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≡ Category: Education, Web/Tech | ≅ 8 Comments
Professors are increasingly souring on students bringing their laptops to class. Some are banning them. (The Washington Post has more on that.) And some are banning them emphatically. Like the physics professor from the University of Oklahoma. (Watch the video above.) What’s the solution? Maybe this student has the right idea (said in jest).
≡ Category: Education | ≅ 2 Comments
The average American spends a good 100 minutes per day commuting to and from work. (More on that here.) That amounts to about 433 hours per year! Now imagine using that time to learn something new — to read a great book, to take a class from a top university, to learn a new language. To make [...]
≡ Category: Books, Literature | ≅ 1 Comment
A quick heads up for book lovers:Â Goodreads is a large social network for readers, with over 3,000,000 members who review, recommend and swap books. The site also features “book-give-aways” for its members. This month you can enter to win a free copy of If You Follow Me, a novel by Malena Watrous, a talented colleague [...]
≡ Category: Theatre | ≅ Leave a Comment
A quick public service announcement: Beginning Saturday, March 13, L.A. Theatre Works Radio Theatre Series will air Fallen Angels by Noel Coward, starring Annette Bening, Harriet Harris, Judith Ivey, Joe Mantegna, John Rubinstein, and Kristoffer Tabori. The broadcast can be heard locally in Southern California on Saturday from 10 pm to midnight on 89.3 KPCC, and can also be streamed on demand at http://www.latw.org/. LA Theatre Works [...]
≡ Category: Education | ≅ 1 Comment
Here’s one of the first videos to emerge from this weekend’s indie TED conference in New York City. More videos will eventually be posted on the TEDxTalks YouTube Channel, which we’re adding to our Smart YouTube collection. In case you’re not familiar with him, Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard law professor, has been a driving force behind [...]
≡ Category: Astronomy, Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
This humbling footage of the Milky Way was filmed on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the same location that recently gave us footage of stars orbiting a black hole. This is, of course, not a coincidence. Mauna Kea hosts the world’s largest observatory for optical, infrared, and submillimeter astronomy. Thanks Robert for sending this our way. [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ 3 Comments
Alice in Wonderland has a long tradition in American cinema. You can find versions from 2010, 1972, and 1951. You’ll even find a silent version dating all the way back to 1903. Thanks to the British Film Institute (BFI), you can watch online this silent version of Lewis Carroll’s classic tale for the first time. [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ 2 Comments
With the Oscars coming up, American Public Media re-aired today our interview from last November. Here, we tell radio listeners about the wealth of great movies available online for free. You can listen to the interview below (or here), and explore our ever-growing collection of Free Movies Online, which includes films by Hitchcock, Polanski, Coppola, [...]
≡ Category: Education, TED Talks | ≅ 2 Comments
A quick heads up: On Saturday, an independent TED conference will get underway in New York City. It’s dubbed TEDxNYED, and a top notch lineup of speakers (including Lawrence Lessig, Michael Wesch, Gina Bianchini, Henry Jenkins, Jay Rosen and others) will focus on a topic near and dear to our readers’ hearts: how new media and technology will shape the [...]
≡ Category: Economics, Web/Tech | ≅ 4 Comments
A recent Frontline documentary, Digital Nation: A Life on the Virtual Frontier, asks just this question–particularly with regard to education. Subjects include attention span, multi-tasking, and the doubts of one-time technology evangelist Douglas Rushkoff. But while some see technology as an obstacle to clear thinking and human interaction, others see it as essential to contemporary [...]
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