National Geographic Channel has another great event series for you in American Genius, a show dedicated to the rivalries that pushed progress forward throughout significant eras in American history, including our own.
The show focuses on specific developments, in varying eras, and details the genius, and geniuses, that were responsible for some of the most important and life-changing advancements in history.
Take a look below at the full list of episodes and dates.
Behind Great Geniuses Lie Even Greater Rivalries.
National Geographic Channel Reveals The Competitive Forces Behind History’S Most Remarkable Races For Innovation In New Miniseries Event American Genius
Eight-Part Event American Genius Premieres Monday, June 1, 2015, at 9 Pm Et/Pt on National Geographic Channel
(Washington, D.C. – May 6, 2015) For many of America’s boldest, most daring and most creative inventors, the greatest challenge wasn’t beating the odds — it was beating the competition. Behind these iconic innovators are rivals with vision,...
The show focuses on specific developments, in varying eras, and details the genius, and geniuses, that were responsible for some of the most important and life-changing advancements in history.
Take a look below at the full list of episodes and dates.
Behind Great Geniuses Lie Even Greater Rivalries.
National Geographic Channel Reveals The Competitive Forces Behind History’S Most Remarkable Races For Innovation In New Miniseries Event American Genius
Eight-Part Event American Genius Premieres Monday, June 1, 2015, at 9 Pm Et/Pt on National Geographic Channel
(Washington, D.C. – May 6, 2015) For many of America’s boldest, most daring and most creative inventors, the greatest challenge wasn’t beating the odds — it was beating the competition. Behind these iconic innovators are rivals with vision,...
- 5/6/2015
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
Title: Surviving Progress First Run Features Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten Director: Mathieu Roy, Harold Crooks Screenwriter: Mathieu Roy, Harold Crooks from Ronald Wright’s “A Short History of Progress” Cast: Jane Goodall, Margaret Atwood, Stephen Hawking, Craig Venter, Robert Wright, Marina Silva, Michael Hudson, Ronald Wright Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 3/21/12 Opens: April 6, 2012 In teaching high school history, I regularly run into a kid in the class who says, “Let’s talk about current events.” I reply, “Ok, let’s look into civilization in Ancient Greece.” “Huh?” replies the youngster? Easy to explain. We human beings have been living in civilization for only 0.2% of our existence on [ Read More ]...
- 3/22/2012
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
Texan festival is known for making or breaking acts
A roster of new acts hoping to export their British brand of music to big-spending audiences across the Atlantic are heading to the Texas city of Austin this week to play their hearts out in bar-room gigs that could help them make it big in America.
The South by Southwest festival, acknowledged as the biggest international melting pot for new ideas in technology, film and music, is seen as a rite of passage for bands trying to crack the lucrative American market, luring dozens of emerging acts, many on the brink of emerging as household names at home.
Among those packing their six-strings and swagger will be the Vaccines, a four-man troupe of indie rockers from London; Chapel Club, a downbeat rock band touted by the NME; and Leeds alt-rockers Dinosaur Pile-Up, who have already notched up success touring with the Pixies.
A roster of new acts hoping to export their British brand of music to big-spending audiences across the Atlantic are heading to the Texas city of Austin this week to play their hearts out in bar-room gigs that could help them make it big in America.
The South by Southwest festival, acknowledged as the biggest international melting pot for new ideas in technology, film and music, is seen as a rite of passage for bands trying to crack the lucrative American market, luring dozens of emerging acts, many on the brink of emerging as household names at home.
Among those packing their six-strings and swagger will be the Vaccines, a four-man troupe of indie rockers from London; Chapel Club, a downbeat rock band touted by the NME; and Leeds alt-rockers Dinosaur Pile-Up, who have already notched up success touring with the Pixies.
- 3/14/2011
- by Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
Observer writers and experts chart the concepts, trends and buzz words that defined the past year and are likely to shape the next one
1 The new politics is, in fact, the old politics
Nick Clegg will regret many things about 2010. One will be his decision to produce a Lib Dem election poster warning that the Tories would raise Vat. A few weeks later Clegg, installed as deputy prime minister, was backing coalition plans to – yes – raise Vat.
Then there was the pre-election pledge to vote against any rise in tuition fees. Six months later Clegg was pushing a policy to triple them.
These shifts were damaging not just because they were old-fashioned U-turns but because they fatally undermined the party's raison d'etre – its commitment to deliver a new, honest politics. A vote for the Lib Dems, Clegg had said, would be "a vote that counts".
It was all part of...
1 The new politics is, in fact, the old politics
Nick Clegg will regret many things about 2010. One will be his decision to produce a Lib Dem election poster warning that the Tories would raise Vat. A few weeks later Clegg, installed as deputy prime minister, was backing coalition plans to – yes – raise Vat.
Then there was the pre-election pledge to vote against any rise in tuition fees. Six months later Clegg was pushing a policy to triple them.
These shifts were damaging not just because they were old-fashioned U-turns but because they fatally undermined the party's raison d'etre – its commitment to deliver a new, honest politics. A vote for the Lib Dems, Clegg had said, would be "a vote that counts".
It was all part of...
- 12/26/2010
- by Toby Helm, Caspar Llewellyn Smith, Robin McKie, Tim Adams, William Skidelsky, Rafael Behr, Anushka Asthana, Elena Moya, Jemima Kiss, Andrew Clark, Keith Stuart, Tom Lamont, Jill Treanor, Will Hutton
- The Guardian - Film News
In the last few years, with the advent of mp3 players and smart phones, the portability of media has led to a new medium in the realm of fiction: podcast fiction. Authors who want to share their work have serialized and even full cast dramatized their stories and released them for free to the masses. They do it for various reasons, but many -- if not most -- hope to one day become published authors. And in that growing community horror author Scott Sigler stands out as the gold standard to which most others aspire.
Scott has built a large and devoted audience podcasting over the last several years and managed to work that into a book deal with Crown, a division of Random House. His latest novel, Ancestor (review here), about a genetically engineered beast wreaking havoc on a secluded island is being released today, June 22nd.
There’s...
Scott has built a large and devoted audience podcasting over the last several years and managed to work that into a book deal with Crown, a division of Random House. His latest novel, Ancestor (review here), about a genetically engineered beast wreaking havoc on a secluded island is being released today, June 22nd.
There’s...
- 6/22/2010
- by Morgan Elektra
- DreadCentral.com
The sci-fi films that showed us the technology of the future
The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column,Saturday 19 June 2010
The article below flipped the order when it said Arnold Schwarzenegger first intoned "I'll be back" in The Running Man, before saying it in The Terminator. Running Man came out in 1987, after Terminator, released in 1984.
Minority Report was not the first film to predict accurately what technology would look like in years to come. We asked readers to suggest the other films that best predicted our future.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C Clarke collaborated to create the film that is still, more than 40 years on, regarded as the finest cinematic exposition of realistic hard science. And even when the astronauts were just sitting eating, they were looking at video playing on iPad-like devices on their desktops. Masterful. Pity we missed their...
The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column,Saturday 19 June 2010
The article below flipped the order when it said Arnold Schwarzenegger first intoned "I'll be back" in The Running Man, before saying it in The Terminator. Running Man came out in 1987, after Terminator, released in 1984.
Minority Report was not the first film to predict accurately what technology would look like in years to come. We asked readers to suggest the other films that best predicted our future.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C Clarke collaborated to create the film that is still, more than 40 years on, regarded as the finest cinematic exposition of realistic hard science. And even when the astronauts were just sitting eating, they were looking at video playing on iPad-like devices on their desktops. Masterful. Pity we missed their...
- 6/19/2010
- by Charles Arthur
- The Guardian - Film News
Ron finds more fault with the Splice trailers than the film, discovering an edgy 50s-style sci-fi flick with better monster effects...
I watch a lot of movies, and I watch a lot of movie trailers. Call me crazy ("You're crazy!") but it's a lot of fun to me to see how people, studios, or whoever decide to encapsulate the essence of their 90 minute movie into a couple of fleeting moments. There's nothing I dislike more than a misleading trailer. Your trailer can be bad, but so long as the movie itself is a piece of crap, I'm fine with that. If you stick a bad trailer with a good movie, or a boring trailer with a fun movie (ahem, Jennifer's Body, paging Jennifer's Body), I just get irritated.
Splice, in every trailer I've ever seen for it, is being sold like a classic science-gone-wrong monster movie, in which Dren (played...
I watch a lot of movies, and I watch a lot of movie trailers. Call me crazy ("You're crazy!") but it's a lot of fun to me to see how people, studios, or whoever decide to encapsulate the essence of their 90 minute movie into a couple of fleeting moments. There's nothing I dislike more than a misleading trailer. Your trailer can be bad, but so long as the movie itself is a piece of crap, I'm fine with that. If you stick a bad trailer with a good movie, or a boring trailer with a fun movie (ahem, Jennifer's Body, paging Jennifer's Body), I just get irritated.
Splice, in every trailer I've ever seen for it, is being sold like a classic science-gone-wrong monster movie, in which Dren (played...
- 6/7/2010
- Den of Geek
Splice
Starring Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, and Delphine Chanéac
Directed by Vincenzo Natali
Rated R
Hollywood is exploring classic works of literature at a higher rate than at any time in recent memory. It's mostly an economic decision - you don't have to pay for the rights to Sherlock Holmes because it's public domain - but there are artistic considerations, too.
Frankenstein is almost 200 years old and it's still getting remade on stage and screen. And it may be more relevant than ever: In May, Dr. Craig Venter and his team created the first cell controlled by a synthetic genome. In other words, the ability to create life with a computer.
"It's alive!"
Less than a month after Venter's results were published comes Splice, which could serve as a cautionary tale of the dangers of genetic engineering, the end of that road, of course, being human cloning. Splice doesn't go quite that far,...
Starring Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, and Delphine Chanéac
Directed by Vincenzo Natali
Rated R
Hollywood is exploring classic works of literature at a higher rate than at any time in recent memory. It's mostly an economic decision - you don't have to pay for the rights to Sherlock Holmes because it's public domain - but there are artistic considerations, too.
Frankenstein is almost 200 years old and it's still getting remade on stage and screen. And it may be more relevant than ever: In May, Dr. Craig Venter and his team created the first cell controlled by a synthetic genome. In other words, the ability to create life with a computer.
"It's alive!"
Less than a month after Venter's results were published comes Splice, which could serve as a cautionary tale of the dangers of genetic engineering, the end of that road, of course, being human cloning. Splice doesn't go quite that far,...
- 6/4/2010
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
Director Vincenzo Natali jokes that technology is advancing so rapidly that it’s taken scientists less time to map the human genome than it took him to write his script. He should know because he devoted years to developing “Splice” and often found it challenging to outpace the science that fuels his story.
So, how does “Splice” fit into the world we live in now? “I don’t even know what world that is,” he explains. “I don’t think anyone does. Things are changing in dramatic ways in all aspects of our civilization, culture and science, and that’s something ‘Splice’ explores: our relationship to technology and the doors it unlocks. It pushes us to places we’re unable, or afraid, to go.”
MoviesOnline sat down for a roundtable interview with Natali to talk about his new film. He told us how he was inspired by the Vacanti Mouse,...
So, how does “Splice” fit into the world we live in now? “I don’t even know what world that is,” he explains. “I don’t think anyone does. Things are changing in dramatic ways in all aspects of our civilization, culture and science, and that’s something ‘Splice’ explores: our relationship to technology and the doors it unlocks. It pushes us to places we’re unable, or afraid, to go.”
MoviesOnline sat down for a roundtable interview with Natali to talk about his new film. He told us how he was inspired by the Vacanti Mouse,...
- 6/4/2010
- MoviesOnline.ca
This column is always about me, me, me. Let's take a couple of questions from readers.First question:Scientist Craig Venter announced a couple of weeks ago that he and his fellow scientists had created an artificial life cell. Do you think news like that could have an impact on Splice, the movie in which scientists create artificial life?You'd think it would, wouldn't you? Although, of course, the two scenarios are wildly different in the details: Splice has its scientists basically going the Species route of mixing their improved genetics with the human genome, with typically "We probably shouldn't have done that" results, while the real-life scientists have merely been about to coax a single-celled organism whose genes had been partially human designed into dividing and forming a small colony. And while it should be noted that my "merely" notation here is like saying Orville and Wilbur Wright merely flew...
- 6/2/2010
- by John Scalzi
- AMC Filmcritic's John Scalzi on Scifi
This column is always about me, me, me. Let's take a couple of questions from readers.First question:Scientist Craig Venter announced a couple of weeks ago that he and his fellow scientists had created an artificial life cell. Do you think news like that could have an impact on Splice, the movie in which scientists create artificial life?You'd think it would, wouldn't you? Although, of course, the two scenarios are wildly different in the details: Splice has its scientists basically going the Species route of mixing their improved genetics with the human genome, with typically "We probably shouldn't have done that" results, while the real-life scientists have merely been about to coax a single-celled organism whose genes had been partially human designed into dividing and forming a small colony. And while it should be noted that my "merely" notation here is like saying Orville and Wilbur Wright merely flew...
Superstar genetic engineers Clive (Adrien Brody) and Elsa (Sarah Polley) specialize in splicing DNA from different animals to create incredible new hybrids. Now they want to use human DNA in a hybrid that could revolutionize science and medicine. But when the pharmaceutical company that funds their research forbids it, Clive and Elsa secretly take their boldest experimentation underground – risking their careers by pushing the boundaries of science to serve their own curiosity and ambition.
The result is Dren, an amazing, strangely beautiful creature of uncommon intelligence and an array of unexpected physical developments. At first, Dren exceeds their wildest dreams. But as she grows and learns at an accelerated rate, her existence threatens to become their worst nightmare.
MoviesOnline sat down with Sarah Polley at a round table interview to talk about her new film. She told us about the challenges of playing a character who has lost her moral compass,...
The result is Dren, an amazing, strangely beautiful creature of uncommon intelligence and an array of unexpected physical developments. At first, Dren exceeds their wildest dreams. But as she grows and learns at an accelerated rate, her existence threatens to become their worst nightmare.
MoviesOnline sat down with Sarah Polley at a round table interview to talk about her new film. She told us about the challenges of playing a character who has lost her moral compass,...
- 5/31/2010
- MoviesOnline.ca
Mosaïques Festival Of World Culture, London
World cinema festivals might be more common these days, but this one shows you the parts of the globe British festivals don't reach, ie: the French post-colonial landscape. There's quality cinema here from north and west Africa, south-east Asia and the Middle East, much of it produced with French support. Whisper With The Wind is set in Iraq, mind you, and deals with a clandestine radio messenger, while Brazil's The Famous And The Dead is a dreamy Bob Dylan-themed thriller. Closer to home there's London River, in which Brenda Blethyn and Malian actor Sotigui Kouyaté play parents brought together by the 7/7 bombings.
Ciné Lumière, SW7, Thu to 12 Jun, visit institut-francais.org.uk
Science On Film, London
Which would you rather watch, Craig Venter in a lab coat spending 10 years creating the world's first synthetic life form, or James Whale's crazed Dr Frankenstein screaming,...
World cinema festivals might be more common these days, but this one shows you the parts of the globe British festivals don't reach, ie: the French post-colonial landscape. There's quality cinema here from north and west Africa, south-east Asia and the Middle East, much of it produced with French support. Whisper With The Wind is set in Iraq, mind you, and deals with a clandestine radio messenger, while Brazil's The Famous And The Dead is a dreamy Bob Dylan-themed thriller. Closer to home there's London River, in which Brenda Blethyn and Malian actor Sotigui Kouyaté play parents brought together by the 7/7 bombings.
Ciné Lumière, SW7, Thu to 12 Jun, visit institut-francais.org.uk
Science On Film, London
Which would you rather watch, Craig Venter in a lab coat spending 10 years creating the world's first synthetic life form, or James Whale's crazed Dr Frankenstein screaming,...
- 5/28/2010
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
There's "life" after Lost for actor Michael Emerson, who will narrate a compelling documentary on the Science Channel. The Science Channel is allowing you to submit questions to the man who has turned the science world on its axis: Dr. Craig Venter. Last week Dr Venter announced that his team created the first living, self-replicating synthetic cell. After mapping on a computer the complete DNA code of a bacterium, the team led by Venter, inserted the synthesized DNA into a bacteria cell, which was then able to replicate and be controlled by the synthetic genome. Synthetic cells could be used to convert carbon dioxide into fuel or to create new vaccines for treating diseases, Venter told CNN May...
- 5/26/2010
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
In a tale that is pure Hollywood, Craig Venter and his team of scientists have cooked up artificial life. Now we need your help to produce the big-screen version before life completely eats art
You don't need to have seen many sci-fi/horror films to know how this story ends. Scientist creates artificial life? Oh, goodness: never meddle with the forces of nature! Have you not heard of hubris?
The story as it stands – Craig Venter and his team of 20 scientists create a synthetic bacterium at the Venter lab in Maryland, based on the bacterium that causes mastitis in goats – is just our starting point. There's no movie in people huddled over microscopes, trying to tie together ropes of DNA. But the casting of Venter is crucial. If this is a Brit movie, the role goes to either Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Lee or Ben Kingsley, but this one is an...
You don't need to have seen many sci-fi/horror films to know how this story ends. Scientist creates artificial life? Oh, goodness: never meddle with the forces of nature! Have you not heard of hubris?
The story as it stands – Craig Venter and his team of 20 scientists create a synthetic bacterium at the Venter lab in Maryland, based on the bacterium that causes mastitis in goats – is just our starting point. There's no movie in people huddled over microscopes, trying to tie together ropes of DNA. But the casting of Venter is crucial. If this is a Brit movie, the role goes to either Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Lee or Ben Kingsley, but this one is an...
- 5/21/2010
- by Michael Hann
- The Guardian - Film News
The science of tomorrow is here today. Scientists have synthetically recreated a cell. Are we literally hacking into the universe's operating system, and is this wise? World-renowned scientist Dr. J. Craig Venter announced that he and his team at the J. Craig Venter Institute (Jcvi) became the first in history to synthetically create a living, self-replicating cell. In 2001, Craig Venter made headlines for sequencing the human genome. In 2003, he started mapping the ocean's biodiversity. Now he's working to create the first synthetic lifeforms. The news holds groundbreaking potential for solutions to a host of global challenges, including generating new food sources, pharmaceuticals and vaccines; cleaning up pollution; creating new energy sources; producing clean water; and more.
- 5/20/2010
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Photographs by Phillip Toledano
When the human genome was first sequenced nearly a decade ago, the world lit up with talk about how new gene-specific drugs would help us cheat death. Well, the verdict is in: Keep eating those greens.
Photographs by Phillip Toledano
Ernest Hemingway's writing may have tended to the short and sharp, but the man himself was apparently fond of the cuddly and extraneous, at least when it came to kittens with too many toes. A sea-captain friend of Hemingway's, it seems, persuaded him to take in a polydactylic cat, and that cat became the progenitor of a colony of overly toed felines thriving today in and around the museum in Key West that was Hemingway's home. The patterns of inheritance among those cats have even helped shed a bit of light on certain defects in human DNA. And so it is that Papa retroactively became...
When the human genome was first sequenced nearly a decade ago, the world lit up with talk about how new gene-specific drugs would help us cheat death. Well, the verdict is in: Keep eating those greens.
Photographs by Phillip Toledano
Ernest Hemingway's writing may have tended to the short and sharp, but the man himself was apparently fond of the cuddly and extraneous, at least when it came to kittens with too many toes. A sea-captain friend of Hemingway's, it seems, persuaded him to take in a polydactylic cat, and that cat became the progenitor of a colony of overly toed felines thriving today in and around the museum in Key West that was Hemingway's home. The patterns of inheritance among those cats have even helped shed a bit of light on certain defects in human DNA. And so it is that Papa retroactively became...
- 11/2/2009
- by David H. Freedman
- Fast Company
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