Get North to Paradise. North to Paradise is Ousman Umar’s extraordinary account of his journey from a small Ghanaian village to Europe, a five-year odyssey he began as a thirtee ...

The Blind Photographer is surprising and fascinating. These photos taken by visually impaired photographers, accompanied by a ...

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In a darkened Las Vegas conference room, a cheering audience waves cardboard wands in the air. Each wand is red on one side, green on the other. Far in back of the huge auditorium, a camera scans the ...

There are two extreme ways to structure "moreness." At one extreme, you can construct a system as a long string of sequential operations, such as we do in a meandering factory assembly line. The ...

Out of nothing, nature makes something. First there is hard rock planet; then there is life, lots of it. First barren hills; then brooks with fish and cattails and red-winged blackbirds. First an ...

That herby smell mixed into his fur is one of my favorite smells. I travelled to Eastern Europe just after the Berlin wall fell. I was thrown back to my childhood in 70’s Paris. The Trabants, Yugos, ...

Black Swans are completely unexpected events (unknown unknowns) that change the world forever. We cannot forecast them, but we can prepare for them through the practice of scenario building. By ...

In this book I offer rave reviews of 150 great true films. I define these non-fiction films as true films — documentaries, educational films, instructional how-to’s, and what the British call factuals ...

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