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≡ Category: Film, Literature | ≅ Leave a Comment
Take the Coen Brothers’ 1998 cult film, The Big Lebowski, and put it in Shakespearean verse, and what do you get? Two Gentlemen of Lebowski as written by Adam Bertocci. It begins: In wayfarer’s worlds out west was once a man, A man I come not to bury, but to praise. His name was Geoffrey [...]
≡ Category: Science, TED Talks | ≅ 2 Comments
TED recently took its show to India, and one of the more interesting presentations featured neuroscientist Vilayanur Ramachandran (UCSD) explaining how mirror neurons, a recently discovered system in the brain, “allow us to learn complex social behaviors, some of which formed the foundations of human civilization,” and also helped us evolve as a species. Good [...]
≡ Category: Apple, iPhone, Stanford | ≅ Leave a Comment
Last year, Stanford University gave iPhone owners around the world a boost when it released a free iPhone App Development course (find it on iTunes). Millions have since downloaded the lectures, and many new iPhone apps have been created as a result. (Partly thanks to this course, we developed our own Free iPhone App that [...]
≡ Category: Philosophy, Religion, Science | ≅ 5 Comments
In this clip from Richard Dawkins’ YouTube Channel, philosopher A.C. Grayling offers an argument for why intelligent design should’t be taught alongside evolution in the classroom. Some will agree with his position, and some won’t. And probably few will have no opinion. If you have reactions to Grayling’s argument, please state them civilly and intelligently [...]
≡ Category: Film, Life | ≅ 3 Comments
Welcome to the new world of digital filmmaking. Give this one a minute to get going. Thanks Nats and Gary for sending this one along. Have a great link to share with us? (I know you do!) Write us at mail at openculture dot com.
≡ Category: Life, Science, Technology | ≅ 3 Comments
Every year, The Edge.org poses a thought-provoking question to 150+ engaging thinkers, and the answers never disappoint. This year, they throw out the question: How is the Internet Changing the Way You Think? In this collection, you will find answers by George Dyson, Clay Shirky, Tim O’Reilly, Marissa Mayer, Richard Dawkins and many more. Below, [...]
≡ Category: Amazon Kindle, Books, Business, e-books | ≅ 5 Comments
Click here to listen to this post as audio. (Right-click to download.) As some of you already know, back on December 27th, I released a sample of my first short story collection A Long Way from Disney on Amazon’s Kindle store and used social media strategies to market it. I did this for various reasons, [...]
≡ Category: Physics, Science | ≅ 4 Comments
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 string [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ 2 Comments
Our collection of Free Online Movies is the gift that keeps on giving. It led us unexpectedly to discover the wealth of World War II propaganda films made by some of America’s greatest directors. It also turned up (among other things) the Kurosawa Digital Archive. Opened last year by Kyoto’s Ryukoku University, the archive honors [...]
≡ Category: Books, Literature | ≅ 5 Comments
This almost slipped by me. As 2009 drew to a close, The New York Times posted two annual lists. First, its list of 100 Notable Books and then its 10 Best Books of 2009. 5 Fiction. 5 Nonfiction. It’s a pretty good distillation of the better works published last year. But enough about ’09. What’s coming [...]
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