The Yes Men Interview
Andy Bichlbaum, leading member of the Yes Men, interviewed by Joe Garofoli, reporter, San Francisco Chronicle moderator, for The Commonwealth Club. [64m 13s] Bichlbaum and his partner, Mike Bonanno,...
View ArticleSpiritualized – Broken Heart
As performed on the BBC’s Later with Jools: Though I have a broken heart I’m too busy to be heartbroken There’s a lot of things that need to be done Lord I have a broken heart Though I have a broken...
View ArticleBig Think: Oliver Sacks on Humans and Myth-making
Via Big Think: Question: Is all religion madness? Oliver Sacks: I think I need to say that there are specifically some conditions of the brain which predispose to mystical or religious thinking. In...
View ArticleBBC: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
A BBC documentary from 2005 hosted on Google Video (54m 57s): Link TV: Filmed in France, Israel, USA, Algeria, Argentina, Uruguay, South Africa and the UK, this disturbing and candid BBC documentary...
View ArticleBBC: Human, All Too Human
From Wikipedia: Human, All Too Human is a three-part 1999 documentary television series produced by the BBC. It follows the lives of three prominent philosophers; Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger,...
View ArticleThe Way of All Flesh: Henrietta Lacks
A great documentary by Adam Curtis from 1997 which at the time introduced me to the fascinating story of Henrietta Lacks and the HeLa cell line: The Way of All Flesh follows the story of the cells of...
View ArticleRSA: David Crystal – Texts and Tweets: Myths and Realities
Via the RSA: Professor David Crystal, one of the world’s leading linguistic experts, challenges the myth that new communication technologies are destroying language. Some more YouTube goodies with...
View ArticleNick Drake documentaries
Two documentaries worthwhile watching about the short life of musician and singer Nick Drake. In early 1999, BBC2 aired a 40-minute documentary, A Stranger Among Us — In Search of Nick Drake, as part...
View ArticleAdam Curtis – The Living Dead
From Wikipedia: The Living Dead: Three Films About the Power of the Past was the second major documentary series made by British film-maker Adam Curtis. This series investigated the way that history...
View ArticleJohn Pilger: The War You Don’t See
The War You Don’t See is a worthwhile documentary by journalist John Pilger about how the media portray and to some extent are complicit in propagating wars.
View ArticleAdam Curtis: All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace
This series of films investigates how people have been colonised by the machines they have built. Although they may not realise it, the way many people see everything in the world today is through the...
View ArticleThe Dark Secret of Hendrik Schön
Schön's great breakthrough was to make a computer transistor out of a single organic molecule. It was an achievement of almost incalculable brilliance. Some speculated this technology could spell the...
View ArticlePJ Harvey – The Glorious Land (Live on Later? with Jools Holland)
Music video by PJ Harvey performing The Glorious Land from her 2011 album Let England Shake on the BBC show Later? with Jools Holland.
View ArticleBBC: Dangerous Knowledge
In this one-off documentary, David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians - Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing - whose genius has profoundly affected us, but which...
View ArticleBBC: How TV Ruined Your Life
How TV Ruined Your Life is 6-part comedy series by the BBC in which Charlie Brooker uses a mix of sketches and jaw-dropping archive footage to explore the gulf between real life and television
View ArticleWilliam Ayliffe: Why We See What We Do
The visual system has developed to allow us to navigate in a complex and dangerous world in order to find food and to avoid danger. This survival system works by building a complex three-dimensional...
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