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Al Reinert, For All Mankind
The fortieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission offers an opportunity for reconsideration of the Apollo program; even Buzz Aldrin has gotten into the act, publishing Magnificent Desolation, his second memoir. Criterion has contributed to the effort by releasing on DVD and Blu-Ray Al Reinert’s magnificent 1989 documentary For All Mankind. To make the film, Reinert, a journalist with no prior filmmaking experience, trolled through millions of feet of official Apollo 16-mm footage, then combined his selections with audio recordings extracted from hundreds of hours of interviews with astronauts.
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Time-Lapse Videos of Massive Change on Earth
From Julia: Wired‘s science blog has published a series of videos, created by stringing together satellite images from NASA’s Earth Observatory webpage, that dramatically depict massive changes to the Earth’s landscape. In a few seconds one can see, for example, how Dubai has grown, the Amazon in the Brazilian state of Rondônia has been cleared, [...]
