“Trash to Treasure” puts viewers in a festive mood with more than twenty incredible tales of valuable treasures rescued from rubbish heaps, roadsides, dumpsters, and demolition sites. Watch all appraisals from this episode. (Originally aired: 01/15/2008).
Worldfocus’ discussion will center on the roots of conflict and prospects for peace in the DR of Congo. Users can listen to/participate in the webcast live at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, Dec. 16. Read more….
New York Voices on Tuesday night at 8:00 pm will look at some of the recommendations put forward to help the MTA confront its financial crisis. Is tolling the bridges a solution? Read more, and tell us what you think.
* President Bush’s farewell visit to Iraq and Afghanistan
* British Prime Minister Gordon Brown warns of terror
* Global health: river blindness disease
* The art of saving the Amazon rainforest
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What you won’t see in tomorrow night’s New York Voices: an interview with Edward Kennedy, Engineer, down in the deep-underground construction site that is the LIRR Access Tunnel, and an interview with Joe Trainor, Engineer, talking about the complicated process of building the 2nd Avenue Subway. Watch now.
Blueprint America has compiled a timeline, from 1920-2008, for the lengthy construction / politics / approval process that so far has been the 2nd Avenue Subway. It’s worth a look. See timeline here.
Charlie Rose interviews the cast of the film “Doubt”, including Director John Patrick Shanley and actors Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman. “Doubt” is the the film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a quest for truth in a Roman Catholic middle school. Watch now.
“Mom always liked you best”…it was the hallmark of the Smothers Brothers’ act. Brother Tommy explains where it came from (and the first iteration _is_ the funniest). Watch.
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.
