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≡ Category: Film | ≅ 1 Comment
Buenos Aires has endured a lot – financial crises, social protests, dictatorship and beyond. The award-winning documentary: ¿SerÃa Buenos Aires? (Maybe Buenos Aires?) takes a hard look at how the Argentines responded to dislocations created by forces beyond their control. It’s a universal story that touches on problems we all face today. Greece is just the latest [...]
≡ Category: Life | ≅ 15 Comments
Now in his 50s, British writer and actor Stephen Fry offers some pearls of wisdom for the young (but they’re no less valuable for those a bit longer in the tooth). Don’t set yourself goals. (They keep you from fulfilling who you really are.) Keep your ego in check. (You’ll be better liked, and more [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ Leave a Comment
The actor Dennis Hopper died this morning. You know him from Apocalypse Now and Blue Velvet. But, more than any other film, his legacy is tied to Easy Rider. Hopper directed, co-wrote, and co-starred in the counterculture classic, which won the top prize at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival. Drugs, motorcycles, hippies, communal living – [...]
≡ Category: Books | ≅ 2 Comments
There’s a lot of talk about “vooks” these days. Usually vooks are all about moving traditional books over to digital environments (e.g., the iPad) and surrounding them with supporting web media. But one company, Ubimark, is taking a different approach. They’re keeping the printed word and putting the web inside the traditional book. Kind of. Using smart [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs, Life | ≅ 1 Comment
From Our Universe Visualized on YouTube: The MODIS instrument, on board NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites, is capturing images of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The spill began on April 20, 2010 with the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. This short video reveals a space-based view of the burning oil [...]
≡ Category: Science | ≅ 1 Comment
Three minutes of time lapse video distills six weeks of footage showing the Space Shuttle Discovery getting ready for launch. It moves you from the Orbiter Processing Facility to the launching pad, and everywhere in between. Air & Space has more details on the whole shebang. Props to Joshua for sending this video our way.
≡ Category: Math, Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
This past weekend, Martin Gardner, a gifted and prolific popularizer of mathematics and science, passed away at 95. During his life, Gardner published more than 70 books and wrote the popular “Mathematical Games” column for Scientific American magazine for 25 years. As The New York Times obit notes, his mathematical writings “intrigued a generation of mathematicians,” and he [...]
≡ Category: Literature | ≅ Leave a Comment
Ben Greenman, a fiction writer and editor at the New Yorker, has a short story collection coming out this June. What He’s Poised To Do makes letters and letter-writing a thematic focus, and even before its official publication, Greenman’s collection has inspired a blog that encourages everyday people to write letters to great literary characters. The sample below [...]
≡ Category: Random | ≅ Leave a Comment
So beautiful you don’t need sound or commentary. Now added to our YouTube Favorites. via 3QuarksDaily HT Mike
≡ Category: Current Affairs | ≅ 1 Comment
On a lighter note, and while we’re on the subject of economic crisis, we offer you an animated (and not so serious) explanation of the financial crisis in Greece. The saga continues with Episode 2. Thanks Eren, aka @Gulfi
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