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Both a museum and the official palace of the Spanish royal family, the Palacio Real features armor, artworks and treasures that were once the private possessions of Spain's kings and queens. Inside the Palacio Real, Madrid, we discover that Spain reached its height of glory not through the acquisition of silver and gold, but because of the unique properties of a third element. We investigate how a famous swordsman bested 17 challengers, then examine...
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This short documentary produced by The Green Interview focuses on what's referred to as the "Mendoza case," a landmark ruling that took place in Argentina in 2008 and is named after Beatriz Mendoza, a health care worker living in a poor and heavily polluted area of Buenos Aires. In 2004 she lead a group of Matanza River basin residents and filed a lawsuit against the national government, the Province of Buenos Aires, the City of Buenos Aires and 44...
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Remote tribes around the world are struggling to adapt to the intrusions of the Western civilization. Their survival depends on finding a compromise between traditional and modern ways of life. Romanian anthropologist, Sebastian Tirtirau, has dedicated his life to visiting different tribes and pioneering a 'Third Way' of contact. Unlike previous forms of contact-which meant either dominating and conquering them or simply abandoning the tribes to their...
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I have asked for this time tonight in order to announce my answer to the House Judiciary Committee's subpoena for additional Watergate tapes and to tell you something about the actions I shall be taking tomorrow; about what I hope they will mean to you; and about the very difficult choices that were presented to me. These actions will at last, once and for all, show that what I knew and what I did with regard to the Watergate break-in and cover-up...
68) Opposing Jihad
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In the second episode of the series "Islam vs Islamists", the story gets more intimate as those who are most vulnerable and imperiled - women, disenfranchised youths and the moderate family members of Jihadists - speak out about the calamitous and sometimes deadly effects of extremist Islam in their Western communities and in their homes.
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If you divide the productive capacity of the Earth by the number of people on the planet, you can estimate the share of the planet's capacity that each human being is entitled to. Consumer societies of the West are taking up far more than their share of the Earth's resources, while the Third World is taking up far less. This episode of The Green Interview features William Rees, the originator of ecological footprint analysis-designed to measure the...
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In this program, Hazel Henderson discusses with Terry Mock how he transitioned from traditional real estate development to become a leading advocate and practitioner of ecologically sustainable long-term community development. Mock became passionate about preserving the DNA of the oldest trees and methods of cloning these long-lived species such as the giant redwood. He describes the tract of old-growth forest on the Oregon coast which he is developing...
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Beginning with the Suez crisis and ending with the fighting in Chechnya, this program presents a broad sampling of the events that have shaped the post-World War II historical landscape. Clips from the Vietnam War, Bloody Sunday, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Gulf War, the Somalia relief effort, the Ciskei massacre, and the attempted Soviet coup in Moscow are included. Personalities such as Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles, Nikita Khrushchev, JFK,...
74) Paris: 1900
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It is the turn of the century-fin de siÃc̈le. This program captures that magical period in all of its glory on archival film by the renowned Lumiere brothers. Take a personal tour of the World's Fair, attend the Opera Comique, view Rodin's Gates of Hell, visit with Picasso and the Impressionists. This is Paris at the end of a major cultural epoch.
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For many people, the Congo will always be associated with Joseph Conrad's early twentieth-century novel the Heart of Darkness, a title that has become a by-word for the country. The metaphor remains a daily reality for former child soldiers Benjamin and David, and Funaha, a young woman held as a sex slave by one of the many militias that continue to terrorize the country. The film explores how this seemingly never-ending conflict impacts on the people...
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Canada's arctic wildlife is finely adapted to a life on and around ice and yet this frozen landscape is undergoing a massive shift due to humans. From polar bear cubs making their first discovery of ice to a caribou calf 'dancing' in the chilly spring air to eider ducks diving under the ice to find mussels, we witness the extremes and wonders of life far north.
77) Homeostasis
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In order to understand homeostasis in a natural setting, this program observes what happens to the body during a marathon race. By monitoring the various physiological responses of one of the runners, we show the many changes and adjustments being made in the body as the race progresses. The data obtained from the runner are used to explain in detail how the body regulates temperature, blood oxygen, blood glucose, water balance, heart rate, breathing...
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Marcela Serrano's first novel won the Literary Prize in Santiago and her second book won the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz prize, awarded to the best Hispano-American novel written by a woman. In this program, Marcela Serrano-clearly on the upward path to international renown-assesses the diverse concerns that have influenced her life and her work, including the elimination of apartheid and the importance of creating genuine and loving relationships.
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Environmentalists, meteorologists, economists, and people in many other disciplines have always been interested in the dynamics of variables, or quantities that change-for example, the number of polar bears that inhabit a certain region during the summer, or the number of tickets sold during a movie's first weekend in theaters. Functions are indispensible to that kind of sampling since they represent relationships between variable quantities. Hosted...
80) Buddhism
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In this program, Dennis Wholey has a conversation about Buddhism with Hyon Gak Sunim, guiding teacher of the Seoul International Zen Center at Hwa Gye Sah Temple in Seoul, South Korea. Topics of discussion include the principle of nowness; the meaning of dukkha; the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path; Buddhist resonances with the teachings of Jesus and Socrates; the Buddhist temple experience; how Hyon Gak Sunim, raised a Roman Catholic...