The problem Middleton wants to solve is fighting climate change with the cities of tomorrow; these cities are referred to as “smart cities.” The goal of these cities is to prompt sustainability, inclusion, and the improvement in the quality of people’s way of life. This short primarily focuses on cities around the world...

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Hot Diggity: A Simple, Pleasant Short Created with Great Effort
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Hot Diggity: A Simple, Pleasant Short Created with Great Effort

Által: Alex Silverman This short was animated, colored, and rendered all in Clip Studio Paint by Director Danielle Pedersen. It is a simple, animated short about a dog trying to steal sausages from a street vendor. What makes this short so impressive aside from its unique art style, is that it was all done by one creator using one program. It is very reminiscent of classic, animated shorts from major animation studios. Mindenekelőtt, a...

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In Path of Freedom, Prisoners Learn to Unlock Themselves
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In Path of Freedom, Prisoners Learn to Unlock Themselves

By Reilly Wisniewski The 10 minute short film, A szabadság útja, directed by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, shows us how to make good in a bad situation. In the documentary we follow Fleet Maull of the Prison Mindfulness Institute as he helps inmates learn proper communication and problem solving skills so that they can begin to live a better life and keep themselves from getting into further trouble. In an environment where everyone’s worst...

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A Satisfying Rendition of Chopin’s Etude in B Minor, No.10 Op.25
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A Satisfying Rendition of Chopin’s Etude in B Minor, No.10 Op.25

By Reilly Wisniewski In this 3-minute piano performance, a young musician from Bard College Conservatory of Music performs Etude Op.25, No.10 in B minor, a solo piece written by Frédéric Chopin in 1835. Domantas Karalius plays the song effortlessly, creating an energy that builds throughout and rewards the audience with a satisfying and excellent close. Coming down from the rough last 2 év, it brings a smile to my face knowing that...

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Schubertiade: “Tavasszal” – Megkülönböztető előadás
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Schubertiade: “Tavasszal” – Megkülönböztető előadás

By Alex Silverman From our artistic friends at Bard Conservatory comes a performance by soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon and pianist Ryan McCullough. Together they perform the Lied, “Im Fruhling” (In Spring) by Franz Schubert, set to the poem, “On the 31st of March 1815,” by Ernst Schulze. Schubert composed the song in 1826 to Schulze’s poem as part of 10 poems by Schulze he set to music. The performance includes a segment featuring...

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Befejező háborúk: Rita Butsko diák rövid cikke azt a problémát taglalja, amelyet leginkább szeretne megoldani
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Befejező háborúk: Rita Butsko diák rövid cikke azt a problémát taglalja, amelyet leginkább szeretne megoldani

By Alex Silverman This film comes to us once again from Planet Classroom’s Problem Solvers series. In this short, student Rita Butsko presents the problem she wants to solve the most, an issue more pressing than ever, ending wars. Ending wars is no easy task especially since wars can start for many reasons. But that doesn’t mean we can’t do anything about it. In this simple short, Butsko highlights the terrible impact of war on...

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