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Scientists have come up with a way to make whole brains transparent, so they can be labelled with molecular markers and imaged using a light microscope.

Lewis Black learns that the moocher poor should pay their fair share -- just so long as it doesn't involve taxes on cigarettes, soda or guns. 

The focus of this award-winning documentary film is the stories of the poor (and near-poor) about how they manage their lives and families. More information here.

Actress Glenda Jackson has been a member of British parliament for more than two decades. Here is her clarion discussion of the motion to pay tribute to the Baroness Thatcher.

Sachal Studio (Pakistan) pays remarkable tribute to Dave Brubeck with this cover of the classic Take Five.

NASA’s Curiosity finds that the Red Planet doesn’t have the same atmosphere it used to. 

Brave and crazy Kentucky Senator Rand Paul plunges headfirst into a prestigious university symposium filled with high achieving students.

Business in California’s Silicon Valley is better than it’s been in a decade, with companies like Facebook, Google and Apple minting hundreds of new tech millionaires. But not far away, the homeless are building tent cities along a creek in the city of San Jose.

Shola Lynch's documentary delving into Angela Davis' story, including her life a fugitive, subsequent trial and hard-won freedom. Free Angela and All Political Prisoners recently opened in select theaters nationwide. 

An animal rights investigator tells Democracy Now! how he has spent over a decade secretly filming animal abuse and why that work is now imperiled by a wave of laws sweeping the country.