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9 years ago+4 4 0 x 1"Code Kids": Teaching coding in Canadian schools
This 2014 documentary follows the journey towards seeing kids being taught coding in schools once again in Canada's Maritime provinces, examining the supporters and volunteers behind this grassroots movement, as well as the lives of individual k ...
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9 years ago+7 7 0Life Inside a Secret Chinese Bitcoin Mine
In October 2014 Motherboard gained access to a massive, secretive Bitcoin mine housed within a repurposed factory in the Liaoning Province in rural northeast China. The mine visited is just one of six sites owned by a secretive group of four people, ...
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9 years ago+16 16 0 x 1‘Florida Man’: New documentary explores why Florida is so goddamned weird
Jon Stewart has called Florida “America’s Wang,” and it does seem like the state’s strong peninsular properties somehow attract people who are on the end of their rope. In Florida Man, Sean Dunne’s endlessly quotable and surprisingly poignant docum ...
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9 years ago+27 27 0 x 1Deaths as Taiwan plane hits river
A plane carrying mostly Chinese tourists has crashed into a river in Taiwan, killing at least 16 people. The plane, carrying 58 people, has broken up and the fuselage is lying half-submerged in the Keelung River. Rescue efforts are ongoing.
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9 years ago+2 2 0How robots are helping children with autism
Eleanor Tucker: Researchers believe robots hold the key to early diagnosis, as well as teaching social skills. What can they do that humans can’t?
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9 years ago+4 4 0Some old footage of Singapore in the 1970s
Just fresh out of separation from Malaysia in 1965, this rare footage offers a glimpse of more than four decades back, when Singapore was steadily growing and prospering. Also reveals the old landscape of that era, a far cry from what the country is ...