Japan’s Lost Decade and What It Means for the US

≡ Category: Current Affairs, Economics | ≅ 1 Comment

NPR’s Planet Money podcast has done an excellent job of tracking the ongoing global financial crisis. In its latest installment (Stream – iTunes - Rss Feed), they get down to an important question: Does history offer solutions to the current crisis? And if so, does it make sense to look back at the Depression of the [...]

Google Maps the Oceans, Mars and Time

≡ Category: Google | ≅ 1 Comment

Given that water covers roughly 70% of our planet, it makes sense that Google Earth should take the oceans into account. Thanks to a partnership with the California Academy of Sciences, Google Earth now offers, according to the company blog, detailed maps of the ocean floor “so you can actually drop below the surface and explore [...]

The Historical Jesus on Your iPod

≡ Category: History, Religion | ≅ 1 Comment

I mentioned this course over two years ago, back when the Open Culture had about five readers. And given that the topic is hardly out of date, I figured that it wouldn’t hurt to bring it back to the surface. The course comes out of Stanford’s Continuing Studies Program (where I help give a hand). The [...]

Jon Stewart on the Bizarro World of Wall Street

≡ Category: Comedy, Current Affairs | ≅ 3 Comments

As usual, Stewart cuts to the chase and says what has to be said. And gets a good laugh along the way…

Bob Dylan at The Super Bowl

≡ Category: Music, Television | ≅ 3 Comments

As you’ll recall, we mentioned a few days ago that Bob Dylan allowed “Blowin’ in the Wind” to be used in a British commercial. Never before had Dylan allowed that to happen, at least in Britain. For one of our readers, there was a small silver lining. The company using the classic song (the Co-operative [...]

Gopnik on Darwin & Lincoln: Read the First Chapter

≡ Category: Books | ≅ 1 Comment

We noted last week that New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik has just released a new book, Angels and Ages, which examines the unique stamp that Darwin and Lincoln placed on our modern times. Thanks to The New York Times, you can now read the first chapter of Gopnik’s book for free. It will give you a [...]

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