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Doc, Doc, Who's There: A Conversation with Thom Powers at TIFF08 Similar
Movies have been around for more than a hundred years, but documentaries of the hard-hitting, eye-opening and intimate type are much newer. It wasn't until the 1960s that motion-picture technology was ripe for the so-called direct cinema style of now-canonic documentarists like Frederick Wiseman and Barbara Kopple. Their films, focusing on social issues like mental health, schools, and workers' rights, have influenced two generations of successors. Thom Powers From his vantage as documentary programmer for one of the world's most important film showcases, and as a documentary maker himself, Ne...Feed: MediaRights: News
Uh excuse me....Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming Similar
Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile -- the list goes on and on. No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major glob...Feed: Villagers with Torches
Fight over whale fat Similar
An Australian scientist has attacked the research output of the Japanese scientific whaling programme. Nick Gales, of the Australian Antarctic Division, told ABC Radio Japanese claims that whales were getting leaner were flawed (partial transcript). “[The paper] claims on measurements of a little over 4,500 whales that the amount of blubber over the 18 year programme decreases,” he says (audio file). “They then claim that the Antarctic minke whales that they did the study on must be competing with other whales, like humpback whales that are increasing in numbers, for a limited amount of ...Feed: The Great Beyond
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