Missing Portside Posts - Saturday and Sunday

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Portside's posts did not go out as scheduled Saturday and Sunday. Our service provider, May First, upgraded all of their servers Saturday, to prevent coordinated hacking and DOS - Denial of Service attacks. Unfortunately there were conflicts between the new server software and the software that Portside uses to send posts. We have identified the problem, and are now working to correct it. Below is an Index of the posts that were posted to our website over the weekend.

Friday Nite Videos -- March 4, 2016

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The Man Who Knew Infinity. Donald Trump's Fascist Week. Bernie Sanders' Democratic Socialism. Are We Alone in the Universe? John Oliver | Donald Trump.

The Man Who Knew Infinity

The true story of a poor, largely self-educated Indian genius who crashed the elite world of mathematics. Stars Dev Patel as Srinivasa Ramanujan.

What Sparked the Cambrian Explosion?

Douglas Fox Nature
An evolutionary burst 540 million years ago filled the seas with an astonishing diversity of animals. The trigger behind that revolution is finally coming into focus.

Friday Nite Videos -- February 26, 2016

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Get Up Stand Up | Song Around The World. The Big Lebowski Silences Donald Trump. Gravitational Waves Hit the Late Show. Trump Ad by the Poorly Educated. Boots Riley Performs "Underdogs."

Gravitational Waves Hit the Late Show

What are gravitational waves, and why does it matter that we've seen them? Brian Greene stops by to demonstrate an exciting new scientific discovery.

Friday Nite Videos -- February 19, 2016

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A Face In The Crowd - Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal. Samantha Bee: Oh God, Don't Make Me Agree With Donald Trump. John Oliver: Voting. Buddy Guy - First Time I Met The Blues. Network Earth.

Feeling Sleepy? You Might Be at Risk of Falsely Confessing

S. Berkowitz, E. Loftus, K., S. Frenda The Conversation
Researchers have been hard at work studying how it is that innocent people sometimes go to prison for crimes they did not commit. A recent report documented that in 2015 there were a record number of exonerations in the United States, as many as one in four involving false confessions. Here are three pathways to a false confession.

Network Earth

Our planet is made up of millions of networks from microscopic ecosystems to global migration. Here's how we may better understand when those networks are in danger of collapse.

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