Wednesday,
November
19
, 2008
10
:05
pm
President-elect Barack Obama is beginning to create his cabinet and assess roles within the upcoming administration.
Featured Stories:
September 15th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Rafael Pi Roman hosts a half-hour look at how 9/11 is still affecting the lives of many New Yorkers. The program explores the difficulties that have plagued the rebuilding effort. We also meet some of the people suffering from severe health problems because of their work at ground zero, and profile people who lost family or friends on 9/11. Watch.
September 15th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Innovative and painstakingly thorough novelist and nonfiction writer David Foster Wallace died this weekend at age 46. He in recent years had continued to publish but also was a professor at Pomona College in Southern California. You can watch a few interviews Wallace did with Charlie Rose more than 10 years ago…read more.
September 12th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
* A look at Muslims in British society with Thomas Gallagher
* “The New Rule of the Jungle”, a video report on Ecuador’s “Rainforest Chernobyl”
* A fresh take on how to alleviate poverty in Mexico with Santiago Levy
September 11th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Developer Larry Silverstein held the lease on the World Trade Center on 9/11, and he has been a major player in the rebuilding saga at ground zero. Seven years later, there’s not a single completed structure on the site (except 7 World Trade Center, which was built privately by Silverstein). Watch interview…
September 11th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Charlie Rose discusses the U.S. government’s takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with Mohamed El-Erian, PIMCO; Gretchen Morgenson and Floyd Norris, both of The New York Times; and Nouriel Roubini of New York University.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:42 am
“Beyond Human: The New Age of Cyborgs and Androids”, a two-hour series on the future of bioengineering and robotics, explored how technology is blurring the line between man and machine. It originally aired on PBS in May 2001, and is now watchable in its entirety at a number of online video sites. Read more…
September 11th, 2008 at 7:21 am
In 2006, Democratic Republic of Congo held its first elections in 45 years — supported by more than $450M from the United Nations. This documentary paints a nation haunted by war, threatened by corruption, and trying to move to a democratic and more promising future. Watch. (Originally aired September 12, 2006).
September 10th, 2008 at 7:28 am
On this day in 1945, Mike the chicken, sent to the chopping block, lost his head and lived, and became a celebrity instead of dinner. Mike is immortalized as part of the Emmy award-winning film ‘The Natural History of the Chicken’, which originally aired on PBS in 2002. You can now watch the entire film online.
September 10th, 2008 at 7:25 am
In 1973, Local Thirteen program The 51st State aired this video ode to the World Trade Center in honor of its grand opening. It’s abstract and a little strange; stranger still today. Read more about The 51st State and this segment.
September 10th, 2008 at 7:21 am
At 4:27 a.m. this morning, Eastern time, protons made their first circuit around a 17-mile-long racetrack known as the Large Hadron Collider, 300 feet underneath the Swiss-French border, and then made a return journey, according to the NY Times. Read more…
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Wednesday,
November
19
, 2008
07
:02
pm
Just two days after the judge declared the trial of three men suspected of involvement in Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya's murder would be open to...
Wednesday,
November
19
, 2008
06
:42
pm
Jeff Seelbach
Juan Evo Morales Ayma, President of Bolivia, spoke in New York on Tuesday as part of the Columbia University World Leaders Forum. Morales, the...
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