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This video hits me pretty hard. It's about the ongoing deforestation in Indonesia for the palm oil industry and how it affects the ingenious people. Often, we think deforestation are merely trees being chopped down, land being cleared.
What we often miss out are these people and all the animals living in the forests, this is their home. You can't just simply integrate them into cities, they'd rather die. On a similar note, you can't put someone from the city into the rainforest, they'll starve.
I'm not advocating boycott palm products, they are much more industries out there that are causing rainforest destructions. But i think it's wise for the government to earmark lands to be left untouched. These rainforests are the lungs of the earth, if we lose them, we're gonna have a hard time breathing.
Broadcast (2008) At a research site in Fongoli, Senegal, a female
chimpanzee breaks off a branch, chews the end to make it sharp, then
uses this rudimentary spear to skewer a tasty bushbaby hiding inside a
hollow tree. The footage represents an astonishing breakthrough for
primate researchers: It's the first time anyone has documented a
chimpanzee wielding a carefully prepared, preplanned weapon.
But
it's only the latest in a slew of extraordinary new findings about ape
behavior. The more researchers learn about the great apes—chimpanzees,
bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans (see Our Family Tree)—the more
evidence they find of creative intelligence. What, then, is the
essential difference between us and them? "Ape Genius," a NOVA-National
Geographic special, explores that provocative question and examines
research that is illuminating the ape mind.
The spear-wielding
chimps were documented by anthropologist Jill Pruetz of Iowa State
University, who also observed the Fongoli colony doing something else
never documented before: holding a pool party. Chimps were long thought
to be afraid of water, but as charming poolside footage reveals, these
hairy bathers swing from the trees and take the plunge in high spirits.
In
addition to Pruetz, "Ape Genius" features contributions by other noted
researchers, including Brian Hare of Duke University, Andrew Whiten of
the University of St. Andrews, Tetsuro Matsuzawa of Kyoto University,
Rebecca Saxe of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Josep
Call and Michael Tomasello of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology. (For an extended interview with Rebecca Saxe, see The Ape
That Teaches.)
Bit by bit, these investigators are converging on
an explanation for why the non-human great apes never made the
breakthrough into an accelerating human-style culture that builds on the
achievements of previous generations. After all, apes are stronger and
more agile than we are. They have also shown previously unsuspected
talents for reasoning, creative problem solving, and other intelligent
traits. Some have even demonstrated rudimentary language abilities (see
Kanzi the Bonobo). And their emotional lives seem on a par with ours, as
is evident in moving footage of a mother chimp dealing with the
sickness and death of her child.
David Shaw was an Australian scuba diver, a technical diver and an
airline pilot for Cathay Pacific, who flew the A330-300, A340-300 and
A340-600. He is one of only nine people who have dived below a depth of
240 metres (800 ft) on self-contained underwater breathing apparatus.
David
Shaw died on 8 January 2005 while seeking to recover the body of Deon
Dreyer, a South African diver who had himself died 10 years previously,
and whose body Shaw had discovered at a depth of 270 metres (890 ft) of
fresh water in Bushman's Hole, South Africa in October 2004
In Singapore, our order brides are mostly from neighbouring countries such as Vietnam and China. I think largely because they are gentle and good with chores.
A good inspirational video where Arnold Schwarzenegger discusses about what it took for him to be a champion by committing to a goal and pushing through pain and failure and then how he applied this mindset to acting and politics.
Dubai asked for a delay on its debt payments - a move that triggered panic amongst investors. Is the once prosperous, gleaming city in the Gulf on the brink of collapse? And what are the implications for the global economy?
Jimmy Doherty, pig farmer, one-time scientist and poster-boy for sustainable food production is on a mission to find out if GM crops really can feed the world.
We need to double the amount of food we produce in the next fifty years to feed the world's growing population. Are GM crops the answer? Or are they a dangerous Frankenstein technology that could start an environmental catastrophe?
To find the answers Jimmy is on a journey that will take him from the vast soya plantations of Argentina to the traditional Amish farms of Pennsylvania; and from the cutting-edge technology of the GM laboratories to the banana plantations of Uganda.
The winner of the 2001 International Emmy award for Best Documentary, Welcome to North Korea is a grotesquely surreal look at the all-too-real conditions in modern-day North Korea. Dutch filmmaker Peter Tetteroo and his associate Raymond Feddema spent a week in and around the North Korean capital of Pyongyang -- ample time to produce this outstanding film
The deadliest weapon on the battlefield is neither bullet nor gun.
It's the lone sniper. Journey inside the science and psychology behind the greatest shots in military history, through the scope of the world's most extreme marksmen.
Deconstruct the missions, ranging from Vietnam to Iraq to Afghanistan,
A film by Bryan Law and Dan Dicks "United We Fall" is a documentary about the North American Union that is being developed right now between Canada, the United States, and Mexico.
For years this topic has been debated in the news and in political circles as being a possible future for North America. In recent years, the mood has shifted and a rift is developing between those who want a Deeply Integrated North American Community, and those who wish to retain their national sovereignty.
This film takes a look at both sides by interviewing both insiders and activists who have been at the heart of this heated debate. The film also looks to the broader agenda of building a world government and its implications.
"Derek Ogilvie says he can read the minds of infants who are too young to communicate verbally. Now he agrees to undergo a series of controlled experiments to test the limits of his alleged abilities. He even faces the ultimate sceptic in the form of James Randi, an investigator of the paranormal who has offered $1million to anyone who can provide evidence of the supernatural."
With the cameras in hot pursuit, Derren faces his toughest project yet, going in search of an unsuspecting member of the British public prepared to adopt the guise of a pastor and miracle worker.
His chosen one then has six months to learn the trade and flourish across the pond as a convincing pastor.
The final phase of the volunteer's extraordinary challenge sees them attempt to perform faith healing miracles live in Texas, but will Derren's new recruit be accepted as a faith healer or cast away as fake healer?
Forty feet below, two million pounds are buried." This cryptic inscription on a stone uncovered at the 100-foot level of the Oak Island "money pit" has kept treasure hunters digging for almost 200 years. Over the centuries, Oak Island, which lies just off the coast of Nova Scotia, has gobbled up the resources and lives of many men without producing a single doubloon.
Designed by some ancient engineer, the pit is a complex hole with timber crosspieces every 10 feet. Near the 100-foot level, any attempt to break through brings the Atlantic Ocean rushing in. So far, all efforts to solve the puzzle of the protective design have failed.
Even using the most modern technology, no one has been able to get through to those two million pounds... 50 billion dollars! Who built it and why? Some surprising answers in this video!
Favourite episode from this series because of the love for sailing.
When sailing from Maine to Florida, a luxury yacht with five crew members sinks in the middle of a storm. While all five of the individuals manage to get onto the dinghy, they find themselves in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean without food, water or even an idea of where exactly they are; though matters turn worse when a group of sharks start to follow them and their conditions deteriorate with time.
Good informative documentary about the 0'9 subprime crisis.
In the first episode of Meltdown, we hear about four men who brought down the global economy: a billionaire mortgage-seller who fooled millions; a high-rolling banker with a fatal weakness; a ferocious Wall Street predator; and the power behind the throne.
The crash of September 2008 brought the largest bankruptcies in world history, pushing more than 30 million people into unemployment and bringing many countries to the edge of insolvency. Wall Street turned back the clock to 1929.
But how did it all go so wrong?
Lack of government regulation; easy lending in the US housing market meant anyone could qualify for a home loan with no government regulations in place.
Also, London was competing with New York as the banking capital of the world. Gordon Brown, the British finance minister at the time, introduced 'light touch regulation' - giving bankers a free hand in the marketplace.
All this, and with key players making the wrong financial decisions, saw the world's biggest financial collapse.
