Monthly Archives: April 2008

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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a gigantic scientific instrument near Geneva, where it spans the border between Switzerland and France about 100 m underground. It is a particle accelerator used by physicists to study the smallest known particles – the fundamental building blocks of all things. It will revolutionize our understanding, from the minuscule world deep within atoms to the vastness of the Universe. Read More »

This film investigates the future of the world’s water, and paints a disturbing picture of a world running out of the most basic of life’s essentials. 8 year old Vanessa and her parents have to walk almost a mile down the cliffs of El Alto in Bolivia to collect water from an unreliable well every day. Yet, they live just a few hundred meters from their city’s main water treatment plant and can see millions of gallons just beyond the barbed wire fence. They are victims of waters increasing commodification. In 2000, the members of the United Nations Read More »

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Since the doc “What we still don’t know” is from 2004, It was necessary to make an update of one of the sections “Are we alone?”. So here is what’s been going on the last four years in the active search:

“For fifty years, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence has been scanning the galaxy for a message from an alien civilization. So far to no avail, but a recent breakthrough suggests they may one day succeed. Read More »

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We humans have big needs and with an ever growing world population and particularly food consumption, we just seem to never wonder as to how these goods are manufactured today (big scale). Because of this overwhelming demand, industries were changed in order to supply thus making food hunting history and our need for this goods supplied at supermarkets. As decades go by in our concrete paved world we start to loose grip of the reality behind which keeps us feed, Read More »

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Irreversible is that rare beast, a self-contained experience which goes beyond the cinematic and aesthetic to show something real, both touching and frightening, beautiful and horrific, simple and innovative. The first twenty minutes are among the toughest you will encounter on the screen. Read More »

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“Fantastic Planet” was apparently double-billed frequently with “Yellow Submarine” back in the 70s, and its not hard to see why. Both are the finest heap trips animation could offer. Both are subversive fun coming under the guise of a children’s film but really intended towards the older counterculture and intellectuals. However, both films have many unique qualities. “Fantastic Planet” is one of the most mind-blowing animated films I’ve seen in my life and pretty close to being a masterpiece. Read More »

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  • Sharks kill 5 people a year
  • Elephans and tigers: 100
  • Excecution: 2,400
  • Illigal drugs: 22,000
  • Road Accidents: 1,200,000
  • Starvation: 8,000,000

It’s common knowledge that sharks have been around for over 400 million years. What isn’t so widely known is that an estimated 100 million are slaughtered each year, mostly for the unregulated, multibillion dollar shark-fin industry. Read More »

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Science and medicine will master organ tissue regeneration for us, but until then we still have to worry about our health. We’ve heard a thousand times the dangers of alcohol, but yeah… that’s not going to happen to me cause I’m only a one night or weekend drinker. Think again, your liver can and will stand a certain amount of abuse; this documentary investigates the switch in alcohol consumption from pubs to homes, examining Read More »