The Four Freedoms were goals articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Monday, January 6, 1941. In an address known as the Four Freedoms speech (technically the 1941 State of the Union address), he proposed four fundamental freedoms that people "everywhere in the world" ought t...

In this thirty-third installment of "Male Ballet Dancers" we are proud to feature several outstanding Brazilian dancers, including Jovani Furlan who explains what goes through the mind while dancing in "Anatomy of the Dance"; as well as Daniel Camargo from the American Ballet Theater; Victor Cai

Near the start of the 20th century, a mysterious and deadly virus terrified Americans, particularly infecting young kids: Polio. Correspondent Rita Braver looks at the scientific arsenal brought to combat the epidemic and develop a vaccine, and talks with documentary filmmaker Carl Kurlander ("The S

Singer-songwriter Steve Grand release an acoustic version of “We Are The Night”, a track off his debut album All-American Boy, and thanked his followers for their support. Speaks Grand on the track: “So for every boy and every girl / No matter who you love / And for all my trans brothers and sisters

The AlphaDog Proto is a lab prototype for the Legged Squad Support System, a robot being developed by Boston Dynamics with funding from DARPA and the US Marine Corps. When fully developed the system will carry 400 lbs of payload on 20-mile missions in rough terrain. The first version of the complete...

Our baby is stuck right now in a cosmic waiting room and we need your help buying safe passage to bring him here! We have a seemingly impossible dream to be great dads so we made a video about it and we hope you like it. Hi, we're Ulises and Ignacio, two guys trying desperately to bring a baby into ...

Normal Doors feels like a natural evolution for him as a filmmaker. He has refined his voice quite a bit for this effort—developing an interesting tone that manages to be comical, endearing, and emotional. Focusing on all topics that could have all been cloying (from “meet cutes” to obsessive compul

Mars Dune Alpha, the 3D-printed Habitat Located at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, Will Aid in Long-duration Science Missions ICON, developer of advanced construction technologies including robotics, software, and building materials, announced it has been awarded a subcontract through Jacob

This documerntary was produced in 2004 by CBS as part of "Witness", a documentary from CBS news. Origin of AIDS: The Polio Vaccine (CBC 'Witness', 2004) On April 12, 1955 Jonas Salk's polio vaccine was first licensed for public use in the U.S. In the years afterwards 90 million Americans were vac...

On June 14,2013 SpaceX's Grasshopper flew 325 m (1066 feet)--higher than Manhattan's Chrysler Building--before smoothly landing back on the pad. For the first time in this test, Grasshopper made use of its full navigation sensor suite with the F9-R closed loop control flight algorithms to accomplish...