Mar 11 Watch 5:31 The blurred line between creative risk and musical rip-off By PBS News Hour The song “Blurred Lines” was one of the biggest hits of 2013, but a jury has decided that some of that success is thanks to Marvin Gaye’s “Got to Give it Up.” Gaye’s children were awarded $7.3 million after they… Continue watching
Mar 11 Hidden in plain sight, rare coins spend 80 years unseen on college shelf By Lorna Baldwin University at Buffalo faculty member Philip Kiernan heard a rumor back in 2010 and went on a hunt for a collection of rare, ancient and priceless Greek and Roman coins. Not in Greece and not in Italy. The hunt was… Continue reading
Mar 10 Watch 5:30 Why did India ban a documentary on a deadly gang rape? By PBS News Hour The 2012 deadly gang rape of a 23-year-old medical student in Delhi sparked outrage around the world and led to unprecedented protests. A new documentary, “India’s Daughter,” sheds light on the violence, shame and injustice that Indian women often face. Continue watching
Mar 10 Video: This is what a ‘perfect’ family looks like, if you’re a mannequin By Rocky Mountain PBS Photographer Suzanne Heintz captures the hallmark moments of her fictional, mannequin family, including vacations, meals and even steamy shower scenes. Continue reading
Mar 10 Watch 5:01 Fashioning the perfect family photo … with mannequins By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 09 Watch 6:18 Bringing Mali’s music back from exile By PBS News Hour Mali is a country renowned for its music, but in 2012, the music stopped. That year, separatist rebels and Islamic groups seized two-thirds of the country and banned any expression of art. While French and Malian forces drove the Islamists… Continue watching
Mar 09 More than 2,000 years of India’s lost literature is coming back into print By Laura Santhanam For more than 2,000 years, several volumes of classical South Asian texts remained locked away in languages that have either died, have a dwindling number of speakers or no one bothered to translate these stories for a global audience. Continue reading
Mar 09 Mali’s artists fight to save the country’s ancient cultural treasures By Molly Knight Raskin The northern part of Mali, in West Africa, has come under attack repeatedly since 2012, when al-Qaida linked militants seized two-thirds of the country. Today, as U.N.-led peace talks progress, Mali’s artists and scholars are joining in the fight for… Continue reading
Mar 09 Poet posits, ‘We humans, we’re kind of a disappointment’ By artsdesk Listen to J. Allyn Rosser read "As If," her poem that "contemplates humanity as not quite worthy of the world,"… Continue reading