Television presenter Kate Humble sets out on a journey to north Siberia in order to discover what life is like for the Nenets, a group of nomads who spend their lives migrating with the seasons as they herd reindeer up and down the Yamal Peninsula.With temperatures that can drop to -54C it is without a doubt an extremely tough environment to survive in and we see these extremes take there t
A BBC special which takes an in depth look at the "incel" community that can be found online, they are more of a subculture and have now been linked to multiple mass murder cases and hate crimes agains women.The word "incel" itself is short for "involuntary celibate" and this is how the online group describe themselves, as you can imagine the community consists primarily of sexually frustra
The man is described by some as the most important figure in counter culture art and the chances are you have never heard of him. Most of his work no longer exists and was painted illegally in the first place. King Robbo is a wanted man and protects his identity for fear of arrest.Considered a myth and a legend somewhat like the outlaw Jessie James he his without a doubt one of the pioneers of
The disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa is one of the most famous and enduring American mysteries and it most certainly goes down in the history books as one of the great crimes of the century. Despite a huge Federal investigation which spanned over 4 decades and saw hundreds of suspects being questioned, still to this day only the contours of the crime are known.Hoffa was considered to be both hero
Around the world children from different backgrounds and religions have described a life they have lived before. The belief in the survival of the soul in an ancient one but the fact that these children talk about events which seem beyond their childhood experience is considered by some to be evidence of reincarnation.At the division of Personality Studies in Charlottesville Virginia, there ar
In Russia technology developed a world apart from Silicon Valley and that didn't chance once the Soviet Union collapsed, over 25 years later and Russia has copied large parts of the web the rest of us know and love, they went ahead and built a Russian internet and with new laws cooked up by the Kremlin and rubber-stamped in Moscow it's becoming more and more a souvenir internet but like everything
In 1999 students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold would embark on a massacre that would make history and the name of one Colorado high school synonymous with tragedy. The Columbine High School shooting saw these two individuals ill 12 of their fellow students and a teachers before committing suicide.As the clock ticked the body count rose and with it the question, why had these two y
In our modern world our average day may consist of Facetiming family and friends, playing games online or asking Alexa to complete a task for us. These tasks have only become apart of our lives in the last decade or so but they were envisioned and shown on screen way back in 1968, all thanks to the mind and visionary talents of the iconic Stanley Kubrick in his film 2001: A Space Odyssey.2001
Six thousand years before the present the colossal city of Uruk by far the largest in the worlds dominated the southern Mesopotamian plains of modern day Iraq. With a population of at least 50,000 people Uruk wouldn't be surpassed in size or in numbers for an astonishing 3,000 years to come. Until well into the Classical Age the legendary homeland of Gilgamesh was surrounded by a colossal mud bric