obviously a fiction cartoon character.see a real bear showing off some martial arts moves, that's a recipe for millions of hits. and a lot of people scratching their heads saying there's just no way. this video starts out like any other shot by a tourist visiting the zoo. but it quickly turns into a scene from couching tiger, hidden black bear? >> it's, like, always on the verge of going out of control. and not once does the bear hit himself in the face. that's really impressive. >> i love this one. the time that you watch it even if you're by yourself that you just start giggling and can't stop yourself. >> no one's heard of the teenager mutant ninja bears. is this the talents of a visual effects artist? or is this the child of bruce lee? >> we think how the hell did it do that? it's crazy. >> i was waiting to know what camera trick they did. >> amazingly, the kung fu bear is 100% accurate. >> it's just a talented bear. >> for years claude the bear has been wowing visitors in japan with his mastery of martial arts. claude

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science fiction. could be a small machine like this one quite a sophisticated robot asked mentally to perform a particular movement that's how the next step in remote controlled acknowledges looks like instead of pushing buttons they'll be putting on some bizarre looking headwear and thinking mechanisms will read electrical charges from the user's brain and translate them into movement have an artificial borders operated while asleep by thought alone in the avatar movie does not seem unrealistic but while it's still a matter of far off future brain computer interface research already helps repairing damage side or hearing by means of specially blondes then there's great advice in bio nickel ems people with disabilities can control artificial border parts by thinking about moving and material from which those body parts are made is becoming more and more sophisticated newer scientists have allowed humans to control the movements of machines however transferring one's consciousness into a biological bod

you have it in fiction as well as non fiction. some where along the line we were taught that non fiction is simply facts. it is not truth. facts wrapped around a story. facts put in a story. let's go back to that porch again, this time my mother in that soft tone of hers. she would tell hair raising ghost stories. she would start at the hour of the dark:30. that is 30 minutes before it gets all the way dark and the monsters come out. and i can hear her say, you used to be a woman who appeared under that street light over there and our heads would all go as one with the street light. it was though we were looking for the lady who walked in front of our house and didn't have a head. when she got to this street light she vanished. then in the same breath she would say, now would you go into the house and get me a drink of water? i would have to go into that creeky old house all by myself. it wasn't so bad in the living room because the lights from the front porch, but she had a table that had claw feet and i knew it was going to snat

it all looks like a science- fiction movie, but it's fast becoming reality.he apartments in songdo are being linked to the central computer grid. everything -- from air quality to energy consumption -- can be individually monitored and regulated. high-definition video conferencing systems will be available anywhere at any time. the project manager john baekelmans says teleconferencing will be a central aspect of digital life in songdo, whether it's about conducting business, shopping, talking to the doctor, or connecting with family. technology companies are using songdo as a testing ground for the future. >> korea has made an amazing advancement from 50 years ago. people in korea are really open to actually experience a new way of living and experience a new way of working, living and playing in a community. the openness of that community made us come to korea, because it's much easier for the adoption of all the capabilities in the city to work with people who want to do that. american sustainability manager suzanne johnson and a local team are making sure

you don't have to abide by the convention of fiction. you can go any direction you want. so he broke free of the chronological order that he had been trying to tell the story and instead he told it as a private who had no idea what was going on. a private who was just trying to serve, a private was a victim of circumstance in a way and who had been severely traumatized by what has happened to him. the book is alternately funny and michaud is at times grotesque and other times bizarre. it's really a high wire act by an author taking a creative risk because he powered his novels on ideas, not plotz, not character. but he would just take the possibility of what if and extrapolated and stretch it and make it go as far as he possibly could, and i really think that slaughterhouse five is his crowning achievement. well, he became famous and he had been denied the fame he wanted for so long he couldn't resist the pull of celebrity. in 1970 he left his family, went to new york took up with a woman 20 years his junior, could be found, hobnobbing with all kinds of people and they we

my job at the university and i created this private class with my female students reading works of fiction and talking about the realty of our lives. >> you adno -- had no gentlemen attend that? >> no that's what -- would make it too risky because they could raid our house. if they find a male who was not related to us either by blood or as a husband, then they could charge you with prostitution. >> what books did you read? >> well we began with 1,000 and one knights around shall hair solved -- shall hara solved. that is symbolic of about how imagination line greats you from oppress states -- oppresses you -- then we went to jane austin, the great gatsby which is the second chapter in this book, henry james, faubert. >> who did you spend most time in the book -- book? >> well nab bark cough. >> are you infatuated with nab bark cough? >> no. >> you have written books on nab bark cough. >> well nab bark cough like us had felt the oppressive necessary of the totalitarian state --ed and he understood you chant -- can't just change reg jooms. -- regime. you have to change mind-set. >> you think

my job at the university and i created this private class with my female students reading works of fiction and talking about the realty of our lives. >> you adno -- had no gentlemen attend that? >> no that's what -- would make it too risky because they could raid our house. if they find a male who was not related to us either by blood or as a husband, then they could charge you with prostitution. >> what books did you read? >> well we began with 1,000 and one knights around shall hair solved -- shall hara solved. that is symbolic of about how imagination line greats you from oppress states -- oppresses you -- then we went to jane austin, the great gatsby which is the second chapter in this book, henry james, faubert. >> who did you spend most time in the book -- book? >> well nab bark cough. >> are you infatuated with nab bark cough? >> no. >> you have written books on nab bark cough. >> well nab bark cough like us had felt the oppressive necessary of the totalitarian state --ed and he understood you chant -- can't just change reg jooms. -- regime. you have to change mind-set. >> you think

[laughing] now, sheldon, you've written books about a fictional defense attorney. the stories that you tell really get into, i think, the issues and stories of our time. and that's why your books have been so popular. first of all, you know, how did you become a writer? why did you become a writer? and how did you end up writing did a criminal defense attorney in san francisco, of all places? >> i was not told i would follow tony serra. i need to go back and prepare a little more. [laughing] i learned something, too. i guess i better stand up. [laughing] i'm really honored to be here. i'm the toy department. i write novels about the types of cases that lawyers like tony handle. in the daytime i work for a big law firm of the type that tony probably would not hold in the highest of esteem, but i'm delighted to be here. you know, i think if you talked to most authors, they will tell you that there is something hot-wired into our system that says we need to try to tell a story. there is nothing at all in my background. i am an absolutely accidental writer. there is no

. >> reporter: truth is stranger than fiction. it's through fiction that people can find truth.p-red tail -- red tails is the story of the tuskegee airmen, sort of. he said the movie is good but it decide miss what he called the military bearing and no nonsense attitude. he said everyone was watching them and the entire unit was always on the ball. he said the best part was flying and showing that black men could fight and fly. that was the reason they fought in the first place. doing what theyçó were told they couldn't do. thatÑixdÑit(Ñii] was thexde1 lee tuskegqzi] airm[.k @&c1 nq=óói]c +açó theqÑi countryçó ÑiÑiÑixdxdÑo live in and free of fear. >> the hope is some day they will understand there were things you could to do. when people tell you you can't do it, you show that you can. >> reporter: the negro league is another example. black men excelling at playing and the business of sports. movies have been made about that too. the movie took a look at traveling baseball teams during segregation. it was a come dip and they took -- it's good to find out more from the people

if i had fictionalized it i would have eliminated at least 20 of them and easily stuck two -- stock to my leading man who would have been the prosecutor and the investigator and then done away with everyone else and endow him with all the great qualities and abilities to save the day which he eventually he does but not by himself. however, it was a piece of nonfiction and i believe again despite all the advice i was receiving, that rather than simplifying of the story or fictionalizing the story, readers are very sophisticated nowadays. they have read so much that they can actually manage a multi character story and they can keep track of numerous characters going in and out and don't need a singular hero. not in the twenty-first century. we have given up a lot of errol smith and whatever dreams we had about singular heroes saving the day. and we understand that a confluence of characters, personalities, events need to come together in order for a great triumph to take place. so the great character of this book in a way becomes its own plot line and the narrative itself. and what i hop

you don't have to abide by the conventions of fiction. you can go in any direction you want.so kurt broke free of the chronological order that he'd been trying to tell this story in, and instead told it as a private would who had no idea what was going on, a private who was just trying to serve, a private who was a victim of circumstance in a way and who had been severely traumatized by what had happened to him. the book is alternately funny and macabre, it's at times grotesque, other times bizarre. it's really a high-wire act by an author who's taking a creative risk because kurt vonnegut powered his novels on ideas, not on plot, not on character, but he would just take a possibility, a what-if kind of thing and extrapolate it and stretch it and make it go as far as it possibly could. and i really think that "slaughterhouse five" is his crowning achievement. well, he became famous, and, um, since he'd been denied the fame that he wanted for so, so long, he could not resist the pull of celebrity. and in 1970 left his family, went to new york and joined -- [inaudible] in new y

one way in a new work of fiction receiving much acclaim titled the orphan master's son.ts author is adam johnson who teaches creative writing at stanford university. welcome to you. >> thanks for having me. >> brown: we should start at the obvious question. why a novel set in north korea? >> i became fascinated just as a general reader. i read the stories of people who had made it out of that country. even made it out of the gulags. we're those stories were so captivating to me. it seemed as a writer this was perhaps the most difficult place on earth to be fully human. a place where spontaneity is almost impossible. where confessing your heart and your wants and desires run counter to the state and could get you in trouble. and becae ifound very few works from north korean writers themselves that they weren't allowed to tell their own stories that i thought this was something that literacy fiction could do, could fill in this void. >> brown: you have to learn what life is like. some of it is from those stories. you also made a trip there. >> i did travel there in 2007. i

>> i believe they happen to be in an institution bo renowned geared toward greatwe h fiction writing. and some never mind jabba writer of nonfiction is to put a gun to your head tonfi say make this much like good fiction as you can to push things to the limit of readability without violating any laws of fact. i tried to do three books like that. the only way i can do that is with a lot of research. by interviewing people to boy living out their prospective to correct it all. i like to read books that are like a freight train nor a speeding bullet.h in let me go 110 miles per hour and some stories almost right themselves. this is one of them becauseh patriquin just wrote the storys himself and i got the pieces from the people he was with. >> when his wife said tell it right to if you tell about. somebody who is nationally heroic likeitin him, you keep it from being a hero worship of our other than the official army account? it is the complicated or just as the heroic symbol? denied that day is an excellent point*. face it. 4400 brothers and sisters in iraq so far. 100,000 iraqi civilia

fans of the show are flocking to the rock to see facts from fiction. >> reporter: the rock is magneticrawing more people the past few weeks. >> hading off join us over here. >> reporter: the folk who run the rock say the up tick may be because of the beautiful winter weather, and this. >> i enjoy watching and. >> reporter: he works at alcatraz now in the 5th year of sentence. while most said they hadn't seen the new series, most americans have. >> kind of scary, little science fiction. >> reporter: the popularity is causing some confusion between myth and reality. >> most of the show is shot on a set in vancouver, some of the locations filmed here. this is one of them. this is china alley. >> reporter: in the show it lead dozen a secret room. it's not real. that hasn't stopped some fans trying to find it. now park rangers have padlocked the area that was already limits and put up signs like this. >> we are hoping will work. we haven't had any problems since we know about. >> they tightened up the security but we -- that may not stop us. >> reporter: rangers said if the popularity of th

there's a strait fiction in the law that mirrors the whole society. anyway. i wanted to say that. i've worked on a bunch of television shows. i've thought about this question a lot. and i have no idea how this cycle works. but one of the shows that i really enjoyed was "l.a. law." the reason i liked "l.a. law" was that it was about the kind of business of law. you know? a lot of it was about the real, you know, business. you have to work hard in that context to get drama. it's harder to write a show like "l.a. law" because you have to find drama almost in the ordinary practice of law. to my way of thinking, you know, doing a crime show or even a criminal defense show, that's the easy stuff to do. you know? there's drama that's inherent in it. the hard stuff to do is say, like "the paper chase" where they're going to the library. really. so you've got to figure out a way to make that interesting. we did a show called "scavenger hunt," a massive search through all the libraries. and it's actually a very exciting show. but when we went to the network, they said, what are you shooting

it's a fictional story. but that's the backdrop. >> jimmy: and is it completely fictional?ompletely fictional. >> jimmy: did you go and ride along and do all the things you're supposed to do? >> oh, yeah. i did ride-alongs with these guys. bob -- well, they call him boston. and this other guy, jerry. they were really great to hang with. you know, first, i was quite nervous. but it was pretty bizarre, man. they would pull up. they pull over some gang-bangers. you know, they'd have them face the wall and put your hands on your head. frisk them. then, they'd say, someone wants to talk to you. and i'd walk over. hey. how's it going? and they're looking at me like -- [ laughter ] >> jimmy: and what would you talk about? >> you know, i'd ask them how everything's going. [ laughter ] you know, what it's like to be in a gang. [ laughter ] is it fun? i mean, you guys get a lot of free time? [ laughter ] that's where my end would stop. >> jimmy: we're going to take a quick break here. woody harrelson's with us. "rampart" opens february 10th. we'll be right back. [ cheers and applause

well while moon bases are so far science fiction some people seem ready to believe anything especially if you toss a long thread into the mix. check it out on the streets of new york. in the case of iran's nuclear capabilities people are quick to make judgments based on what they hear in the media but are they actually listening to what's being said this week let's talk about that do you agree with president obama's initiative to monitor iran's nuclear program from the moon. why i think it's important to know what's going on i do yeah why well just because of the threat to the world what is the threat specifically. our safety. we cannot. do you agree with his program. you don't believe that from the moon. maybe from a satellite but i think you're putting me on would you be surprised to know that a lot of people just say by me that they agree with the program from the moon oh that wouldn't surprise me at all that people not human there are. things i'd like to jump off cliffs doesn't the media have a responsibility to guide the lemmings down a better path no lemmings should have their mi

fans of the show are flocking to the rock to see facts from fiction. >> reporter: the rock is magneticore people the past few weeks. >> hading off join us over here. >> reporter: the folk who run the rock say the up tick may be because of the beautiful winter weather, and this. >> i enjoy watching and. >> reporter: he works at alcatraz now in the 5th year of sentence. while most said they hadn't seen the new series, most americans have. >> kind of scary, little science fiction. >> reporter: the popularity is causing some confusion between myth and reality. >> most of the show is shot on a set in vancouver, some of the locations filmed here. this is one of them. this is china alley. >> reporter: in the show it lead dozen a secret room. it's not real. that hasn't stopped some fans trying to find it. now park rangers have padlocked the area that was already limits and put up signs like this. >> we are hoping will work. we haven't had any problems since we know about. >> they tightened up the security but we -- that may not stop us. >> reporter: rangers said if the popularity of the show g

>> that would be a fiction. are 2.7 million jobs in all of the clean energy industries of this country, but the white house itself says at most the economic stimulus and the president's other policies have created about one-tenth that amount just since the president's been in office, about 200,000 jobs. >> the ad claims u.s. dependence on foreign oil declined below 50% in a decade? >> i guess that would be factish. it's technically below 50%, but the reason the white house it stfl says it's pretty clear is that the recession drove down the demand for oil, less economic activity, less need for energy, less need for oil. that's why oil is below 50% at the moment. >> there's a new animated ad by the pro-gingrich ad which shows a fictional debate between romney and president obama to illustrate why romney wouldn't stand a chance against the president. let's take a listen to part of this. >> i agree with governor romney on many things. for instance, abortion. he was pro-choice most of his adult life. so was i. but he

hope eventually that we can set up a permanent base on the move now this all sounds very science fiction but it could very soon be science fact a moon base has been said that it could very well be a very good place to to launch spacecraft from could also be a very good place to build spacecraft of course the the gravity of the moon much less than there is an earth would get see the effect the lesson gravity or zero gravity would have on a spacecraft much more than we can ever simulate on earth hopefully lots of very exciting things that we can see coming up in the next few years there said that hoping to these unmanned probes can be the first step towards perhaps setting up a permanent home on the moon or until that happens moon bases our science fiction for an hour though some people seem ready to believe anything especially if you toss into the mix a long considered threat artie's laurie harford has checked it out on the streets of new york. in the case of iran's nuclear capabilities people are quick to make judgments based on what they hear in the media but are they actually listening

today he's considered one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary fiction-- novelist junot diaz. i'm maria hinojosa. this is one on one. junot, welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me, maria. >> hinojosa: so, a pulitzer for the brief wonderous life of oscar wao. are you still on the pulitzer high? >> no. i don't know if i ever got the pulitzer high. >> hinojosa: no. >> yeah. well, i mean, it's just more about my personality. again, my friends pointed out that i never had a party or even a celebration for it. i just kept working. so that's usually the way i am. but you know, it's been a great ride. i've had a lot of fun. >> hinojosa: okay, so when you called your mom, what did you say? i mean, i want you to say, like, the exact words-- (speaking spanish) >> i didn't call my mom. i was at her house. >> hinojosa: oh! so what did you say to your mom? >> nothing. i just said... i mean, not nothing. i said, "mother... (speaking spanish)" and she's... my mother's very practical, you know? she's like, you know, "(speaking spanish)" i said, "(speaking spanish)," and she laughed.

just a simple question do you believe that corporations are persons well i believe that's a legal fiction to allow corporations to conduct business to pay taxes to let me let me is the end of the marriage if i was told that i agree with rome i agree with that young and for thousands of years we've identified corporations as artificial persons sure and they've had no rights they've had privileges but no rights sure now the supreme court has conferred rights under the first amendment to corporations so do you believe that corporations are people who are deserving of rights and if so where in the constitution do you find that. well i think as i said at the risk of being redundant corporations are artificial purpose persons for pragmatic purposes should they have fairly obviously not flesh and blood entities they have to have rights they have to be able to bring legal actions they have to be able to most certainly otherwise imagine if they were stopped from trying to collect debts or if one of the members of your viewing audience had a complaints against the corporation to actually bring them

you see lots of fiction, lots of fiction, why is that? why do you think that is the case, nicole? if we can get on that front edge, i believe that we can reduce the total cost in health care. john, has, does aca shift this focus into prevention and wellness and what is that going to mean? the prevention and wellness is prominently highlighted throughout the affordable care act. i think the secretary talks about shifting it, shifting the conversation around sicker people to healthier people. there are a number of provisions that i think are worth talking about. obviously the establishment of the national prevention council, which was established, i believe, at the beginning of this year, has a number of people on it that are actually knowledgeable about substance abuse and mental health. there is the prevention and public health trust fund, which was started in 2010 at $500 million dollars last year that grows over the next couple of years to, i believe, $2 billion dollars. then most recently the center for disease control has just released their community transformation grants tha

it's just that we maintain the fiction that it's independent. it's my former staff. it's -- it's legal, but it's fictional. >> that conversation, which was the high light because of its honesty ended with him saying beanbag, you've got to take this stuff. >> there was a question about the abortion language in the ad, but newt comes back. hey, buddy, wait till you get a load of the independent ad about bane capital that's going to be 27 1/2 minutes long and it's going to be -- >> a spokesman -- a surrogate for governor romney, who is, of course, the former governor of this state, new hampshire, he supports governor romney for president, he was the white house chief of staff. let me ask you a particular point here. should candidates be responsible for ads put on the air by their former staffers in interest? should they be responsible for the ads? >> look, you guys are reveling and wall owing in the perception of what's going on. there's a law defined and all the candidates are following the law. and to suggest that governor romney shouldn't know what's in the ad with a