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Ruben Östlund’s satire on the ruling class takes us on a luxury cruise headed for disaster.

  • Added: Apr 12, 2023
  • Length: 03:33
Caption: Nanshan Cultural Tourist Zone in Sanya, China , Credit: Denny Ryanto @runninghead
In this episode, part thirty-eight of the multi-part BLUEprint series, we examine some statistics that show steps China is taking to confront the c...

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 05:38
Caption: His profession was listed as  "farmer's son". They never saw their family again., Credit: Susan Cook
The US Senate bill to limit immigration by educational status ignores that opportunity is exactly what oppressive regimes deny. Opportunity -as ev...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2017
  • Length: 05:59
Caption: Mangroves Near Waitangi, Credit: Gordon and Julia Gardner
We are living in a time of great environmental, social, and political change, and our outdated ways of living and governing are failing. The 21st c...

  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 05:52
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After water, the largest volume of natural material used to support global growth is sand. Demand for sand has grown exponentially in the last two ...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2016
  • Length: 05:08
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Arctic opportunities and territorial claims are on the rise as temperatures change and the ice melts. Once impassable, the Arctic is now increasing...

  • Added: May 26, 2015
  • Length: 05:31
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The vision of Gorbachev now is destroyed by Vladimir Putin. A sonnet will remind us of what Gorbachev made possible and what is now lost by Putin's...

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  • Added: Jul 07, 2014
  • Length: :57
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi, Credit: Sandip Roy
Amethi is the pocket borough of India’s most powerful family, the Gandhi's. This time it’s different.

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  • Added: May 06, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Voters in India, Credit: Sandip Roy
Voting in India is the largest organized event in the world! Sandip Roy goes to the polls.

  • Added: Apr 15, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
In this season of gratitude, speak. Uphold civil liberties, the human rights that we have, that others will travel thousands of miles for, and when...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2012
  • Length: 03:28
Caption: Keep your hands off my character, Credit: Susan Cook
International Women's Day is a time for women to acknowledge how women are discredited by others. And yes women too discredit women. All of this c...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
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Voting in the Israeli elections on a stormy winter morning.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2009
  • Length: 02:17
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The globalization of capital finally has brought about serious moves for the globalization of labor.

  • Added: Jul 11, 2008
  • Length: 04:41
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The Olympic Games are about a lot more than sports.

  • Added: May 08, 2008
  • Length: 05:38
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Short essay by Peter Neill, director of the World Ocean Observatory

  • Added: Oct 25, 2007
  • Length: 04:48
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Orange Juice: The transglobal nature of drink production.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2007
  • Length: 01:03
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Thoughts about the Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • Added: Nov 16, 2004
  • Length: 02:58
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Confronting the tyrannies of our times through the transformative power of the novel.

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2004
  • Length: 22:40
  • Purchases: 6