Writer Will Millard visits the treehouse-dwelling Korowai tribe in Papua, Indonesia
A language that can be spoken, hummed, or whistled? A language with no unique words for colour or numbers? Linguistics professor Daniel Everett claims that the unique language of the Piraha people of the Amazon is exactly that. More than 30 years ago, he travelled as a missionary into the Amazon rainforest to teach the tribe, but they ended up teaching him. Their way of life and unique form of communication have profoundly changed Everett, and inspired a theory that could undermine the most powerful theory (or theorist) of linguistics.
2012 • People
Addicts disconnected from the "noise". The internet has taken over our lives and permeates every moment.
What is the best way to ease someone's pain and suffering? In this beautifully animated RSA Short, Dr Brené Brown reminds us that we can only create a genuine empathic connection if we are brave enough to really get in touch with our own fragilities.
RSA Shorts • 2015 • People
Human Flow is director and artist Ai Weiwei's detailed and heartbreaking exploration into the global refugee crisis.
2017 • People
In May 1893, a man is thrown out of a train, on the platforms of the train station of Pietermaritzburg, a little city of South Africa, for daring to sit in a first-class compartment. This young Indian lawyer is named Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
S3E6 • Butterfly Effect • 2018 • People
A mother and her sadistic boys rule the Australian underworld until the eldest son's addiction hastens the family's downfall.
S1E4 • Drug Lords • 2017 • People
