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It’s a wrap for the week:
Steven Colbert Gives iPhone Zero Stars
Philosophy Bites
Miles and Coltrane on YouTube: The Jazz Greats
The Online Spanish Education Program
20 Podcasts That Will Teach You Spanish, French, Italian and German (A Reprise)
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Back when we started out, we mentioned a radio show — and now podcast — coming out of Stanford that offers a “down-to-earth and no-nonsense approach” to philosophy that’s engaging, if not entertaining. It’s called Philosophy Talk, and you can catch some of the old programs on iTunes.
Now, about 6,000 miles and eight time [...]
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One of our readers tipped us off to a couple of vintage jazz clips on YouTube. First up is footage of Miles Davis and John Coltrane playing a nice rendition of “So What,” the leadoff tune from Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue (1959), an album that ranks at the very top of the jazz canon. [...]
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Our collection of podcasts will get you on the road to speaking German. To learn more languages, see our complete collection of foreign language lesson podcasts.
LearnItalianPod.com iTunes Feed Web Site
A series of Italian language lessons that will get you up and running. I have personally used them and found them effective.
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Our collection of podcasts will get you on the road to speaking German. To learn more languages, see our complete collection of foreign language lesson podcasts.
Deutsch - warum nicht?
An extensive collection of introductory German podcasts put together by Deutsche Welle.
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Our collection of podcasts will help you start speaking Mandarin or Cantonese. To learn more languages, see our complete collection of foreign language lesson podcasts.
French for Beginners iTunes Feed Web Site
Fun, effective lessons for beginners. Provided by the French Ecole.
Le Journal en français facile iTunes Feed Web Site
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Our collection of podcasts will help you start getting comfortable in English. To learn more languages, see our complete collection of foreign language lesson podcasts.
Business English iTunes Web Site
Learn the English you will need to function effectively in an American business environment.
English as a Second Language Podcast iTunes Feed [...]
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Our collection of podcasts will help you start speaking Mandarin or Cantonese. To learn more languages, see our complete collection of foreign language lesson podcasts.
Cantonese Lessons Feed Web Site
This is a very fledgling Cantonese language series. It has one lesson so far. So we’ll have to see if this is for real. In the [...]
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Another week, another wrap:
The Top 25 Educational Podcasts on iTunes - June 22
The Trouble with Judas
James Joyce’s Ulysses: A Free Podcast
University Podcasts: The New Video Wave on iTunes
The Salman Rusdie Affair: Part II
Physics for Future Presidents on Video
20 Podcasts That Will Teach You Spanish, French, Italian and German
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Open Culture explores cultural and educational media (podcasts, videos, online courses, etc.) that’s freely available on the web, and that makes learning dynamic, productive, and fun. We sift through all the media, highlight the good and jettison the bad, and centralize it in one place. Trust us, you’ll find engaging content [...]
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We haven’t visited the list of iTunes’ top educational podcasts since April. So it’s time for another look…What we’ve got here is pretty much a case of “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” Or, put differently, even though two months have passed, it is still foreign language lesson podcasts that are ruling the [...]
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The trouble with Judas is that if he was carrying out God’s plan, was he really evil? The point has been made everywhere from seminaries to Jesus Christ, Superstar, but it suddenly became more urgent with the rediscovery of a putative Gospel of Judas in 2004. Religious scholars Elaine Pagels and Karen King have a [...]
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This is a book that needs no introduction, but we will give it a short one anyway. Published in serial format between 1918 and 1920, James Joyce’s Ulysses was initially reviled by many and banned in the US and UK until the 1930s. Today, it’s widely considered a classic in modernist literature, and The Modern [...]
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When universities first started developing their podcast collections, a good number took their audio archives — the many lectures and talks they had recorded over the years — and uploaded them onto iTunes. Now, months later, some institutions are turning to their video archives. Most notably, MIT has given users access to video podcasts taken [...]
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Almost 20 years ago, Salman Rushdie published his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, never realizing how this literary event would change his life. The Ayatollah Khomeini, the spiritual leader of Iran’s religious and political revolution, saw in the book “blasphemous” depictions of the prophet Muhammad, and then handed down a fatwa calling for Rushdie’s death. [...]
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No, you came to the right site. We’ve simply moved to Wordpress and we’ll be spending the coming day doing some last minute fix ups. If you see any big problems, please don’t hesitate to let us know. Thanks for your patience. And a big word of thanks goes out to Eric “Herr Doktor” Oberle [...]
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This web page doesn’t look like much, but it houses a great deal. Put simply, the page plugs you into an archive of 135
vintage American radio shows, spanning from the 1930s to the 1950s. This was the height of America’s radio days. And when you listen to the recordings, it won’t take long to realize [...]
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If you haven’t quite gotten the last episode of The Sopranos out of your head (clearly, I haven’t) … if you’re still mulling over what happened during those closing moments, then you may want to peruse a TV writer’s intriguing and informed take on whether Tony got whacked in the last episode. There’s a lot [...]
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April 30, 2007
10 Unexpected Uses of the iPod
New technologies often have unintended uses. Take the Ipod as a case in point. It was developed with the intention of playing music (and later videos), but its applications now go well beyond that. Here are 10 rather unforeseen, even surprising, uses:
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Numerous MP3 blogs, otherwise called “music blogs” or “audio blogs”, have sprouted up since 2003, offering listeners the chance to get exposed not only to forgotten music and out-of-print albums, but also to new music being put out by new bands and indie labels. Below, we have collected some of the more well-regarded MP3 blogs [...]
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America’s 42nd president spoke this weekend at Harvard’s Class Day, a traditional event held for graduating seniors. While Class Day often features pop icons and comedians — take this speech by Ali G from a few yeas ago — Clinton’s speech was a bit more serious and idealistic, and it reminds us that there may [...]
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David Chase, the creator of The Sopranos, smartly decided to spend some time in France while the rest of America watched and debated the last episode of his masterful series. However, he did agree to one interview, and it will apparently be his last on the subject. After this, it’s radio silence.
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The prince of pragmatism and a lion of Stanford, Richard Rorty, died last week in Palo Alto at age 75. Rorty was most famously a philosophical pragmatist, believing that the philosopher’s role in life is to answer our pressing everyday questions, not to get lost in abstract theories. According to his obituary, in his later [...]
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Here’s a quick recap of features from this past week:
Interview with Khaled Hosseini (in Video)
Author Talks on Podcasts
A Whole Lotta Chomsky
D-Day Relived in Real Time
We’re Talking University Podcasts
Books That Writers Recommend
A History of the West: 52 Free Videos
The Cannes Film Festival: 60 Years of Images
iTunes U & What It Means For You
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Catch Khaled Hosseini talking about his latest bestseller, A Thousand Splendid Suns, which comes on the heals of the The Kite Runner. The interview was conducted by Jeffrey Trachtenberg at The Wall Street Journal.
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The Leonard Lopate Show (iTunes - feed - web site), coming out of New York City, has recently aired a good series of interviews with authors of new, important books. Lopate knows how to give a good interview. Give a listen.
Arnold Rampersad on his new book, Ralph Ellison: A Biography (mp3)
Lopate conducts a uniquely well [...]
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We recently stumbled upon a big trove of political dissent. This collection features over 200 talks — some in audio, some in video — given by MIT’s Noam Chomsky. The talks, which focus on politics (and not his work on linguistics) range from the 1970s to today. For an archive of his political writings, [...]
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