Between 1300 and 1600 the Western world was transformed. An extraordinary wave of artistic and cultural innovation shattered medieval society and brought European culture reluctantly into the modern ...

The following press kit contains one-paragraph and one-page descriptions of Strange Days episodes 5 and 6 entitled Dangerous Catch and Dirty Secrets respectively. Also included is a series fact sheet ...

The Strange Days on Planet Earth project is proud to offer you an activity guide that helps you delve deeper into the topics covered in the documentary series. Activities are especially appropriate ...

Akio Morita helped take a small radio repair shop in a bombed-out Tokyo building and turn it into the powerhouse electronics company, the Sony Corporation. Along with co-founder Masaru Ibuka, Morita ...

Charles Herbert Best was born in Maine, the son of a physician. He joined the Canadian artillery during World War I, and thus qualified for Canadian citizenship. Best was still a medical student at ...

brings two decades of producing compelling science materials for the public to this project. She is also an Executive Producer of the documentary Transistorized! Over the past three years she produced ...

Jack Kilby began his career as a rather undistinguished scientist. He couldn't get into MIT, and he got consistently average grades as an undergraduate at the University of Illinois. But grades don't ...

Where does shrimp, America's most popular seafood, come from? Two thirds of the shrimp consumed worldwide are caught in the ocean and the rest are farm-raised, almost entirely in developing countries.

An exploration of the evolution of Auschwitz and its three camps. A detailed look at archival maps, blueprints and photos of Auschwitz. A guide to Nazi concentration camps and ghettos. Archival maps, ...

BEN WATTENBERG: Okay, cue the babies -- smile, girls. Today we take it for granted that kids like these will live to see their first birthday. But back in 1900, more than one of every six American ...

The first transistor was about half an inch high. That's mammoth by today's standards, when 7 million transistors can fit on a single computer chip. It was nevertheless an amazing piece of technology.

BEN WATTENBERG: Thank you, Morris. Why don't they let me drive once in a while? Well, life was getting better for babies, and for moms, and for most everyone else. Henry Ford advertised his new Model ...