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The best free cultural & educational media on the web
≡ Category: Music | ≅ 2 Comments
A quick fyi: The Free Music Archive now offers up over 10,000 free, high quality (and legal) mp3s. The archive is run by WFMU, the renowned freeform radio station that also runs the excellent “Beware of the Blog.” All of the audio has been hand-picked by music curators, and you can use the audio pretty much [...]
≡ Category: Physics, Science, Video - Science | ≅ 9 Comments
From The New York Times: Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates believes that if he had been able to watch physicist Richard Feynman lecture on physics in 1964 his life might have played out differently… However, Mr. Gates, who is also well known for his sharp and varied intellectual interests and his philanthropic commitment to education, said this week [...]
≡ Category: Apple, iPhone | ≅ 20 Comments
A quick heads up. We’ve now started rolling out our new iPhone app. It will let you listen to audiobooks, university courses, foreign language lessons, and other intelligent content on the iPhone. The app is free. And so is the content. So there’s nothing to lose by checking it out. We’ve designed it so that all [...]
≡ Category: Music | ≅ 1 Comment
From The New Yorker’s Goings On Blog: The Beatles’ “official Web site is featuring short documentaries, hosted by George Martin, on the making of the band’s original albums. The first one, about “Revolver,” is up now, though the site seems to be hobbling along, possibly due to high server load.” Also, a little something for [...]
≡ Category: Theatre | ≅ 22 Comments
Here’s an American classic. The Crucible, the great play by Arthur Miller, premiered in 1953, and it famously used the 1690s Salem Witch Trials to offer a commentary on McCarthyite America. Thanks to LA Theatre Works, you can now listen to the play online. The production stars Stacy Keach, Richard Dreyfuss, Ed Begley, Jr., Joe Spano, [...]
≡ Category: Philosophy | ≅ 2 Comments
Philosophy doesn’t have to be daunting. Thanks to the Continuing Education program at Oxford University, you can ease into philosophical thinking by listening to five lectures collectively called Philosophy for Beginners. (Find them on iTunesU in audio and video). Taught by Marianne Talbot, Lecture 1 starts with a “Romp Through the History of Philosophy” and [...]
≡ Category: Books, Media | ≅ Leave a Comment
Late last week, we featured the free audio and text versions of Chris Anderson’s new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price. Today, we highlight a conversation that recently took place at The Aspen Institute’s Ideas Festival, and it focuses on a similar question, really the main question preoccupying many business leaders these days : How [...]
≡ Category: Music | ≅ 1 Comment
Brilliantly done. If only we could all respond to corporate shenanigans this artfully… (PS It turns out that, once this video went viral, United had some second thoughts. More here.) via Andrew Sullivan
≡ Category: Audio Books, Business, Economics | ≅ 4 Comments
Ok, sorry to belabor this. Earlier today, I mentioned that you could download the audiobook of Chris Anderson’s Free: The Future of a Radical Price at Audible for no cost. It turns out that the Audible offer isn’t available to a worldwide audience. It may just be available to US residents. The good news is that [...]
≡ Category: Audio Books, Business, Economics | ≅ 4 Comments
A quick update: Yesterday, I mentioned that you can grab on Google Books and Scribd a free e-book of Chris Anderson’s latest work, Free: The Future of a Radical Price. Today, I discovered that you can also download an audiobook version of Free over at Audible.com. It will cost you nothing. But you will need to [...]
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