This short documentary celebrates the late conceptual artist Chris Burden’s landmark work “Shoot,” in which a friend shot him in the arm. Produced by: Eric Kutner Read the story here: http://nyti.ms/1IPKihD
Cranberries: How Do They Grow?
Most of us have only ever eaten cranberries as juice or that jiggly sauce we extract from a can at holiday time. But long before they’re processed into these foods, fresh cranberries take special work to grow and harvest. Go…
Black Hole Hunters
From The New York Times: Astronomers hope the Event Horizon Telescope, a synchronized network of radio antennas as large as the Earth, will take the first ever picture of a black hole, an abyss so deep no light can escape.
The Art of the Black Panther Party
Emory Douglas was one of two African American students in his graphic design classes at San Francisco City College. It was there that he became involved in political activism, and by the late 1960s he was serving as the Revolutionary…
Remembering Author and Thinker Christopher Hitchens
Charlie Rose speaks with the writers Martin Amis, James Fenton, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie about the genius of their friend, author and British-born thinker Christopher Hitchens two years after his death.