On the Edge Of Blade Runner (42 mins)

How Hollywood Gets It Wrong On Torture

From Youtube: Primetime Torture is a 14-minute film produced by Human Rights First that explores the way torture and interrogation are portrayed on TV. The film features scenes from some of TV's most popular shows and interviews with seasoned interrogators, military educators and Hollywood screenwriters.

The Corporation - Documentary on Corporate Influence

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The Corporation is a 2003 Canadian documentary film and book critical of the modern-day corporation and its behavior towards society. The topics addressed include the Business Plot in 1933 when General Smedley Butler confessed his role in planning a coup against then U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the enclosure of the commons, economic externalities, the suppression of an investigative news story about bovine growth hormone on a Fox affiliate television station, and the Cochabamba protests of 2000 brought on by the privatization of Bolivia's municipal water supply by the Bechtel corporation. Other topics include corporate social responsibility and corporate personhood. The film focuses mostly on the concept of the corporation in North America, especially in the United States. Please support the film and the film makers.

Horseshoe Crab: A true blue blood

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This is from the NATURE episode: Crash: A Tale of Two Species It explains the surprising nature, and uses of this ancient creatures blue colored blood.

Theo Jansen: The art of creating creatures

Russians invent a time machine

Two Russian scientists claim a device created to investigate the origins of the universe could become the world’s first ever time machine. Scientists say the vast atom-smashing machine at the European Particle Physics Centre near Geneva could create a time tunnel.

Howard Zinn on Civil Disobedience

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Howard Zinn on Human Nature and Aggression

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Howard Zinn, "On Human Nature and Aggression." From _You Can't Be Neutral On a Moving Train_, 2004 [DVD]. DVD available from firstrunfeatures.com.

Chris Ware in motion

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Is it a poem, a parable, or just a cartoon that comes from a place that refuses to be categorized? See what happens when Chris Ware's two-dimensional work takes on a life all its own.


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Great Animated Chat From This American Life

Ira Glass on Letterman - Ira meets the chicken lady!

This American Life: Vandal Squad

From Youtube: This was a originally radio interview on NPR's "This American Life" entitled "Cat and Mouse." With interviews with Earsnot, NYPD vandal squad DT Mona, and a mention of Revs tunnel paintings.

This American Life - Kid Logic

Badlands!

Badlands Raps about Competitive Eating



Thanksgiving Day pie eating contest



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America's top competitive eaters competed to see who could stuff the most pumpkin pie into their mouths in just six minutes in a Thanksgiving Day pie eating competition.

Pumpkin pie eating is perhaps one of the toughest competitions, with a thick dry crust and a deep heavy filling. Eric "Badlands" Booker took the title, eating four whole pies and three eighths in just six minutes.


Hotdog Slam with Badlands Booker



Badlands Booker-Legend




A better recording of Badlands rapping and an eating montage.



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Bill Hicks interview from 1992

This was a part of a strand of programs about comedy called 'Funny Business' BBC2 put out in 1992. This particular episode was called 'A Question Of Taste' Starts with a stand-up routine, the inteview begins at 1:40

Acherodes the "Thief Spider"

This cunning little spider earns it's meal by undermining the web of a larger cousin. It will cut away the strands holding a captured insect, whilst suring up the weight with it's own web lines, thereby preventing the former owner from noticing the vibrations of the theft.

Ira Glass on Charlie Rose: Adapting This American Life to TV

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Ira discusses how they adapted the radio show to TV, how clueless they were about visuals, and what idioms work on radio vs. TV.

Ira Glass on Letterman - Ira meets the chicken lady!

Ira Glass tells David Letterman (04/20/07) how a visit to the United Poultry Concerns chicken sanctuary on the Eastern Shore caused him to stop eating chickens and become a vegetarian.

Ira Glass on Storytelling #1

Here is Ira Glass of "This American Life" talking about the building blocks of a great story.

Ira Glass on Storytelling #2

Here is Ira Glass of "This American Life" talking about the building blocks of a great story.