Explaining how the population has gotten so big so fast, and how we've gone from 1billion to 7billion in 200 years.
Friday, 11 November 2011
Thursday, 10 November 2011
BBC Video: Believing is seeing: What lies behind some iconic photos?
Watch the BBC Video here.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words - but sometimes it takes more words than that to explain what a photograph is really showing.
In his new book, Believing Is Seeing, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Errol Morris dissects the stories behind a series of iconic photographs.
From the staged photograph of the US troops raising the flag at Iwo Jima to the controversy over snapshots of abuses at Abu Ghraib, Morris explores the connection between how a photograph makes us feel versus the reality hidden within the image.
Best known for his documentaries The Thin Blue Line and the Oscar winning Fog of War, Morris also investigates how it can be more important to focus on what lies outside the frame.
PHOTOS FROM BELIEVING IS SEEING: OBSERVATIONS ON THE MYSTERIES OF PHOTOGRAPHY BY ERROL MORRIS
Portrait of Errol Morris by Julian Dufort
Iwo Jima flag raising. Credit: Joe Rosenthal, February 23, 1945, The Associated Press
Rosenthal taking picture of Flag Raising. Credit: Marine Photographer Private Robert R. Campbell, National Archives.
The Hooded Man. Credit: Photograph by U.S. Military personel, Abu Ghraib Prison, Iraq, 2003.
The Hooded Man. Credit: Photograph of "The Hooded Man", by Sgt. Ivan Frederick, Abu Ghraib prison, November 5, 2003. Taken by Shawn Baldwin, The New York Times.
V-J Day in Times Square. Credit: Photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt, August 14th, 1945 for LIFE magazine.
Sabrina thumbs up. Credit: Photograph by U.S. Military personel, Abu Ghraib Prison, Iraq, 2003.
Cow Skull 3. Credit: "Overgrazed land. Pennington County, South Dakota" by Arthur Rothstein, 1936. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection, LC-USF34-004389-D.
Cow Skull 4. Credit: "A homestead on submarginal and overgrazed land. Pennington County, South Dakota" by Arthur Rothstein, 1936. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection, LC-USF34-004378-D.
Cow Skull 1. Credit: "Dry and parched earth in the badlands of South Dakota" by Arthur Rothstein, 1936. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection, LC-USF34-004380-D.
Cow Skull 2. Credit: "The bleached skull of a steer on the dry sun-baked earth of the South Dakota Badlands" by Arthur Rothstein, 1936. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection, LC-USF34-004507-E.
Migrant Mother. Credit: "Migrant Mother" or "Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California," by Dorothea Lange, 1936. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection, LC-USF34-009058-C.
Wednesday, 9 November 2011
BBC: How significant is Italy's 7% borrowing rate?
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Hans Redeker, Head of Global Foreign Exchange strategy at Morgan Stanley, says Italy's new borrowing record is a "significant development".
The yield on 10-year government bonds reached more than 7%, the highest since the euro was founded in 1999.
Investors fear that Italy could become the next victim of the debt crisis.
The 7% level is widely viewed as unsustainable and was the point at which Portugal, Greece and the Irish Republic were forced to seek a bailout.
Monday, 7 November 2011
BBC: Eurozone Crisis - What it means for the West
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BBC: Russia: Israeli threat of strikes on Iran 'a mistake'
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Sunday, 6 November 2011
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