Doing It Ourselves - www.doingitourselves.org - aims to broaden understanding of the debt crisis and peak resources and encourage action for the sake of personal preparedness, happiness and ethical living. This animation sums up the key challenges facing our global society of credit crisis and resource scarcity and describes a path we can take to a happier life, now and in the future! Find out more at http://www.doingitourselves.org
This opening show addresses the coming 2012 US Presidential Election and the subject of what we perceive as "Democracy" in the world today.
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This opening show addresses the coming 2012 US Presidential Election and the subject of what we perceive as "Democracy" in the world today.
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Leading up to ESO’s 50th anniversary in October 2012, we are releasing eight special ESOcasts, each a chapter from the movie Europe to the Stars — ESO’s First 50 Years of Exploring the Southern Sky. ESOcast 48 — entitled Building Big — is the eighth and final special episode of this series. It relates how ESO - based on its experience over the past fifty years as the most powerful observatory in History - is going to realise the everlasting longing of astronomers: the construction of even bigger telescopes. More information and credits: http://www.eso.org/public/videos/esocast48a/
Leading up to ESO’s 50th anniversary in October 2012, we are releasing eight special ESOcasts, each a chapter from the movie Europe to the Stars — ESO’s First 50 Years of Exploring the Southern Sky. ESOcast 47 — entitled Reaching Out — is the seventh special episode of this series. In this episode we look at one of the major longings that astronomers have pursued over centuries: finding life in the Universe. ESO has played an important role in this exciting journey. More information and credits: http://www.eso.org/public/videos/esocast47a/
Leading up to ESO’s 50th anniversary in October 2012, we are releasing eight special ESOcasts, each a chapter from the movie Europe to the Stars — ESO’s First 50 Years of Exploring the Southern Sky. ESOcast 46 — entitled Catching Light — is the sixth special episode of this series. It describes how state-of the-art cameras and spectrographs help ESO’s powerful telescopes to showcase the splendor of the Universe. Without these instruments, ESO’s eyes on the sky would be blind. More information and credits: http://www.eso.org/public/videos/esocast46a/
Leading up to ESO’s 50th anniversary in October 2012, we are releasing eight special ESOcasts, each a chapter from the movie Europe to the Stars — ESO’s First 50 Years of Exploring the Southern Sky. ESOcast 45 — entitled Reaching Out — is the fifth special episode of this series. In it we focus on ESO’s message. A message of curiosity, wonder and inspiration. Proclaimed through cooperation and outreach, it has been the basis of ESO’s success during the past fifty years. More information and credits: http://www.eso.org/public/videos/esocast45a/
Leading up to ESO’s 50th anniversary in October 2012, we are releasing eight special ESOcasts, each a chapter from the movie Europe to the Stars — ESO’s First 50 Years of Exploring the Southern Sky. ESOcast 44 — entitled Changing Views — is the fourth special episode of this series. Since its birth, fifty years ago, ESO has helped to improve our knowledge of the Universe by means of successive generations of powerful optical ground-based telescopes. But there are other ways to collect the light from distant objects. In this episode, we discover how ESO has helped astronomers to explore the Universe at longer wavelengths, such as the infrared and radio regimes. More information and credits: http://www.eso.org/public/videos/esocast44a/
Some 15 million people are affected by the crisis in the Sahel region, and one million of these are children that could die within months without immediate humanitarian assistance. This creative video by Miami Ad School students Michael Dooley and Ian Going breaks down the effects of malnutrition on children and explains the challenges that children under the age of 5 are facing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDu0Yu7Ig_c http://www.youtube.com/user/UNICEFsocial
Leading up to ESO’s 50th anniversary in October 2012, we are releasing eight special ESOcasts, each a chapter from the movie Europe to the Stars — ESO’s First 50 Years of Exploring the Southern Sky. The third special episode of this series – "entitled Seeing Sharp" – presents ESO’s flagship facility: the Very Large Telescope (VLT). In this episode we discover the state-of-the-art technology behind this telescope, which has provided astronomers an unequalled view of the Universe.
