Ain't I a Person?

The focus of this award-winning documentary film is the stories of the poor (and near-poor) about how they manage their lives and families. More information here.

The See Through Brain

Scientists have come up with a way to make whole brains transparent, so they can be labelled with molecular markers and imaged using a light microscope.

Friday Nite Videos -- April 19, 2013

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Scientists create a see-through brain. Boston Marathon suspect interrogation may answer many questions. Lewis Black on the moocher class. Brubeck's 'Take Five' with sitar and tabla. Glenda Jackson's 'tribute' to Baroness Thatcher. Documentary film: Ain't I a Person?

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UNICEF: U.S. kids worse off than many of their Western counterparts

By Caitlin Dewey and Max Fisher Washington Post
The report, which compares kids in 29 Western countries, measures well-being across five metrics: material well-being, health and safety, behaviors and risks, housing and environment, as well as education. It ranks the United States in the bottom third on all five measures of well-being and particularly low on education and poverty. The

The Winner of Venezuela’s Election to Succeed Hugo Chávez Is Hugo Chávez

By Greg Grandin The Nation
There are many interesting things to be said about this election, one being that it really wasn’t a fight over ideology. Maduro, who had been directly named by Chávez as his preferred replacement, ran as the Chavista candidate. But in a way so did Capriles, who pledged to be a better administrator of the society Chávez left behind.

U of Michigan students arrested in protest for undocumented students

By Michigan Radio Newsroom Michigan Radio
Eight University of Michigan students were arrested Wednesday night after they blocked a busy intersection near campus in protest over the university's policy not to offer undocumented students from Michigan in-state tuition.

Reality Check: Closing Schools, Saving Money?

By Curtis Black Newstips
For some reason, all the billionaire reformers and all their politician friends prefer ordering cuts to fixing the state’s revenue system. Some argue, not without plausibility, that they welcome fiscal crisis as an excuse to push privatization.