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The Visual Flow of Myth and History from Matthias Stork on Vimeo.

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Chaos Cinema Part 1 from Matthias Stork on Vimeo.

The video essay Chaos Cinema, administered by Indiewire’s journalistic blog PRESS PLAY, examines the extreme aesthetic principles of 21st century action films. These films operate on techniques that, while derived from classical cinema, threaten to shatter the established continuity formula. Chaos reigns in image and sound. Part 1 contrasts traditional action films with chaotic ones and takes a close look at the “sound” track, especially its use in car chases.

The video essay was widely debated on the internet and featured in newspaper publications such as THE WEEK and THE NEW YORK TIMES.

“Chaos Cinema Part 1” was made according to principles of Fair Use (or Fair Dealing), primarily with scholarly and critical aims, and was published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License.

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A meta-TED talk by Benjamin Bratton.

Touché! (Even though it alternates between TEDious clever sound bytes and annoying academese.)

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On 23rd of December 2013, Bethlehem Unwrapped festival opened with the unveiling of a 8m high life size replica of the separation wall that has been built by Israel in the West Bank. It has been constructed over 8 days in the church yard of St James’ near Piccadilly Circus in central London in a bid to bring some reality of what it is like to live in Bethlehem in 2013.
http://bethlehem-unwrapped.org/

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How did the NSA hack our emails? (by Numberphile)

Explains the NSA’s “backdoor” into encryption.

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a-dork-inspirit:

PLEASE, PLEASE signal boost this. This is something that concerns any person who has a regard for women’s health, and their right to choose. This concerns any person who believes that a women should have a right to decide about their own body.

This is what Republicans have done to act against a woman’s right to an abortion through state laws passed. ALL of these are Republican-controlled states elected back in 2012. This is what has happened in less than a year:

(Reminder that ALL of these clinics provided other women’s care and reproductive needs aside from abortions. They were not solely abortion clinics)

• Texas: 42 clinics open prior to anti-abortion bill, 5 clinics open after bill (37 closed)
• Wisconsin: 4 clinics open prior to anti-abortion bill, 2 clinics open after (2 closed)
• Mississippi: 1 clinic open prior to bill, none available after bill (no clinics left in state)
• North Dakota: 1 clinic open prior to bill, none available after bill (no clinics left in state)
• Alabama: 5 clinics open prior to bill, 2 clinics open after bill (3 clinics closed)
• Virginia: 20 clinics open prior to bill, 4 clinics left after bill (16 clinics closed)
• Ohio: 12 clinics open prior to bill, 8 clinics left after bill (4 clinics closed)
• North Carolina: 16 clinics open prior to a MOTERCYCLE SAFETY BILL (BIG WTF?!), 15 of those clinics are in danger of being closed, with only one left standing

American women right across the States in Republican-controlled states are increasingly being denied their constitutional right to an abortion, not to mention their own health care needs and reproductive needs.

Each closure represents taking away a women’s ability to choose for HERSELF about her reproductive rights. ALL of these closures happened in Republican-controlled states, passed by a Republican-controlled House.

There are now TWO states in the US where women there have no access to a safe and legal abortion. And in all of those states above, there will be hundreds of thousands, if not millions of women who will be forced to travel hundreds of miles to get access to a safe and legal abortion.

That isn’t even mentioning the needs of these women to have access to reproductive medical aid. This happened in just ONE year. Imagine what else Republicans can do to further restrict a women’s constitutionally protected right to an abortion in another year. NONE of these bills helped women’s health. NONE of these bills did anything to actually improve women’s standards of care. ALL of these bills restricted a women’s right to an abortion. ALL of these bills will now force desperate women to potentially get a back-alley abortion, putting their lives at risk.

This is horrific.

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Trapped: Mental Illness in America’s Prisons from Ackerman + Gruber on Vimeo.

The continuous withdrawal of mental health funding has turned jails and prisons across the nation into the default mental health facilities.

The system designed for security is now trapped with treating mental illness and the mentally ill are often trapped inside the system with nowhere else to go.

Trapped by Ackerman Gruber Images takes us inside the Correctional Psychiatric Treatment Unit of the Kentucky State Reformatory to see how a state is meeting the needs of this growing population.

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DIRTY WARS – Official Theatrical Trailer (by IFCFilmsTube)