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Manhattan Status Symbols: Washers and Dryers

[...]For most people in the city, getting the laundry done will mean lugging it to a wash-and-fold service or taking it to the machines in the basement with a stack of quarters in hand.

But a growing number of New Yorkers can give the holiday linens a hot bath at home in their own washers and dryers.[...]

Read the complete article from The New York Times

Lost Generation

This video was created for the AARP U@50 video contest and placed second

It is based on the Argentinian Political Advertisement "The Truth" by RECREAR

Aaron Ralston

In 2003, Aron Ralston amputated his arm after he was trapped by a boulder in a Utah canyon. Six years later, he still struggles with the meaning of his survival.

Savants: Steven Wilshire

Stephen Wiltshire from London is a star among savants. Stephen is autistic. He did not speak his first words "pencil" and "paper" until he was 5. Yet, when he was 11 he drew a perfect aerial view of London after only one helicopter ride. For this film we're testing the "Living camera" in Rome.

Savants: Daniel Tammet

This is a short video on an amazing human being, Daniel Tammet from Bristol, England, who apparently has Savant Syndrome and can make insane calculations in his mind (even surpassing several calculators).

Savants. The real Rain Man: Kim Peek

Kim Peek is a savant with amazing memory. He is The real life inspiration for the character Raymond Babbit played by Dustin Hoffman in the film "Rain Man".
Taken from the documentary: "Beautiful Minds: Memory Masters".

The real Rain man - Kim Peek By firstsciencetv

The Woman That Never Forgets

Jill Price has the ability to never forget, she remembers every single thing that she've ever seen or done. Watch and get amazed!
This was her first interview on Good Morning America

Man Without a Memory

Clive Wearing has a neurological disorder called Anterograde Amnesia which is a condition that doesn't allow new memories to transfer into long-term memory. This means that he will never remember anything since his incident, similarly to the movie Memento.

Clive was an accomplished pianist in the 80s', and fortunately can still play the piano flawlessly. He only remembers his wife, and anything else to him is new information, even if it was presented to him once before.



To find more about Clive Wearing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Wearing

The Shrimper Survivor

Thuong Nguyen, a Louisiana shrimp fisherman, survived a treacherous trip from Vietnam and Hurricane Katrina. But now he worries that he may not make it through the gulf oil spill.

Stephen Baker: The Numerati and more

This is a video that features a discussion with Stephen Baker, BusinessWeek technology journalist and author of the Numerati during his visit to Dell.

Google Internet Bus

The Internet Bus Project: Travelling to towns across India to spread the empowering force of the Internet.

Anatomy of a Cruise Ship Fall

When we go on holidays, we hope to enjoy and have a good time time but, sometimes, accidents happen.



Problems to watch the video? Watch it from ABC website

The Palace Hotel

Dubbed the Gateway to the West, the luxurious Palace Hotel is a San Francisco icon dating back to the early 1900s.


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The Royal Hawaian, a luxury resort

Are you going on holidays?
Have a look at a piece of heaven on earth...



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Himalayan Adventure: Early Women Adventurers

The remarkable story of three English women who travelled overland to the Himalayas in 1958.
Their amazing archive footage of the Zanskar valley was recently unearthed and is shown here with interviews with the three women.
It was the first film ever shot in Zanskar and shows a fascinating insight into a way of life which is slowly fading away.
A trailer for a longer film Walking in Circles by Martin Salter telling the story of the film's return to Zanskar for the first time in 2007 can be viewed at www.himalayadoc.com

Paul McCartney Talks About Illegal Download

In an interview (I don´t know when or where...) he answers about downloading songs from internet.

Filesharing

A short educational filmstrip made several years ago about the dangers of filesharing.
Narration by Perry Hoberman
Jimmy played by Noah Keating

Is file-sharing illegal?

A US court rules that it is, and awards damages, of $9,250 per song downloaded. Jesse Hirsh appears on CBC News Morning with Heather Hiscox to discuss this and the general culture war around file sharing, torrents, and peer to peer media networks.

File Sharing: Pros and Cons for Independent Artists

Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford University and chairman of the Creative Commons project. In this http://www.artistshousemusic.org interview, he shares his view on file sharing. He does not support sharing copyrighted material. However, Lessig does not condemn file sharing. Lessig shares that many artists believe that peer to peer file sharing benefits them. File sharing makes the Internet more democratic and efficient. For instance, peer-to-peer file sharing is the most economical way of distributing film. File sharing is an essential part of the future of the Internet.