Al Jazeera America
High-Tech Food - TechKnow
- Title
- High-Tech Food - TechKnow
- Runtime
- 5:37
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Contributor Marita Davison visits some high-tech laboratories and restaurants to explore the world of molecular gastronomy and how chemistry and cooking are coming together to innovate kitchen technology and cuisine.
For more TechKnow: http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/techknow.html
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- America's Infant Mortality Crisis - Fault Lines
- Runtime
- 25:44
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Every year in America over 11,000 babies die on the day that they’re born.
Fault Lines travels to Cleveland, Ohio—America’s infant mortality capital—where the rates of premature birth and infant death in many neighborhoods exceed those of developing nations.
In a country that spends so much on healthcare and believed to have one of the best neo-natal intensive care units in the world, the U.S. is failing to ensure the health of its newest citizens.
For more Fault Lines: http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/fault-lines.html
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- Gloria Steinem – Talk To Al Jazeera
- Runtime
- 26:27
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- A powerful voice for equality, Gloria Steinem talks about the state of the feminist movement today and whether men need a liberation movement.
For more Talk to Al Jazeera: http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/talk-to-al-jazeera.html
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- Concussion Technology - TechKnow
- Runtime
- 14:32
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Concussions and traumatic brain injuries are an increasing source of controversy in professional sports leagues. Football players are celebrated for their big hits and brutal tackles, but that glory comes with a devastating cost.
When a football player receives a blow to the head, it can cause the brain to bounce or twist in the skull. This sudden movement causes stretching, cell damage, and chemical changes in the brain, making it more vulnerable to injury and stress until it recovers.
TechKnow travels to the University of Nebraska and Virginia Tech, where scientists are investigating how to keep players safer on the field.
For more TechKnow: http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/techknow.html
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- Eco-friendly Packaging - TechKnow
- Runtime
- 5:14
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- "TechKnow," expert contributor Lindsay Moran travels to Green Island, NY, to investigate how mushrooms are being used to create Eco-friendly packaging and insulation materials.
More traditional Styrofoam packaging is made of polystyrene, an unsustainable petrochemical, and can take up to a million years to biodegrade naturally.
Ecovative Design, a biomaterials company, goal is to develop packaging materials that not only decompose faster and more naturally, but also give back to the ecosystem. They do this by utilizing mycelium, the microscopic root structure that allows mushrooms to grow on trees and spread throughout the forest floor.
For more TechKnow: http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/techknow.html
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- Shark Robot - TechKnow
- Runtime
- 6:50
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Contributor Marita Davison swims with sharks as she explores new robotic technology that is allowing scientists to study these ocean predators like never before.
Scientists have created a torpedo-shaped autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), a robot that powers itself through the ocean, for tracking and collecting data on sharks and other animals.
For more TechKnow: http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/techknow.html
- Title
- Dying Inside: Elderly in Prison – Fault Lines
- Runtime
- 23:36
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- The massive prison population in the U.S. is getting older. Long sentences that were handed out decades ago are catching up with the American justice system, and prisons across the country are dedicating entire units just to house the elderly.
During difficult economic times, the issue has hit a crisis point. Estimates are that locking up an older inmate costs three times as much as a younger one.
For more Fault Lines: http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/fault-lines.html
- Title
- Sir Ken Robinson - Talk To Al Jazeera
- Runtime
- 25:56
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Creativity and education expert Sir Ken Robinson argues that we need to radically rethink the way we are educating our children. Robinson is a leading scholar known for teaching people how to recognize intelligence and find their talent. He has been called one of the world’s elite thinkers. His books include “Finding Your Element” and “Out of Our Minds.”
For more Talk Al Jazeera: http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/talk-to-al-jazeera.html
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- NASA's Lab In The Sky - TechKnow
- Runtime
- 13:52
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Contributor Phil Torres goes airborne to learn more about a NASA program called SEAC4RS (Studies of Emissions and Atmospheric Composition, Clouds, and Climate Coupling by Regional Surveys) and a fleet of jets that are being utilized as flying laboratories to study pollution, climate change and the atmosphere.
The SEAC4RS program flies three times a week, employing three different types of aircraft that fly in formation, taking readings from varying altitudes at the same locations. Probes and instruments on the exterior of the planes collect samples and measure conditions as they fly on a designated path.
For more TechKnow: http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/techknow.html
- Title
- Al Jazeera America: Fact-Based, In-Depth News
- Runtime
- 1:01
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Al Jazeera America is an American news channel reporting unbiased, fact-based and in-depth journalism that gets you closer to the people at the heart of the news.
Headquartered in New York City, Al Jazeera America has 12 bureaus in major cities around the country, three broadcast centers, and a team of nearly 900 journalists and staff. Our news-gathering capacity is among the largest in the U.S.
For more information, visit our Web site: www.aljazeera.com/america
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- Punishment and Profits: Immigration Detention - Fault Lines
- Runtime
- 25:19
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Immigration is a key issue in the U.S. presidential election with Republican candidates trying to demonstrate their tough stance on undocumented immigrants.
Meanwhile, under the Obama administration, the detention and deportation of immigrants has reached an all-time high. Each day, the U.S. government detains more than 33,000 non-citizens at a cost of $5.5 million per day.
The result is a lot of money for the powerful private prison industry, which spends millions of dollars on lobbying and now operates nearly half of the country's immigration detention centers.
Fault Lines travels to Texas and Florida to investigate the business of immigrant detention and to find out how a handful of companies help to shape U.S. immigration laws.
For more Fault Lines: http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/fault-lines.html
- Title
- Sustainable Farming - TechKnow
- Runtime
- 6:42
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Fair Oaks Farms is home to over 36,000 cows that produce milk for distribution all over the Midwestern United States. However, the most impressive export of the Fair Oaks cows might not be their milk. The farm recently invested $19 million into an anaerobic digester that converts the cow manure into compressed natural gas (CNG).
For more TechKnow: http://aljazeera.com/techknow
- Title
- Russell Simmons - Talk to Al Jazeera
- Runtime
- 26:08
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Hip-hop pioneer and business mogul Russell Simmons is a man of vision. Music, fashion and social action - The Def Jam co-founder is a pervasive cultural influence - and a strong advocate for justice. He's also a practicing yogi - who values daily meditation, which is the subject of his latest book “Success Through Stillness.”
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- Bulletproof Classroom - TechKnow
- Runtime
- 12:49
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Hardwire LLC adapted their expertise creating building reinforcements and military field armor to develop bulletproof school products. Their products, ranging from whiteboards and clipboards that teachers can use in instruction to backpack inserts and classroom door reinforcements, are designed to provide emergency armor protection without any damaging psychological impact on students.
For more TechKnow: http://aljazeera.com/techknow
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- A test for pancreatic cancer and the 16-year-old who developed it - TechKnow
- Runtime
- 6:02
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Inspired by the loss of a close family friend, 16-year-old Jack Andraka developed a test for pancreatic cancer detection that experts are touting as faster, cheaper, and more effective than existing methods.
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- Ira Glass - Talk to Al Jazeera
- Runtime
- 24:36
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Ira Glass talks about "This American Life" and celebrates the radio program's 500th episode.
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- Transporting a beating heart for transplant - TechKnow
- Runtime
- 8:57
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- TransMedics’ proprietary Organ Care System (OCS) is the first commercial and portable warm blood perfusion organ transport system. With the OCS, doctors are able to perform “living organ transplants,” where organs are kept warm and functioning in a controlled environment from the time they are recovered to the moment they are placed in the recipient’s body.
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- Wearable Robot Suit - TechKnow
- Runtime
- 12:32
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Ekso is a battery-powered external skeleton that makes it possible for paralyzed people to walk. More than 20 years ago, Amanda Boxtel was paralyzed during a skiing accident. She is the first person in the U.S. to own the Ekso Bionics exoskeleton suit -- called E-Legs. For more TechKnow: http://aljazeera.com/techknow
- Title
- Mel Brooks Praises Al Jazeera America
- Runtime
- 0:45
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
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- Life After Guantanamo - Fault Lines
- Runtime
- 25:11
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- President Obama has not made good on his promise to close Guantanamo Bay prison, which he made via an executive order he signed on his first full day in office. Since then, the U.S. Congress has raised the political price of transferring detainees—even those held without charges and already cleared for release.
In 2013, some of the detained men were on hunger strike as their loved ones continued their fight for a life after Guantanamo. Several others who were formerly detained now live in Yemen. Have they been tempted to “return to the battlefield” as Congress warns? Did years of detention, isolation and torture make them want to seek revenge against the United States? And how are they rebuilding their lives?
Fault Lines travels to Yemen to explore the consequences of the U.S. policy of indefinite detention.
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- Guerrilla Artist JR - Talk to Al Jazeera
- Runtime
- 25:04
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- JR is the name of a photographer whose identity is semi-anonymous. He is a 30-year-old French street artist who is plastering the world with his work. In New York, a photo booth was put up in Times Square and thousands of portraits of New Yorkers and visitors were pasted on the floor. It was part of the artist JR’s “Inside Out” project — a worldwide, million-dollar art endeavor that allows anyone to upload a portrait onto the project’s website, have it printed out by the artist and then pasted in a public place to call attention to an idea or cause.
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- Reza Aslan - Talk to Al Jazeera
- Runtime
- 24:47
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Reza Aslan is an Iranian-American scholar of world religions and the author of several books on faith. His most recent book, "Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth", is a best-seller — and controversial.
He sat down with Tony Harris to talk about how he became acquainted with the subject of his latest book, as well as converting from Islam to evangelical Christianity before returning to the religion of his birth.
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- Deadly Force: Arming America's Police - Fault Lines
- Runtime
- 25:31
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Fault Lines investigates how the flow of federal dollars and combat equipment is transforming US police departments into military-like forces.
US police forces are increasingly using military-style tactics to carry out even the most routine daily operations. The number of SWAT teams and SWAT-style raids across the county has skyrocketed in the last few decades. SWAT raids occur at an estimated 50,000 raids per year and the majority that take place involve low-level crimes.
It is a trend that is being propped up by billions of federal dollars in Homeland Security grants and access to free military equipment through the Department of Defense for civilian law enforcement agencies.
Fault Lines travels to California and Tennessee to look at the effects of the increasing militarization of local law enforcement.
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- At Al Jazeera America - Journalism Comes First
- Runtime
- 1:29
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Al Jazeera America is the U.S. news channel that provides both domestic and international news for American audiences.
Headquartered in New York City with bureaus in 12 cities across the United States, Al Jazeera America is available in more than 60 million homes in the U.S. across major television providers, including DirecTV, Comcast/Xfinity, Time Warner Cable, DISH Network, AT&T U-Verse, Verizon FiOS, and Bright House Networks. To find Al Jazeera America in your area: http://america.aljazeera.com/tools/channel-finder.html
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- Illegal Immigrants Face Dangerous Mexican/US Border — One Story
- Runtime
- 2:06
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- They leave their communities and loved ones behind for a better life in the United States. The journey is perilous and survival is not guaranteed. Illegal immigration. Which side of the fence are you on?
Walk in the footsteps of these Migrants.
Watch Borderland, Sundays only on Al Jazeera America. http://alj.am/borderland
- Title
- Building Al Jazeera America from the Ground Up
- Runtime
- 1:01
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- Al Jazeera America is headquartered in New York City and has 12 bureaus around the country. Watch how countless builders and technicians worked around the clock to build the new American news channel.
More details: http://www.aljazeera.com/america
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- Title
- Meet the Al Jazeera America Team
- Runtime
- 0:31
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- Al Jazeera America's team is dedicated to delivering news that moves you. Four employees share why they chose to follow their passions and join Al Jazeera America. Find out where to watch: http://www.aljazeera.com/getajam
More details: http://www.aljazeera.com/america
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- Title
- Google+ Hangout On Air with Soledad O'Brien & "America Tonight"
- Runtime
- 51:35
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- Google+ Hangout On Air with Soledad O'Brien & "America Tonight"
