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MegaStructures: The Golden Gate Bridge
National Geographic’s MegaStructures examines how the Golden Gate Bridge is being slowly re-build to withstand a devastating earthquake that is likely to hit the San Francisco Bay Area in the coming years.
Waste = Food
“How are we to deal with rapidly growing economies, with a pattern of high consumption and falling raw material resources?” The premise: Man is the only creature that produces landfills. Natural resources are being depleted on a rapid scale while production and consumption are rising in nations like China and India. The waste production world [...]
The Secret History of the Credit Card
The average American family today carries 8 credit cards. Credit card debt and personal bankruptcies are now at an all time high. With no legal limit on the amount of interest or fees that can be charged, credit cards have become the most profitable sector of the American banking industry: more than $30 billion in [...]
In Debt We Trust
In America’s earliest days, there were barn-raising parties in which neighbors helped each other build up their farms. Today, in some churches, there are debt liquidation revivals in which parishioners chip in to free each other from growing credit card debts that are driving American families to bankruptcy and desperation. In Debt We Trust is [...]
The Truth According To Wikipedia
Google or Wikipedia? Those of us who search online — and who doesn’t? — are getting referred more and more to Wikipedia. For the past two years, this free online “encyclopedia of the people” has been topping the lists of the world’s most popular websites. But do we really know what we’re using? Backlight plunges [...]
Google Me
A documentary about a guy, Jim Killeen, who Googled himself and then went all over the world meeting others with his name.
Cars of the Future
“While the world’s oil companies insist they’ll dominate the energy picture for the foreseeable future, the US is placing a substantial bet elsewhere … on a coming age of advanced batteries and electric cars.” This one-hour PBS program is divided into six chapters. Hitting The Road Projections suggest that by 2050 there will be two [...]
Born Rich (Jamie Johnson)
Born Rich was made in 2003 by Jamie Johnson, heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, documenting his experience growing up in one of the world’s wealthiest families. This was Johnson’s first documentary film, his second film The One Percent is much better. Wikipedia describes the film as “a documentary on children of the insanely [...]
The Ipod Revolution
The iPod Revolution goes behind the scenes and gives the inside story of how Steve Jobs gave Apple new life and paved the way for iPod to takeover the mp3 market and redefine the music industry. The digital music revolution has been bigger than anyone could have imagined, well almost anyone. It seems one company, [...]
Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier
Within a single generation, digital media and the World Wide Web have transformed virtually every aspect of modern culture, from the way we learn and work to the ways in which we socialize and even conduct war. But is the technology moving faster than we can adapt to it? And is our 24/7 wired world [...]
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College Inc.
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Cyber Warfare: Fighting in the Fifth Dimension
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Occupy: The Movie
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2012: Time For Change
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Inside the Mind of Google
May 10, 2012 08:05
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Wow, Human beings are great, we need to work together. Bring down the banker -
Kale M:
What's wrong with this show/clip?? I understand most of the comments to the clip -
DR Pratibha Phadke Gupta:
It is great to see a future in a 9 year old boy .Good Luck DR Pratibha P Gupta -
Zenqi:
An excellent documentary. I am a Buddhist, yet think that much of the story arou -
Spaceman:
For those of you blocked by region: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/5901853/sci
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