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Lesson in Love (第9节课)
Lesson in Love (第9節課) is a 2022 Taiwanese iQIYI original drama, 12 episodes, about teacher Chen Meng-yun (Hsu Wei-ning) and student Chang Yi-hsiang (Edward Chen) in a forbidden romance at Nan-Yi High School, directed by Wang Li-wen.
Lesson of the Evil (悪の教典)
Lesson of the Evil (悪の教典, Aku no Kyōten) is a 2012 Japanese psycho-horror film by Takashi Miike, adapted from Yusuke Kishi's novel, starring Hideaki Ito as psychopathic teacher Seiji Hasumi; 129 min, R15+, Toho, released 10 November 2012.
Lesson of the widow's mite
The lesson of the widow's mite is a Gospel passage in Mark 12 and Luke 21 in which Jesus praises a poor widow who gave two small coins to the temple treasury.
Lesson plan
Lesson plan: a teacher's detailed written course of instruction for one lesson, covering objectives, procedures, materials, and assessment; also known as scripted lesson plans (SLPs) when standardized, now increasingly AI-assisted.
Lesson study
Lesson study is a collaborative professional development method in which teachers jointly plan, observe, and refine a research lesson; it originated in Japan in the 1870s.
Lessonia
Lessonia is a homonymous genus name: Swainson's 1832 genus of two South American tyrant flycatchers (Andean and Austral negritos) and Bory's 1825 kelp genus of 11 southern-hemisphere Laminariales species.
Lessons in Chemistry
Lessons in Chemistry is an Apple TV+ eight-episode limited series (premiered October 13, 2023) adapted from Bonnie Garmus's 2022 novel, starring Brie Larson as chemist Elizabeth Zott, who hosts the cooking show Supper at Six; showrunner Lee Eisenberg.
Lessons in Chemistry (novel)
Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus's 2022 Doubleday debut novel about chemist Elizabeth Zott, who becomes host of the 1960s cooking show Supper at Six; 6-million-copy bestseller adapted into the Apple TV+ series starring Brie Larson.
LessWrong
LessWrong is a community blog founded in 2009 by Eliezer Yudkowsky, successor to Overcoming Bias, dedicated to human rationality and known for The Sequences, karma-weighted voting, the AI Alignment Forum, and its central role in the rationalist and AI safety communities.
Lestat de Lioncourt
Lestat de Lioncourt, the Vampire Lestat, is Anne Rice's fictional French aristocrat vampire, central figure of The Vampire Chronicles (1976-2018), bisexual antihero, born November 7, 1760 in the Auvergne, portrayed by Tom Cruise, Stuart Townsend, and Sam Reid.
Lestaurtinib
Lestaurtinib (formerly CEP-701) is an oral, multi-targeted tyrosine kinase inhibitor of the indolocarbazole class that inhibits FLT3, JAK2, and TRKA, developed as a treatment for FLT3-mutated acute myeloid leukemia.
Leste do Urucu Oil and Gas Field
Leste do Urucu is an onshore oil and gas field in the Solimões Basin near Coari, Amazonas, Brazil, discovered by Petrobras in 1987 and producing since 1992.
Lester A. Hoel
Lester A. Hoel (1935–2022) was an American transportation engineer, a University of Virginia professor and National Academy of Engineering member who co-authored Traffic and Highway Engineering.
Lester Andrews
Lester Andrews, born 1942, is an American physical chemist and emeritus professor at the University of Virginia known for matrix-isolation infrared spectroscopy and the first compounds bonding uranium to noble gases.
Lester B. Pearson
Lester B. Pearson (1897–1972), Canada's 14th prime minister 1963–1968 and 1957 Nobel Peace Prize laureate for the Suez Crisis UN Emergency Force; created medicare, the Canada Pension Plan, and the maple leaf flag.
Lester Bangs
Lester Bangs (1948 or 1949-1982) was an American rock critic for Creem, Rolling Stone, and the Village Voice, editor at Creem 1971-1976, author of Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, portrayed in Almost Famous.
Lester Bird
Lester Bird, also known as Sir Lester Bryant Bird, was an Antiguan politician who served as prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda from 1994 to 2004.
Lester C. Hunt
Lester C. Hunt (Lester Calloway Hunt, 1892-1954) was Wyoming's Democratic governor 1943-1949 and U.S. senator from 1949. Distinct from other Hunts as the McCarthy-era senator blackmailed over his son's arrest, who died by suicide in his Senate office June 19, 1954.
Lester C. Krogh
Lester Christensen Krogh (1925–2013) was an American chemical engineer who spent his 37-year career at 3M, retiring in 1989 as senior vice president of research and development.
Lester Chang
Lester Chang is an American politician and Republican member of the New York State Assembly from Brooklyn's 49th district, elected in 2022 after defeating longtime incumbent Peter Abbate.
Lester Dragstedt
Lester Dragstedt (1893–1975) was an American surgeon and physiologist at the University of Chicago who reintroduced vagotomy as a treatment for duodenal ulcer in 1943.
Lester F. Eastman
Lester F. Eastman (1928–2013) was an American electrical engineer at Cornell University who built the first US university research program on compound-semiconductor microwave devices such as gallium arsenide.
Lester F. Lau
Lester F. Lau is an American molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois Chicago, known for immediate early gene discovery and CCN1 wound-healing research.
Lester Germer
Lester Halbert Germer (1896–1971) was an American physicist at Bell Labs who, with Clinton Davisson, first demonstrated the wave properties of the electron in 1927, confirming de Broglie's hypothesis.
Lester Hayes
Lester Hayes, Raiders cornerback 1977-1986, two-time Super Bowl champion, 1980 NFL Defensive Player of the Year with 13 interceptions, 39 career picks, Stickum rule namesake, not in Hall of Fame.
Lester Hogan
C. Lester Hogan (1920–2008) was an American physicist and semiconductor executive who invented the microwave gyrator at Bell Labs, taught at Harvard, and led Motorola Semiconductor and Fairchild.
Lester Holt
Lester Holt (born 1959), also known as Lester Don Holt Jr., is an American broadcast journalist, longtime NBC Nightly News anchor (2015-2025), first Black solo weeknight network evening anchor, and current full-time Dateline NBC anchor.
Lester J. Reed
Lester J. Reed (1925–2015) was an American biochemist at the University of Texas at Austin known for first isolating lipoic acid and for work on pyruvate dehydrogenase regulation.
Lester Lees
Lester Lees (1920–1986) was an American aeronautical engineer and longtime Caltech professor whose work on supersonic aerodynamics, heat transfer, and high-altitude gas dynamics proved relevant to atmospheric re-entry.
Lester M. Crawford
Lester M. Crawford (1938–2021) was an American veterinarian who became the first veterinarian to serve as Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2005.