Read a series of exclusive in-depth reports on the increasing dangers of daily life under Zimbabwe President Mugabe. One anonymous correspondent in Harare details what it is like …
Carlin was interviewed on July 21, 2006, for the upcoming documentary on the history of comedy, “Make ‘em Laugh”. Here are a few sections of that interview; he talks about …
The 7th season of Wide Angle begins Tuesday, July 1, 9 pm with an eyewitness account of the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. Heart of Darfur captures the desperation of …
The 19th century had a love affair with the Arabic Middle East. For some it was all about an exoticism which we today might think of as romantic, ornamental, even …
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 …
Eliasson talks about The New York City Waterfalls project, how the placement of the falls reflects NYC as a whole, and more about the construction and conceptualization of the project. …
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…
Thirteen/WNET’s REEL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL kicks off the summer with independent films and videos by New Yorkers and about New York.
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.
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 …
