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James Baldwin: Remix 2010-08-10
A short portrait of author/playwright James Baldwin.
Strange Fruit 2010-08-08
Eighty years ago, on the courthouse square in Marion, Indiana, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith were murdered by a mob of townsfolk.
Vietnam Vets Welcome in Wisconsin 2010-05-26
Wisconsin Public TV throws a “Welcome Home for Vietnam Vets” bash for 70,000 people, view the Flickr set of pix.
Gulf Oil Leaked 2010-05-08
A Newshour widget interactively displays: How Much Oil Has Leaked Into the Gulf of Mexico?
Traveller Women 2010-05-04
The Kitchen Sisters continue their Hidden World of Girls series on NPR with: Traveller Women In Ireland.
India: Maternal Mortality 2010-04-29
A short film from Human Rights Watch: In Silence: Maternal Mortality in India.
Coal Mining Deaths 2010-04-20
The NewsHour online story “Examining a Century of Mining Deaths” including this cursor-controlled chart: Uses the data-viz tool Swivel. There’s a discussion of “Basic data visualization tools” at the new Jounrocoders Q & A site Help.HacksHackers.Com.
Secret Life of Scientists 2010-04-20
The Secret Life of Scientists, a web-exclusive series from NOVA, is up for the Webby Awards Peoples Voice award (vote: http://webby.aol.com/). Here’s their reel:
Erie Canal 2010-04-20
For episode #400 of TAL they presented “Stories Pitched by Our Parents.” Among them was one Nancy Updike did with her dad on the Erie Canal. It featured this original lo-fi tune composed for the story: “Nancy & Dave Hill’s Erie Song” (3:31 mp3) [Audio clip in full post]
The Fair 2010-04-12
An multi-media trip to the Brockton Fair in Massachusetts, produced in Flash by Jason Rayles, debuted at Transom.
Recording Hunger 2010-04-12
Photographer Michael Nye has been documenting the faces and voices of hunger — those who are newly hungry, others who have experienced hunger all their lives, and some who have known it temporarily but unforgettably. His new exhibition, “About Hunger & Resilience,” is on display at San Antonio’s Witte Museum. Aired on NPR All Things [...]
Hummingbird Flight 2010-04-11
Biologist Doug Altshuler has turned his lab into a kind of hummingbird training center, where he can test the limits of their aerial agility. The key, he says, is hovering. “Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air” by filmmaker Ann Prum aired on PBS/WNET Nature.