Christopher Nolan - Interstellar (2014)

Interstellar is a 2014 science fiction film directed by Christopher Nolan. The film features a crew of astronauts who travel through a wormhole in search of a new home for humanity. Not just science fiction, also based on real science facts.

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PRI Science Friday - Into the Wormhole: The Science of 'Interstellar'
NOV. 21, 2014

Colbert Report Finale - "We'll Meet Again", Obama does 'The Decree'

An amazing number of famous folks. A sudden where are they now; onstage all at once.

The Colbert Report
Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,The Colbert Report on Facebook,Video Archive

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PBS - The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation (2005)

PBS - The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation (2005)

Get Lucky - 2014 MTV Music Awards

Get Lucky - 2014 MTV Music Awards
Daft Punk, Stevie Wonder, Nile Rogers and Pharrell: Amazing performance.

Happy - 86th Academy Awards

Because I'm happy.

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Official

25th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - Gimme Shelter

U2, Mick Jagger, Fergie - "Gimmer Shelter" at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary Shows

Muhammad Ali vs. George Foreman - When We Were Kings (1996)

Great documentary film of the epic fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in the  famous "Rumble in the Jungle" heavyweight championship match. The fight was held in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) on October 30, 1974.

BBC - The Space Shuttle

What happens to a dream deferred

From BBC New York (and also Langston Hughes)

All Night Forever

From Ken Burns Civil War Episode 1

American Masters - Marvin Gaye (2008)

American Masters - Marvin Gaye

American Masters - Satchmo

Louis Armstrong - Time 100

American Masters

Winter Solstice 2014

A natural holiday. Happy New Year.

Winter solstice is an astronomical phenomenon which marks the shortest day and the longest night of the year. Winter solstice occurs for the Northern Hemisphere in December and for the Southern Hemisphere in June.

NASA - New Horizons Mission to Pluto and Chiron

nasa.gov

"New Horizons is a mission designed to fly by Pluto and its moon Charon and transmit images and data back to Earth. It will then continue on into the Kuiper Belt where it will fly by a one or more Kuiper Belt Objects and return further data."

New Horizons should perform a flyby of the Pluto system on 14 July 2015.

PBS - Richard Pryor Icon

PBS Richard Pryor Icon
November 23, 2014
pbs.org
"About the Program:
Richard Pryor: One of the greatest American comics of all time. His impact on comedy and this generation’s top comedians — who cite Richard as their biggest influence — is unrivaled. He was one of the first black men ever on television. He pioneered a new brand of humor: black man impersonating white man while making fun of himself. And he was a hit. His comedy was universal. His rise to fame was nothing short of miraculous."

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Richard Pryor, A Comedy Pioneer Who Was 'Always Whittling On Dynamite'
NPR Fresh Air
December 11, 2014

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via Youtube - instead of the the PBS link, firewall, international rights restricted.

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Flowers for Algernon

Flowers for Algernon is a science fiction short story and subsequent novel written by Daniel Keyes. The short story, written in 1958 and first published in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy; Science Fiction, won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1960.

The eponymous Algernon is a laboratory mouse who has undergone surgery to increase his intelligence by artificial means. The story is told by a series of progress reports written by Charlie Gordon, the first human test subject for the surgery, and it touches upon many different ethical and moral themes such as the treatment of the mentally disabled.

I read it when I was 8 years old and now find it analogous to our life experience; attaining everything what life has to offer and losing everything at the end.

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Charly - 1968 film starring Cliff Robertson, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. I watched it for the first time last month. At first I thought the film looked dated, but found I loved that the film is set in the Boston, Mass of my youth.