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The best free cultural & educational media on the web
≡ Category: Random | ≅ 10 Comments
Yesterday, Jon Gordon (the host of Future Tense, a technology show aired by American Public Media) discussed the major tech innovations of the decade. At the end of the show (around the 49th minute), a caller asked: “What’s the neatest site, in terms of wow factor, that makes you say holy cow this is so [...]
≡ Category: Most Popular | ≅ 2 Comments
Couldn’t let you down. Couldn’t let the year end without giving you a “best of” list. So here it goes. A purely subjective list. 25 items. Some educational; some a little more entertaining; some popular, etc. I hope you enjoy, and you can always search through our complete archive here. Thanks all, and best wishes [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ 2 Comments
Yup, we mentioned Quentin Tarantino last week, and we’re doing it again this week because Rosario has unearthed this nice clip. In six snappy minutes, Tarantino (director of Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dog, Inglorious Basterds, etc) lists his favorites films made since 1992 — when he, himself, started making films. You’ll know some of these titles, [...]
≡ Category: Amazon Kindle, e-books, iPhone, Literature, Most Popular | ≅ 2 Comments
Today, we’re rolling out a sizable collection of Free eBooks, most of them classics, that features major works written by James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, Nietzsche and others. (We have even thrown in a little Paulo Coelho.) You’ll find 100+ free ebooks in total, and you can download the texts to your computer, smart phone (iPhone, [...]
≡ Category: Amazon Kindle, Audio Books, Books, Literature | ≅ 4 Comments
Today’s free story:Â When They Were Calling You in for Dinner (listen here) or read it in the Charles River Review [To download the story and listen on your MP3 player, just right-click and "save file as..."] Dear OC readers, About a week ago, I posted here about my Publishing Experiment Take 1. I spoke of [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ Leave a Comment
It’s that time of the year. Or rather that time of the decade. It’s time for “best of” lists — good ones, often banal ones, and sometimes bad ones. Here’s one good list that might serve you well next year. Twenty-Five Essential Films of the 2000s features some films that you’ve undoubtedly seen (The Lord [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ Leave a Comment
One thing is for sure. David Lynch has never been conventional. Not now, and not during his early years. While putting together our collection of Free Movies Online, we unearthed several short films from the 1960s, when Lynch was getting his start. His very first film, Six Men Getting Sick (Six Times), appears above. Links [...]
≡ Category: Art, Life | ≅ Leave a Comment
Some very powerful images in this New York Times feature. But, taken together, they don’t say much good for 2009. Bring on the New Year…
≡ Category: Life | ≅ 1 Comment
To eat bacon sandwiches? Or not to eat bacon sandwiches? That’s the question that David Spiegelhalter, “Professor Risk” at Cambridge University, tackles in this short video examining stats, life, and whether we should err on the side of caution … or risk. This clip is part of Cambridge’s YouTube channel, which now appears in our Smart [...]
≡ Category: History | ≅ Leave a Comment
Let me quickly call your attention to an interview with Joseph Ellis, the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling historian, who most recently published American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies in the Founding of the Republic. In this casual, wide-ranging conversation (listen below or here) with Russ Roberts, the host of EconTalk, Ellis talks through the founding years of [...]
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