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Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Dystopia is a word to label fictional portrayals of negative utopias. This film deals with the very real hell on earth that is experienced by nearly a billion people right now. It predicts that the dystopia that is here for many will become increasingly prevalent for more and more of us. Humanity faces many different sorts of crises: environmental, political, and economic. These crises will continue to worsen unless the drastic systemic change is...
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
The Westinghouse Science awards are something like Nobel prizes for teenagers; they recognize outstanding work in science by high-school students. In 1988, one New York City public school had eleven Westinghouse semifinalists; every one of them was of Asian background. Was it a fluke, as the principal said? Or do Asians bring something to the study of science which the rest of us had better learn to emulate? In this program with Bill Moyers, Physics...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"A provocative, incisive look at the building of social movements-from the 1600s to the present day-and how current technology is undermining them. We tend to think of revolutions as loud: frustrations and demands shouted in the streets. But the ideas fueling them have traditionally been conceived in much quieter spaces, in the small, secluded corners where a vanguard can whisper among themselves, imagine alternate realities, and deliberate over how...
27) Cool Spaces
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Barclays Center in Brooklyn by SHoP,Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City by Safdie Architects, and The Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Dallas by HKS Architects are featured.
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English
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New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell looks at why major changes in our society so often happen suddenly and unexpectedly. Ideas, behavior, messages, and products, he argues, often spread like outbreaks of infectious disease. These are social epidemics, and the moment when they take off, when they reach their critical mass, is the Tipping Point.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Mobile phones that read your mind? Video games that can cure cancer? Wearable robots that give you the strength of Iron Man? David Pogue predicts which technologies will transform our daily lives. These advancements are already taking shape in laboratories around the world — and gadgets that once were purely science fiction are on the verge of becoming as common as the iPhones and Androids Pogue reviews every day.
31) The Primal Mind
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
In The Primal Mind, author Jamake Highwater explores differences in how American Indians and people of a Western or European heritage experience themselves and their environments. Illustrated through contrasting views of art, time, architecture, medicine, and dance, The Primal Mind identifies important distinctions between a mind rooted in respect for nature, sacred myths, and rituals and a mind that strives toward achievement, order, and the desire...
32) Team human
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Team Human is a manifesto-a fiery distillation of preeminent digital theorist Douglas Rushkoff's most urgent thoughts on civilization and human nature. In one hundred lean and incisive statements, he argues that we are essentially social creatures, and that we achieve our greatest aspirations when we work together-not as individuals. Yet today society is threatened by a vast antihuman infrastructure that undermines our ability to connect. Money, once...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
From the Executive Producers of the acclaimed BLACKFISH and director Joel N Clark comes an epic trek of survival, hope, mercy, and human will. An expectant mother determined to give her unborn child a life she never knew. A devoted son torn between seeking freedom and living far from the home and mother he loves. A daughter struggling to comprehend the cost of losing her family in order to begin one of her own in a new land. This is the story of After...
Pub. Date
[2007], c2007
Language
English
Description
This program travels the globe as it surveys a large portion of the world's languages-25 percent of which are spoken by a mere 0.1 percent of the Earth's population. Moving from Africa to Oceania and up to Asia and then west to Europe and across the ocean to the Americas, the program assesses how many languages are spoken in each region, the characteristics they share, and misconceptions about them. Historical background on some of the key languages...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice From an Oxford economist, a visionary account of how technology will transform the world of work, and what we should do about it From mechanical looms to the combustion engine to the first computers, new technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. For centuries, such fears have been misplaced, and many economists maintain that they remain so today. But as Daniel Susskind...
36) Plutocrats
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Plutocrats, a term coined by Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, who won the Lionel Gelber Prize, and an FT Best Book of the Year for her book carrying the same name, is a documentary that travels through a world increasingly paralyzed by joblessness, debt, and economic uncertainty. The film depicts a world where the wealth gap is now greater than it was in the Gilded Age, the age of the Rockefellers and Vanderbilts. Shot in the Ukraine,...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Numbering no more than a few thousand, tiny groups of intrepid humans began to move out of Africa—eventually dominating the planet. How did these early humans acquire the skills, technology, and talent to thrive in every environment on earth? Takes a global journey through the past, following our ancestors' footsteps out of Africa along a trail of scientific clues to help unravel the mystery of how we got where we are.
38) Of the Land
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Of the Land is a detailed exploration into our current food supply as well as a variety of organic options available to people who want to support sustainable farming methods.
39) Isolated Tribes
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Today, there are approximately 100 tribes in the Amazon rainforest that have not interacted with the modern world. A hundred years ago, there were many more.
40) Part 1, From the Beginnings to the Middle Ages (Taming the Beasts, The Domestication of Animals)
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
This episode tracks the ethical, ecological, and social evolution of our symbiotic relationship with animals starting in the Neolithic period right up to the Middle Ages. By following the long journey of this complex and changing relationship, we document how animals were tamed, optimized, trivialized, and humanized.
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