“ Movie" most clearly describes the word "medium" because it's a means or a form through which people are communicated to.
The human population has grown tremendously throughout the last 100 years due to the advancements in math and science. The improvement in such things like medicine have allowed for civilians to to have healthier children. But at this rate, and the way humans treat the planet, we may be limited to our resources. This will cause a vast majority of conflict between people and the government. It may come down to the point where humans will have to be limited to only a curtain amount of children making people unhappy.
Sorrow, I am one hundered percent sure
The speaker of "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" prefers to learn about nature by experiencing it directly.
He leaves his class to go out and look at the stars, because he thinks this method is better to learn such things than listen to a boring lecture.