The Atlantic
Your Brain Perceives Reality By Hallucinating
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- Your Brain Perceives Reality By Hallucinating
- Runtime
- 5:10
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Many people assume that they perceive the world as it actually is—as if eyes and ears were windows that allow us to access an objective reality. But perception is not an accurate reflection of an externally existing world.
“In fact,” the neuroscientist Anil Seth says, “perception and hallucination have a lot in common. You could say that we’re all hallucinating all of the time, and when we agree about our hallucinations, that’s what we call reality.”
In an animated video from Carolyn Merriman of the Future of StoryTelling, Seth explains how the brain operates on implicit beliefs accumulated over thousands of years of human evolution. These, he explains, are what “turn the raw material of sensory data into our projected perceptual realities.”
Most of the time, we can all agree on these perceptions. But sometimes this consensus breaks down, such as in the case of the Internet phenomena of the white-and-gold versus black-and-blue dr...
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- The Fake News Teenager
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- 14:03
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Once upon a time, an economically depressed and largely forgotten town in the Balkans experienced a digital gold rush. The average monthly salary in Veles, Macedonia, had been $371; now young denizens were earning up to $16,000.
The year was 2016, and the gold was fake news.
The idea that fake news most likely helped Donald Trump get elected is, well, old news. An Ohio University study published in April suggested that fake news dissuaded 4 percent of President Barack Obama's 2012 supporters from voting for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. But the extent to which a network of Macedonian teens remotely influenced the U.S. presidential election is still being uncovered.
“Hey, Macedonian teenagers,” yelled Stephen Colbert in a segment from The Late Show that aired on November 16, 2016. “Why can't you just do normal teenager stuff? Knock it off!”
One teenager did knock it off, but only after he learned of the havoc his and hi...
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- The Ingenious Botanist in the Mountains of Tajikistan
- Runtime
- 20:04
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Maxime Lacoste-Lebuis and Maude Plante-Husaruk ((http://husaruk.com), both filmmakers, were researching their upcoming trip to Central Asia when they first heard a man named Raïmberdi talk about plants. “We stumbled upon a French TV program about [Tajikistan] where Raïmberdi had briefly appeared, and we immediately thought he was a very interesting man and that there was definitely more to his story,” Lacoste-Lebuis told The Atlantic.
Months later, the pair arrived in Tajikistan through the deserted region of the Pamir Mountains. “We started inquiring about the old Kyrgyz man who had built his own hydroelectric power station,” Lacoste-Lebuis said. They didn’t know his name, or even whether he was still living. But they got lucky: A German researcher happened to be traveling through the remote area at the same time. He pointed the filmmakers in the right direction.
Lacoste-Lebuis and Plante-Husaruk’s short documentary, The Botanist, is an elegant...
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- The Catholic Church Is Losing its Mothers
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- 3:14
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- It’s no longer a secret that the Catholic Church suffers from a pervasive, decades-old child-sex-abuse epidemic, perpetrated by “a huge network of men: priests and bishops and cardinals and possibly even the Pope himself,” writer Caitlin Flanagan says. But, as Flanagan points out in the latest Atlantic Argument, children aren’t the only ones the Church has failed. Now mothers—including Flanagan herself—are having a crisis of faith in their religious institution.
“Without us, your Church will crumble,” Flanagan warns.
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- Title
- The Chaos of the Universe Is Contained in a Watch
- Runtime
- 9:02
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- For one man, repairing watches offers respite from hectic modern life. Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/576631/watchmaker/
"The Watchmaker" was directed by Marie-Cécile Embleton. It is part of The Atlantic Selects, an online showcase of short documentaries from independent creators, curated by The Atlantic.
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- China is Surveilling and Threatening Uighurs in the U.S.
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- 9:18
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Xinjiang, China is home to more than 11 million Uighurs, a largely Muslim ethnic minority. Currently, 1 million Uighurs are being held in Chinese internment camps, according to estimates cited by the UN and by U.S. officials. While Uighurs have long faced persecution by the Chinese Communist Party, the detainment campaign is unprecedented. In response, many Uighurs have fled their country.
Washington, D.C., is now home to the largest community of Uighurs in America. However, Uighurs there say that they are still not safe; many report being contacted and threatened by Chinese authorities. In a new documentary from The Atlantic, we hear from Uighurs in the U.S. who are under threat from China.
For more, read Sigal Samuel’s article, "China’s Mass Detention of Muslims Is a Test for Trump": https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/11/g20-uighur-camps-trump-xi-china-trade/576508/
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- Sex and the 1960s College Girl
- Runtime
- 2:53
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- “Men...admit that what really irritates them about modern women is that they can't, or won't, give themselves completely to men,” Nora Johnson wrote in her 1959 Atlantic article, "Sex and the College Girl." “This is undoubtedly true … And this, God knows, is a good thing.”
In the article, which is excerpted and animated in the video above, Johnson grappled with changing expectations about sex, romance, and gender roles as society began to afford women more opportunity in the workplace. A common fallout, Johnson argued, was that young women felt the need to “settle” by trading passionate romance for comfort and stability. College-age girls could only hope to avoid disappointment by managing their expectations and maintaining a certain romantic reticence.
“There must always be something held in reserve,” Johnson writes, “a part of her that she will give to no one, not even her husband. It is her belief in herself … It is the dream of the t...
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- The Most Extreme Railway in the World
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- 12:25
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- At 430 miles long, the formidable Mauritania Railway, nicknamed the “backbone of the Sahara,” boasts some of the longest and heaviest trains in the world. Its journey begins in Zouerat, Mauritania, where 22,000 tons of iron ore are mined daily and transported across the searing desert to the port city of Nouadhibou, on Africa’s Atlantic coast. Sometimes the train also carries passengers—merchants who travel illegally atop the train to transport food and supplies to remote Saharan communities. The ride is treacherous. Many die en route. Read more:
"The Mauritania Railway: Backbone of the Sahara" was directed by Miguel de Olaso. It is part of The Atlantic Selects, an online showcase of short documentaries from independent creators, curated by The Atlantic.
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- Title
- A Clown's Philosophy
- Runtime
- 7:44
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- “When I was a child, I was fascinated by the spontaneity and the freedom of the clown,” says Reinhard Horstkotte, a performer who is profiled in Emmanuel Vaughn-Lee’s short documentary, Laugh Clown Laugh. Horstkotte embraces these virtues in his work as a clown. Over the course of his life, he has cultivated a rich philosophy of clowning—one that transcends sheer entertainment value. Read more:
https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/576553/clown-philosophy/
"Laugh Clown Laugh" was directed by Emmanuel Vaughn-Lee. It is part of The Atlantic Selects, an online showcase of short documentaries from independent creators, curated by The Atlantic.
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- Title
- A Dangerous Job at the Highest Point on Earth
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- 14:12
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- The summit of Mount Chimborazo, in Ecuador, is the highest point on earth. For over half a century, Baltazar Ushca has hiked up these slopes at least twice a week to harvest glacial ice. Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/576259/last-ice-merchant/
“It’s the tastiest ice on earth, and full of vitamins,” says Ushca in Sandy Patch’s short documentary, The Last Ice Merchant. “But nobody wants natural ice from Chimborazo anymore.”
"The Last Ice Merchant" was directed by Sandy Patch. It is part of The Atlantic Selects, an online showcase of short documentaries from independent creators, curated by The Atlantic.
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- Title
- How Parents Influence Kids' Gender Roles
- Runtime
- 2:49
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- “In our home, I take on a lot of responsibilities that previous generations would have scoffed at,” says Whit Honea, a co-founder of Dads 4 Change. In a new episode of Home School, The Atlantic’s animated series about parenting, Honea explains why, in a culture where outdated gender stereotypes are “very much alive,” parents shouldn’t dictate gender roles to their children.
“By no means do I want to imply that it's wrong for kids to embrace things that they enjoy just because it falls on one [gender] or the other—just that it shouldn't be mandated by us,” Honea says.
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- Title
- Trump's Attorney General: A Flaw in American Democracy
- Runtime
- 2:10
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- “The Trump years have cast a hard light on many of the ancient flaws in American democracy,” says The Atlantic writer David Frum in a new Atlantic Argument. One of these flaws, Frum argues, is the fact that the 93 U.S.-government attorneys, including the attorney general, are politically appointed. Legal experts have long worried about the potential for abuse in these arrangements.
Just after the midterms, Donald Trump appointed “a scandal-tainted, under-qualified loyalist,” Matthew Whitaker, as acting attorney general. Now, it seems, Trump is poised to take advantage of the dangerous marriage of politics and law enforcement.
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- Title
- Apollo 8 Astronauts First See Earth From Space
- Runtime
- 29:58
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- The Apollo 8 astronauts tell the life-changing story behind the first photograph of the blue planet.
"Earthrise" was directed by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee. It is part of The Atlantic Selects, an online showcase of short documentaries from independent creators, curated by The Atlantic.
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- Title
- The 'Public Health Menace' of Fall in America
- Runtime
- 3:31
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- An unseen safety hazard plagues America, and it’s time to take action.
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- Title
- Why Are Young People Having Less Sex?
- Runtime
- 3:06
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- In the space of a generation, sex has gone from something most high-school students have experienced to something most haven’t. The average adult used to have sex 62 times a year. Now, that number is 54. In a culture that is becoming increasingly more tolerant, why is sexual intercourse on the decline?
Read more in a new article from the December issue of The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/12/the-sex-recession/573949/
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- Title
- The Psychic's Tragic Prediction
- Runtime
- 5:28
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- A fortune teller predicts a tragic life event, leaving a family reeling.
"What the Psychic Saw" was directed by Matthew Palmer. It is part of The Atlantic Selects, an online showcase of short documentaries from independent creators, curated by The Atlantic.
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- He Was a Drug Cop. Then His Daughter Overdosed on Heroin.
- Runtime
- 9:29
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Kevin Simmers is a former police sergeant in Hagerstown, Maryland. During his tenure as a narcotics officer, he vehemently pursued drug arrests. “I believed my entire life that incarceration was the answer to this drug war,” Simmers says in a new documentary from The Atlantic. Then his 18-year-old daughter, Brooke, became addicted to opioid pain pills.
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- Title
- Trump Is Trying to Change ‘What it Means to Be American’
- Runtime
- 3:23
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- The first words of the Fourteenth Amendment, argues legal scholar and Atlantic contributor Garrett Epps, are the key to its meaning: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
In the newest Atlantic Argument, Epps details the history of the citizenship clause and explains why Donald Trump’s proposed executive order to end birthright citizenship cannot alter its meaning—unless the president intends to challenge “the very fabric of the American republic.”
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- Title
- What if You Controlled the Budget? An Experiment in Democracy
- Runtime
- 14:19
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Participatory budgeting is an experiment in grassroots democracy that gives citizens partial control of where their taxpayer dollars are allocated. Here's an inside look at the process at work. Read more:
"Public Money" was directed by Jay Arthur Sterrenberg of Meerkat Media Collective. It is part of The Atlantic Selects, an online showcase of short documentaries from independent creators, curated by The Atlantic.
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- Title
- How America Misunderstands the Declaration of Independence
- Runtime
- 3:59
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Few Americans are aware of the fact that the first printing of the Declaration of Independence contained a copy error. As a result, many subsequent republications of the text display the typo. In a new video filmed at the 2018 Aspen Ideas Festival in June, Danielle Allen, a political theorist and professor at Harvard University, explains why this seemingly innocuous oversight can have grave consequences. Interpreting this sentence correctly, Allen argues, is crucial to understanding how the powers of government are organized—and, consequentially, how to be an effective civic agent.
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- Title
- You Should Be Worried About Your DNA Privacy
- Runtime
- 2:51
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- As DNA tests such as 23andMe and AncestryDNA become increasingly popular, concerns about genetic privacy are mounting—and with good reason, says the Atlantic writer Sarah Zhang. In the latest Atlantic Argument, Zhang explains how the recent spate of arrests that were made due to DNA databases—the most famous being the Golden State Killer—are just the beginning.
“Soon, it won’t be hard to imagine a world where everyone can be found for whatever reason through a relative’s DNA,” Zhang says in the video.
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- Title
- We Live in a Serial Killer's House
- Runtime
- 12:34
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Who would move into the former home of an infamous serial killer, where seven bodies were found buried in the backyard? Tom and Barbara Holmes, it turns out. Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/574510/dorothea-puente/
"The House Is Innocent" was directed by Nick Coles. It is part of The Atlantic Selects, an online showcase of short documentaries from independent creators, curated by The Atlantic.
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- Title
- Holocaust Survivors Remember Kristallnacht
- Runtime
- 10:31
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- They were children in 1938. Now, 80 years later, they reflect on the Night of Broken Glass—the turning point in the Third Reich that would change everything.
This film was produced by the Leo Baeck Institute. It is part of The Atlantic Selects, an online showcase of short documentaries from independent creators, curated by The Atlantic.
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- Julius Caesar Was Buried in a Pet Cemetery (ft. Yo La Tengo)
- Runtime
- 3:43
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Filmmaker Sam Green was heading out of town from a documentary screening when his friend offered to make a quick detour. “She asked if I wanted to see a little pet cemetery that's across the street from the airport,” Green told The Atlantic. Armed with his camera, Green captured the tombstones of a menagerie of dearly departed animals, some dating back to the early twentieth century. His short film, Julius Caesar was Buried in a Pet Cemetery, showcases the pets’ final resting place—and the human love they once inspired.
Green said he finds graveyards for pets especially moving because the headstones tend to be much more emotive than in human cemeteries. “You can say, ‘Buster was the best parakeet who ever lived,’” said Green. “With human graves, everything is so much more constrained. People love their animals in such an intense way and are able to express that love in a much freer way than they can express things about people they've lost.”
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- Men Are Socialized to 'Act Inhumanely'
- Runtime
- 3:00
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Thomas Page McBee transitioned at age 30. In his male body, he “started to experience the world differently immediately,” McBee says in a video filmed at the 2018 Aspen Ideas Festival in June. “I immediately gained a lot of privileges and also immediately lost a lot of connection.”
McBee, the author of "Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man," goes on to detail how his experience of male socialization later in life afforded him a unique perspective on the internalization of masculinity. “When you look at Harvey Weinstein, you're seeing an extreme of a socialized behavior,” he argues.
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- Title
- Don’t Blame Social Media for Violence
- Runtime
- 3:05
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Over the past few years, the U.S. has been plagued with a misinformation crisis, attributed largely to the abuse of social media. Recently, many other countries, such as India and Kenya, have seen upticks in violence, and the U.S. media are quick to blame the increasing popularity of messaging tools such as WhatsApp. But while it may be tempting to draw parallels, that’s a mistake, argues The Atlantic writer Alexis Madrigal.
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- Title
- Searching for the Vampire Bat
- Runtime
- 9:41
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Deep in the Mayan forests of Mexico lives the rarely-seen Vampyrum spectrum—the false vampire bat. Little is known about these carnivorous mammals, as their nocturnal lifestyle and remote habitats make them exceedingly difficult to study.
That didn’t deter biologist Rodrigo Medellin and photographer Anand Varma. In Jason Jaacks’s short documentary, In Search of Tzotz, Medellin, Professor of Ecology at the University of Mexico, and Varma, on assignment for National Geographic, spent months scouring ancient ruins and labyrinthine caves in the Yucatan for traces of the mysterious winged creatures, whom the Maya called Tzotz.
“Through Dr. Medellin's research and Anand's incredible visual storytelling skills, we witnessed several new behaviors never before seen by science,” Jaacks told The Atlantic. “We spent quite a bit of time crammed in a small tunnel inside an 800-year-old Mayan temple, in near-pitch darkness, filming the False Woolly Vampire bat...
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- Dogs Have a 'Special Genius'
- Runtime
- 3:03
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Brian Hare, an expert on dog psychology and Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University, reveals what he terms the "special genius" of dogs.
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- Title
- Democrats Need to Listen to Gun Owners
- Runtime
- 2:36
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- The Atlantic Argument series returns with a provocative video about the gun debate in America.
This is an op-ed series that puts our acclaimed writers—and their insightful and provocative opinions—front and center. Plott’s video will be followed by Arguments from Alexis Madrigal on the impact of social media abroad, Caitlin Flanagan on sex abuse in the Catholic Church, and many more. A new video will be released every Wednesday.
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- Title
- How to Talk to Kids About Race
- Runtime
- 2:57
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- “The worst conversation adults can have with kids about race is no conversation at all,” says author Jemar Tisby. “Talking to kids about race needs to happen early, often, and honestly.”
In a new episode of Home School, The Atlantic’s animated series about parenting, Tisby offers advice on how to have a conversation with children about race, from experiential learning to watching classic animated films.
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- Title
- 'Difference' vs. 'Disease': A Question of Eugenics?
- Runtime
- 11:13
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Advances in prenatal genetic screening pose major ethical questions about the difference between "disease" and a life worth living. Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/573049/genetic-screening/
"Genetic Screening: Controlling Heredity" was produced by Jill Rosenbaum and the Retro Report. It is part of The Atlantic Selects, an online showcase of short documentaries from independent creators, curated by The Atlantic.
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- A Russian Mail-Order Bride and a Jaw-Dropping Twist
- Runtime
- 13:51
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- The hilarious, stranger-than-fiction story of a mother and son who emigrate to America and get more than they bargained for. Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/572377/little-potato/
"Little Potato" was directed by Wes Hurley and Nathan Miller. It is part of The Atlantic Selects, an online showcase of short documentaries from independent creators, curated by The Atlantic.
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- Title
- Eileen Fisher’s Timeless Fashion Design
- Runtime
- 3:39
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- “A lot of people don't know that the fashion industry is one of the worst polluters in the world,” says Eileen Fisher. In a video filmed at the 2018 Aspen Ideas Festival, in June, Fisher explains how the fashion industry employs one in six people worldwide. “There's a huge opportunity to actually clean up the industry and clean up the planet because so much work is done there,” she adds.
Fisher goes on to describe how her philosophy of clothing design, which she describes as “simple” and “circular,” lends itself to sustainability.
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- Title
- The Search for Murdered and Missing American Indian Women
- Runtime
- 11:23
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- “If you’re just out there somewhere on the land, dead, and nobody’s looking for you—that’s the worst thing in the world,” says Lissa Yellowbird-Chase in Vanished, a new documentary from The Atlantic. Yellowbird-Chase, a private citizen and volunteer investigator, has devoted her life to searching for missing American Indians.
American Indian women and girls are reported missing at a disproportionately high rate compared with most other demographics. Although there is no federal database that tracks their disappearances, Mary Kathryn Nagle, a tribal sovereignty attorney, told The Atlantic that legal structures help to “create a climate in the United States where Native women go murdered and missing.”
Recently, Yellowbird-Chase has been focused on one case in particular: that of Melissa Eagleshield, who disappeared in 2014 in Minnesota. “It was like she just vanished,” says Jodi Dey, Eagleshield’s aunt. No arrests have been made in relation...
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- Can Women’s Anger Save America?
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- 2:18
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- In America today, women are angry. But this isn’t a modern phenomenon, argues the author Rebecca Traister. In her new book, "Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger," Traister details how female rage has long been the country’s political fuel. She expounded on this idea at Aspen Ideas Festival in June, where, in a video interview, she discussed how the fury of American women—from the suffragists to the abolitionists to Rosa Parks—has catalyzed major political movements. Read a review of Traister's book on The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/rebecca-traister-good-and-mad/570826/
“Many of these original explosive figures have been women who were angry at injustice,” Traister says, “and expressed it in ways that were powerful and persuasive.”
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- Title
- Adult Twins, Separated at Birth, Have Emotional Reunion
- Runtime
- 7:53
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Inspired by the documentary "Three Identical Strangers," Michele Mordkoff and Allison Kanter discover they are twins and have an emotional reunion on camera. Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/571867/two-identical-strangers/
"Two Identical Strangers" was directed by Tim Wardle. Courtesy of Neon, it is part of The Atlantic Selects, an online showcase of short documentaries from independent creators, curated by The Atlantic.
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- Title
- Meet the Face of the Millennial Anti-Abortion Movement
- Runtime
- 7:50
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- 30-year-old Lila Rose advocates for reversing Roe v. Wade in a new short documentary from The Atlantic. Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/571906/lila-rose/
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- Title
- The ‘Nightmare’ of a Tweeting President
- Runtime
- 3:09
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- “The idea of a tweeting president would have been a Madisonian dystopia,” argues Jeffrey Rosen in a new video based on the author’s recent article in The Atlantic. According to Rosen, the Founding Fathers designed the constitution to safeguard against the rise of demagogues. Because passionate arguments—the fodder of demagogues—are more likely to be shared on social media than rational arguments, mob rule is especially common on Twitter. This, Rosen explains, is the stuff of the framers’ nightmares. Read the full article on The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/james-madison-mob-rule/568351/
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- Title
- Is This the Best Taco in the World?
- Runtime
- 17:44
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- This film isn't just about a taco. It's about Ralph Gilmore, a guy with an eighth-grade education who became a millionaire. And then he lost it all. And then he became a millionaire again. And then he lost it all--again. Finally, he bought a used shipping container on Craiglist and started slinging the best tacos you've ever had out of it. Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/571315/tuna-taco/
“A Taco Told in Texas” was produced, directed, and edited by David Gorvy (http://www.davidgorvy.com/) and features cinematography by Jordan T. Parrott (http://www.jordantparrott.com/). It is part of The Atlantic Selects, an online showcase of short documentaries from independent creators, curated by The Atlantic.
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- Title
- The Chimp Who Believed She Was Human
- Runtime
- 8:19
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- A social experiment goes awry when a couple adopts a baby chimpanzee and raises her as their daughter. Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/571318/lucy-chimp/
"Lucy" was directed and animated by Elisa Chee. It is part of The Atlantic Selects, an online showcase of short documentaries from independent creators, curated by The Atlantic.
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- Title
- Through the Eyes of Deaf Children
- Runtime
- 7:38
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- A day in the life of a third-grade classroom at the California School for the Deaf. Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/571291/deaf-children-school/
"View from the Window" was directed by Chris Filippone and Azar Kafaei. It is part of The Atlantic Selects, an online showcase of short documentaries from independent creators, curated by The Atlantic.
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- Title
- Poet Donald Hall: ‘Old Age Is a Ceremony of Losses’
- Runtime
- 13:19
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Before Donald Hall died this June, the 89-year-old American poet laureate let a filmmaker into his home in bucolic New Hampshire. In Paul Szynol’s Quiet Hours, premiering on The Atlantic today, Hall—whose prolific body of work is preoccupied with death, loss, and memory—is observed in his senescence, from the outside. Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/571141/donald-hall/
"Quiet Hours" was directed by Paul Szynol. It is part of The Atlantic Selects, an online showcase of short documentaries from independent creators, curated by The Atlantic.
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- Title
- The Secret Artists in Bugs
- Runtime
- 3:56
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Reclusive painter, Hollywood "bug wrangler," and entomologist Steven Kutcher reveals how his obsession with insects led to a unique artistic discovery in Iqbal Ahmed's short documentary. Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/571024/bug-man/
"Bug Man" was directed by Iqbal Ahmed (https://www.iqbalahmed.com/). It is part of The Atlantic Selects, an online showcase of short documentaries from independent creators, curated by The Atlantic.
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- Title
- The Love Between Man and Beast
- Runtime
- 6:39
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Every night for more than 35 years, Yussuf Mume Saleh has gone outside the city walls of Harar—the centuries-old Ethiopian city—to feed his beloved spotted hyenas. Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/570901/hairat/
"Hairat" was directed by Jessica Beshir. It is part of The Atlantic Selects, an online showcase of short documentaries from independent creators, curated by The Atlantic.
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- Title
- The Controversial Tear-Jerkers Playing in Criminal Courtrooms
- Runtime
- 9:08
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- To beg for leniency, a growing number of defense attorneys are becoming filmmakers, producing documentaries for an audience of one: the judge. Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/570601/no-jail-time/
"No Jail Time: The Movie" was directed by Lance Oppenheim. It is part of The Atlantic Selects, an online showcase of short documentaries from independent creators, curated by The Atlantic.
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- Title
- Can Puerto Rico Rebuild Itself?
- Runtime
- 1:54
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Ricardo Rosselló, the governor of Puerto Rico, discusses the island's future in the wake of the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria. Filmed at the 2018 Aspen Ideas Festival in June.
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- Title
- Experience Infinity at the World's Largest Mall
- Runtime
- 10:30
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- "Commodity City" is a hypnotizing journey through Yiwu, a five-mile-long wholesale market in China with 75,000 vendors.
"Commodity City" was directed by Jessica Kingdon. It is part of The Atlantic Selects, an online showcase of short documentaries from independent creators, curated by The Atlantic.
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- Title
- 'America Has Always Been a Tribal Society'
- Runtime
- 2:14
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Author Amy Chua warns that some of tribalism's worst impulses, like demagoguery and scapegoating, are beginning to permeate American politics.
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- Title
- The U.S. Failed Thousands Who Risked Everything in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Runtime
- 19:03
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Matt Zeller joined the U.S. Army after 9/11. “The idea of not serving at that moment was something I couldn’t fathom,” Zeller says in a new short documentary, premiering on The Atlantic today. Directed by Hunter Johnson and Daniel Klein, Brother is the poignant story of a heroic act that led to a life debt, an indelible friendship, and, ultimately, a fierce fight to rectify a betrayal by the U.S. State Department.
On April 28, 2008, Captain Zeller, his company of 15 soldiers, and one of their Afghan translators, Janis Shinwari, were ambushed by 50 Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. “I was 26 years old and I realized, ‘I’m gonna die here. Right now. I die today,’” says Zeller in the film. Then, Shinwari noticed two fighters approaching Zeller from behind. In a split second, the translator body-checked the captain to the ground, shot the approaching fighters, and dragged Zeller to safety. “All of the sudden, there was this guy, standing right over me,” Zell...
- Title
- What Is 'Normal'? What Is 'Different'?
- Runtime
- 18:47
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- “Why can’t you be different? Why does everyone have to look the same and do as the group does?” 13-year-old Ninnoc wants to know. The headstrong Dutch middle-school student is the subject of Nikki Padidar’s award-winning short documentary, Ninnoc, an experimental window into a personal struggle with nonconformity. In the film, Ninnoc struggles to reconcile her need to belong—and to feel seen—with her inherent desire to be an individual. She doesn’t want to be like everyone else, yet she knows that that decision will come at a cost.
"Ninnoc" was directed by Niki Padidar (http://www.nikipadidar.com). It is part of The Atlantic Selects, an online showcase of short documentaries from independent creators, curated by The Atlantic.
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