July 31, 2016
Ava
"A facial reconstruction has been made of a young woman who died more than 3,700 years ago. The woman's bones, including a skull and teeth, were discovered at Achavanich in Caithness in 1987."
July 30, 2016
J. Michael Straczynski remembers Jerry Doyle
"When it came to politics, Jerry Doyle and I disagreed on, well, pretty much everything. Politically, Jerry was just to the right of Attila the Hun. There is a line in Babylon 5 where his character, Michael Garibaldi, suggests that the way to deal with crime is to go from electric chairs to electric bleachers. That line is quintessential Jerry Doyle. I say this with confidence because I overheard him saying it at lunch then stole it for the show."
July 27, 2016
Drop-down identity
"Excellences & Perfections sets the idea of gender as a performance in the specific context of how we reward and value images of women online. By playing to type, Ulman’s Instagram character became popular online. But it was also what lent the project a degree of credibility. It felt believable because it was familiar. Relying on a character and a narrative that had been seen before allowed 'people to map the content with ease'. The more someone performs according to prescribed behaviours, the more ‘likes’ and ‘shares’ they will receive."
July 26, 2016
My Crazy Russian Vlog: Weird & Wonderful Siberian Pastimes
"Where can you take to the snowy slopes in a bikini? Welcome to Russia! RT Doc’s Peter Scott explores some of the craziest things to do in Russia: from festivals on snowy mountains to a smash room ready to be destroyed. Nothing gets in the way of his madcap fun, not even a broken leg."
July 11, 2016
Genius of the Modern World - Nietzsche, Episode 2 of 3 (2016)
"The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most brilliant and dangerous minds of the 19th century. His uncompromising and often brutal ideas smashed the comfortable presuppositions and assumptions of religion, morality and science. His was a world not just bereft of God but almost of humanity, breathtaking in both its post-religious starkness and its originality."