Since I’ve been here at Thirteen, the idea of getting back to nature has taken on a whole new meaning....
Featured Stories:
June 30th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Explore the rise of violent political activism among Buddhists in Tibet and elsewhere. Watch this special report on the plight and paradox of Tibetan Buddhists. They teach pacifism, but their …
The Waterfalls
June 30th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Eliasson talks about his Waterfalls project, how the placement of the falls reflects NYC as a whole, and more about the construction and conceptualization of the project. The interview took …
June 30th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
George Church of Harvard Medical School hopes to recruit 100,000 people and sequence the DNA of each and every one. With that many genomes, combined with personal information, Church believes we’ll have a chance of getting at the root causes of common diseases and figuring out how to prevent them. Watch the video…
June 27th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
The New York City Department of Health announced an initiative to administer HIV tests to the estimated 250,000 untested 18- to 64-year-olds in The Bronx over the next three years.
June 27th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Since the 1948 Arab-Israeli war and the founding of Israel created Palestinian refugees, there have been refugee camps Lebanon housing them–for 60 years, many generations. There are now 12 refugee …
June 27th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
In 1942, the Japanese army desperately needed a new supply route to support its front-line troops in Burma. Under backbreaking conditions, Allied P.O.W.s, along with thousands of Asian laborers, were ordered to complete a railway linking Thailand and Burma that would include the infamous “bridge on the River Kwai.”
June 27th, 2008 at 10:51 am
“Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson” opens in select theaters over the July 4th weekend. In preparation for the film’s release, Charlie Rose sat down with director Alex Gibney and two of Thompson’s closest colleagues: magazine editors Jann Wenner (Rolling Stone) and Graydon Carter (Vanity Fair).
June 26th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
As petroleum prices go through the roof, the government starts bailouts and the lending market stumbles, doomsayers toss around talk of a new Depression. As one of the policies that …
June 26th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
A new movement of architects are looking to solve humanitarian problems with their designs. At the forefront is Architecture for Humanity (whose motto is above), and Frontline/World profiles them, but, more importantly, visits some of their projects in India. Watch video…
June 26th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
This morning, Danish artist Olafur Eliasson opened the spigot on his public art installation, “The New York City Waterfalls.”
Back To NATURE
FDR and the New Deal
The late Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the great scholar of the New Deal, liked to talk about how the best historians...
TV on the Internet
There are a number of new sites on the Internet where viewers can watch television shows for free. While several...
