Pier Marton

Movies and the Brain

by Pier Marton | Sep 9, 2010 | Film, Health, Media, Politics, Sci/Nat, Spectacle

The art of film-making turns into the science of neuromarketing: target practice. Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit TweetShare on...

Rodney King’s Song?

by Pier Marton | Sep 9, 2010 | Afri, Care, Human Rights, Ideas, Music

Will someone write a song? “People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? Can we get along? Can we stop making it, making it horrible for the older people and the kids?…It’s just not right. It’s not right. It’s not, it’s not going to change...

Vitamin B and Alzheimer’s

by Pier Marton | Sep 9, 2010 | Care, Death, Health, Sci/Nat

Vitamin B ‘puts off Alzheimer’s’ Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit TweetShare on...

Castro: “I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews”.

by Pier Marton | Sep 8, 2010 | Antisemitism, Death, Hispanic, Jewish, Middle-East, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Wars

Fidel to Ahmadinejad: ‘Stop Slandering the Jews’, ‘The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.’ Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Share on Reddit...

Forgotten Films: Raoul Peck’s The Man by the Shore/L’Homme sur les Quais de Raoul Peck

by Pier Marton | Sep 7, 2010 | Afri, Death, Film, France, Human Rights, Racism, Wars, Women

Watch this film to learn how it felt like to try to survive with the Tonton Macoutes thugs and the Doc Duvalier dictatorship. His Lumumba films are also important… another filmmaker falling between the cracks. More about Raoul Peck here. Email a link to a friend...