Science Friday: Decoding Mr. Robot

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Wow and then some. Simone Biles!

Tough to find inspiration these days. But I found one. She is flying high. A small woman, Simone Biles is bigger than life.

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Trump - 'Get the Baby Out of Here!'

This one is so funny.

Michelle Obama’s full speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention

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Michelle Obama: Today, I wake up "in a house that was built by slaves" https://t.co/ZAGu4EXP6V #DemsInPhilly https://t.co/gOQj8lW3tO

— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) July 26, 2016

Muhammad Ali, 1942-2016

Obama Hiroshima Ceremony and Speech

Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the site of the Hiroshima atomic bombing. 

Some 140,000 people were killed when the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the city on Aug. 6, 1945.

Obama called for a world without nuclear weapons after visiting Hiroshima Peace Park Memorial, where he spent a short time in the site's museum and then solemnly placed a wreath at the arched monument.

Prince Rogers Nelson, 1958-2016

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One of the greatest Super Bowl Halftime performances of all-time. #RIPPrince  https://t.co/B6aHzYUCoG

— NFL (@NFL) April 21, 2016

Concert for Sandi Peaslee

Sandi Peaslee Celebration Service

Lexington High School (Gillespie Auditorium)

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Ken Burns: Jackie Robinson

A Year in Space

A Year in Space

March 2, 2016

pbs.org/time.org

"Follow astronaut Scott Kelly’s record-breaking 12-month mission on the International Space Station, from launch to landing, as NASA charts the effects of long-duration spaceflight."

American Experience: Spacemen

American Experience: Spacemen
March 1, 2016

pbs.org

"Before the days of NASA, scientists and researchers at the U.S. Air Force were testing the limits of how high man could fly. Though largely forgotten today, balloonists were the first to venture into the frozen near-vacuum on the edge of our world, exploring the very limits of human physiology and human ingenuity in this lethal realm."

American Masters: Fats Domino and the Birth of Rock 'n Roll

The one-hour documentary traces how Fats Domino’s brand of New Orleans rhythm and blues morphed into rock and roll, appealing to black and white audiences alike. Fats Domino was one of the most popular rockers of the 1950s and early 60s. His achievements and record sales during that time were rivaled only by Elvis Presley. With his boogie-woogie piano playing rooted in blues, rhythm & blues, and jazz, he became one of the inventors, along with Presley, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard of a revolutionary genre of music, rock ‘n’ roll.

NOVA: Rise of the Robots

NOVA: Rise of the Robots
Premiers, February 24, 2016

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It's Your Universe - Jeffrey Kluger

It's Your Universe, Podcast by Jeffrey Kluger

Time.com

"About It’s Your Universe

Space is humanity’s great fever dream. It’s a place that’s unfathomably beautiful, yet lethally dangerous, a place that’s been beckoning us to visit for millions of years but that we have only recently begun to touch..."

Gravitational Waves

NOVA: Life's Rocky Start

pbs.org

"Program Description
Four and a half billion years ago, the young Earth was a hellish place—a seething chaos of meteorite impacts, volcanoes belching noxious gases, and lightning flashing through a thin, torrid atmosphere. Then, in a process that has puzzled scientists for decades, life emerged. But how?"

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The Longest Hatred: From the Cross to the Swastika

American Experience: The Pilgrims

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Pilgrims
November 24, 2015

The converging forces, circumstances, personalities and events that propelled a group of English men and women west across the Atlantic in 1620. The challenges they faced in making new lives for themselves still resonate almost 400 years later: the tensions of faith and freedom in American society, the separation of Church and State, and cultural encounters resulting from immigration.

NOVA: Cyberwar Threat

PBS NOVA: Cyberwar Threat
Oct 14, 2015

"NOVA examines the science and technology behind cyber warfare and asks if we are already in the midst of a deadly new arms race."

PBS In Their Own Words: Muhammed Ali

The film follows Ali’s rise from the Columbia Gym in Louisville to international fame, as he transcended his great athletic achievements to become one of the most influential Americans of his time: how this once polarizing figure ultimately became a beloved and honored national hero.

Key events include Ali’s stunning Islamic conversion and name change, his dramatic stand against the Vietnam-era draft, his 3-year exile from the ring, his legendary comeback fights, his battle with Parkinson’s disease, and his inspirational reemergence on the world stage at the Atlanta Olympics.

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TED Radio Hour - Screen Time

Screen Time

TED Radio Hour

Part 1

September 11, 2015

It's normal for us to always be glued to our screens. So how are they changing us, and how will they shape our future? This hour, TED speakers explore our ambivalent relationships with our screens.

How Are Our Screens Changing Us Now?

Amber Case: Are Our Devices Turning Us Into A New Kind Of Human?

Rana El Kaliouby: Will Our Screens Soon Be Able To Read Our Emotions?

Dimitri Christakis: When It Comes To Kids, Is All Screen Time Equal?

P.W. Singer: How Are Screens Changing The Face Of War?

Chris Milk: What Happens When We Step Inside The Screen?

Part 2

September 18, 2015

When we go online, we present a digital version of ourselves. How do we transform when we interact inside our screens? In this episode, TED speakers explore the expanding role of our "second selves."

Jon Ronson: How Can Our Real Lives Be Ruined By Our Digital Ones?

Philip Rosedale: Why Build A Virtual World?

Jennifer Golbeck: What Can Companies Predict From Your Digital Trail?

Adam Ostrow: After You Die, What Happens To The Digital You?

Abha Dawesar: How Do Our Screens Distort Our Sense of Time?

American Masters - Althea Gibson

The story of Althea Gibson (1927-2003), a truant from the rough streets of Harlem, who emerged as the unlikely queen of the highly segregated tennis world in the 1950s. She was the first African American to play and win at Wimbledon and the U.S. Nationals (precursor of the U.S. Open) — a decade before Arthur Ashe.

NOVA: Dawn of Humanity

Program Description
PBS.org

NOVA and National Geographic present exclusive access to a unique discovery of ancient remains. Located in an almost inaccessible chamber deep in a South African cave, the site required recruiting a special team of experts slender enough to wriggle down a vertical, pitch-dark, seven-inch-wide passage. Most fossil discoveries of human relatives consist of just a handful of bones. But down in this hidden chamber, the team uncovered an unprecedented trove—so far, over 1,500 bones—with the potential to rewrite the story of our origins. They may help fill in a crucial gap in the fossil record and tell us how Homo, the first member of the human family, emerged from ape-like ancestors like the famous Lucy. But how did hundreds of bones end up in the remote chamber? The experts are considering every mind-boggling possibility. Join NOVA on the treacherous descent into this cave of spectacular and enigmatic finds, and discover their startling implications for the saga of what made us human.

Alex Gibney: Steve Jobs, The Man In the Machine

New Film Asks: Were Steve Jobs' Flaws Uploaded To His Machines?
NPR All Tech Considered
Sep 4, 2015

Official Trailer

The Faith Instinct - Nicolas Wade

The Faith Instinct by Nicolas Wade

NPR book summary: "Draws on a broad range of scientific evidence to theorize an evolutionary basis for religion, considering how religion may have served as an essential component of early society survival and that the brain may be inherently inclined toward religious behavior."

American Experience: Blackout

American Experience: Blackout
Premiered July 14, 2015

Humanity from Space

PBS Humanity from Space
Premiered July 21, 2015
2 hours

Frontline: Drug Lord - The Legend of Shorty

Two filmmakers set out to interview El Chapo Guzmán, leader of one of the biggest drug cartels.

NOVA: Chasing Pluto

PBS NOVA New Horizons journey to Pluto

Chasing Pluto: Watch as the New Horizons spacecraft captures our first clear view of Pluto’s icy surface.

Aired July 15, 2015 on PBS

President Obama: South Carolina, Eulogy of Clementa Pinckney

President Obama delivered the eulogy of Clementa Pinckney, pastor of the African Methodist Episcopal church Charleston, South Carolina June 26, 2015. Pastor Pinckney was a victim of an act of white terrorism when a young racist shot and killed him and 8 others during a prayer service June 17, 2015.

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African Methodist Episcopalian church Boston

What Happened Miss Simone?

Using never-before-heard recordings, rare archival footage and her best-known songs, this is the story of legendary singer and activist Nina Simone.

Release June 26, 2015 (Netflix)

W.E.B. Du Bois - The Souls of Black Folk

The Souls of Black Folk is a classic work of American literature by W. E. B. Du Bois.