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Tetris is probably one of the most famous computer-games that have ever been developed. Alexei Pajitnov createt this simple, yet addictive game in 1984 as a student at the famous Soviet Union’s Academy of Science. It initially worked only on the Soviet Elektronika 60 Computer and got very popular among staff members and students at [...]

Kiva lets you lend to a specific entrepreneur in the developing world – empowering them to lift themselves out of poverty. You can loan as little as USD 25 and get paid the money back on succeed of the entrepreneurs business. I loaned some money myself to Eloy, a guy from Bolivia who does work [...]

Sicko is a documentary film by Michael Moore. The film investigates the American health care system in 2007, focusing on its health insurance and pharmaceutical industry. The film compares the for-profit, non-universal U.S. system with the non-profit universal health care systems of Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Cuba. According to the movie Sicko, almost [...]

The documentary film “Big Bucks, Big Pharma” pulls back the curtain on the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry to expose the insidious ways that illness is used, manipulated, and in some instances created, for capital gain. Focusing on the industry’s marketing practices, media scholars and health professionals help viewers understand the ways in which Direct-To-Consumer pharmaceutical [...]

This documentary shows how Google works behind the scenes and describes the ultimate goals of Google. Primarily it is to collect ALL information available worldwide. At the moment this is mostly about websites, but e.g. with Google Books they are allready expanding to printed media – and with Google Video (and Youtube) they are also [...]

What is money and where does it come from? People have been using objects of value for trade since thousands of years, but our current money system works different than it used to be half a century ago. Now banks are more powerful than governments and are able to create more money than there actually [...]

In our society we take it for granted that children do not have to work or beg on streets, but according do this documentary there are still over 80 million kids in slavery worldwide. But how can it be, that child slavery is still existing? This documentary film shows how these young slaves live and [...]