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Here’s a quick recap of this week’s pieces:
Atheists for Jesus, or Really a Debate Over Whether Religion and Science Can Get Along
25 Smart Video Podcasts That You Can Watch on Apple TV
Wikipedia’s (Sometimes Dirty) Little Secret
Starting Startups: A Free Course (and More) for the Entrepreneur
Apple TV: Turn Your TV into a [...]
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Over the past two days, NPR’s Fresh Air has devoted two programs to interrogating whether religion and
science can co-exist. On Wednesday, air time was first given to Richard Dawkins, the famed Oxford University scholar of evolution who, with his recent publication of The God Delusion, has launched a vigorous defense of atheism. As you [...]
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Earlier this week, we discussed the recent release of Apple TV, the new gadget that lets you wirelessly download videos from iTunes to your cushy widescreen TV. For many consumers, the logical question to ask is whether there’s much to watch if they plunk down the $299 for the hardware. (Check it out in our [...]
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When you think Wikipedia, you think encyclopedia. And when you think
encyclopedia, you think education, self enrichment and all kinds of
good stuff.
A trip to Wikipedia’s home page initially confirms those impressions. It points you to rather edifying content: an introduction to the Pashtun people, an entry on the Australian pelican, a look at the Vikings’ historical [...]
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It’s not every day that a course like this gets given away. So, if you’re a budding entrepreneur, consider it your lucky day.
Entrepreneurship and Business Planning is a free course available via podcast (iTunes Feed Mp3) that parallels a classroom course being offered at Carnegie Mellon within the Masters in Information Systems Management (MISM) [...]
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When Steve Jobs announced Apple’s new lineup of gadgets at Macworld in January (listen on iTunes or stream it), all eyes were focused on the planned release of the iPhone. Relatively lost in the commotion, however, was Apple TV, which started shipping this week. (Check it out in our Amazon store.) Despite [...]
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This is just a quick heads up. You can now watch online the first episode of This American Life. Showtime just started airing a televised version of the long-running and very popular radio program (which is also available as a podcast iTunes Feed Web Site). If you’re wondering how the show’s distinctive feel [...]
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Who knew that the iPod could help save lives? Check out this news story on Yahoo.
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Here’s a quick recap of this week’s pieces:
Podcast Primer
Oxford University Takes to iTunes
Oodles of Google Video Documentaries
Mr. Gore Goes Back to Washington
America’s Shadow Army in Iraq
The YouTube Threat to iTunes?
The New Psychology of Success
The Next Fifty Years of Science, and Other Videos from Googleplex
Understanding Why Alberto Gonzales May Go
Podcasts from Top American Law Schools
Access [...]
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Oxford University now has an official podcasting presence on iTunes, albeit a small one. It’s hard to know whether this is part of a wider university initiative, or whether it’s just one academic program acting on its own (it seems to be the latter), but you can now listen to a series of four Oxford [...]
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Last week, we talked about how it can be logistically difficult to find smart videos on Google Video and YouTube. Then, this week, we stumble upon this: a no-frills web site called Best Online Documentaries that aggregates, yes, you guessed it, high-quality online documentaries, almost all from Google Video. The video segments are divided into [...]
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Al Gore made a much publicized trip back to Washington yesterday. As The New York Times describes it, "It was part science class, part policy wonk paradise, part politics and all theater as former Vice President Al Gore came to Congress … to insist that global warming constitutes a “planetary emergency” requiring an aggressive federal [...]
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MediaShift, the PBS blog which "tracks how new media—from weblogs to podcasts to citizen journalism—are changing society and culture," has just posted a new piece that you’ll want to check out. The article, given the snappy title "Will Video Kill the Audio Podcasting Star? Not Exactly," takes a good look at how audio podcasts are [...]
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The latest issue of Stanford Magazine features an intriguing article worth a little bit of your time. Carol Dweck, a psychology professor at Stanford, has spent much of her career looking at the psychological underpinnings of success, and her research has pointed to one broad conclusion: Those who believe their intelligence is fixed — who [...]
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Here is where the ideology of privatization logically ends up. As part of its occupation, the US government has flooded Iraq with private contractors. And while some build bridges and others help pump oil, a good number carry out military operations in America’s name, and they’ve positioned themselves to be subject to neither military nor [...]
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Last week, we talked a little (here and here) about the trials and tribulations of finding enlightened content on GooTube (Google Video + YouTube). What we didn’t mention is that some of this good content comes straight from Google headquarters itself. This page, simply titled Videos from Googleplex, captures talks given mostly at corporate central, [...]
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We talk about podcasts a good deal around here. But given that only 12% of internet users have ever downloaded a podcast, and only 1% does so daily (see this Pew Research Center study), we wanted to provide an overview of podcasts and how to use them. In a few minutes, we want to get [...]
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The scuttlebutt is that President Bush may soon be looking for a new Attorney General. While Don Rumsfeld and his bungled war plan withered criticism for years, Gonzales has been pushed to the brink in a matter of weeks, and for issues that few seem to clearly understand. Yes, we know that it’s all over [...]
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American University – Washington College of Law iTunes Feed Web Site
An eclectic collection of legal podcasts.
Duke University School of Law iTunes Feed Web Site
Lectures, panels, conferences, etc.
Georgetown University – Georgetown Law iTunes Feed Web Site
One of the richer collections.
George Mason University
The Law and Economics Podcast iTunes Feed Web Site
Produced by the Journal of Law, [...]
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Here’s a quick summary of our recent pieces:
Has Stephen Hawking Been Wrong For The Last 30 Years?
My Trip to Al Qaeda: A New Yorker Video
Smart Links
BondCast (AKA a James Bond Podcast)
Future Tense Radio Interview — Talking More About the Problem with GooTube
The Problem with GooTube (and Inside Iran)
25 UC Berkeley Courses Available via Free Video
If [...]
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