The event will be held at a private residence in the Los Feliz area. Pharmaka is a 501(c) 3 organization dedicated to creating a creative and sustainable community in Downtown Los Angeles through cross cultural programming and contemporary art exhibitions.

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The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 resulted in the swift and total collapse of the Twin Towers. But the Pentagon, which suffered the same kind of blow, largely withstood it. World Trade Center Building 7 collapsed only hours later, even though it had not been directly targeted. What were the unique forces inside each building that determined whether it stood or crumbled, and how? The world’s leading forensic engineers have spent years analyzing the structural consequences of the attacks, and this hour will take viewers deep inside their investigations to explain why the results were so drastically different for each building.

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Myth #2: Does Playing Dead Prevent Shark Attacks
Some myths believe that trashing around means that you are most likely to get attacked by a shark than playing dead. So they chum the water and put the cast members in the water to see if playing dead actually gets you anywhere.

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Experience the journey of architecture students as they create buildings in the Sundance Channel original series ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL.

The six-part series premiered on the channel on August 20th and comes from co-creators Michael Selditch and Stan Bertheaud. The series follows a group of students at Tulane University’s prestigious School of Architecture in New Orleans.

The premise of the show is different from much of the designs shows that we may be familiar with such as HGTV Design Star. These are students so there are no eliminations, however, students submit competing designs for an affordable home in Katrina-battered New Orleans.

The stakes are high as the winning model will be built during the course of the school year and put up for sale, enabling one fledgling architect to begin his or her career with a high-profile splash.

Watch a 1-minute clip from episode 1 of the series where the students are beginning thier first design where they are designing thier 3rd home for residents of New Orleans. Watch as New Orleans’ residents speak about the struggles they face with obtaining a new home.

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Olympic athletes don’t have one track minds. They don’t train for hours on end just to showcase their skills, if only for a matter of seconds, for the chance of winning a gold medal once every 4 years. They are also health conscious and pushing environmental issues to their millions of fans across the globe.

In a recent article in Environmental Magazine by Britta Belli, such issues are being highlighted like U.S. Olympic swimmer Tara Kirk’s opposition against shark finning which has been captured in a recent commercial by WildAid.

This isn’t the only commercial and Tara isn’t the only Olympian speaking. WildAids campaign features 15 athletes in their “World Champions for Wildlife” Campaign, including American swimmers Kirk and Amanda Beard, Ethiopian world marathon winner Haile Gebrselassie and Chinese athletes like Houston Rockets basketball star Yao Ming, that country’s most famous export (and the sport’s tallest player at 7 feet, 6 inches).

You can read the entire article by clicking here. You can also learn more about WildAid, you may visit their website at www.wildaid.org.

Watch some of the various 30-second WildAid PSA’s below.

Amanda Beard PSA against shark finning

Ralph Fiennes PSA

Tara Kirk PSA against over fishing

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