March For Our Lives

SpaceX Falcon Heavy Test Flight

NOVA: Black Hole Apocalypse

Oprah Winfrey Receives Cecil B. de Mille Award at the 2018 Golden Globes

Jan 2018 Bomb Cyclone

Soundbreaking

8 Episodes: Nov 14 - 23, 2016

Featuring more than 160 original interviews with some of the most celebrated recording artists, producers, and music industry pioneers of all time, Soundbreaking charts a century’s worth of innovation and experimentation, and offers a behind-the-scenes look at the birth of brand new sounds.

Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web

TED Radio Hour: Jamie Bartlett: What Goes On In The Secrecy Of The Dark Web?

Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things

Cold Fusion: Tesla Semi Autonomous Truck and Updated Roadster

Eminem: Walk on Water, Stan, Love the Way You Lie (ft. Skylar Grey) (Live) - SNL

"I walk on water

But I ain't no Jesus

I walk on water

But only when it freezes"

Boston Bronze & Stone Speak to Us

Amazon.com

"Boston Bronze & Stone Speak To Us is a unique and beautiful book that combines art, history, and walking guides for the public sculpture found in eighteen Boston locales. Written by Joseph R. Gallo, Jr., who states that he is not an historian but a lover of the City of Boston, the book combines his original photographs and observations with well-referenced sources and maps for a complete experience of enjoying Boston sculpture. With hundreds of full-color photographs in all, each chapter offers a map of that area with stars and page numbers marking each work discussed. The chapters include the Boston Common, the State House inside and out, Beacon Hill and Louisburg Square, the Boston Public Gardens, the Esplanade and Hatch Shell, the Fenway, Chinatown and the Theater District, Copley Square, Park Square, the Commonwealth Avenue Mall, School Street and the Old City hall, King's Chapel, Downtown and the Financial District, Government Center, Quincy Marketplace and Faneuil Hall, the North End, and the Waterfront.

The book also includes and Index of Monuments and an Index of the Sculptors. Boston is home to some of the most extraordinary public art in North America. Sculptors of public art include Daniel Chester French, Katherine Lane Weems, August Saint-Gaudens and George Aarons. This lovingly produced book introduces readers to the artists, the subjects of their work, and the accessibility of exceptional art all within the city of Boston."

Boston Dynamics: The Coming Robot Revolution

WGBH Boston Public Library Studio

Boston Public Radio

Join BPR hosts Jim Braude and Margery Eagan for the weekly taping of Boston Public Radio at the Boston Public Library WGBH studio from 11-2PM weekly, Tuesdays and Fridays.

Ken Burns: The Vietnam War

10 Episodes

Sep 17-24, 2017

http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-vietnam-war/watch/#episodes

The Farthest Voyager in Space

pbs.org

"THE FARTHEST tells the captivating tales of the people and events behind one of humanity’s greatest achievements in exploration: NASA’s Voyager mission, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this August. The twin spacecraft—each with less computing power than a cell phone—used slingshot trajectories to visit Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. They sent back unprecedented images and data that revolutionized our understanding of the spectacular outer planets and their many peculiar moons."

NOVA: Eclipse Over America

Program Description: (pbs.org)

On August 21, 2017, millions of Americans witnessed the first total solar eclipse to cross the continental United States in 99 years. As in all total solar eclipses, the moon blocked the sun and revealed its ethereal outer atmosphere – its corona – in a wondrous celestial spectacle. While hordes of citizens flocked to the eclipse’s path of totality, scientists, too, staked out spots for a very different reason: to investigate the secrets of the sun’s elusive atmosphere. During the eclipse’s precious seconds of darkness, they gathered new clues on how our sun works,

Race and Racism in the Age of Trump

The 2017 Hutchins Forum will be live from Martha's Vineyard at 5pm ET on August 17. The forum is hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and moderated by Charlayne Hunter-Gault. Panelists include Charles Blow, Alan Dershowitz, Asma Khalid, Leah Wright Rigueur, April Ryan and Armstrong Williams.

The Blockchain and Cryptocurrency

A blockchain is a distributed database that is used to maintain a continuously growing list of records, called blocks. Each block contains a timestamp and a link to a previous block. A blockchain is typically managed by a peer-to-peer network collectively adhering to a protocol for validating new blocks. By design, blockchains are inherently resistant to modification of the data. Once recorded, the data in any given block cannot be altered retroactively without the alteration of all subsequent blocks and a collusion of the network majority. Functionally, a blockchain can serve as "an open, distributed ledger that can record transactions between two parties efficiently and in a verifiable and permanent way. The ledger itself can also be programmed to trigger transactions automatically.

History.com: America's War On Drugs

America’s War on Drugs
http://www.history.com/shows/americas-war-on-drugs/about:

“America’s War on Drugs” is an immersive trip through the last five decades, uncovering how the CIA, obsessed with keeping America safe in the fight against communism, allied itself with the mafia and foreign drug traffickers. In exchange for support against foreign enemies, the groups were allowed to grow their drug trade in the United States. The series explores the unintended consequences of when gangsters, war lords, spies, outlaw entrepreneurs, street gangs and politicians vie for power and control of the global black market for narcotics – all told through the firsthand accounts of former CIA and DEA officers, major drug traffickers, gang members, noted experts and insiders.

Episode 1: Acid, Spies & Secret Experiments
Episode 2: Cocaine, Cartels, & Crack Downs
Episode 3: Gangs Prisons, and Meth Queens
Episode 4: Heroin, Terrorists, and Kings of Pain

Quantum entanglement transmitted through space

Sail Boston 2017

Before The Dawn

(repost for a friend)

Talk of the Nation, Science Friday
'Before the Dawn' Author Nicholas Wade
April 26, 2006

Review - Monstersandcritics.com

Amazon.com - From Publishers Weekly

"Scientists are using DNA analysis to understand our prehistory: the evolution of humans; their relation to the Neanderthals, who populated Europe and the Near East; and Homo erectus, who roamed the steppes of Asia. Most importantly, geneticists can trace the movements of a little band of human ancestors, numbering perhaps no more than 150, who crossed the Red Sea from east Africa about 50,000 years ago. Within a few thousand years, their descendents, Homo sapiens, became masters of all they surveyed, the other humanoid species having become extinct.

Gyu Kaku Boston

Gyu-Kaku Japanese BBQ in Brookline and Harvard Square is the ideal spot for a great dining experience in Boston. The restaurant type is called Yakiniku in Japanese.This barbecue spot is a great place to meet friends. Not a place to dine alone.

Don't even think about that frozen microwave dinner!

A post shared by Gyu-Kaku Japanese BBQ (@gyukakujbbq) on Jun 15, 2017 at 6:42pm PDT

My Family's Slave - The Atlantic - Alex Tizon

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In 'Lola's Story,' A Journalist Reveals A Family Secret

NPR's Morning Edition

May 16, 2017

Going out in a Blaze of Glory: Cassini Science Highlights and Grand Finale

American Gods

Based on the novel by English author Neil Gaiman, a blend of Americana, fantasy, and various strands of mythology, all centering on the mysterious and taciturn Shadow. Several of the themes touched upon in the book were previously glimpsed in The Sandman comic book series.

The central premise of the novel is that gods and mythological creatures exist because people believe in them (a type of thoughtform). Immigrants to the United States brought with them spirits and gods. The power of these mythological beings has diminished as people's beliefs waned. New gods have arisen, reflecting America's obsessions with media, celebrity, technology, and drugs, among other things.

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Boston MBTA Proposed North South Rail Link

The North–South Rail Link is a proposed pair of rail tunnels, each about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long, that would connect North and South Stations in downtown Boston, Massachusetts.

The tunnels would better link Amtrak's various trains into and out of the city, but would mainly benefit the MBTA Commuter Rail by connecting its northern and southern lines. Currently, the Amtrak Downeaster line from Maine has no direct connection to the Northeast Corridor routes south and west. Both Amtrak and the commuter rail lines currently terminate at North and South Stations.

American Experience: The Great War

6 Hours:

Part 1: American neutrality erodes as Wilson declares “the world must be made safe for democracy.”
Part 2: As patriotism sweeps the nation, the country assembles its first mass conscripted army.
Part 3: The climactic struggle and ensuing peace that forever changed a president and a nation.

American Playboy

The Amazon Original Series draws from unprecedented access to more than 17,000 hours of footage and over 2,600 scrapbooks from Hefner's personal archives, chronicling the life of an American icon and the history of the brand he created.

Legion

Legion, based on the Marvel Comics, follows the story of David Haller – a troubled young man who may be more than human. 

The People versus O.J. Simpson / O.J: Made in America

Two series on O.J. Simpson within the last year.

Both are good, award winners.

Underscores what an incredibly complicated and tragic figure.