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Pub. Date
[2012], c2006
Language
English
Description
This first part of the classic Foundations of Communication Series involves a discussion of the communication discipline with scholars Lois Self, former chair of the Department of Communication at Northern Illinois University; Caroll C. Arnold, former professor emeritus of Pennsylvania State University; James McBath, former chairman of communication arts and sciences at University of Southern California; Nicolas Cripe, formerly of Butler University;...
Series
Language
English
Description
This program features six landmark speeches: John F. Kennedy's inaugural address; Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech; Adolf Hitler's address to the Nazi Party; Douglas MacArthur's farewell address; Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1942 State of the Union address; and Barack Obama's first inaugural address. Printable transcripts and critical essays are included on DVD only.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
This classic episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series reports on a Scatter Communications Site in Germany, food irradiation in Massachusetts, and "tunnel rats" in Vietnam. This video from the National Archives and Records Administration also features the Institute of Heraldry in Virginia, U.S. Army engineers in Thailand, and the Freedom Foundations Award in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
4) Breaking the Wall of the Flat World of TV: What Three-Dimensional Television Pictures Will Look Like
Pub. Date
[2012], c2009
Language
English
Description
In only 15 years' time, we will be watching television in a radical, three-dimensional form. This 2009 Falling Walls lecture video features Thomas Wiegand, professor at the Technische Universität Berlin and head of the Image Processing Department of the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institut, whose work is transforming television and our viewing habits. Having studied electrical engineering at the Universities of Hamburg...
5) Breaking the Wall Between Mind and Machine: How Neurotechnology Can Expand Human Capacity for Action
Pub. Date
[2012], c2009
Language
English
Description
Man machines are no longer the property of science fiction - as brain-computer interfacing, or BCI, finds increasing application in real life. But how can we connect brain and computer so that there is a direct communications pathway between the two that can enable the remote control of computers and other devices? This 2009 Falling Walls lecture video explores how the sheer complexity of transmitted data poses enormous challenges for machine learning:...
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In this video, Rick Davis interviews Aviva Kempner, a long-time documentary filmmaker whose works cover a broad range of issues, such as homelessness, civil rights, and the Holocaust. The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg is one of her most noted works. The film won many awards, including the Peabody Award and awards from the National Board of Review, the New York Film Critics Circle and the Broadcast Film Critics Association. Kempner is also the founder...
Series
Language
Español
Description
In 1978 Dámaso Alonso (1998-1990), poet, philologist and academic, has just received the Cervantes Prize and five volumes of his Complete Works have already been published. Describes the first departure to the world of the generation of 27, the origins of philology "Menéndez Pidal was the only philologist in 1905, with eight disciples, and from there multiply like a pyramid." He also talks about the transformation of the Royal Academy. The author...
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A towering figure in the development of experimental and post-war electronic art music, Pauline Oliveros explores the origin of sound with neuroscientist Seth Horowitz. Oliveros is the founder of "Deep Listening,"which comes from her childhood fascination with sounds and from her works in concert music with composition, improvisation, and electro-acoustics. She describes “Deep Listening” as a way of listening in every possible way to everything...
9) FedFlix
Series
Language
English
Description
This Program from the Combat Studies Institute is designed to give military instructors ideas on presenting "Nuclear Weapons and the Cold War," lesson 12 in "Evolution of Modern Warfare." It offers suggestions for how to present the Cold War context, thinking on nuclear strategy and deterrence, and the post-WWII reorganization of the military and national security apparatus. Panelists show how the existence of nuclear weapons led to questions of whether...
Language
English
Description
With nano-enabled drugs that destroy diseased cells and enable tissue repair, doctors may one day extend life expectancy far beyond our current capabilities - at least in countries wealthy enough to afford the technology. But the medicine that so radically redefines our standards of health and mortality will also profoundly challenge our social support systems and cultural values. In this Fred Friendly Seminar, moderator and Peabody award-winning...
11) Game Changers
Series
Language
English
Description
News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch created a global media empire worth more than $30 billion. As chairman of News Corp., the Australian born Rupert Murdoch runs a global empire that includes newspapers, magazines, a movie studio, television stations, satellite operations, a publishing house, and digital media platforms. Murdoch is responsible for tabloid newspapers like The New York Post while owning highly respected papers such as the Times of London...
Series
Language
English
Description
In peaceful times, the US Armed Forces are well stocked with brave men and women who voluntarily sign up to serve. However, in the event of a third catastrophic global conflict, it is possible for the U.S. government to rapidly recruit from the civilian population, thanks to the Selective Service System. In this video, we will find out where it comes from and how compulsory it really is.
13) Ad Persuasion
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
American, British, and Canadian advertising professionals examine six television commercials to explain why people are talking about them. British and American beer ads use comedy, celebrity appearances, and subverted expectations to sell their product. A public service announcement about driving while high plays off the sense of the surreal experienced by drug users. A Volkswagen ad and an Orange telecom ad both use dance-with varying degrees of...
Language
English
Description
A new place of culture, created in 2004, following the reconversion of a municipal venue and the abandonment of a political utopia. In the early 1970s, architect Jacques Kalisz was asked to build an administrative complex, grouping together under one roof a set of administrative, social and legal services (a court, a social security center, a police station, a tax center, a union headquarters, an unemployment pole, a morgue, kennels etc.). The Pantin...
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