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  • Yoga, Inc

    Yoga, Inc

    Yoga’s history stretches back centuries. Written appearances of its practice have been found in spiritual Hindu texts dating back to over 1400 years before the common era. Through the ages, yoga practitioners have been dedicating their lives to attain yoga’s ultimate goal: “to develop self-awareness to the point of liberation.” But wait, that’s for the hippies. Today, yoga has transformed from an ancient spiritual practice into a competitive, commercialized, multi-million dollar industry, making some people very rich. Yoga has evolved [...]

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  • The Light Bulb Conspiracy

    The Light Bulb Conspiracy

    The Light Bulb Conspiracy, also known as Pyramids of Waste, is a documentary about products that are designed to fail. The term planned obsolescence is the policy of designing or manufacturing a product with a the intent of limiting its lifespan. This film explores how different companies incorporate known failures into their products just to be able to sell more. While consumers spend money on replacing these defective products a heavy burden of waste is placed on the environment. Have [...]

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  • TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard

    TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard

    Directed by Simon Klose TPB AFK (The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard) begins the day prior to the trial of the co-founders of the world’s largest file sharing site, The Pirate Bay. Fredrik, Gottfrid, and Peter face a $13 million damage claim in copyright infringement brought on by Hollywood.

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  • Sheryl Sandberg – Why We Have too Few Women Leaders

    Sheryl Sandberg – Why We Have too Few Women Leaders

    Sheryl Sandberg is Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer. She is responsible for helping Mark Zucherberg make Facebook profitable. Yet, with women like Sheryl Sandberg and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer leading the way, there are still far too few women in positions of power. Why is this? Sandberg delivers a reflective TED talk on why we have too few women leaders.

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  • Aranuchalam Muruganantham: How I Started a Sanitary Napkin Revolution

    Aranuchalam Muruganantham: How I Started a Sanitary Napkin Revolution

    When Arunachalam Muruganantham realized that his wife had to choose between buying family meals and buying her monthly supplies of sanitary pads, he vowed to help her solve the problem. Recently married, he set out on a mission to impress his new bride. Little did he know that this would take him on a journey towards fame, fortune, and the ability to help thousands of women all over his native India. After doing a lot of research Arunachalam learned that [...]

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  • Athene’s Theory of EVERYTHING

    Athene’s Theory of EVERYTHING

    Athene has come up with a theory about everything: philosophy, physics, chemistry – both between humans and objects. This is a fascinating theory that draws from numerous fields of study. Worth watching! Review included.

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  • Influencers – How Trends and Creativity Become Contagious

    Influencers – How Trends and Creativity Become Contagious

    Influencers is a great documentary that looks at how trends and creativity become contagious. What does it mean to be an influencer? Find out.

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  • Richie Rich gets Richer

    Richie Rich gets Richer

    Countries like Greece and Spain are teetering towards bankruptcy. The poor is getting poorer and…the rich is getting richer. The same old story and a troubling trend backwards from the middle class dominance of the 20th Century.  This report looks at the ever widening gap.

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  • China: Inventing Innovation?

    China: Inventing Innovation?

    China cannot maintain its historic economic growth unless it starts pushing innovation in ways that the United States has never imagined.  One city in China has announced a program to create an army of Steve Jobs type innovators over the next five years. The government has given orders for its citizens to become more creative.

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  • Steve Jobs: biography

    Steve Jobs: biography

    Steve Jobs died in early October of 2011, but not before re-inventing the personal computer, the animation film industry, the music industry, the phone industry, etc, etc.  A couple of weeks later, 60 minutes  put out this biography on man who has left his fingerprint in virtually every home in the developed world.

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  • Is Your Life Just One Big Role Playing Game?

    Is Your Life Just One Big Role Playing Game?

    A Remarkable talk by Carnegie Mellon Professor and ex Disney Imagineer Jesse Schell. He looks at the phenomena of Facebook and argues that life does not end with Facebook: it mutates. Fascinating! Topics discussed: Facebook, Guitar Hero, Mafia Wars, etc.

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  • Europe at the Brink

    Europe at the Brink

    Europe at the Brink is a 2012 short documentary that was produced by the Wall Street Journal. They look at the origins of Europe’s current economic cris, including countries such as Greece. If you want to know more about what’s happening: this is a quick and thorough primer!

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  • Putin 2012: Tsar or Reformer?

    Putin 2012: Tsar or Reformer?

    Russian society has known heartache forever: first there were the Tsars: mighty kings who made the common folk toil on the land for peanuts. Then, Lenin and Trotsky brought about the age of the Communist Revolution and a movement that was supposed to give the power back to the everyman. Instead, we got 75 years of horrible communist rule. Now, Putin seems to be taking Russia into a new nightmare…

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  • When Bankers Were Good

    When Bankers Were Good

    This documentary examines the Victorian financiers – including Samuel Gurney and Natty Rothschild.

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  • Inside Job

    Inside Job

    Inside Job takes a closer look at what brought about the financial crisis in 2008.

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  • Quants: The Alchemists of Wall Street

    Quants: The Alchemists of Wall Street

    A story about greed, fear and randomness from the insides of Wall Street.

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