Retro Report

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: IN 1958, NUCLEAR PHYSICIST FREEMAN DYSON WAS TASKED WITH A MONUMENTAL ENGINEERING CHALLENGE TO MAKE INTERPLANETARY SPACE TRAVEL A REALITY… USING THE POWER OF THE NUCLEAR BOMB FREEMAN DYSON: I was working for the Orion Project. We were using bombs to propel […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: HOW DO YOU KEEP THE OLDEST SUBWAY IN THE NATION RUNNING? THE ANSWER SPANS A CENTURY OF TECHNOLOGY.  JOE MCNALL: We’re repairing and maintaining the old with the new.  The equipment ranges anywhere from the early, early 1900s, to up-to-date, present time.  […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: IN A WIRELESS WORLD, ONE CORD STILL BINDS US. ARCHIVAL (CELLULAR, 2004):MAN: My battery is about to die. Do you have a charger? TEXT ON SCREEN: SOME TECH COMPANIES ARE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO REPLACE THE POWER CORD WITH WIRELESS […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: TIANNA GAINES-TURNER KNOWS WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE SHAMED FOR BEING POOR.  TIANNA GAINES-TURNER: People like to think of people in poverty as they don’t want to do nothing but just buy soda pop and sit around and have kids, or people […]

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 […]