The City Concealed is a new online video series exploring the unseen corners of New York. In our first installment, we take a trip 3.5 miles inland on this rarely-seen waterway that separates Brooklyn from Queens. Watch.
Many poor families in Nepal have been forced to sell their daughters to work far from home as bonded servants in private homes. See one innovative program that is helping to free these young girls that live as modern-day slaves.Watch.
The famous wordless, stream-of-consciousness movie Koyaanisqatsi, with music by Philip Glass, is now streaming online. Koyaanisqatsi, aka ‘life out of balance’, originally aired on Thirteen in 1984 as part of Great Performances, and again in 2002. Watch it now.
On October 14, 2008 I wrote an article for Blueprint America: Infrastructure Isn’t Partisan: Gridlock Sam’s Advice for the Next President. In it I proposed a six-point transportation plan (that continues to be relevant today) that calls for President-elect Obama to:
1. Create a National Infrastructure Bank
2. Ensure safety in our infrastructure
3. Rebuild and expand our [...]
The camp of Tule Lake, in Newell, California was named part of the National Parks system on December 5, 2008. Tule Lake was one of sites of Japanese Internment Camps during WWII. Read more about Tule Lake and the history of the camp’s survivors.
In an extended interview with Rafael Pi Roman, Rep. Charles Rangel discusses the stimulus plan, tax policy, and the allegations of ethical lapses that are swirling around him. Watch now!
The second bridge to span the East River (after the Brooklyn Bridge), the Williamsburg bridge started operations on December 19, 1903. At the time of construction, the Bridge was the longest suspension bridge on earth. Watch a clip from the actual opening in 1903…
The New School hosted this forum with the ‘dean of fashion’, former Parsons School of Design chair- turned-reality TV star Tim Gunn, which took place on Nov. 3, 2008. Watch now.
Produced for WGBH and the BBC in 1992, this 5-hour history of computers is watchable online. It covers the birth of computing in Babbage’s difference engine, all the way through the growth of artificial intelligence and global networks.
On December 15, 2001, Italy’s Leaning Tower of Pisa reopened its doors to tourists after a team of experts spent 11 years and $27 million to keep it from tilting so much it might fall over.
