Archive for January, 2009
Stilwell Road – The Road That Killed a Man a Mile
In Burma in WWII, 15,000 US soldiers – many of them African-American – toiled through mountainous jungle terrain and torrential rain, and battled across raging rivers to build a road dismissed by Churchill as “an immense, laborious task, unlikely to be finished until the need for it has passed.” Soon after the road was completed [...]
Now the Animals are Tooling Up
Read Wired’s blog to find out how animals are using tools to outsmart their prey, make life easier or pass a little time: elephants painting, mole rats making face masks (protective rather than spa), Egyptian vultures opening eggs with hammers, birds using rods to fish for bugs, gorillas using walking sticks to cross rivers and [...]
TED Conference Speakers 2009
TED (tagline: Ideas Worth Spreading) have just announced some of their returning speakers at their 2009 conference. In the meantime browse the site for inspirational talks and expert/talent spotting. 2009 conference speakers include: Biochemist Kary Mullins, Biologist Robert Full, Mathemagician Arthur Benjamin, Founding director of Harvard Business School’s Life Sciences Project, Juan Enriquez, Marketing guru [...]
Greenlit: Dating in the Dark, ABC
Dating in the Dark Channel: ABC Producer: Talpa Content / Endemol USA Source: C21
Research: Find any Documentary in the UK
Visit findanyfilm.com to find documentaries (indeed, any film) available on DVD, on TV, online, for download or to see at the cinema. If it’s not currently on a certain format you can sign up for alerts when it becomes available. (Inspired by Nicola Colley)
RTS How to Pitch Video
Check out this RTS Futures video for pitching tips from the people you might need to pitch to: Camilla Lewis, Head of Factual Features, TalkbackThames; Walter Iuzzolino, Deputy Head, Features, Ch4; Tim Hincks, CEO, Endemol UK and Peter Finchcam, Director of Television, ITV. Watch here. It’s all good stuff – the main points are: Be [...]
Greenlit: The Science of Fireworks, Nat Geo
The Science of Fireworks Channel: National Geographic Producer: Marabella Source: Variety
Sit On the Jury
Do you have a dispute you want to resolve, or perhaps just a guilty conscience? Visit On the Jury, where you can submit your misdemeanors to the vote of the jury, and you can vote on other people’s crimes. Cases currently being deliberated include: “I found out my on/off boyfriend of many years was recently [...]
History of Hip Hop in Senegal
In 1982 hip hop was born in Senegal. From its earliest days as a youth craze its evolved into a socio-political movement with a distincticve culture. Read more.
How to Use Google Reader
Having trouble keeping track of all the websites you’re supposed to read in order to stay abreast of what’s happening in the world and generate new ideas? What you need is a feedreader that collects and aggregates all the new material that is published on your favourite sites, so you can find it all in [...]
