Jun 09 'Up in Smoke' Chronicles Slash and Burn Agriculture in Honduras We're looking at the film "Up in Smoke," a documentary on the use of slash and burn agriculture in Central America, this week as part of our partnership with The Economist magazine that showcases the art of filmmaking. Continue reading
Jun 09 Shattered Expectations: Ultrabright Supernovae Defy Explanation A rare, superluminous kind of stellar explosion does not fit into the usual supernova categories… Continue reading
Jun 08 Watch Search for Effective PTSD Treatments Shows Some Promise As part of a new partnership with the NewsHour, Jay Shefsky of WTTW's "Chicago Tonight" reports on scientists' search for effective treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder. Continue watching
Jun 08 Watch World Tests IPv6: Why 4.2 Billion Internet Addresses Just Weren't Enough More than 400 organizations and Internet giants participated Wednesday in a trial run of a new addressing system, called Internet Protocol version 6, known as IPv6. Hari Sreenivasan reports on World IPv6 Day, and Leslie Daigle of the Internet Society… Continue watching
Jun 08 Watch 4 1/2 billion IP Addresses: Just How Big is That? Hari asks, did you ever think we'd run out of 4 1/2 billion addresses?… Continue watching
Jun 08 Watch IPv4's Early Days "When you started this experiment back in the 1970's, what were you trying to build?"… Continue watching
Jun 08 Vint Cerf on IPv6 Trial: 'The Internet Is Not Going to Melt Down' On Wednesday, the Internet's addressing system was updated with a test of the new IPv6 protocol. Hari Sreenivasan turns to one of the Internet's original architects, Google's Vint Cerf, for more on the wildly growing Web. Continue reading
Jun 07 Internet Readies for Transition to IPv6 As the Internet's first major batch of IP addresses runs out, organizations worldwide are test driving a new system starting this week. CNET's Molly Wood explains what the transition to IPv6 means. Continue reading
Jun 07 Watch Internet Readies for Systemwide Change Hari interviews Molly Woods on the new IP address system change… Continue watching
Jun 07 Watch To Combat Human Rights Abuses, California Company Looks to Computer Code A California company using high-tech tools to combat human rights abuses across the globe. Continue watching