Can We Trust Russell Brand?
Detail from a Chris Riddell illustration in Russell Brand’s The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Photograph: Chris Riddell Can Russell Brand be trusted?
Lee Smolin (Perimeter Institute) on Time Reborn
Professor Lee Smolin of the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Canada, author and theoretical physcist, will talk about the evolution of laws in our universe. What is time? Is our perception of time passing an illusion which hides a deeper, timeless reality? Or is it real, indeed, the most real aspect of our experience of the world? Perimeter Institute…
Synthetic Biology – Inventing the Future
The hottest new field in biotech is synthetic biology: Scientists can now re-program life at the cellular level, just like a computer program.
Royal Babylon: The Criminal Record of the British Monarchy
A series of 16 short films each detailing a crime of the British monarchy, based on Heathcote Williams’ poem “Royal Babylon: The Criminal Record of the British Monarchy.
The Tate Murders – The Monsters Dupe Us Again
Alternatively, I could have called this one, “Hoaxer Skelter.” What started out as more of an overview turned into a 45 minute exposé on the Sharon Tate, Manson family murders. Most people know little about either the Tate/LaBianca murders or the real story of the Manson family. Do yourself a favor and DON’T bother to read “Helter Skelter,”…
Terminal F/Chasing Edward Snowden
Two award-winning journalists have shed light on the story of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s journey to Hong Kong and Moscow, when his revelations on US government surveillance shook the world, in a new documentary presented in Moscow by RT. The documentary, made by German investigative journalist John Goetz and Danish documentary filmmaker Poul-Erik Heilbuth, tells Snowden’s story from…