National Geographic Mars miniseries is really really good. If you haven't seen it look for it on your local listing or find it where ever you can. Try http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/mars/ for information or episode. This is how channels like National Geographic should present scientific ideas to the public. There should be more a scripted story intermingled with presenters giving scientific facts. I hope National Geographic does more of this.
These videos follow Henry Louis Gates Jr. as he travels around the continent of Africa. He learns and gives information about Medieval African Civilizations and their connection to Europe, the Middle East, India, and China. There is a great deal of information here about different cultures, history, and art.
My only problem is the show does seem to focus more on how African cultures took things from these different places and reinterpreted them into their culture. This isn't a bad thing but I was thinking by the name of the title that it would focus more on the African Civilization themselves and would give more information about them before colonization by Europe and the encroachment of Islam.
This is the Blue Eye/Brown Eye test done in the United States of America but I'm not sure when. I think it was in the early 2000s.
For those of you that don't know what the Blue Eye/Brown Eye test is. Jane Elliot takes a group of people. She separates them by blue eyes and brown eyes. She tell the brown eyes to treat the blue eyes as the lesser. The point of this test is to teach the white members of the group how a living in a Racist/discriminating systems feels but also to show the brown eyes why people in such a group don't either know or want to give up the privilege of being in the more powerful group.
This is the same experiment done in the UK. However it doesn't go as well. Most of the white participants refuse to take part in the experiment. However it does show their deep denial of racism. I believe this took place in 2009.
This is the same experiment done in Australia. It's not the full video but it gives you enough to understand the test.
First People: Africa is a PBS special about the African origins of HUMANKIND. The show talks about how scientists use fossil evidence and genetics to trace back Modern Humans ancestry. They also learn that early mankind mated and had children with the other Human species. The product is, us. People today are hybrids with a small percentage of one or more different species of human in our DNA.
I came across this amazing Subaru car ad online for Attack on Titan or Shingeki No Kyojin live action Japanese movie. This is for fans of Attack on Titan
Titans chasing a car. That is so cool. When I saw pictures of this on tumblr I knew what it was immediately.
And for those fans loving the car ad. Here is the trailer for the live action movie.
The Big Picture: 10 Ideas To Save The Economy by former Labor Secretary Robert Reich and MoveOn.org
This short video explains why fifteen dollars an hour for minimum wage is good for the American Econonmy. Watch this it's less than three minutes long and it makes sense.
What I find funny is no one I have seen on television has ever been able to show when raising the minimum wage has ever hurt local or national economies. You would think they would take any example and try to push it to make their point, no matter how flimsy it would be.
