World-famous primatologist and conservationist, Dr. Jane Goodall paid a visit to BillMoyers this weekend. In this engaging discussion, they talk about her classic work with African chimpanzees and what she has been able to learn about humanity from her work with our closest evolutionary cousins. Despite the increasing concern and helplessness many feel at the worrisome prospects of...
A fascinating and wide-ranging discussion with Jane Goodall on what chimps tell us about human beings and what we must do to save these animals from extinction.
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... Senate. LONELINESS CAN BE BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH and it might be contagious . HOW'S YOUR INNER CHIMP? BillMoyers talks with primate researcher Jane Goodall here . OLD EUROPE . Here's a look at a lost civilization that thrived in the Balkans around 5,000 years ago. ACTION ITEM . If you are in the Charleston area Thursday and want to publicly oppose military escalation in Afghanistan,...
... of long faces at MSNBC. Olberman taking refuge in Cheney-bashing; Matthews grumpy at having his Bill-Moyers-vintage-Vietnam-LBJ analogies taken away; Rachel Maddow trying to take chirpy consolation in Obama’s pragmatism; a progressive circular firing squad. A perverse but still real measure of success. -- Thomas Donnelly is resident fellow in foreign- and defense-policy studies...
By Steven T. Jones Photo by Bill Hackwell from our award-winning story "Resistance is futile -- or is it?" As President Obama announces an escalation of the war in Afghanistan this evening, anti-war activists are planning to take to the...
Bob Herbert Politicians are seldom honest when they talk publicly about warfare. Lyndon Johnson knew in the spring of 1965, as he made plans for the first big expansion of U.S. forces in Vietnam, that there was no upside to the war. A recent BillMoyers program on PBS played audio tapes of Johnson on which he could be heard telling Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, “Not a damn...
BillMoyers draws Jane Goodall out to the very depths of her compassionate soul. BILLMOYERS: You even wrote once that it was your study of chimpanzees that crystallized your own belief in the ultimate destiny toward which humans are still evolving. What is that? What is that ultimate destiny? And how did the chimps contribute to your understanding? JANE GOODALL: Because,...
... black holes , Darwin, wars, you name it. I also used Mininova to find PBS shows such as Frontline, BillMoyers and Nova. For example, last night I watched an episode of Frontline about credit and debit cards that would be hugely more powerful if everyone who had a credit or debit card would watch. It opened my eyes. An hour totally well spent. I don't know how the BBC and PBS feel...
... black holes , Darwin, wars, you name it. I also used Mininova to find PBS shows such as Frontline, BillMoyers and Nova. For example, last night I watched an episode of Frontline about credit and debit cards that would be hugely more powerful if everyone who had a credit or debit card would watch. It opened my eyes. An hour totally well spent. I don't know how the BBC and PBS feel...
Keith Olbermann named both Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck among his "Worst Persons in the World" Tuesday night on "Countdown." O'Reilly was runner-up, earning the "Worser Person" badge for claiming thathis producers' ambush interviews with BillMoyers forced the PBS broadcaster to retire from his weekly program. "In the ambush interview from O'Reilly's...
Recognition of human rights expert Richard Goldston's investigation is essential to the peace process in Israel and Palestine -- and the Congress is trying to demonize it. By BillMoyers, BillMoyers Journal. Posted November 20, 2009 Courtesy Of Alter Net Editor's Note: The following is a transcript of BillMoyers' must-read interview with Richard Goldstone...