"Human Footprint" is an Insightful Biology TV Show. Ecology plans for the future! Since I donated money to PBS they activated my Passport and I can watch any show at any time. A Super Valuable Thank You Gift!

https://www.pbs.org/show/human-footprint/

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This series Documents the effect of having people all over the planet everywhere... Pollution, Extinction, biodiversity and solutions!

https://fullbellyfarm.com/about-us/

They interviewed the people that run The Full Belly Farm in the Central Valley of California... Those folks have concluded that by having 80 different types of crops they can use less pesticides and less herbicides and grow organic food... And flowers... They have intentionally engineered a biosphere that works great without poison... 

Perhaps this show would be educational to other farmers in the beautiful Central Valley of California... People that spend a lot of money on poison to fight insects... 

https://fullbellyfarm.com/

https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-national-parks/

Explore the early days of Yosemite National Park, and the experiences of President Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir in Yosemite Canyon.

The National Parks: America's Best Idea is a six-episode series produced by Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan and written by Dayton Duncan. Filmed over the course of more than six years at some of nature's most spectacular locales – from Acadia to Yosemite, Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon, the Everglades of Florida to the Gates of the Arctic in Alaska.

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Federal funding for local public media organizations has been eliminated. Your donation is a vital bridge between where we find ourselves now and where we need to be. Thanks for stepping up for PBS KVIE right when it matters most.

I Got Sick of Watching TV News ... So I Changed the Channel to My PBS Passport... Since I Donated Money to PBS they Unlocked My Ability to Watch Any PBS Show at any Time...

Amazing documentary!

The Movement and the “Madman” shows how two antiwar protests in the fall of 1969 — the largest the country had ever seen — pressured President Nixon to cancel what he called his “madman” plans for a massive escalation of the U.S. war in Vietnam, including a threat to use nuclear weapons. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/movement-and-madman/

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and on a different evening...

I'm watching a tourism show about visiting the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC and we're going to some of the buildings I've never been to... You know, All those people on TV news are just going to have to get along without me being informed... Endless horrible stuff is not really a lot of fun. 

Quite often when I'm reading social media on the internet I encounter this concept called "Doom Scrolling" - what they say happens is it you read horrible content on social media and it makes you want to read more and more and more and you are trapped in a nightmare world... In fact, what they are describing is watching television news channels... Not the internet... But it's fun to shout "Danger Danger" about any new technology... Remember when they said that rock music was the work of the devil? (they said that in the 1950s)

For example: the Faceborg algorithm delivers posts that are very likely to agree with your own opinion about everything... They have determined that people who see posts that say: "Gee, I'm Really Smart and Everyone Agrees with Me." Will stay on Faceborg longer... And so they can deliver more advertisements... And make more money... Because the business model is selling eyeballs to advertisers. 

But TV news is based on the belief that in our primitive caveman brain... We still are programmed to pay attention when somebody shouts: Danger Danger!" Because 10,000 years ago, when we were living in caves... The people that woke up and defended themselves whenever the lookout shouted Danger Danger... survived and had children... Darwin... And we are those children... 

This is the fundamental business model of Fox News... And also... CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC... It's not the business model of C-SPAN... Or PBS news... 

I also like to play with the computer art programs... When I'm designing, I can't see the clock... And so I don't know what time of day it is... And I can also put on some music... I go off into another world! Into the zone...

Shadows and highlights processing on a photo of people... 

I LOVE PBS: André Rieu - CONDUCTOR at a LIVE CONCERT IN HOLLAND - Marches, Dance Music, Waltzes... FUN!

Seventy - Six Trombones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgYyBwnCDPo

Los Del Rio - Macarena
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMRVbhbIkjk

The Beautiful Blue Danube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDaJ7rFg66A

ANDRÉ RIEU: POWER OF LOVE

Get ready to relive the magic of an unforgettable evening with this concert, recorded live during the spectacular Summer Open Air Concerts at the Vrijthof Square in Maastricht, Netherlands, in 2024. This performance captures the enchantment, joy, and romance that only André and his Johann Strauss Orchestra can deliver. From the first note to the final standing ovation, ANDRÉ RIEU: POWER OF LOVE is a celebration of music, connection, and extraordinary moments.

https://www.pbs.org/show/andre-rieu-power-of-love/

André Rieu – The Skaters Waltz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBuhQ3tLUyU

Since Trump cut off funding for PBS and NPR it's up to you and me to make sure that this American Treasure Doesn't Vanish...

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I LOVE PBS: "Holmes vs Doyle" - is a biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories... And Jurassic Park! - Since I donated money to PBS they activated my Passport and I can WATCH ANY SHOW AT ANY TIME... A Super Valuable Thank You Gift!

https://www.pbs.org/show/lucy-worsleys-holmes-vs-doyle/

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I learned a lot about the Man behind the stories... He was a doctor... And one of his professors at Medical School, Dr. Joseph Bell, thought that every doctor should be able to observe the patient for Clues to their Health... Sherlock Holmes is famous for his ability to observe Clues... And is a tribute to Dr Bell... [Similar to how James Bond is based on William Stephenson]

Doyle was excited about buying the latest technology... In his case he owned some of the very first motor cars, motorcycles and movie cameras... In this TV show there are many films of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at home... Interviews... Playing with his five children... Home movies! 

And then in 1918 one of his sons died of the influenza... And Doyle became interested in spiritualism and contacting dead people... He became very enthusiastic about this practice and even held a seance with Harry Houdini... a known skeptic... And when it was all over, Houdini said that it was totally fake and that the Doyle was just a senile old man... Believing in the possibility of talking to his son... 

Doyle also wrote other books... Including one that involved a man who found dinosaur eggs and raised them to be living creatures... The basic plot of Jurassic Park... 

ALSO!

https://www.pbs.org/show/lucy-worsley-investigates/

Lucy Worsley (a Gem) re-investigates some of the most dramatic chapters in British history. She uncovers forgotten witnesses, re-examines old evidence and follows new clues.

https://www.pbs.org/show/agatha-christie-lucy-worsley-on-the-mystery-queen/

a deep dive into the author Agatha Christie...

I did not watch television from 1973 to 1997. I lived in many different places that simply did not have a TV... Now that I'm retired, and have access to thousands of shows... I'm really enjoying some of them old ones... Like Star Trek...

And I have not seen the vast majority of those episodes... Plato's Stepchildren was quite revolutionary in 1968... It was the first instance of an interracial kiss... This episode was broadcast 6 months after Dr Martin Luther King was murdered...  Uhura and Kirk are forced to kiss by the Psychic Powers wielded by the bad guys... Who are able to make the people from the Enterprise dance like puppets on strings... And do whatever they want...

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Up until the year 1972, I lived in my parents house and we had a television... I remember watching the Moon Landing... And the police riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago ( the people protesting chanted "the whole world is watching, whole world is watching") ... And in fact, we all were watching... Only very recently the TV news started broadcasting live footage from the Vietnam War and riots... It made a big difference because the American public really rejected that war strongly when they saw how horrible it was... On live TV... In our living room... 

Then, I went to college at Chico State and did not have a TV... Then after 2 years I left and went to work at the Art Supply store in Valley Fair shopping center and rented a room out back of an old farmhouse and I did not have a TV... I did have a piano though! We got married and moved to Washington DC and for some reason never really got into television... I do remember we drank a lot of wine and played board games especially the one called Mastermind which required logical thought... And my wife always won at that game... Later she became a computer programmer... Because she was good at logical thought... After our divorce I moved into the condo and bought a bunch of electric guitars, drum machines, synthesizers and tape recorders... And I was really into the technopop home recording studio thing... Then I left Washington DC and moved to San Jose and lived in a bunch of group homes... Finally, at the place in Almaden we would all get together, smoke weed, and watch a TV show called "Friends" every night... After marrying my second wife we lived in Eureka and had to computers side by side in the living room... She liked to watch TV shows on her TV while I was busy doing art in "potatoshop" or writing blog posts... I remember one of the favorite shows was called the Sons of Anarchy... About a motorcycle gang in Stockton that was filmed on location and I was able to call up on Google Maps the exact location of where they were filming... We also watched the Obama inauguration... And the beginning of the Iraq War on TV news... That was really creepy because it was all filmed in night vision green and it looked like a video game... And we rented the movie Journey to the Center of the Earth featuring Rick Wakeman playing music with a Orchestra and choir... And a narrator...

One thing that's kind of funny is that when the TV show called Saturday Night Live was of good quality we had better things to do on Saturday nights than watch TV... We went to parties and out to discos! Then when we got older and had interest in watching television that on Saturday night the quality of the show really sucked... and to this day it really sucks...

I almost always have the sound off when I'm watching TV nowadays... It started with me turning off the sound for all commercials... And then I turned off the sound for TV news because I was in danger of hearing Donald Trump's voice... I certainly don't want to do that... And the TV news has the important parts of the story printed in English at the bottom of the screen so there's no need to listen to the talking heads... So now it's sound off unless I Channel surf to something that I want to hear...

And quite often I refuse to watch shows that I'm certain are going to make me angry... For example there was the State of the Union Address where Donald Trump talked... There's no possible way that my watching that show could improve my life... And shows like that are frequently broadcast on like 10 different channels... 

I really like watching the TV show called Jeopardy... It's a quiz show based on trivia... And other facts... I believe that it exercises my brain and is good for preventing dementia... I'm a member of AARP and they have many brain training games that you can play but none of them are fun... And so I don't play them... I would rather have dementia than play a game that's not fun... 

The One symptom of my own dementia is that I find it increasingly difficult to recognize famous people on TV... I'll see someone and say... Who is that? It's especially annoying when I'm watching a TV commercial and they went to the expense of hiring a famous person to work as a spokes model but then they don't print the person's name on the screen underneath their face... And I spend the entire commercial trying to figure out who that guy is instead of paying attention to the plastic crap they're selling... WTF?

At least on TV news they print the person's name at the bottom of the screen... And frequently their job title... The funny thing about that is that if someone is listed as a "Republican Strategist", that means they're unemployed... And a MAGA Moron!

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And that's why I didn't watch TV from 1973 to 1997! 

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I LOVE PBS Passport. Since I donated money to my local PBS station, I get the ability to watch any show at any time... And that's amazing! It's commercial Free Too!

https://www.pbs.org/explore/passport/ 

Recently I've been watching Ken Burns documentaries... Biographies of Benjamin Franklin, the Roosevelts and Thomas Jefferson... Subjects that I knew very little about... 

And they also have the history of English Kings and Queens... Guy Falks & the gun powder plot. He planned to Blow up Parliament while it was in session and the King was in the building... All because he was a Catholic and they were all Protestants... 

Trump cut off all funding for PBS... that's Evil!

Sesame Street teaches children how to read and do math... Something everyone should know!

I think that's the reason Trump is attacking Harvard and UCLA and all those other colleges... 

Human Footprint... Biology and how people fit in or don't fit in... A really interesting science program...