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≡ Category: Current Affairs, Life | ≅ Leave a Comment
It’s time to put a human face on the disheartening economic statistics that we’re hearing almost daily. This video features students from a Southern California high school talking candidly (and without scripts) about how the economic collapse has affected their day-to-day lives. Unemployment, parents leaving the family, homelessness, scarce food — it’s all part of the [...]
≡ Category: Web/Tech | ≅ 3 Comments
If you’re late to Twitter, then this video creatively explains what the recent buzz is all about. In a quick two minutes, you’ll figure out the general idea behind Twitter and how to use it. And once you do, you can start to follow our Twitter stream right here. We also have a list of [...]
≡ Category: Random | ≅ Leave a Comment
File this clip (now added to our YouTube Favorites) under Random. See you next week. via Alfred A. Knopf Twitter Feed (ours here)
≡ Category: Current Affairs | ≅ 1 Comment
Stay with me conservatives on this one. It’s not as bad as you think… NPR’s Intelligence Squared (iTunes - Feed - Web Site) has a rather unique format. It brings Oxford-style debates to America, and it features leading thinkers taking different positions on hot-button issues of our day. (Get more precise details on the debate format here.) Recent debates have centered on the following [...]
≡ Category: Literature | ≅ 1 Comment
The TED conference has featured several talks about creativity in recent years. Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) gave a little spiel about “creative genius” at this year’s conference. Before that, famed psychologist Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi spoke about the relationship between creativity and happiness. (It all boils down to “flow.”) And now we feature novelist Amy Tan (The [...]
≡ Category: Music | ≅ Leave a Comment
“Stevie Wonder, the awardee of the second Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, premieres “Sketches of a Life,” a sprawling, hybrid pop-classical concerto, written between 1976 and 1994. The work was unveiled through a commission for the Library of Congress in the Coolidge Auditorium.” The performance was recorded on February 23, and it [...]
≡ Category: Web/Tech | ≅ Leave a Comment
Paul Levinson, a professor of media studies at Fordham in NYC, talks here about what Web 3.0 might look like. (Start the video at 17:23.)Â If he’s right, I’m not sure that even this gadget geek (meaning me) wants to go there. This clip comes from a YouTube channel called The Alcove, a program that features [...]
≡ Category: Music | ≅ Leave a Comment
A quick find worth passing along… Although somewhat unconventional as far as memoirs go, Chronicles: Volume One recaptures Bob Dylan’s “first stirrings of creativity with amazing urgency” (as Janet Maslin once put it) , and brings you to places that the normal Dylan biography won’t. It brings you back to the small moments that shaped Dylan’s early days as [...]
≡ Category: Comedy, Current Affairs | ≅ Leave a Comment
Courtesy of Stephen Colbert, we get a little history lesson that reminds us how we fixed problems once upon a time in America. Get the full episode here.
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