At this point in the evolution of technology, have you ever stopped to ask, “What’s that in your body?” With the advent of a pill or device that’s claimed to fix just about anything, it makes sense to question whether these things are really good for us. On this episode of The Axiom Amnesia Theory, [...]

Summary “It’s impossible not to remember the bombshell Forum press conference that autumn Thursday, and, like the JFK assassination or Challenger explosion, where we were when we heard it. “The Announcement” shows what happened behind the scenes: how Johnson learned of his illness, the anxiety over telling family and teammates and the fallout that occurred [...]

The Obama campaign recently introduced a web tool, Julia, which capitalizes on the so-called war on women currently raging in the United States. Users are introduced to Julia at age three, and are allowed to cycle through images and text at various ages in her development and adulthood. The goal is to allow people to [...]

Summary “I am dying. … There is no sense in trying to deny that fact,” 59-year-old Craig Ewert says of his rapid deterioration just months after being diagnosed with ALS, a motor neuron disorder often referred to as Lou Gehrig’s disease. “I’m not tired of living,” explains Ewert, a retired computer science professor. “I’m tired [...]

Inevitably, when news of any sort of outbreak or potential contamination of the food supply occurs, the first thing the government tries to do is maintain calm among the masses–even if they have to lie to do it. When we first learned that a U.S. cow had tested positive for mad cow disease, the government [...]

Summary Marijuana: A Second Class Addiction (MASCA) sets out to investigate the popular misconception that marijuana is a non-addictive, non habit forming substance. Despite the fact that it is illegal, the ever-growing debate over whether marijuana should be legalized always tends to graze over one of the very fundamental questions of such a proposal – [...]

Summary The Story of Cosmetics, released on July 21st, 2010, examines the pervasive use of toxic chemicals in our everyday personal care products, from lipstick to baby shampoo. Produced with Free Range Studios and hosted by Annie Leonard, the seven-minute film by The Story of Stuff Project reveals the implications for consumer and worker health [...]

Summary Sicko is a 2007 documentary film by American filmmaker Michael Moore. The film investigates health care in the United States, focusing on its health insurance and the pharmaceutical industry. The movie 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. Sicko was [...]