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≡ Category: e-books, Google | ≅ Leave a Comment
A quick heads up: Lifehacker is highlighting today some new software (Windows only) that will let you download free access/public domain texts from Google Book Search and then turn them into neat PDF files. To get tips on how to use the software created by a third party, not Google, head on over to Lifehacker. I [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs, Economics | ≅ Leave a Comment
Here we are. One year after the fall of Lehman Brothers. And here we have Michael Lewis, the author of Liar’s Poker, talking about his next book – The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (2010) — that looks at those people who actually understood that Wall Street was going to blow up. Most of the banking [...]
≡ Category: Audio Books, Science | ≅ 1 Comment
Just a quick fyi: Audible.com is giving away a free chapter (in audio) from a new book, Uranium Wars: The Scientific Rivalry that Created the Nuclear Age (preview it on Amazon here). Written by Amir Aczel, a skilled popular science writer, the book takes a close look at the scientists who discovered the destructive potential [...]
≡ Category: Philosophy | ≅ 4 Comments
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Harvard philosophy professor Michael Sandel appeared on the Today Show this morning, and got four minutes to make the case for philosophy. If you’re not familiar with him, Sandel is a very popular Harvard professor. Some 15,000 students have taken his courses over 30 [...]
≡ Category: Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
A little breaking news… 35 leading universities have launched a new web site, Futurity.org, with a simple goal — educating the public about new scientific breakthroughs. In the old days, universities depended on the traditional press to spread the word about new scientific advances. Now, with journalism in crisis and newspapers folding, the schools can [...]
≡ Category: Literature, Poetry | ≅ 1 Comment
It’s a happy trend. Increasingly, we’re seeing museums launching dynamic online exhibitions to accompany their exhibitions on the ground. In the past, we highlighted the Tate Modern’s panoramic tour of Mark Rothko’s work. And now we point you to The Life and Work of William Butler Yeats, an online exhibition created by The National Library of [...]
≡ Category: Music | ≅ 1 Comment
What’s the story behind this video? Here it is, straight from the producer, Jarbas Agnelli from Brazil: “Reading a newspaper, I saw a picture of birds on the electric wires. I cut out the photo and decided to make a song, using the exact location of the birds as notes (no Photoshop edit). I knew [...]
≡ Category: Physics, Stanford | ≅ 1 Comment
For the past two years, Stanford has been rolling out a series of courses (collectively called Modern Physics: The Theoretical Minimum) that gives you a baseline knowledge for thinking intelligently about modern physics. The sequence, which moves from Isaac Newton, to Albert Einstein’s work on the general and special theories of relativity, to black holes and [...]
≡ Category: e-books, Google | ≅ 1 Comment
Critics of Google Book Search (and its class-action settlement with publishers) are popping up everywhere. European governments have voiced their displeasure. The US Justice Department has placed the settlement under review. Amazon is protesting. Yahoo and Microsoft have piled on too. And now you can add academics to the list. Writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Geoffrey [...]
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