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04 March 2012

04 March 2012, 15:00

THEY SPEAK TO HIS HEART

From the outside, Chip Conley's home on Potrero Hill looks unassuming - a no-nonsense brown-shingled house shrouded in greenery. "Objects are really unimportant to me," says Conley, author, motivational speaker...

02 March 2012, 11:12

Man Sues After Google “Street View” Captures Him Peeing in Front Yard

A Google driver drives with a Google vehicle around Palo Alto, Calif., streets Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010, to shoot “Street Views”. The Federal Trade Commission is scolding Google, but not taking any...

27 February 2012, 15:00

Salonica Stories

In the 19th century, Sa’adi Besalel a-Levi was an esteemed (if controversial) journalist, publisher, singer, and composer in Salonica, a Mediterranean port city whose 2,000-year-old Jewish community was later decimated in the Holocaust.

17 February 2012, 01:18

Physicist/author Michio Kaku's new book offers a peek into a future dominated by nanotechnology

Physicist Michio Kaku's new book offers a peek into a world he says will be rich with information gathered by nanotechnology Home furnishings that can be turned to putty and changed into completely new designs.

15 February 2012, 20:27

'Blast' and 'Stomp' storm into region

"Stomp" is a junkyard percussion fantasy, a coordinated cacophony of cast members beating on trash cans, smacking brooms and sticks, making syncopations from plastic bags and newspapers and a wall hung with all manner of cast-offs that emit a satisfying or just plain loud noise when thwacked.

13 February 2012, 15:00

The Projectionist

Actor Antony Sher has won accolades for playing Shylock, Richard III, Cyrano de Bergerac, Macbeth, and Primo Levi. Knighted in 2000, he’s traveled a great distance from his quiet middle-class upbringing in Cape Town...

06 February 2012, 19:18

How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy

Jaroslav Flegr is no kook. And yet, for years, he suspected his mind had been taken over by parasites that had invaded his brain. So the prolific biologist took his science-fiction hunch into the lab. What he’s now discovering will startle you.

04 February 2012, 15:00

Tech firms offer solutions in developing countries

[...] residents' access to health care was much worse than he was used to in the United States. Nesbit recalls riding his bike more than 50 miles to meet with patients and aid workers in a very rural...

04 February 2012, 02:27

40,000 Against One

#99. This week's show looks back at United's traumatic loss to Liverpool in the FA Cup, including some disgraceful scenes involving Patrice Evra. What does the Anfield crowd's reaction mean for race relations in the game?

03 February 2012, 01:10

Falling bricks

The Brick Industry Association, a Virginia-based industry group, has launched a campaign to highlight the virtues of brick, from the green aspect of being able to recycle it to its ability to stand up to fire.

02 February 2012, 15:00

Facebook files for highly anticipated IPO

There were some surprises, too, such as the fact that advertising accounted for about 85 percent of the revenue and that Facebook relies on one big customer, social games maker Zynga Inc. of San Francisco, for about 12 percent of its income.

29 January 2012, 15:00

LinkedIn faces challenges by Facebook apps

Rather than starting from scratch, independent software developers are trying to add a professional layer to Facebook - and are hoping that users will accept a less-than-complete separation of the professional and the personal.

27 January 2012, 15:00

Macworld vendors have apps worth a look

Hundreds of vendors clamored for their attention using a variety of techniques, from good old-fashioned product giveaways to attractive young people on trampolines demonstrating new sport headphones as they did backflips.

23 January 2012, 15:00

Goodbye to All That

The Jewish community in Caracas has long been lively, prosperous, tight-knit, and devoted to the country that accepted so many of them as refugees during and after World War II. At its height, it numbered as many as 40,000 people.

21 January 2012, 00:37

This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube-- Dramatic rescue in Italy, protests in Tunisia, and uneasy truce forms in Zabadani, Syria

Everyday on the CitizenTube Channel (and @CitizenTube on Twitter), along with our curation partners @storyful, we look at how the top news stories are covered on YouTube. Every week we'll...