Indigo Arts Alliance is an organization focused on supporting contemporary Black and Brown artists and opening doors to artists of color worldwide. It's doing all of this from its home in an unlikely place: Maine. Jeffrey Brown reports...

In an astonishing talk and tech demo, neurotechnologist Conor Russomanno shares his work building brain-computer interfaces that could enable us to control the external world with our minds. He discusses the quickly advancing...

How have strains in U.S.-Russia relations affected Russian-Americans and

recent immigrants? Special correspondent Ryan Chilcote reports from
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Brighton BEach neighborhood of Brooklyn, the first stop for many
of the 3...

Special correspondent Dave Iverson looks a unique program that uses dance as therapy for people with Parkinson's disease.

Police were called to a Brooklyn funeral home Wednesday after it resorted to storing dozens of bodies on ice in rented trucks.

Mainstream American films don’t often tackle race and racism head-on, and when they do, they often end up trying to find easy answers. Which makes films like Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing all the more powerful. It’s an intimate portrait...

We have personal computing -- why not personal biotech? That's the question biologist Ellen Jorgensen and her colleagues asked themselves before opening Genspace, a nonprofit DIY bio lab in Brooklyn devoted to citizen science, where...

For a crime he committed in his early twenties, the courts sentenced Marlon Peterson to 10 years in prison -- and, as he says, a lifetime of irrelevance. While behind bars, Peterson found redemption through a penpal mentorship program...

At the 2008 EG Conference, artist Miru Kim talks about her work. Kim explores industrial ruins underneath New York and then photographs herself in them, nude -- to bring these massive, dangerous, hidden spaces into sharp focus.

In 1972, Shirley Chisholm ran for president of the United States of America as a Democrat. She didn't win, but this was not the beginning or the end of her career in politics. She held a congressional seat in the New York delegation for...

What does a ginkgo tree have in common with a dinosaur?

In the early 1900s, archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans uncovered nearly 3,000 tablets inscribed with strange symbols. He thought the script, dubbed Linear B, represented the Minoan language, while others came up with their own theories. Was...

"Rock out...live your life....live your art!" This was Brooklyn, New York native Shanelle Gabriel's response to her diagnosis of Lupus, an autoimmune disease where your body's immune system, that usually...

Now that the NBA's Nets have ended a long drought and brought major league sports back to Brooklyn, will other sports leagues follow? A new sport is making a push to fill the breach in this New York City borough. and...

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Howcast - Learn how to do a Brooklyn accent from voice and speech coach Andrea Caban in this Howcast video.

Monique Avin from Brooklyn, NY uses rowing to help her succeed academically, physically and mentally. Never having stepped foot on a boat, Monique didn't know what rowing was before her sophomore year of high school.



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A puppy's first haircut is a priceless moment for pet owners--especially when they are this cute as this dog! Watch Ella transform from an overgrow ball of fur to the most adorable puppy you have ever seen!



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Have you ever wanted to become an expert at something but thought you didn't have the time to learn? Hey, us too! Well, cheer up, those days are over!



Ever get intimidated when it comes time to order wine at...

Al DiGuido knows a thing or two about giving! Al is the owner of Saugatuck Sweets; an ice cream and sweet shop with stores in Westport and Fairfield, CT. When he opened them, he knew nothing about ice cream or...