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October 31, 2014
The Mystery of the Missing Bees
The mystery of Colony Collapse Disorder has brought honeybees into the public eye. But the story of their plight — and its impact — is more complicated.
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October 30, 2014
San Quentin's Giants
At one of California’s most notorious prisons, baseball teams take the field.
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October 29, 2014
Maya Angelou on Con Men
"The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you're greedy, you're set up." - Maya Angelou, as told to Studs Terkel in 1970
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October 28, 2014
This is Not a Rainbow
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October 27, 2014
21-87 (Arthur Lipsett, 1964)
A wry commentary on machine-dominated man, the man to whom nothing matters, who waits for chance to call his number. The film is a succession of many unrelated views of the passing crowd.
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October 24, 2014
Potty-Mouthed Princesses Drop F-Bombs for Feminism
Facing a future where women are still paid 23% less than men for the same work, and where 1 in 5 women are raped or sexually assaulted in gender-based violence, little girls between 6 and 13 years-old dressed as pretty pink princesses drop F-bombs to draw attention to society’s continued sexism.
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October 23, 2014
There is Only Coffee
Unlike most coffee growing regions of the world, in Ethiopia the folks who grow the coffee, also drink the product. Long considered the birthplace of the beverage, Ethiopia produces some of the best. This little film is a love song to coffee, the grueling work that goes into producing it and the importance of small farms and cooperation in that process.
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October 22, 2014
Why is the Sun Yellow and the Sky Blue?
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October 21, 2014
Werner Herzog: "Let them fact check to their death!"
Werner Herzog in conversation with Paul Holdengräber, September 4, 2014.
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October 20, 2014
The Librarian 1947 Vocational Guidance Films
It's about people.
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October 17, 2014
Michio Kaku on the Science of Dreams
Michio Kaku describes how our prefrontal cortex disengages as we dream, thus suppressing the fact-checking component of our consciousness. Dr. Kaku's latest book is The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind.
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October 16, 2014
How Reversing Glasses Alters Perception
Goggles that warp your vision might be the key to understanding the redness of red, the softness of velvet and the nature of consciousness itself.
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October 15, 2014
Regular Division
Regular Division is a collaged video loop by Joe Hamilton that was shot and digitally composed on location in Europe, Asia and the Middle East as part of a new series of works looking at landscape. The series responds to the impact of the digital technologies on our representation of landscape and the effect of this on our relationship with landscape.
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October 14, 2014
Death Is Elsewhere
Richard Mosse directed this short film on the X-47B drone — a pilotless killer on USS Theodore Roosevelt, Aug 17, 2014.
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October 13, 2014
William Rankin: The Man Who Rode The Thunder
This story is legendary. And it begins with a legendary aircraft, the F8 Crusader. The Crusader was the first American fighter to fly faster than 1,000 miles per hour. in 1957, then future astronaut and senator John Glenn piloted one to set a transcontinental speed record. In vietnam it earned a kill ratio of 6:1. and In 1962 camera-equipped unarmed Crusaders retrieved photographic evidence flying over Cuba during the Cuban missile crisis. the jet's abilities were in many ways unrivaled, but our story begins with one instance where they fell short. And that story begins with William Rankin, the man who rode the thunder.
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October 10, 2014
Original Ideal
What assumptions would we make about another person if we could see their ideal self-image? Original Ideal combines portrait photography and neuroscience to isolate the subjects' ideal self image.
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October 9, 2014
Why Brits and Americans Spell Differently
Why did Americans drop the "u" from British words like "humour" and "behaviour"? What about "theater" vs. "theatre?" Siobhan Thompson explains the spelling divide between our nations.
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October 8, 2014
Beautiful Chemical Reactions
Eight types of beautiful chemical reactions are presented in this short video.
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October 7, 2014
Imagine There's a Ukulele and Slide-Whistle
Jack Lattimer performing John Lennon's "Imagine" on the Ukelele Slide-whistle whilst spinning a plate.
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October 6, 2014
Spazuk — Fire Painter
"Ornithocide" is Spazuk's most recent collection of soot paintings.
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October 3, 2014
A Brief History of Melancholy
If you are a living, breathing human being, chances are you have felt sad at least a few times in your life. But what exactly is melancholy, and what (if anything) should we do about it? Courtney Stephens details our still-evolving understanding of sadness -- and even makes a case for its usefulness.
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October 2, 2014
Bette Davis on The Sexes
"I think men have got to change an awful lot"
- Bette Davis in 1963
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October 1, 2014
Blind Guy
A vignette on life, love and blind perception.
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