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- Still Processing is a popular culture podcast that examines culture in the broadest sense. This includes television, film, books, music but also the culture of work, dating, the internet and how those all fit together. The program is hosted by Wesley Morris and Jenna Wortham.
- The election is over. But the story has just begun. Michael Barbaro, who has covered the last two presidential races for the Times, hosts a twice-weekly conversation about the surprises coming out of the campaign.
- Day X is a documentary news podcasts that examines the case of a German soldier who faked a Syrian identity and planned to murder prominent German politicians in order to bring down the German government. The program is hosted by Katrin Bennhold who investigates far-right extremists inside the German military and the police.
- Strongly-held opinions. Open-minded debates. A weekly ideas show, hosted by Jane Coaston.
- From the makers of Serial and The New York Times, a five-part series about allegations of election fraud, and the powerful forces that fuel them.
- What is the internet doing to society? The Times tech columnist Kevin Roose discovers what happens when people move online.
- Dear Sugars is an advice podcast that began as a cult-favorite advice column from The Rumpus. The program is hosted by Steve Almond and Cheryl Strayed who field all questions no matter how deep or dark and offer radically empathetic advice to their listeners.
- Dozens of women seeking to become mothers came to a fertility clinic at Yale. A (five-part) narrative series about the shocking events that unfolded there.
- "Morning" was the short lived successor to CBS affiliate WREG-TV's long-running local morning program "Good Morning from Memphis".
- Mirror shots in movies are especially challenging, as it's hard to shoot a character's reflection without accidentally revealing the camera, so Hollywood has many visual tricks to avoid this. Movies like "The Lady from Shanghai" and "It Chapter Two" used two-way mirrors. "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" didn't use a mirror at all and instead had Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton standing on one side of an open frame looking into a double set with body doubles mimicking their every move. Better visual effects meant movies like "Birdman" could shoot a real mirror and easily erase the camera later. For "Last Night in Soho," Edgar Wright used a combination of these techniques, and many more, so Thomasin McKenzie and Anya Taylor-Joy could mirror each other's movements.
- When she heard the explosions around her, 15-year-old Sma Ahel immediately picked up her phone. "I removed the password from my phone so that if we didn't make it out, and we were killed, people would know what happened to us. So they know we existed." In their own words and images, this short documentary tells the story of a Palestinians trapped in deadly fighting between Israel and Hamas during an 11-day war in May 2021.
- In April 2018, a chemical bomb killed at least 34 people near Damascus, Syria. Syrian officials still deny that bombing took place, and their Russian allies said that the attack was staged. The investigation shows evidence to the contrary.
- In this short documentary from The New York Times, we see the impact of Hurricane Harvey's force as its rains bore down on Texas in 2017. We follow a 911 dispatcher and a pastor's daughter who felt nature at its fiercest - and saw humanity at its best.
- Pixar gets its characters to move and emote by building them rigs and filling them with controls that allow animators to give them unique expressions and movements. "Toy Story 2" gave them the ability to adapt and reuse rigs for multiple characters, allowing a wide array of characters of all shapes and sizes. In "Finding Nemo," animators learned how to make fish show emotions despite their lack of eyebrows. Major breakthroughs occurred during "The Incredibles," in which animators now had the capability to give humans muscles and skin that moved like the real thing, eventually allowing "Ratatouille" to stretch the human mouth far and control a character's loose movements. Meanwhile in "Cars," a new technology called ground locking let cars drive on a straight path, while new stretchy rigs were created for realistic octopus tentacles in "Finding Dory" and an especially dynamic dog tongue in "Coco." Thanks to new features, like the ability to add tendons onto hands and a digital piano that played by itself, Pixar was able to show complex piano playing. None of it would have been possible without the animation and rigging breakthroughs that came before it.
- Contemporary voices in the LGBTQ community discuss 'Remembering Stonewall', the first documentary to chronicle the historic 1969 event that sparked the gay liberation movement.
- This short documentary demonstrates how the animators of "Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse" adapted old-school animation techniques, while inventing new ones to tell their story in a unique way.
- The director Cary Joji Fukunaga narrates an action sequence from his film featuring Daniel Craig.
- An inexpensive chess set can sell for $20, but a handcrafted wooden set certified for the World Chess Championship costs $500. Much of the set's value lies in just one piece: the knight. Each knight must be carved by hand to look exactly the same. Making this one piece takes two hours, and there are fewer than 10 people trained to carve knights for the championship chess sets. So, how are these chessmen made? And why are they so expensive?
- This short film chronicles the first ever detection of gravitational waves - more than 100 years after Einstein predicted them. It was a discovery that literally shook the world (ever so slightly!).
- Documentary following the strange tale of Haddon Salt -- forgotten legend, the British Colonel Sanders -- who founded a fish and chips empire that once dotted America from coast to coast.
- David McMillan is a British Australian former drug smuggler. He was arrested several times between the early '80s and 2012 for trafficking heroin through Southeast and Central Asia. He estimates he trafficked over $17 million worth of heroin internationally. McMillan speaks to Insider about the process of heroin trafficking and smuggling routes leading to the U.S. and Europe. Since leaving the heroin-smuggling trade, McMillan works as a public speaker. He is the author of "Escape" (2007) and "Unforgiving Destiny" (2017).
- A small-town theater in Ohio prepares to screen its final non-digital film.
- A teacher conducts a crying therapy in Japan, where people list things that make them weep, with the goal of understanding its importance.
- The Forger uses innovative handmade shadow puppets by Manual Cinema to tell the story of Adolfo Kaminsky, who by his 19th birthday had helped save thousands of children from the Nazis by hand-making false passports. Kaminsky went on to forge papers for people around the world in practically every major conflict of the mid-20th century.
- A show about the future that's already here. Journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.
- Pixar broke new ground when it created "Toy Story" in 1995, but from there it still had a long way to go to perfect 3D animated characters. Over the years, Pixar's animators would figure out everything from proper human movement to skin to hair. They figured out how to smooth out skin in "Geri's Game." Then, when "The Incredibles" rolled around, they created new simulations to help control Mr. Incredible's muscle movements and Violet's long hair while also finding more accurate ways to light human skin. Violet's hair would later pave the way for long-haired characters like Colette in "Ratatouille" and the curly-haired heroine Merida of "Brave." Meanwhile, Pixar's shading tools would allow the animators to add even more striking details to their human characters' faces, while innovative new methods of animating crowd scenes came about in "Incredibles 2" and "Toy Story 4."
- The Smithsonian Natural History Museum houses 147 million specimens - everything from pickled animals to priceless gems to dinosaur bones - but less than 1% is on display. The rest is hidden behind the scenes in what's called collections, but they're not just sitting in storage rooms collecting dust. The specimens are actively used for scientific research with real-world benefits, from preventing bird strikes to documenting invasive species. Business Insider went inside the collections to see how they acquire, maintain, and protect our Earth's treasures.
- In 2012, the Brazilian judoka Rafaela Silva was a medal favorite, but she was disqualified. At the Rio Games, she sought to show that her humble background could not squelch her dreams and ended up taking home a Gold Medal. Over the course of a single day, her life was transformed.
- A story of deep commitment, bitter betrayal and humour. Wounded in the Spanish Civil War, blacklisted by Hollywood and censored by the CBC, Allan nonetheless enjoyed a remarkable career as a playwright, actor, screenwriter and novelist.
- The Black History, Continued series takes a deeper look at transformative individuals and powerful moments in Black History that shaped the culture and, in some way, changed the world. At the heart of the BHC series, we are focused on creating community around our reporting and storytelling.
- On November 5, 1912 New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson won the highly contested Presidential election and traveled by train to Staunton, Virginia. At the request of a supportive group called the Wilson Club, he accepted the invitation to spend the night at his birthplace on Coulter Street. We look back in time through his letters, newspaper accounts and historical facts which led to his victory.
- Rob C., a firefighter in Idaho, undergoes psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy in an attempt to address his PTSD
- Short Documentary for the New York Times, in which journalist Nicholas Kristof travels to North Korea, and investigates the attitude of Koreans on Trump.
- Jin is a successful live streaming star in China. But what's it like having every aspect of your life engineered by company higher-ups?