October 29, 2010
Saving the Kiwi

Scientists in New Zealand are making huge efforts to ensure the survival of a rare bird. Aided by a homing device, conservationists attempt to track down the rowi, a critically endangered species of kiwi.

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October 28, 2010
AA Destroying The Social Lives Of Thousands Of Once-Fun Americans

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October 27, 2010
Chaplin's Time Traveler

This short film is about a piece of footage George Clarke found in the "Behind the Scenes" section of the DVD of Charlie Chaplin's film 'The Circus'. Taken at the 1920s Chinese Theatre premier in Hollywood, California, the scene shows a woman dressed in black with what can, by today's standards, only be described as a cell phone - talking as she walks alone.

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October 26, 2010
Proposition 19 - The New Leaf

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October 25, 2010
The Empathic Civilisation

Bestselling author, political adviser and social and ethical prophet Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development and our society.

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October 22, 2010
Slavoj Žižek on Nature and the Environment

From the film The Examined Life.

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October 21, 2010
"Haven't We Done Enough For You People?"

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|October 20, 2010
The Rent Is Too Damn High Party's Jimmy McMillan

In a debate expected to be dominated by top New York governor candidates Andrew Cuomo and Carl Paladino, Jimmy McMillan of the Rent Is Too Damn High Party provided the fireworks. Watch his inspired views on karate, gay marriage, and, well, rent.

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October, 19, 2010
Stephen Fry on Language (Kinetic Typography Version)

"Do they ever let the tripping of the tips of their tongues against the tops of their teeth transport them to giddy euphoric bliss? Do they ever yoke impossible words together for the sound-sex of it? Do they use language to seduce, charm, excite, please, affirm and tickle those they talk to? Do they? I doubt it."

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October 18, 2010
FCKH8

The FCKH8.com video and website were created by non-profit media campaigner Luke Montgomery, who hopes to one day get married. Back when he was a teen, Luke was the headline-making gay activist who had legally changed his name to “Luke Sissyfag.”

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October 15, 2010
Changing Education Paradigms

This animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA's Benjamin Franklin award.

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October 13, 2010
Program or be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age

Best-selling author and technology visionary Douglas Rushoff offers his insights and perspectives on humanity's role in the bight new future.

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October 12, 2010
10 Things You Didn't Know About Sound

Most of us have become so used to suppressing noise that we don't think much about what we're hearing, or about how we listen. Yet our well-being is now being seriously damaged by modern sound.

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October 11, 2010
California Dreaming of Pot Legalization

A Taiwanese examination of the prospects of Prop. 19's passage in California.

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October 8, 2010
David Mitchell gets Passionate about the Subject of Passion

It's simply amazing what people can get passionate about. Tax, sofas, marketing services you name it.

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October 7, 2010
"Utopia is Not a Destination, But a Direction"
Steve Lambert on Utopia at Transmediale 10.

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October 6, 2010
Ryoji Ikeda : Data.Microhelix

Unofficial video made for the track "Data.Microhelix" from the album "Dataplex" by Ryoji Ikeda.

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October 5, 2010
After Muybridge

A loop made from 12 stock photographs that are sequenced to re-create the locomotion of a galloping horse. The animation was modeled after one of Eadweard Muybridge's most famous motion studies called "Daisy". The creator, Cassandra Jones, sifted through over 5,000 digital images to find 12 that matched his original photos.

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October 4, 2010
Subversive Politics and Dusty Testicles

Slavoj Zizek tells a joke about Soviet Russia and how critical Leftists should act.

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October 1, 2010
CEA Chair Austan Goolsbee Explains the Tax Cut Fight

Introducing White House Whiteboard. In this first edition, Austan Goolsbee, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers here at the White House, tackles the tax cut fight and what it means that Congressional Republicans are "holding middle class tax cuts hostage" as the President has said.

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