WNPR’s The Colin McEnroe Show is producing a program on Thursday, August 11 at 1-2pm EST on the history of the Sun. John Grim is the featured speaker and will discuss how the Sun has been worshipped throughout history by selected religions and cultures.
John will link his remarks to the four Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) that he will co-teach with Mary Evelyn Tucker at Yale University through the online platform, Coursera. These MOOCs will be featured as a specialization under the theme of “Journey of the Universe: A Story for Our Times” and will be launched on September 21st. For more information on these courses that are open to the public, see http://fore.yale.edu/files/Yale-MOOCS.pdf A sign up will be available in early September with a JOIN button on a landing page for these courses on the Coursera website: https://www.coursera.org/yale
Anyone in the country can stream this WNPR broadcast by going to www.wnpr.org and clicking “Listen Live” in the upper left corner of the page. This can be done either at 1pm EST on Thursday, August 11 when the program is happening live or at 8pm EST on Thursday evening when WNPR rebroadcasts it.
This program can also be heard live from a network of broadcasters throughout CT, in southern parts of MA, and in various parts of NY. Those who wish to listen to it on their radio can tune into their local NPR member stations at the two aforementioned times on Thursday. Member stations broadcasting the program are as follows:
Station City and Frequency:
WSHU-FM Fairfield - 91.1
WNPR-FM New Haven - 90.5
WPKT-FM Meriden - 90.5
WNPR-FM Norwich - 89.1
WEDW-FM Stamford - 88.5
WSHU-AM Westport - 1260
WECS-FM Willimantic - 90.1
The program will be recorded so that anyone can go back and listen at any time. We will share the link to the recording in the September issue of the Forum newsletter.
Warm wishes,
Mary Evelyn Tucker & John Grim
The Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale
http://fore.yale.edu/
www.emergingearthcommunity.org
www.journeyoftheuniverse.org
