Review: The Red Market by Scott Carney
It sounds like the stuff of nightmarish urban legends: in rural India, men desperate for money or a meal are promised both, then held captive in “blood farms” where their blood is siphoned...
Category: Science & Technology
The Pot Republic: California’s Marijuana Industry
Last month, Frontline in association with KQED and the Center for Investigative Reporting produced a half hour special, 'The Pot Republic,' probing into the state of marijuana in California. Their...
Foodpocalypse Now: how climate change will affect food production
Global temperatures are rising, and they're bringing global food prices along with them. The last year has seen massive flooding in Pakistan and Australia, alongside devastating drought in China and...
Fracking in New York: The real cost
The United States’ desperation for domestically produced energy continues to lead to destructive decisions that decimate ecosystems and human lives. Mountaintop removal coal mining tears apart the...
Spielberg’s Falling Skies: A post-apocalyptic disaster
US network TNT has dipped some toes into the science fiction waters with Falling Skies, a post-apocalyptic narrative set in the United States after an alien invasion. The aliens have settled in for...
Is Green light worth the price? CFLs, China and carbon emissions
Thomas Edison said two prescient things about the manufacturing of lightbulbs: "we now know a thousand ways not to build a light bulb” and "We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will...
Monkey Talk: An Interview with “Project Nim” Director James Marsh
James Marsh is a humble low-key guy who often explores over-the-top boisterous characters. He’s also equal parts affable and driven, and a filmmaker whose work I’ve been raving about ever since...
From Pakistan to jellyfish: the way we talk about natural disasters
I love the way BBC world news service segues from one story to another - from the misery of floods in Pakistan it effortlessly moves to jellyfish attacks on Spanish beaches. The consistent gravity of...
Share This! A conversation with Deanna Zandt
Social media isn't going away anytime soon. Facebook and Twitter, blogging and the latest Google app are here to stay, it seems. But aside from giving us new ways to socialize, can these new...
The glorious badassery of the human body – revealed!
The human body is amazing. That's a fatuous thing to say, and I imagine it's been wheezed out by every sweaty high school teacher ever to lead a group of giggling, weiner-pointing students through...