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MediaShift Idea Lab
Sweatshop is a powerful game that puts players in the shoes of a factory floor manager in a developing nation. The game tasks you with placing skilled workers and child laborers along a conveyor belt. Continue
MediaShift
Even allowing a Facebook or Twitter comment that's considered insulting to the Thai government could be a crime under Thai law. A case involving a Thai journalist accused of allowing anti-government comments on her independent news site could set a new precedent for internet freedom in Thailand and overseas. Continue
MediaShift
Public libraries want to lend more e-books, but book publishers are worried about losing sales. Still, libraries are pushing on and transforming themselves in the digital age. Continue
America Revealed
Yul travels to Silicon Valley in California and arrives at the offices of Facebook. He meets Mike Schroepfer, who runs the engineering department at Facebook to find out more about a new kind of manufacturing. Virtual manufacturing - You can't touch it, or hold it, but Facebook makes a product and delivers it to its customers, it has created thousands of new companies and jobs as well as billions Continue
Idea Channel
With its ability to make boring cellphone photos look "vintage" and "artsy", the mobile application Instagram has exploded worldwide. Derided by its detractors as a tool for making bad photos worse, we take an alternate view and argue that Instagram is the greatest thing to ever happen to photography. As the old adage goes, "The best camera is the one you have with you." Continue
MediaShift
What if every move you made on Facebook -- every story you read -- was shared with your friends without you taking any action? That's the implication of "the friction-less web," a vision that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is pushing and one that has some people worried. Continue
PBS Presents
Experience the first days of life for wild creatures on NATURE, meet the smartest machine on earth with NOVA and see the evolution of US manufacturing on AMERICA REVEALED. 5/2/2012 Continue
NOVA
Investigate the world of artificial intelligence and the IBM supercomputer named "Watson." 5/2/2012 Continue
Idea Channel
We've all seen and shared a few LOLCats and Internet Memes in our time, but is it possible that these images and videos are actually a new form of art? Idea Channel takes a closer look at how memes function in our new interconnected culture and consults the wisdom of artists past and present to see if these Internet creations truly should be considered "art." Continue
MediaShift
Governments across the world have threatened, arrested and prosecuted their citizens for views expressed in their tweets and Facebook posts. What's more, this type of crackdown isn't just happening in the Middle East. Continue
To The Contrary
For the first time in U.S. history, white newborns are outnumbered by babies of color; the U.S. Army recently made history by officially opening jobs in combat battalions to women, but direct ground combat roles are still exclusive to men; To The Contrary travels to China to explore the role the U.S. Foreign Service plays in diplomacy overseas. Continue
MediaShift
Does the First Amendment protect our right to record public events, like the Occupy Wall Street protests? That's the contention of Josh Stearns, writing for PBS MediaShift in this editorial, as he says he has documented 75 arrests of journalists who were simply recording Occupy protests in the nation. Continue
America Revealed
On Yul's journey he has been surprised to find that America is still making things and is still the leader in many of its fields of expertise. Americans are continuously innovating, Google, Intel, Facebook, some of the largest companies in the world all started in America. The fact is, we manufacture more now than we ever have in our history. Continue
America Revealed
Ten Sleep, Wyoming is one of the most isolated places in America. Yul meets Rod Collingwood, he supervises the laying of fibre optic cable in this area. Fiber optic cable carries signals for our phones, television and the internet. Rod explains how fibre optic cable has become the new highway; it enables places even as remote as Ten Sleep to communicate with the world. Continue
NOVA
An online game called Phylo taps the brainpower of thousands of players to solve complex problems in genetics. Continue
MediaShift
The popular social-media site has returned to its roots with a tool that's accessible to only those with an active .edu email address. Groups for Schools lets users create groups and share files, which raises liability concerns that have not been addressed by Facebook. Continue
America Revealed
Re-evaluate your perceptions of the American manufacturing machine as host Yul Kwon introduces you to the men and women who are changing the system. 5/2/2012 Continue
America Revealed
Understand the intricacies, vulnerabilities and remarkable ingenuity required to keep up America's modern electric power grid up and running. 4/25/2012 Continue
MediaShift
A recent Pew study shows 21 percent of American adults had read an e-book in the past year, and digital books are increasing the rate of reading among certain people. Are publishers having trouble catching up? Continue
America Revealed
Yul meets Brian David Johnson, who has the unusual job title of Futurist at Intel. Brian explains to Yul how it his job to predict the future. It is important for Intel to have an understanding of what people will want to do with their computers in ten years time, as it takes this amount of time to design, develop and deploy the microchip. Continue
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