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H2oil Animated Sequences

tags: oil, canada, resources, impact, NAFTA, tar sands, Alberta

Animations from the feature documentary H2oil. From the film's info site: Ever wonder where American gets most of its oil? If you thought it was Saudi Arabia or Iraq you are wrong. America’s biggest... more inside
posted by KnivesOut  2 days 4 hours 22 minutes ago • 5 comments • 425 views

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Healthcare Around The World - America Pay Attention

tags: frontline, pbs, healthcare, insurance, Sick Around the World

In Sick Around the World, FRONTLINE teams up with veteran Washington Post foreign correspondent T.R. Reid to find out how five other capitalist democracies -- the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan... more inside
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posted by eric3579  3 days 5 hours 35 minutes ago • 13 comments • 799 views
 
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Olbermann Special Comment On New Orleans Free Health Clinic

tags: Olbermann, Special Comment, New Orleans, Health

"There are no words" As "Countdown" producer Rich Stockwell Admits when he attends the free health clinic. November 16, 2009. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/17/countdown-producer-attend_n_361286.html
posted by marinara  2 days 20 hours 39 minutes ago • 5 comments • 611 views
 
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Explaining temperature (kelvin) and laser cooling

tags: Temperature, kelvin, laser, sixty symbols

An explanation of what temperature is as it relates to the energy of a molecule, and the process of how physicists use lasers to cool atoms of gas.
posted by reiwan  3 days 1 hour 21 minutes ago • 14 comments • 957 views
 
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Why Did The Church Cross The Street?

tags: mega movers, church, move, street, rivet, building, 1928

I'm just amused at the fact that while the building suffered no damage during the move, it still ended up in two pieces.
posted by demon_ix  3 days 13 hours 42 minutes ago • 3 comments • 372 views
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The Cove: Sundance Film Exposes Japanese Dolphin Slaughter

tags: documentary, dolphin, taiji, japan, activist, fish, fishing, whaling, whales

The Cove exposes an atrocity of unimaginable brutality. The dolphin slaughter depicted here is committed yearly and without knowledge of the general Japanese public, even though they could be buying highly-toxic... more inside
posted by qruel  10 months ago • 13 comments • 1308 views
 
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Largest non-nuclear explosion in history (for a while)

tags: ripple, rock, 1958, explosion, canada, Nitramex 2H, water

On April 5, 1958 an underwater mountain, Ripple Rock, was decapitated by the explosion of 1,375 tonnes of Nitramex 2H (an ammonium nitrate based explosive). The destruction of Ripple Rock was a brilliant... more inside
posted by nomino  1 week ago • 3 comments • 564 views
 
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National Geographic Explorer-Inside LSD

tags: National, Geographic, LSD, Inside, Explorer, Hoffman, Science, Grob, Human, Research, 50

LSDs inventor Albert Hofmann called it "medicine for the soul." The Beatles wrote songs about it. Secret military mind control experiments exploited its hallucinogenic powers. Outlawed in 1966, LSD became... more inside
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posted by Trancecoach  6 days 16 hours 40 minutes ago • 3 comments • 729 views
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What is money?

tags: money, gold, loans, banks, debt

A hard-hitting 47-minute documentary on what money is, how it came into existence, and how it works in the world today. Definitely not boring!
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posted by arvana  2 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 14 comments • 2445 views
 
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13

BBC Horizon - Why Do We Talk? (Aired 11-10-09)

tags: bbc, horizon, science, linguistics, language, why, do, we, talk

"Talking is something that is unique to humans, yet it still remains a mystery. Horizon meets the scientists beginning to unlock the secrets of speech - including a father who is filming every second of... more inside
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posted by Nonbrainwashed  1 week 1 day ago • 4 comments • 659 views
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12

Eskimo Hunters - 1949 Film

tags: Inuit, Alaska, Arctic, Hunting, Dog Sled, Trade, Inuktitut, Family

A film from 1949 featuring an Eskimo family from Alaska. (Canadian Inuit prefer to be called 'Inuit' - Alaskan Inuit prefer being called 'Eskimos'). My father was born in 1950, and grew up in a way... more inside
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posted by Throbbin  7 months ago • 10 comments • 775 views
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Human, All Too Human : Nietzsche (1999)

tags: Nietzsche, 1999, human, all too human, god is dead

Human, All Too Human (Menschliches, Allzumenschliches), subtitled A Book for Free Spirits (Ein Buch für freie Geister), is a book by 19th century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published... more inside
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posted by erikwdavis  1 week 2 days ago • 19 comments • 4968 views
 
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Confessions of a Serial Killer - The Iceman

tags: richard kuklinski, interview, documentary, mafia, hitman, gambino

Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski (1935 – 2006) was a convicted murderer and notorious contract killer. He worked for several Italian-American crime families, and claimed to have murdered over 200 men over a career that lasted 30 years; he killed his first victim at age 13.
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I'm 80% Girl, 20% Boy

tags: hermaphrodite, gender, genital operation, intersexual, adele, girl and boy

from Current on YT: When Adele was born they couldn't tell if she was a girl or a boy. A series of childhood genital operations 'corrected' her into a boy but as she grew up it became apparent a mistake... more inside
posted by Issykitty  1 week 2 days ago • 6 comments • 830 views
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The last Calligraphers

tags: hand, printed, calligraphy, newspaper, tradition, in, india

Trailer for a documentary about the last hand-printed newspaper in Asia. Printed with the art of Urdu calligraphy Found at http://musalman.100hands.net
posted by notarobot  1 year 9 months 2 weeks ago • 2 comments • 635 views
 
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90 year old man from India tries to get his letters

tags: beg borrow or steal, post office, bureaucracy

A heartbreaking scene from Beg, Borrow Or Steal.
posted by rasch187  2 weeks ago • 2 comments • 270 views
 
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London in 1927 - Early Colour Silent Film

tags: london, 1927, tour, sights, colour film, vintage, pre ww2, silent film, nostalgia

London is the last stop in an epic trip across Britain filmed in remarkable early colour. London was the final stop in a marathon journey around Britain filmed as a series of cinema travelogues. Pioneering... more inside
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posted by EndAll  1 week 4 days ago • 8 comments • 480 views
 
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posted by arvana  2 weeks ago • 0 comments • 559 views
 
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Robert Anton Wilson - Language, Reason, and Reality

tags: robert anton wilson, language, reason, reality, eprime, english, philosophy

a short set of excerpts from a documentary about Robert Anton Wilson. While he may indeed have been high much of the time, please note that the quavering in his voice comes from a severe post-polio syndrome condition which induced severe pain.
posted by erikwdavis  2 weeks 1 day ago • 5 comments • 274 views
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