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≡ Category: Current Affairs, Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
Daniel Goleman has followed up his previous bestsellers, Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence, with a new one — Ecological Intelligence:Â How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything. Ecological intelligence is a way for us to avert environmental catastrophe, and it depends on our knowing whether products are truly environmentally friendly or [...]
≡ Category: History | ≅ 1 Comment
Timothy Leary had a wild ride. He started as a Harvard psychology professor, then went counterculture in 1960s and advocated the therapeutic and spiritual benefits of LSD. Before too long, his legal problems began. In 1965 and 1968, he was arrested for possessing marijuana (less than a half ounce) and given a 10 year prison sentence. [...]
≡ Category: Media, Random | ≅ Leave a Comment
After 17 years of climbing the ladder, Dan Baum finally landed his dream job at The New Yorker. But things didn’t work out quite as he planned. On Twitter this week, Baum tells the story of his rise and fall. You can read a consolidated Twitter-style transcript here. A pretty intriguing look at what happens [...]
≡ Category: Television | ≅ Leave a Comment
Above, we feature Frank Lloyd Wright, who appeared on What’s My Line?, America’s longest-running game show, back in June 1956. During its eighteen seasons, the show featured many cultural VIPs, including Alfred Hitchcock, Salvador Dali, Groucho Marx, Carl Sandburg and others. Along similar lines, it’s worth noting that YouTube now hosts a series of old-time television shows. Within [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ Leave a Comment
From Berlin, two initiatives from the Deutsche Kinemathek/Museum for Film and Television. The first is a collection of private photos and home movies of the Berlin Wall, its eventual collapse, and the reunification that followed. It’s a timely collection, especially given that the 20th anniversary of the Wall’s fall is coming in November. Not only do the [...]
≡ Category: Music | ≅ Leave a Comment
The last sentence is the clincher… Related Content: The Beatles: Podcasts From Yesterday What New Yorkers Heard on the Radio the Night John Lennon was Shot John Lennon and The Rolling Stones Sing Buddy Holly The Grey Video: Mixing The Beatles with Jay-Z Â Â
≡ Category: Audio Books, Literature | ≅ Leave a Comment
From The Internet Archive: “Recorded here is the complete, original story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as penned by Fitzgerald in the early 1920s, published originally in Colliers and finally collected in the popular Tales of the Jazz Age.” You can download and listen to this Fitzgerald story here. Multiple formats are available. We’ve also  added [...]
≡ Category: iPhone, Literature | ≅ Leave a Comment
Last week, we flagged for you a list called the 100 Best iPhone Apps for Serious Self-Learners. What the list missed is another nice app that puts the complete works of Shakespeare on your iPhone. And, the best part, it’s all free. As you’ll see, the app comes with some handy functionality: you can search the text [...]
≡ Category: Math, YouTube | ≅ 2 Comments
During the past couple of days, fans from our Facebook page have recommended two math videos for us. Here they go: “D” offers up a piece called “The New Math” (above), which talks, yes, about the revolution in teaching mathematics. As you’ll see, the piece breaks into comic song, and it all kind of has [...]
≡ Category: Stanford | ≅ Leave a Comment
Think back to the office hours you attended in college. Now put a Web 2.0 slant on it. On Facebook, Stanford faculty members are now holding public office hours. This week, you can watch an introductory video (view here or below) by Philip Zimbardo, the psychology professor best known for the Stanford Prison Experiment, which explains why [...]
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