Ethnicity: German, English, Irish, French, African and Cherokee Inside The Actors Studio – Johnny Depp http://youtu.be/XgvgO5f0nSw Trade Mark Highly defined cheek-bones Frequently plays freakishly eccentric outcasts whose oddities are misunderstood by society, and usually have a flamboyant appearance and mannerism. Examples: Edward Scissorhands (1990), Ed Wood (1994), Don Juan DeMarco (1994), Dead Man (1995), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), Before Night Falls (2000), the […]
Read MoreBorn Rich:The One Percent Documentary
This 80-minute documentary focuses on the growing “wealth gap” in America, as seen through the eyes of filmmaker Jamie Johnson, a 27-year-old heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune. Johnson, who cut his film teeth at NYU and made the Emmy®-nominated 2003 HBO documentary Born Rich, here sets his sights on exploring the political, […]
Read MoreHistory, Hidden or Forgotten?
Hitler’s Black Victims: The Historical Experiences of European Blacks, Africans and African Americans During the Nazi Era. About the Author Clarence Lusane is Assistant Professor at the School of International Service at American University in Washington, D.C. Drawing on interviews with the black survivors of Nazi concentration camps and archival research in North America, Europe, and […]
Read MoreElon Musk’s commercial space travel corporation
Elon Musk Profiled: Bloomberg Risk Takers ELON MUSK comes up with design ideas in the shower. That may be his only free time. In 2010, Tesla successfully IPO’d, and SpaceX became the first commercial company to recover a spacecraft from the Earth’s orbit. As a designer, Musk says, he tries “to imagine, from a physics standpoint, […]
Read More11 Women Who Are Changing the Tech World
Jobs and economic escalation will follow as more women break through “glass walls” to start high-growth ventures. Where are all the women at in the startup world? If you read most articles about tech startup founders, you’re probably under the impression that only men create mobile apps and launch successful tech companies. Women only make […]
Read MoreThe Lost Libraries of Timbuktu
legendary Timbuktu and its long hidden legacy of hundreds of thousands of ancient manuscripts. With its university founded around the same time as Oxford.
Read MoreBrave New World
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3536993421073315692 In a future society based on pleasure without moral worries, love is prohibited but casual sex, now called ‘engaging’, is strongly encouraged. Everyone is kept happy with a legal drug, soma. People are hatched and cloned on conveyor belts to meet the requirements of five different social classes, from ruling Alphas to robot-like […]
Read MoreHunting Multicultural Talents to manage a big revolution in business
Creative multicultural Talents will be the people needed to manage a big revolution in business, facing demanding consumers on a global market, said Kyung H. Yoon, Founder & CEO of Talent Age Associates. She was among the speakers at i7 Summit, A Global Conference on Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Society held in Chantilly, Paris.
Read MoreGeneticist and mother of a mixed race child
Aarathi Prasad, a geneticist and mother of a mixed race child, sets out to challenge the ideas of racial purity and examines provocative claims that there are in fact biological advantages to being mixed race. Is It Better To Be Mixed Race? on Vimeo < View Documentary here It’s a controversial subject that has […]
Read MoreSKIN – National Geographic
Skin Synopsis: Obsessed with its beauty, humbled by it flaws, humans are covered by a unique ultra-thin shield that instantly defines and shapes the body living inside it. Now, National Geographic invites you on an in-depth adventure revealing not just the science but the vital cultural meanings we attach to this largest of all human […]
Read MoreAfrican Tribal Dance
From the movie “Coming to America”. Choreography by Paula Abdul Her father (Harry Abdul) is of Sephardic Jewish background from Syria. Her mother is also Jewish and was born in Canada. Her parents have lived in Syria, Brazil, and Canada – and this varied background has contributed to incredibly different stories in the press […]
Read MoreSofia Vergara is currently the Highest earning actress on T.V.
Forbes staffers Jeff Bercovici and Meghan Casserly discuss the meteoric rise of Sofia Vergara, television’s top-paid actress, and the emergence of the hugely profitable Hispanic media market in the US.
Read MoreTurns $5,000 Into A Billion
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The youngest self-made woman on the FORBES Billionaires list on how she earned her riches.
Read MoreThe Woolworth Mansion
http://youtu.be/ZeVAyJyW4aM Presented by Christie’s International Real Estate—Completed in 1916, the imposing limestone facade of this Neo-French Renaissance mansion features a central foyer opening to a grand entry hall providing access to the main residence. With a massive fireplace the enormous entry includes three closets and an elegant powder room access to a kitchen in the […]
Read MoreSlowing Aging
The human life span may soon be doubled. Some scientists are honing in on a genetic switch to turn off ageing. Others have discovered a hormone which is already producing startling results in the over fifties.
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