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East Palo Alto in northern California is the city with the highest concentration of Pacific Islanders outside of Hawaii. Amidst the enormous wealth of Silicon Valley, the city also has a reputation as a pocket of crime and poverty. Lady Razorbacks follows a diverse group of Fijian, Tongan and Samoan women in East Palo Alto – each of them fighting their own personal battles at home – who’ve banded together and found powerful connections and redemption on the rugby field.
Director: Laura Green
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Food and drink
The passage of time is a peculiar thing in a 24-hour diner
13 minutes
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Art
Background music was the radical invention of a trailblazing composer
16 minutes
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Anthropology
For an Amazonian female shaman, ayahuasca ceremonies are a rite and a business
30 minutes
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Gender
A filmmaker responds to Lars von Trier’s call for a new muse with a unique application
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Computing and artificial intelligence
Why large language models are mysterious – even to their creators
8 minutes
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Sports and games
Havana’s streets become racetracks in this exhilarating portrait of children at play
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Spirituality
Through rituals of prayer, a monk cultivates a quietly radical concept of freedom
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Fairness and equality
‘To my old master’ – a freed slave answers the request to return to his old plantation
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Design and fashion
A ceramicist puts her own bawdy spin on the folk language of pottery
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