Dan Koeppel
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Richard Koeppel's obsession began at age twelve, in Queens, New York, when he first spotted a Brown Thrasher, and jotted the sighting in a notebook. Several decades, one failed marriage, and two sons later, he set out to see every bird on earth, becoming a member of a subculture of competitive bird watchers worldwide all pursuing the same goal. Over twenty-five years, he collected over seven thousand species, becoming one of about ten people ever...
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"An urgent, on-the-ground account of chaos and compassion from the front lines of COVID-19, from a New York Times journalist and a senior doctor at New York City's busiest emergency room. When Dan Koeppel texted his cousin Robert Meyer, a twenty-year veteran of the emergency room at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, at the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis in the United States, he expected to hear that things were hectic. On a scale of 1 to 10,...
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A documentary about bikes and what an amazing tool for change they can be. BIKES VS. CARS highlights conflicts in city planning between bikes, cars and a growing reliance on fossil fuels. Official Selection at the **SXSW Film Festival**. *"Gertten has put in the time to capture how these cities' unique scenarios unfold to mount a compelling case against the powerful automotive industry, oil and construction." - Martin Tsai, **The Los Angeles Times***...