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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Darwin's Brave New World is the story of how four young voyagers to the Southern Hemisphere, Charles Darwin, Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley and Alfred Russel Wallace, revolutionized science and gave birth to an extraordinary theory about the evolution of life on earth. Darwin's voyage to the Southern Hemisphere in the 1830s changed him from a directionless rich kid bound for a career in the Church, into one of the most incendiary thinkers of our age....
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Enter the brave new world of social robotics, where robots are built specifically to communicate with humans and other autonomous physical agents. With the help of the robot Baxter, discover how simple signals like spoken words, expressions, and body language can create a dynamic user interface between human and robot..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Genetically modified organisms are in the news almost every day. They are lauded for solving numerous agricultural problems and reviled for their perceived "Frankenstein" nature. But what is the truth about GMOs? Learn what scientists have accomplished, what might be possible in the future, and the very real dilemmas we face in this brave new world of plant science.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, published in 1932, is the second of the "Big Three" dystopian novels of the interwar years. Investigate the ways Huxley projects the anxieties of his day onto the future, creating a world in which people are controlled not by pain or fear, but by pleasure, and consider how utopian and dystopia are often only matters of perspective.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When changing times force tween girl Kristen to leave the city for the countryside, she struggles to deal with school friends and a handsome young ranch hand. But Kristen finds comfort in a new friend: a horse! By chatting telepathically with her faithful bronco Stanford, Kristen gains the confidence she needs to face the brave new world of adolescence. Starring Patrick Muldoon and Catherine Bach, MY BEST FRIEND shows that true pals come in all shapes...
Publisher
Array Releasing
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Maye is a success. Hot career. Hot boyfriend. But when her world is turned upside down by tragedy, she must struggle to keep her balance. Hailed by critic Roger Ebert as "... one of the best films I've seen about the loss of a loved one," Ava DuVernay's directorial debut I WILL FOLLOW chronicles a day in the life of a women at a crossroads, and the twelve people who help her move forward into a brave, new world.
Publisher
Doc & Film International
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Facebook, Amazon and Google provide us with around the clock access to the convenience of the digital world. Surveillance cameras on the streets take care of our security. But who actually collects our fingerprints, iris scans, online shopping preferences, and social media posting? Don´t we care about our privacy anymore? In his unique, charming, and curious way, filmmaker Werner Boote travels around the world (USA, UK, China, Hong Kong, Austria,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Cold is the new hot in this brave new world. For centuries we've fought it, shunned it, and huddled against it. Cold has always been the enemy of life, but now it may hold the key to a new generation of science and technology that will improve our lives. In Making Stuff Colder, David Pogue explores the frontiers of cold science from saving the lives of severe trauma patients to ultracold physics, where bizarre new properties of matter are the norm...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Pat and Cabbage, two 60-something women with a zest for life, and thoroughly determined to defy the expectations that come with being a certain age. Finding themselves single for the first time in decades – they’ve finally found financial, familial and moral freedom and they’re going to have some fun. Meanwhile, their children are less than impressed. Pat’s daughters – wannabe-psychiatrist Helen and hopeless in love Nicola – are convinced...
10) Brave New York
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Brave New York, is a free-form documentary video that loosely chronicles the last 12 years of intense change in the East Village "hood." From the reopening of a newly curfewed Tompkins Square Park and Wigstock in '92, to the destruction of the cherished Loisaida Community Gardens, to the yuppie invasions of the dot com years, to the present era, indelibly stamped with post 9/11 grief, this durable, lusty neighborhood survives in spite of a real estate...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
What is a top-of-mind issue for business and IT leaders today? Well, the title of our report is sure to give it away. It's of course, the customer. In this report, we'll be talking with technologist, Alan Trefler, author of the popular new book, Build for Change: Revolutionizing Customer Engagement through Continuous Digital Innovation. We'll ask the author to discuss the details of his book, give us his take on today's customer, and explain what...
12) Degrassi
Publisher
WildBrain
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
DEGRASSI: The Next Generation, a dramatic sequel from the producer of the award-winning Degrassi series of the 1980s-- Kids of Degrassi Street, Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High. Degrassi: The Next Generation continues the core spirit of the previous Degrassi series. It tells its youthful viewers: you are not alone. It talks directly to its young audience, exploring their dilemmas from their point of view. It’s a brave new world as Degrassi:...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Australia is at the forefront of new genetic technology that will let us "design" our descendants. Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis or PGD allows scientists to screen embryos conceived through IVF. But what is the potential of this technology and who should decide how to use it? For families suffering incurable or debilitating genetic diseases, PGD seems to be the longed-for miracle. But where do you draw the line? Some believe the next step is...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Mushrooms – we put them on our pizza and steaks and in our soups and salads, we marvel at their variety and are sometimes repelled by their grotesque beauty when encountering them in the bush. And yeah, some have even sampled their more exotic possibilities and asked the question: “Do mushrooms come from a far away planet?” Still, others have asked: “Can mushrooms save the planet?” The world of fungi and their integral relationship with...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Return of the River" is a sequel to "Heart of the People" (1997 Gemini nomination) "Return of the River" is a story of struggle and survival: The Huu-ay-aht First Nations and their ongoing efforts to bring back their river, destroyed decades ago by clear-cut logging and commercial fishing. This Documentary traces the amazing progress the Huu-ay-aht have made in their attempts to restore their river, culture and language- since embarking on this project...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
There is a growing buzz around the potential for science and technology to create significant "human enhancement" applications, such as bionic limbs, improved memory or cognition, or the ability to choose specific characteristics for our offspring. The possibilities stir the imagination and excitement of many, while for others the rhetoric and current research into human enhancement signals alarms of a new eugenics. And yet, for most non-scientists,...
Publisher
Brave New Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In the new film Suppressed: The Fight To Vote Robert Greenwald exposes rampant voter suppression that affected the outcome of the 2018 midterm election in Georgia and the threat it poses to our elections all across the nation in 2020.
Publisher
Brave New Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Documentary on reported Conservative bias of the Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox News Channel (FNC), which promotes itself as "Fair and Balanced". Material includes interviews with former FNC employees and the inter-office memos they provided.
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