Over five cinematic episodes, "Big Pacific" breaks the boundaries between land and sea, moving throughout the Pacific Ocean to present a broad range of locations, species, natural phenomena and behaviors. The series presents the ocean and its denizens in ways never before seen on television, exploring the monstrous to the minute; the alien to the intimate.
Episode 1: Mysterious
Man has explored land, the ocean’s surface, and large parts of the solar system, and in the 21st century we are just beginning to explore the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Read More...
Born at the dawn of the 21st century, our contributors landed in a world where the 9/11 attacks initially drew the nation together. However, the war on terror, at home and abroad, brought out an aggressive patriotism that morphed into suspicion and Islamophobia. They were still too young to really understand their own loss, but the mood it created dominated their early childhoods – a premature loss of innocence and a grasping for understanding of something too big for a young mind to fathom. Read More...
Last year, Cynthia Berger tried for an autumn spinach harvest in her Pennsville, Pa. garden. The pests got there first.
“It was slug city,” says Berger. The slimy, shell-less mollusks turned the delicate leaves to Swiss cheese, leaving trails of sticky ooze in their wake. This year, Berger hopes to lure in a solution: hungry toads.
Though other garden wildlife — think bees and butterflies — tends to get more press, the often-overlooked toad can transform a vegetable plot. Read More...