Math Magic

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Arthur Benjamin is a self-proclaimed “mathemagician.” He’s also a professor of mathematics at Harvey Mudd College. No need to say more. Watch him go. We’re adding this one to our list of YouTube favorites. via The Teaching Company’s Facebook Page.

Sicko

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Watch Michael Moore’s Sicko online here. Thanks @courosa

Big Ideas

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A new addition to our popular and still growing collection: Intelligent Video: The Top Cultural & Educational Video Sites … (The list now has close to 50 intelligent video sites.) Big Ideas, a program that comes out of Canada, features a “variety of thought-provoking topics which range across politics, culture, economics, art history, science…. The program has [...]

Oliver Sacks on the iPod

≡ Category: Music | ≅ Leave a Comment

Oliver Sacks, the famous neurologist and author of Musicophilia, a study that looks at the human brain and music, speaks in Harpers about the landscape altering iPod: As Daniel Levitin has pointed out, passive listening has largely replaced active music-making. Now that we can listen to anything we like on our iPods, we have less motivation [...]

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