The "Electricity Garden" in Tel-Aviv is known as a haven for drug dealings and prostitution. This documentary follows to young Arab friends, Nino and Dudu, as they cope with life in "The Garden".
In the mid 70s, an aspiring theoretical physicist made what he and many others feel is the most important discovery in the world. This very significant film is about the resulting invention, one that can author all subsequent ideas, provide a totally unanticipated cosmology, and possibly deliver us from death.
A behind the scences of one of the most memorable movies of the 21st century. This documentary complete with commentary from Vivian Kubrick, the daughter of Stanley Kubrick, from the film she shot on the set of the movie.
The tragic, defining moment in the American space program was watched by millions. This film produced 15 years after that tragic day takes the viewer into the minute detail of the launch decision for the first time: the politics, the science and the human drama.
Buddhism asks the fundamental question: What is life and what is the point of existence? Wade Davis goes on an anthropological and spiritual journey into the Himalayas of Nepal to learn the deepest lesson of Buddhist practice.
A documentary film about the history of the ARPANET and birth of the Internet.
A documentary about the lives of children within the Gaza Strip. As recent conflicts continue to escalated, it is important to realize how many innocent people are stuck within this conflict zone.
Very interesting documentary about how advertising is working on our human minds both subconsciously and subliminally. Why and how are people attracted to advertised goods and services? With which tricks is advertising working to get you?
This documentary reveals how a foreign spy ring with links to Al-Qaeda has been discovered working within the FBI. Sibel Edmonds began work at the FBI translating wire taps in an investigation into a foreign spy ring operating in the US. She became suspicious of her colleagues after discovering some mistranslations and was then invited to join the spy ring which had evidently infiltrated the FBI itself. She went straight to her bosses and rather than being hailed as a hero she was promptly sacked. After going public on 60 Minutes she has been officially gagged.
A documentary depicting the final hours in the life of the Princess of Wales that raised outrage when it was shown in Britain will air on CBC, but without the photographs that caused the greatest controversy. Princes Harry and William, Diana's sons, begged the U.K.'s Channel 4 not to air the documentary, Diana: The Witnesses in the Tunnel which features photos taken by paparazzi during the last minutes of her life. However, Channel 4 aired the documentary earlier this year despite objections by the Royal family. Particularly controversial was a photo by a French photographer showing Diana being given oxygen by paramedics and another that showed all the occupants of the car immediately after the crash that killed both the Princess of Wales and her companion, Dodi Al Fayed. The CBC issued a news release saying the photos in question will not be featured in the Canadian broadcast due to lawsuits by the photographers over the use of their work. The copy of The Witnesses in the Tunnel CBC received has already had the photos edited out, a CBC spokesman said. The premise of the documentary produced and directed by Janice Sutherland and Stuart Tanner is that it is the story of the photographers who were taking pictures of Diana on the night of her death. It examines what role they might have played in contributing to her death and what happened to photographers arrested at the scene of the crash, which is approaching its 10th anniversary. Both Royal watchers and government representatives were critical of the U.K.'s Channel 4 for showing photographs that they felt were distressing and in poor taste. CBC plans to air the documentary on Monday, Sept. 3, at 10 p.m. on the Passionate Eye. It is one of three documentaries about the princess to be shown on CBC to mark the decade that has passed since Diana's death on Aug. 31, 1997. CBC also will air Who Killed Diana on Sept. 1, and Princess Diana: Her Life in Jewels on Sept. 2.
. More than 40 years after his death, the body of former CIA scientist Dr. Frank Olson has been exhumed. Olsons son Eric is convinced his father was murdered by agents of the American government because he wanted to leave the CIA. Dr. Frank Olson was an expert for anthrax and other biological weapons and had top security clearance. Forensic pathologists at George Washington University performed an autopsy and concluded that Olson probably was the victim of a violent crime.
Nikola Tesla was a world-renowned Serb-American inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer and electrical engineer. Tesla is regarded as one of the most important inventors in history. Tesla was regarded as a mad scientist and became noted for making bizarre contraptions. Tesla left behind many secrets about his inventions that are still trying to be decoded today.
This documentary explores New Mexico's vast volcanic history through craters, cinder cones, lava flows and mountains that have blown their tops - to reveal stories of New Mexico's cataclysmic beginning. Orginally broadcast on New Mexico PBS station KNME. Produced in collaboration with the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science and originally broadcast on New Mexico PBS station KNME-TV, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The whole country will be connected to the web in 2012 via high speed broadband if Lord Carter's recommendations, released partly today and concluded in late Spring, are taken up. Given our current politique of grand public works to keep the country moving and the view that broadband infrastructure is as important as road and train infrastructure, it seems likely that this will happen.
The hope is that the digital divide will be broken down this way. The reality is that the very real and current digital divide is less finance-based and more to do with other complex often education-related issues, issues that are often linked to standards of living in general in socially deprived areas. The research tells us that people not online at the moment make this choice based on a belief that there is nothing of interest to them. For most people already online this is patently not true. The challenges for this die-hard digitally secluded group are
Laying cable alone will not make a difference to these groups. Schools' continued efforts to raise the media literacy flag's importance against a lot of other more sexy technology policies are required for tomorrow's generations. A lot more is required, though, to work with those who, for the next 40+ years are not in school, and not online.
At Channel 4's 4iP we announced last week that we would be venturing into this very territory, with Talk About Local:
Talk About Local will train several thousand people in 150 disadvantaged places in England to set up locality/community/neighbourhood based websites. The project will use UK online centres as its delivery backbone. Talk About Local will catalyse an online resource and community for people publishing neighbourhood or community websites, so that people can help each other.
Talk About Local is about giving people skills and empowering communities. The project will empower active citizens who already have a burning need to communicate as they campaign for cleaner streets, better schools, activities for young people or put on local arts or organise a village fete. Talk About Local will give these citizens the basic skills to communicate online more effectively and at less cost than using traditional means. By networking citizens together, they will be able support each other in their local activism, as well as on technical publishing issues. This will lead to stronger more effective community action.
Media Literacy is not just about learning how to use the net for the sake of it. The net is fundamentally a tool of and for democracy, to allow people to discover information, challenge authority and be entertained and educated. Talk About Local is one of the many projects 4iP will be commissioning over the next two years or so to make a dent in this huge task, with nearly all the ideas for tackling it coming from the very population it serves - you.
What are you going to do this week to make the web feel more worthwhile to folk in your community? What are you going to do to challenge those who block, filter and avoid the media literacy issue for the sake of expediency or, worse, ignorance? We've got till 2012 to answer. Your time starts... now.
Read the full Carter Report | Pic: I hate networking
The very moment Obama was inaugurated over 1000 images were captured and stitched together to create a navigable, zoomable, flyover-able capture of that second. Microsoft's Photosynth put to practice so we can all say we were there on the CNN site.
John Cleese provides a ten-minute insight into what many of us know already, but fail to acknowledge:
I've consistently found No. 1 hard, No. 2 happens all the time and is why I don't respond well to tight tight deadlines, No. 3 is my weak spot while No. 4 tends only to happen once everything (and everyone else) is satisfied. No. 5 I achieve well and is the reason airplane commutes were invented. No. 6 is harsh on most people I know read and comment on this blog but true for oh-so-many more. No. 7 is proven every day in blog posts from some leaders and educators whose wordcount on 'me' and 'I' is top heavy at the expense of 'you', 'we' and 'us'.
And you?
From Tessy
