From King Kong climbing the Empire State Building to the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man lumbering through Columbus Circle, New York has been the setting for some of the most recognizable moments on film. Join filmmaker and author James Sanders for an illustrated lecture about the nexus between New York City filmmaking and New York City planning.
About 8,000 years ago, the relationship between cows and man began with the revolutionary advent of domestication in Mesopotamia, the Indus River Valley, and Africa. Discover how cows have altered human life, human biology, and the geography of the world. Watch online.
Nightly Business Report looks at business efforts to help employees achieve a “work-life balance.” The NBR team investigate efforts to combat stress in the workplace both in the U.S. and Japan. See all four segments online.
He prays, preaches, and lives with the homeless on the streets. R&E interviews Vincent Pannizzo, a preacher who ministers to sometimes as many as 50 homeless people, some drunk, some high, most hungry, outside an empty store in East Oakland, CA. Watch. (Originally aired: 8/29/2008).
Moyers speaks with political analysts and authors Merle and Earl Black who have tracked the American electorate for years. The Blacks discuss divided politics, party power, and swing states in the 2008 election. Watch an interview with the Blacks about their new book: DIVIDED AMERICA: THE FEROCIOUS POWER STRUGGLE IN AMERICAN POLITICS.
Here’s a schedule of upcoming election-related programming on PBS, September to October. PBS is the source for full coverage of both conventions and *all* of the Presidential and VP debates. Some coverage will be watchable online.
With Barack Obama officially nominated as the Democrat’s Presidential nominee, is it time to re-think affirmative action? NOW on PBS looks at some state ballot measures that would eliminate race or gender considerations in public hiring, contracting and education programs.
Robert Stern is known for creating a range of stylistically different buildings, from a Walt Disney project to a master plan for Times Square. Most recently he completed a spectacular new apartment building at 15 Central Park West.
The documentary “The Judge and the General” follows the investigation into the brutal murders of thousands of Chileans during the 1970s-80s. You can watch the film online on P.O.V. until September 2nd. The producers also did a Q&A on NewsHour’s Insider Forum.
A couple of days ago the Human Spark team was in Oregon, peering with both an MRI and a brain wave monitor into Alan Alda’s brain to find out how he employs it for two of the most distinctively human traits, language and tool use. Read more…
