August 31, 2018
August 30, 2018
ABC Foreign Correspondent - The Dome
"Thousands of cubic metres of radioactive waste lies buried under a concrete dome on the Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the legacy of over a decade of US nuclear tests in the Pacific."
August 29, 2018
Andrew Coppa - Soul-Sistahs (2018)
Soul-Sistahs from Andrew Coppa on Vimeo.
"Omarosa steals Donald Trump's Hair for all of the power in the universe!"
Stephan Bodzin @ Piz Gloria for Cercle
"Stephan Bodzin playing his unique live set 10000 feet high in the mountains at Schilthorn Piz Gloria for Cercle."
August 28, 2018
Message found among the personal effects of Joseph Stalin
To Joseph Stalin: Stop sending people to kill me! We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle... If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send a very fast working one to Moscow and I certainly won't have to send another.
- Josip Broz Tito
Robert Service, Stalin: A Biography (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005), p. 592.
August 26, 2018
Keeping the Inuit Way of Life Alive in a Changing World
"In Northeastern Canada, a traditional Inuit hunter, carver, and guide is watching the world change before his eyes. In Keeper of the Flame, Derrick Pottle shares the meaning behind the Inuit way of life and why he continues the traditions of his culture."
August 25, 2018
August 24, 2018
Of Hadrian | Of Antoninus Pius
"It's worth keeping in mind how Google Translate works, because it helps you understand why it is so bad at Latin in particular. Google translate basically looks for websites that have texts in two different languages and statistically compares all of them to determine what is statistically the most likely to be the given translation for sentences. This used to be how it did all languages, but it has been changing to neural networks over the last two years for many of them, but I believe Latin still uses the old method.
"The thing about the old method was that it kind of worked all right for a lot of modern languages. Think about English and Spanish. There are lots of websites, government documents, etc, that are available in both languages, so it has a lot of good data to compare. In particular, it has data where accuracy and equivalency is often of the utmost importance, concerning texts written in a broad range of styles, from the simplest to the most complicated styles.
"Now think about the situation for Latin."
August 23, 2018
England's Forgotten Queen: The Life and Death of Lady Jane Grey, Ep. 1
August 22, 2018
August 20, 2018
David Bowie - Crystal Japan
"Crystal Japan was originally released as a single in Japan in February 1980. A year later it was finally released in the UK as the B-side of the Up The Hill Backwards single. In ’92 Ryko included it as a bonus track on their reissue of the album Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps).
"The footage here is from three of the1980 Japanese TV commercials for Crystal Jun Rock, a Japanese liquor. The ad featured Crystal Japan in the soundtrack."
August 19, 2018
Dire Straits - Money for Nothing
Dire Straits performing live during the 'Brothers in arms'-tour at the Wembley Arena in London, United Kingdom on July 10th, 1985.
August 18, 2018
Australia's Forgotten Islands (2018)
"A documentary chronicling the Cocos (Keeling) Islands - where Muslims outnumber Christians by more than five to one, and the Southern Cross and the Islamic crescent moon sit side by side on the islands’ flag. As Australian strategists eye up the value of the Cocos as a military outpost, the locals are forced to confront that their lives are in the hands of a government almost 6000kms away in Canberra, and they are part of a country that barely even knows they exist. The Cocos Islanders respond by formulating a plan that will ensure they have a voice in determining the future of their homeland. All it requires is for the man who expected to become the next ‘King of the Cocos’ to collaborate closely with the Malay people that his ancestors treated as virtually like slaves. What could possibly go wrong?"
August 17, 2018
August 15, 2018
Delingpole with James Delingpole - Tom Holland
"On this week’s episode of Delingpole, James talks with historian Tom Holland - star of the documentary Islam: The Untold Story - about the Islamic State and the plight of the Yazidis. Also, they discuss Holland being a failed vampire author and a world class cricketer. In addition, they talk about why Stonehenge is under threat and, er, the tragedy of hedgehogs."
August 14, 2018
Adam Nicholson and Paul Cartledge - Why Homer Matters (Hay Festival 2014)
August 13, 2018
The Man Who Shot Tutankhamun (2017)
"This is the story of Harry Burton, one of the great heroes of British photography. As the official photographer for Howard Carter’s Tutankhamun excavation during the 1920s, Burton created some of the 20th Century’s most famous images and helped to make Tutankhamun an international sensation.
"The film explores key locations in Burton’s life in the UK and Egypt, and sets Burton’s famous black-and-white images of Howard Carter’s Tutankhamun excavation alongside forgotten colour photographs and cine film shot by Burton himself."
August 12, 2018
August 11, 2018
Skavlan - Princess Olga Romanoff
"Princess Olga Romanoff's grandmother was the sister of the last Tsar of Russia. Today, 100 years after the Russian Revolution, Princess Olga comes to tell her story, how parts of the family managed to flee – while others were executed. She also talks about how her mother once was eager for her to marry Britain's prince Charles (7:54).
"Also present in the studio are artist Måns Zelmerlöw and violinist and model Charlie Siem."
August 10, 2018
Injury at track level
"Oddly enough, I was bored and sweating at College station today. Everything seemed sticky. The bottle of Selection Diet Ginger Ale I bought at the nearby Metro was sweaty, and sticky. I was sticky. The only thing that wasn't sticky were the stairs, they were just crusty. My phone just got a recent software update, and it was vibrating in my pocket as soon as there was no cell signal. Useless. In a fit of boredom I glanced at the payphone nearby... "
August 09, 2018
Tom Holland - Herodotus' Histories (Hay Festival 2014)
"The classical scholar introduces his new translation of Herodotus' masterpiece - The Histories."
August 08, 2018
Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution (2009)
"In 1794, French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre produced the world's first defense of 'state terror' - claiming that the road to virtue lay through political violence. This film combines drama, archive and documentary interviews to examine Robespierre's year in charge of the Committee of Public Safety - the powerful state machine at the heart of Revolutionary France. Contesting Robespierre's legacy are Slavoj Žižek, who argues that terror in the cause of virtue is justifiable, and Simon Schama, who believes the road from Robespierre ran straight to the gulag and the 20th-century concentration camp."
August 07, 2018
August 06, 2018
Olga, the last Grand Duchess (2003)
Exile in Ontario: "How the Russian royal family came to an end in Toronto. Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna went from living in a palace to dying above a barbershop."
August 05, 2018
American Psycho, Baudrillard and the Postmodern Condition
Aussi: "Tom Cruise laughs out in hysterics live on the late show with David Letterman."
August 04, 2018
August 03, 2018
Inside Michael Kors' Penthouse Apartment in Greenwich Village
"In this episode of 'Open Door', iconic fashion designer Michael Kors takes Architectural Digest on a tour of the Greenwich Village apartment he owns with husband, Lance LePere. The NYC apartment has been fully customized down to the hidden sliding doors that allow it to morph from open and loftlike to fully compartmentalized. Plus, it’s wrapped by a lush terrace beyond which lie unobstructed views south to the World Trade Center, west to the Hudson River, and yonder in every direction."