The best free cultural & educational media on the web
The best free cultural & educational media on the web
≡ Category: Literature | ≅ 4 Comments
Here’s a quick little find for the poetry lover: A slew of early poems by Wallace Stevens, the great American poet, can now be downloaded as podcasts (iTunes). They include many classics — Anecdote of the Jar, The Emperor of Ice Cream, Peter Quince at the Clavier, Sunday Morning, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a [...]
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≡ Category: Science, Video - Science | ≅ 3 Comments
E = mc2. It’s hands-down the most well known equation out there. But how many have the faintest idea what the equation really means? Not too long ago, PBS’ NOVA put together a “docudrama,” called Einstein’s Big Idea, which took a close look at how Einstein arrived at the equation and what it means. Along [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs | ≅ Leave a Comment
Open Source, an always insightful public radio program, aired last week a show that took a broad look at the winners and losers of the Iraq war. Taking up a theme that was also recently explored in an edition of Foreign Policy magazine, the host, Christopher Lydon, spoke with a panel of experts from [...]
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Here’s a quick heads up: Starting today, you can register for online writing courses at Stanford. Offered by Stanford Continuing Studies and the Stanford Creative Writing Program (which is one of the most distinguished writing programs in the country), these online courses give beginning and advanced writers, no matter where they live, the chance [...]
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Here’s a different kind of podcast: You can now find on iTunes a new video podcast that features animated versions of The New Yorker’s famous cartoons. A venture called RingTales has apparently been given an exclusive license to animate and distribute The New Yorker’s library of over 70,000 cartoons. Each week, they’ll issue three new video [...]
≡ Category: Music | ≅ 4 Comments
We spent some time this weekend overhauling our Arts & Culture Podcast Collection (plus creating a new Science Podcast Collection), and, along the way, we dug up several good free podcasts for classical music fans. Here’s a quick overview of what we found: With last year being the 250th anniversary of Mozart‘s birth, there [...]
≡ Category: Science | ≅ 29 Comments
All in the Mind iTunes Feed Web Site An Australian podcast that explores the mental universe – neuroscience really – and takes a clear look at everything from addiction to artificial intelligence Astronomy Cast iTunes Feed Web Site Take a weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos with Astronomy Cast. Cambridge University Science Festival (Video) iTunes Web Site [...]
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A History Department Bans Citing Wikipedia as a Research Source "…the Middlebury history department notified its students this month that Wikipedia could not be cited in papers or exams, and that students could not “point to Wikipedia or any similar source that may appear in the future to escape the consequences of errors. With the [...]
≡ Category: Video - Arts & Culture, Video - Politics/Society, Video - Science | ≅ 17 Comments
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