Retro Report

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT IN SCREEN: In the 1950s the U.S. Army gave LSD to a cat. ARCHIVAL: NARRATOR: The Chemical Corps is testing psycho-chemical agents that temporarily change human behavior patterns. TEXT ON SCREEN: Before exposure to LSDAfter exposure to LSD ARCHIVAL: NARRATOR: The cat’s personality completely […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN:His father set off a moral panic.  LUKE GYGAX:  My upbringing was different, especially for Wisconsin.  You know, I didn’t really care when deer hunting season was. TEXT ON SCREEN:Luke Gygax’s father created the fantasy role playing game Dungeons & Dragons.Early on, he […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: DUNGEONS & DRAGONS OPENED UP NEW WORLDS FOR JUNOT DIAZ AND HIS FRIENDS. JUNOT DÍAZ: Nothing could have prepared us for what a rabbit hole that could become. We used to play a couple times a week, man, when we were like […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: NEW YORK CITY, 1963.  TWO WOMEN ARE FALLING IN LOVE.  MARY ANN ZIELONKO: I went to a gay bar in lower Manhattan at the Swing Rendezvous.  And she approached me and she said, don’t I know you from somewhere? I said no.  […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: A MACHINE HAS TRAINED ITSELF TO BEAT HUMANS AT THE WORLD’S HARDEST GAME. NARRATION: A Google machine called AlphaGo has begun beating human champions at the ancient Chinese game of “Go.” The basics are simple: Black versus white. Surrounded stones get captured. […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: HOW DO FOOD COMPANIES MAKE YOU CRAVE THEIR PRODUCTS? JUST ASK THIS MAN. HOWARD MOSKOWITZ:  I’m Howard Moskowitz, and I’m delighted to be here.  I am a food scientist and a market researcher. TEXT ON SCREEN: HOWARD MOSKOWITZ HAS HELPED CREATE FOODS […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: THERE ARE UP TO 100 TRILLION MICROBES LIVING IN THE HUMAN BODY. ARE THEY MAKING US FAT? STANFORD PROFESSOR JUSTIN SONNENBURG STUDIES THE MICROBIOME JUSTIN SONNENBURG (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, STANFORD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE): We’ve had a new appreciation of a facet of our […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: DOES EXERCISE MAKE YOU THINNER? HERMAN PONTZER: The traditional view is that the more active you are day to day, the more calories you’re going to spend.  TEXT ON SCREEN: ANTHROPOLOGIST HERMAN PONTZER STUMBLED ON A DIFFERENT ANSWER WHEN HE WENT TO […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: HE’S BEEN CALLED THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN FOOTBALL. CHRIS BORLAND, EX-LINEBACKER, SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS HE’S DANGEROUS NOT BECAUSE OF WHAT HE’S DOING ON THE FIELD. BUT WHAT HE’S SAYING OFF IT. CHRIS BORLAND: I am walking away from a lot of […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. ARCHIVAL (C-SPAN, 1985):SENATOR JOHN DANFORTH: The violence, the sex, the general sleaziness…. TEXT ON SCREEN: Every so often, Congress holds a hearing on the perils of popular culture… ARCHIVAL (C-SPAN, 1985):SENATOR JOHN DANFORTH: Rock music… ARCHIVAL (C-SPAN, 1993):SENATOR ERNEST HOLLINGS: Violence on television. ARCHIVAL (C-SPAN, […]