Here I go with a lecture which reveals that there is enough crude oil and and natural gas in Alaska and North Atlantic which if the US starts to drill, will be enough to meet the US demand for the next 200 years.
Now here is what I've been watching the last week or so:
Naked Science chronicles a scientific investigation into one of the big mysteries of our time. Featuring experts who conduct experiments and lay out realistic scenarios that confirm or debunk common assumptions and misconceptions. Source
The series that captured my attention includes 3 episodes:
+ Birth of Life How did life begin? its one of the most fundamental and difficult questions that has challenged us for ages. Our planet is teaming with life, from the highest mountain to the deepest ocean; life is everywhere. But what was the firing pistol that started the evolutionary race? How did material go from non-living to alive?
+ Glacier Meltdown: Imagine a world where melting ice caps have raised sea levels by 20 feet and the great coastal cities of the world are under water. It is a nightmare scenario, but does it have a scientific basis? Discover the real science behind climate change.
+ Solar Force Do the sun's invisible cosmic rays influence our weather? Can solar winds impact Earth? Explore the ways fluctuations in the sun's energy influence our climate.
So far I've only seen last two and I am planning to see #1 but these dox are really well done tell a lot. And a lot for thoughts about the human future.
Asiemut is the story of a french canadian couple, Mélanie & Olivier, that choose a journey... but most would call it a long adventure, approximately 8000 km long. Riding their bicyles & pedaling through Asia. They traveled from Mongolia to Kolkata, at the mouth of the Ganges in India, passing through Xinjiang, the Taklamakan desert, Tibet & Nepal... Asiemut is their first film.
I had the chance of watching this film on the opening of one Film Festival about Climbing and Travel movies and I was amazed - once because of the heroism of these two people on bikes and second - because of the picture they gave me about the lands they crossed!
Yes, indeed the Asiemut project seems really great - so do I dream of leaving everything behind - job, responsibilities, stuff and go travelling around the world!!
Triers, here I got a documentary that I heard was good. It's called I.O.U.S.A. and it's about US trade deficit and increasing internal consumption due to which we see US' current finance turmoil and credit crunch.
St. Augustine once wrote, "What, then, is time? If no one asks me, I know. But if I want to explain it to someone, I do not know."
This movie is makes a broad and thorough investigation into what's time from many perspectives and.
Does time travel sound cool to you? Investigate the physics behind this science-fiction idea, and discover how Einstein's theory of relativity fits in.
Figure out why humans have cyclical perception of time and how they first marked time. Would we have had an industrial revolution without the clock? Learn about the history of time, and delve into the math and science of this fleeting topic.
I have little words to describe how I feel on Friday Night after watching so strong and self-empowering documentary movie.
In a world teetering on the edge of self destruction, award-winning filmmaker Velcrow Ripper sets out on a unique pilgrimmage. Visiting the 'Ground Zeros' of the planet, he asks if it's possible to find hope in the darkest moments of human history. Staring directly into the face of war, tragedy and instability, Ripper travels to the minefields of Cambodia; war-torn Afghanistan; the toxic wasteland of Bhopal; post-9/11 New York; Bosnia; Hiroshima, Israel and Palestine. This unflinching documentary captures his five-year odyssey to discover if humanity can transform the 'scared' into the 'sacred'. Confronting horror and heartbreak around the world, Ripper meets those who have suffered first-hand. And in each place, he unearths unforgettable stories of survival, ritual, and recovery. Scared Sacred deftly weaves together haunting and luminous footage with words, memories, and an evocative soundscape to create an exquisite portrait of a search for meaning in times of turmoil. With an engaging, first-person narrative, this beautiful film reveals that the darkness of catastrophe can be illuminated with hope.
Just to end:
"We are people, we are human beings. Our blood is the same color, our pain is the same pain, the taste of our tears is bitter. And if we couldn’t reach out for one another and we couldn’t call each other brothers of pain we can say to the World that if we, who paid the highest price possible if we can talk to one another, than anyone can. And this really gives you a reason for existence."
GOOD COPY BAD COPY - a documentary about the current state of copyright and culture
Good Copy Bad Copy, A documentary about the current state of copyright and culture, is a documentary about copyright and culture in the context of Internet, peer-to-peer file sharing and other technological advances. Directed by Andreas Johnsen, Ralf Christensen, and Henrik Moltke.
It features interviews with many people with various perspectives on copyright, including copyright lawyers, producers and artists.
A central point of the documentary is the thesis that "creativity itself is on the line" and that a balance needs to be struck, or that there is a conflict, between protecting the right of those who own intellectual property and the rights of future generations to create.
Interesting film to see, probably the future of commercial media is going to be a lot different..
Tagline: How did a handful of corporations steal our water? Plot: Water is the very essence of life, sustaining every being on the planet. 'Flow' confronts the disturbing reality that our crucial resource is dwindling and greed just may be the cause.
Flow: For Love of Water is a 2008 documentary film directed by Irena Salina produced by Steven Starr and co-produced by Gill Holland and Yvette Tomlinson. The film features interviews with water and community activists Maude Barlow, Peter Gleick scientists Ashok Gadgil, Rajendra Singh and Vandana Shiva. The film won the Grand Jury Award at the Mumbai International Film Festival.
The film concentrates on the big business of privatization of water infrastructure which prioritizes profits over the availability of clean water for people and the environment. Major businesses depicted in the film are Nestle, The Coca-Cola Company, Suez (company), and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).