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Pub. Date
2024
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In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she'll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering "expats" from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible--for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time. She is tasked with working as a "bridge": living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as "1847" or Commander Graham Gore....
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
As of today, we are still sending messages to the stars: messages that, so far, have not been answered. For more than 50 years, we've been unsuccessfully searching for any evidence of intelligent extraterrestrial life. But, the discovery of thousands of exoplanets has meant the hope of finding them is higher than ever. First contact with alien intelligence will become a reality in the future, so we must understand how to communicate. What kind of...
5) Dogsville
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
A tale of love and triumph in dog sports. Crocodile Crunch, a rescue mutt, excels in agility with Radical Rabbit and Posh Piranha. They challenge purebreds at the Agility World Championship, proving talent conquers privilege.
7) Yakka Dee
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Yakka Dee! is a show that encourages children to talk. Each episode focuses on one word.
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Xavier Riddle and his friends travel back in time to learn from real-life inspirational figures who can help them solve every day problems! Each adventure helps children ages 4 to 7 make connections between the character traits that made historical figures into heroes and those same qualities within themselves. Inspired by the bestselling kids book series, Ordinary People Change the World.
10) Atomic Hope
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Follows a tiny global movement of unpopular pro-nuclear activists, who strongly believe we need nuclear power in order to decarbonize our energy systems, before catastrophic climate change occurs. Intimately filmed over a ten year period, these advocates for nuclear energy come from all over the world; from Japan to Switzerland, America to Australia. But these individual activists face clashes and opposition at every juncture.
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
From Peru, where the mineral is extracted, all the way to France, where the metal is refined, lead pollutes the earth, the rivers, food supplies, and local people. Despite being banned in numerous products including fuel, paints and the manufacture of pipes, lead is still often used in buildings, weapon development, jewellery and even in batteries. At Évin-Malmaison, France, lead from refineries has contaminated the earth underneath various schools,...
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Many factories around the world use perfluorinated chemicals to make everyday products. Due to their chemical stability, these compounds are “forever chemicals” They do not break down. Even worse, they can build up inside the human body and cause health problems, including cancer, and compromise the immune system. Companies have routinely dismissed campaigners who insist that cancer cases have risen close tofactories which use perfluorinated chemicals....
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
In 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface and into the history books as the first of only twelve men to walk on the Moon. But in 1961 when Kennedy pledged to put a man on the Moon, NASA had barely put a man into orbit. They had less than 10 years to train a team of astronauts to overcome the unknown challenges of a mission to the Moon.
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
The advent of electronic music in the 20th century was a radical break from all musical traditions that came before it. Narrated by legendary multimedia artist Laurie Anderson, Lisa Rovner’s superb SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS showcases the music of and rare interviews with female electronic pioneers Clara Rockmore, Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram, Éliane Radigue, Maryanne Amacher, Bebe Barron, Suzanne Ciani, Pauline Oliveros, Laurie Spiegel, and Wendy...
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Enter a world where passion meets madness! NAME OF THE GAME is a comedic feature-length documentary about the team-up between the oldest Finnish indie game developer Housemarque and American arcade era legend Eugene Jarvis on their three year struggle to create a spiritual successor to one of Jarvis’ smash hit games of the 80’s, Robotron, resulting in the critically acclaimed "Nex Machina".
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Mining is one of the oldest applications of practical geology. Find out how metals are classified and how most are associated with igneous and metamorphic deposits. Some metals, like gold, can be mined in a pure—"native"—state that requires little processing. Discover how and where to go prospecting for gold, using the panning process perfected by the Forty-Niners in California.
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Until recently, astronomers had no smoking gun to identify the precise location and cause of gamma-ray bursts. Now they have assembled an abundance of clues pointing to two separate mechanisms: the collapse of a massive star, and the merging of two neutron stars—in each case creating a black hole.
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