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≡ Category: History | ≅ Leave a Comment
Right in time for Memorial Day, The Teaching Company has made available a 30 minute lecture, Eisenhower and Operation Overlord (download mp3 here or mp4 here), which is an outtake from a larger course called “World War II: A Military and Social History.” The lecture, presented by Professor Thomas Childers (University of Pennsylvania), delves into [...]
≡ Category: Life | ≅ 2 Comments
Ira Glass, host of the beloved radio show This American Life, offers a helpful reminder that excellence doesn’t come automatically. (See video below.) It takes work, years of it. And he revisits some of his early radio work in order to prove it. The Glass video has been added to our YouTube playlist. Subscribe to [...]
≡ Category: Books, Stanford | ≅ Leave a Comment
Here at Stanford, a couple of our teachers (Tom Kealey and Adam Johnson) took a novel approach to running a writing class. They wanted to see what happens when 14 students collectively write, edit and illustrate a graphic novel. (A graphic novel is a type of comic book that features a lengthy and complex storyline.) [...]
≡ Category: Music, Random | ≅ 2 Comments
File this under “Random” … Contribute to The Power of Dreams Music Education Fund at www.detroitsymphony.com and click on Education or go here. Subscribe to Our Feed
≡ Category: Current Affairs | ≅ Leave a Comment
Speaking at the TED Conference, Alisa Miller (CEO of Public Radio International) explains why Americans know less and less about the rest of the world. Along the way, she uses some eye-popping graphs to put things in perspective. Watch the video below or find it on our YouTube playlist … Also, for more smart videos, [...]
≡ Category: YouTube | ≅ 1 Comment
Lots of newsprint has been dedicated to MIT’s OpenCourseWare initiative. And, of course, it’s understandable. MIT’s project offers free access to materials from 1800 MIT courses, many on the cutting edge of technology and engineering. It is all great. But suddenly MIT is not the only tech powerhouse getting into the business of providing free [...]
≡ Category: Web/Tech | ≅ 4 Comments
Long ago, I got in the habit of using Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary. And I’ve suffered through the painfully slow page loads for the better part of a decade. But then I stumbled upon a better alternative. NinjaWords is “a really fast dictionary … fast like a Ninja.” Give it a try. You’ll enjoy the speed. [...]
≡ Category: Books | ≅ Leave a Comment
As I write, the most emailed article on The New York Times offers a few reflections on Peter Boxall’s book, 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. The Times piece makes a couple of logical points: First, there’s no time to waste if you hope to read every book on the list. Reading a [...]
≡ Category: Television | ≅ Leave a Comment
On Sunday night, HBO aired its new film “Recount,” which delved back into the controversial Florida recount that determined the outcome of America’s 2000 presidential election. Days before the film (watch the trailer here) hit the airwaves, Charlie Rose conducted an interview with Kevin Spacey (actor in the film), Jeffrey Toobin (Senior Legal Analyst at [...]
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