Whether you think genetically modified food is a panacea or a Pandora's box, one thing is clear: Biotech companies and university laboratories are cooking up new ideas for GM foods all the time. The U ...

"Surprising Beginnings" sets the stage for the series and examines the radical increase in violence against all opponents of the Nazi state during this 18-month period. In particular, the program ...

How the drama scenes in Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State were created. In most factual programs, dramatic reconstructions serve as backcloth—or 'wallpaper' in filmmaker's jargon—to illustrate ...

In a sense this is a fragile work. In its verbal silence, rigorous formalism and focus on the present, it ultimately must engage the memory of the viewer to endow it with meaning. – Beryl Korot Dachau ...

In this lesson, students build two circuits and explore how transistors function. When Bell Labs introduced the transistor in June of 1948, a spokesman proudly announced "This cylindrical object . . .

In this lesson, students search for transistor-based devices at school. They use the results of their search to explain the significance of the transistor in their lives. A transistor is a tiny device ...

Bell Laboratories, one of the world’s largest industrial laboratories and now part of Lucent Technologies, was originally the research and development arm of the giant telephone company American ...

Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler (right) tours the Monowitz-Buna building site. In October 1941 Auschwitz construction chief Karl Bischoff and SS architect Fritz Ertl were developing plans for a camp ...

A program such as Martin Luther involves months of painstaking research, preparation and writing. An experienced and skilled crew including a director, producers, director of photography, audio ...

The Nazis did not start World War II with a plan to eliminate the Jews. This solution evolved—especially from 1939 to 1941—as they tried different techniques to accomplish their goals. Particularly in ...

To the shipboard radio operators, it was a miracle -- a Christmas miracle. Instead of hearing the usual dots and dashes of Morse Code, these listeners heard an eerie Silent Night, played by a violin.

WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON: During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression ...