Political Violence and Human Rights in Brazil
Marielle Franco and I worked together on a Sesame Street community engagement project in Rio de Janeiro in 2015-2016. A
A reasonable plot for a superhero in 2018
1. Melanja finds herself a(nother?) lover, who convinces her to drop the superhero and go live a romantic life in
Blockchains, or why Bitcoin is not a Tulip
Skeptically, but with some audacity, I took five thousand dollars out of my savings account and bought a fraction of
Soy Cuba
A 3m22s cut-less shot by the Soviet director Mijaíl Kalatozov, from the movie Soy Cuba (1964). A brilliant piece of cinematography,
The Dumb and the Numb
A story about how an insurance company paid a Painkiller. Everybody has a doctor, and everyone needs health insurance in
Born Into This
Charles Bukowski. Always contemporary. Beautiful poem over a beautiful video.
Does one have the right to vote?
(José Eisenberg) Half America does not vote because it chooses not to, and half complaints that half of the other half, the one that voted, elected a president they consider unfit for office. Too many halves, plenty of quarters, just not enough voters.
