Some stories just leave me flabbergasted that human beings can be so horrible, in ways that are possible only because we are so civilised. I’ve run a couple of stories about the attempts to integrate chimpanzees into human families to turn them into people, but this experiment really takes the biscuit.
In 1973 Columbia University [...]

One of 30 deserters to the Mahdi army kisses a Koran. An obvious photo op, compared to the shortage of images from Basra
You can’t say that Basra is Tet 2, because the attack on US troops in Saigon and Hue was completely unexpected, and Maliki’s army has gone to the gates of Basra in scores [...]

I’ve been working with Nick Hansen on a project called Breaking News, doing a bit of script editing and some writing. He has posted the synopsis on the Documentary Foundation website. All he needs now is a truckload of money to finish it.
I’ve been following Errol Morris’s explorations of historical [...]

“Man with Cuboid – M.C. Escher, 1958
“How many Quantum physicists does it take to change a lightbulb?
Depends on the room size — you need to fill the room first with blind-folded scientists. Then, upon a signal, they all remove the blindfolds and look toward the general area of the ‘old’ bulb. Then, when the [...]

I loved the Rupert Davies Maigret series when I was a kid. Starting in 1960, the BBC made four series and 51 episodes, with theme music by Ron Grainer which can still take me back to my favourite possie, lying in front of the Stereogram, the Westminster carpet scratchy on my short-trousered knees, sucking [...]

Dismayed about the current collapse of the US economy? Worried it will spread here? Bemused by the apparent lack of front page interest in the nightmare?
Eric Janszen has solid capitalist credentials – he is described as “the founder and president of iTulip, Inc. He formerly served as managing director of the venture firm Osborn Capital, [...]

So there you are, living through a phase in your exuberant youth which you will one day find embarrassing. As your family and maybe your high school sweetheart does already. But you live in the Ukraine, and you decide to play with some very unpleasant people and somehow you get dead.
This is a [...]

A story from Aljazeera English about the The Hmong – …

Watch it here.
(bug-fixed – this post by sam to check if image-upload works)

I’ve had one of those days where I am very glad I can see the humour of the human condition. We live a brisk walk from the pits in Albert Park, so the Australian Grand Prix has been going on all around us, to the manic sound of fast cars and the beat of distant [...]

She has a lovely face. She is 22, and comes from Colombia. It is not surprising that the photographer, Jason P Howe, is falling in love with her. I don’t know the sequence of events for sure, but the visual evidence suggests he has caught the tenderness between them, just as they are lost [...]