Last month Digital Village featured an interview with Dan Mirvish, director of the dramatic comedy about Nixon’s Watergate Hearings called 18 & ½. Because this week is the 50th anniversary of that time in history and because America is in a similar situation while watching the Jan. 6 insurrection hearings, we are re-airing the segment. Enjoy…

(This week on Digital Village) Ric interviews Slamdance Film Fest founder and director of the award winning historical comic drama, 18 1/2: A film using cutting edge pandemic era technology to return us to those analogue days of 1974's Watergate tapes ... and the gap within that got then president Nixon impeached.

Ric catches up with Rideshare Drivers United California Rep, Tyler Sandness to discuss the state of the still hotly-debated anti-gig workers Proposition.

For years, civilizations have engaged in kelp cultivation for a myriad of reasons, including food production, the development of health supplements, the production of renewable sources and as a way to protect ocean habitats and biodiversity. But as concerns over climate disasters grow, researchers and companies around the world are now looking to seaweed as a way to fight climate change.

While kelp has proven to remove carbon from the atmosphere, scientists say seaweed farming would not make enough of a contribution to lowering worldwide emission levels.

With us to discuss the issue is Robert Eagle, UCLA Assistant Professor, with the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. 

The CDC's decision to cut the number of days a person infected with Covid-19 must quarantine to 5, down from 10 days, has befuddled many, as US hospitals continue to struggle with the rush of Covid-19 patients seeking treatment.

Many of those hospitalized have shown to be infected by the highly transmissible Omicron variant, which took over as the dominant strain just months ago.

Slamdance Film Fest founder and Award-winning Writer/Director Dan Mirvish explains how the Pandemic has altered--and should-- change how film festivals do business in the future. (Slamdance 2022 runs from Jan 27 - Feb 6, streamed via Slamdance.com).

In the first part of the show Dr. Addison Killean Stark of the Bipartisan Policy Center is back to talk about the Crescent Dunes Solar Plant filing for bankruptcy and how we need space for failure to tackle climate change.

Facebook announced it is ending its facial recognition program, resulting in the removal of a billion users’ face prints from its social media platform. The move comes during a period of intensifying backlash against the technology, which critics say invades users' privacy and is used as a tool of mass surveillance.

Digital Village co-host Leilani Albano speaks to Electronic Frontier Foundation Deputy Managing Director Nathan Sheard on the issue. –L. Albano. 

Green News Reporter Desi Doyen breaks down both successes and failures of the “COP26” Climate Pact.