There is so much interest in food these days yet there is almost no interest in the hands that pick that food. In the US, farm labor has always been one of the most difficult and poorly paid jobs and has relied on some of the nation's most vulnerable people. While the legal restrictions which kept people bound to farms, like slavery, have been abolished, exploitation still exists, ranging from wage theft to modern-day slavery. These days, this exploitation is perpetuated by the corporations at the top of the food chain: supermarkets. Their buying power has kept wages pitifully low and has created a scenario where desperately poor people are willing to put up with anything to keep their jobs.
A group of brave individuals risk their lives to save the last of the world's mountain gorillas; in the midst of renewed civil war and a scramble for Congo's natural resources.
Follows the resilient underdogs of the UCLA Quidditch team as they help transform Harry Potter's fictional sport into a real-life phenomenon and make their way to the Fifth Annual Quidditch World Cup in New York City. IMDb
A visually stunning chronicle of what it is like to live in Antarctica for a full year, including winters isolated from the rest of the world, and enduring months of darkness in the coldest place on Earth.
Dan Cohen, founder of the nonprofit organization Music & Memory, fights against a broken healthcare system to demonstrate music's ability to combat memory loss and restore a deep sense of self to those suffering from it. IMDb
Antibiotic drugs save lives. But we simply use them too much — and often for non-lifesaving purposes, like treating the flu and even raising cheaper chickens. The result, says researcher Ramanan Laxminarayan, is that the drugs will stop working for everyone, as the bacteria they target grow more and more resistant. He calls on all of us (patients and doctors alike) to think of antibiotics — and their ongoing effectiveness — as a finite resource, and to think twice before we tap into it. It’s a sobering look at how global medical trends can strike home. TED
Selon cette captivante enquête scientifique, il semblerait que notre cerveau ne soit pas le seul maître à bord. Il y a quelques années, les scientifiques ont découvert en nous l’existence d’un deuxième cerveau. Notre ventre contient en effet deux cents millions de neurones qui veillent à notre digestion et échangent des informations avec notre "tête". Les chercheurs commencent à peine à décrypter cette conversation secrète. Ils se sont aperçus par exemple que notre cerveau entérique, celui du ventre, produisait 95 % de la sérotonine, un neurotransmetteur qui participe à la gestion de nos émotions. On savait que ce que l'on ressentait pouvait agir sur notre système digestif. On découvre que l'inverse est vrai aussi : notre deuxième cerveau joue avec nos émotions. ARTE Bande annonce
A group of explorers make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage. IMDb