When food becomes scarce – high-tech farms of the future | DW Documentary

Agriculture will have to change drastically in the future if it is to meet global demand. Food production will become increasingly difficult in the face of growing challenges like rapid population growth, climate change and soil exhaustion.

 

Large-scale coronavirus vaccine production is already underway

 

We’re getting closer to a coronavirus vaccine every day. The Serum Institute of India, the world's largest vaccine producer, says it's already produced 40-Mmillion doses of Astra-Zeneca's potential corona vaccine.

Why more pop songs should end with a fade out

The fade out in music is one of those necessary tools in a record producers arsenal. But if you listen to today's hits it's much more likely you'll hear a song that has a hard abrupt electronic ending. Bill Weir, wrote a great piece at Slate a few years ago tracking the rise and fall of the fade out in pop music: from one of the very first fade outs created by a literal wooden door to the epic 4 minute fade out of "Hey Jude." In the video above he brings me through that sonic journey.

Want To Be In The Movie Business? Please See Isaac Nabwana In Kampala

People dream of being involved in the movie business. Some even make their own low budget films and then there's Isaac Nabwana an Ugandan filmmaker whose films, as he put have no budget.  That hasn't stopped him from making films or attacking people from outside Uganda to track him down and become involved in the process.  You may end up being eaten by cannibals in one of his films but no one kind denai that you've been on the big screen.  

Isaac Nabwana, a self-taught film-maker, has killed off more than 20 white actors at his makeshift studio in Wakaliga in Kampala over the past six months. Western fans of the director’s Tarantino-style productions have come seeking a slice of the action – and ended up taking part.

“All of them die,” Mr Nabwana says. “It’s Wakaliga versus the rest of the world.”

Tucked away in a courtyard at the end of a dirt track, “Wakaliwood” is tricky to find. The entrance to the tiny studio is behind a clothes line, and the helicopter, a feature of so many Ramon Production films, lies idle under a tarpaulin.

It is here that Mr Nabwana, 43, has assembled a motley collection of actors, craftsmen and technicians to make films for anywhere between $2 and $200 a production. “I don’t even call it low-budget,” he laughs. “We have no budget.”