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The Short Doc Challenge
Here at gnovis we rebooted our podcasting program in September. Since then we've had a few really great podcasts (and we have a few more coming out soon, I promise), but today we're issuing a challen
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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Cultural Preservation in the Age of Corporate Sponsorship
Italy and cultural heritage are familiar bedfellows. Due to its rich history--from the Etruscans to ancient Rome, to the explosion of artistic creation in the Florentine Renaissance--il bel paese su
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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It's a Small World After All
Recently, a photo was viewed 162,239 times and shared 27,603 times on Renren, and the number is keeping growing. On the left side of the photo, several sentences in Chinese, says: Friend
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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On Piracy and Patronage
Just how harmful is online piracy? That’s the question put to readers by a recent New York Times piece in which both sides of this contentious issue are given their fair shake. “The fundamental issue
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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Noise Pollution
Environmental repercussions are not only a national interest, in terms of issues such as hydraulic fracturing and carbon emissions, but also an international concern, as they often jump physical and c
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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Weighing the Costs of the World Cup
The FIFA World Cup, along with the Olympic Games, is one of the few truly global entertainment events, with the largest worldwide viewing audience for a sporting event and over 200 countries from eve
Categories: 2012, Globalization Column, The Gnovis Blog
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Why I Might be Vegetarian (for 40 days)
Note: This is partly in response to Hanna Woodburn's blog "Why I might no longer be a vegetarian" As I write this, at 9:30pm on a Monday night, I am happily consuming a Philly Cheese Steak, complete
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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A Culture of Corruption: Murdoch, the Press, and the Police
In this podcast, Roxana Elliott and Joshua Weaver speak to Michael Elliott, former International Editor of Time Magazine, about the pattern of ongoing corruption in the British press industry, and th
Category: Podcast
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Lana Del Rey N'est Pas Une Pipe
There is an image attached to this blog post. It's a screenshot from "Mouse Trouble," an award-winning 1944 episode of the classic American cartoon Tom and Jerry, in which the famous frenemies at one
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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Democracy: Armageddon
The latest Rasmussen report finds that only five percent of "Likely U.S. Voters" rate the job Congress is doing as good or excellent. When Mike Huckabee went on Fox and Friends last month he noted th
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog