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≡ Category: Literature | ≅ 3 Comments
Searching for a stinging insult that has a nice literary quality? Let the Shakespeare Insult Finder be your guide. And, if you find yourself needing a good insult on the go, you can always download a free app for the iPhone. “Your means are very slender, and your waste is great.” –Henry IV, part 2 (Thanks [...]
≡ Category: Business, Education | ≅ 3 Comments
I live in Silicon Valley where it’s easy to assume that you’re living at the center of technological innovation. But, as Sarah Lacy reminds us today in TechCrunch, Silicon Valley will probably not realize the promise of e-learning. Rather, it will be investors and entrepreneurs in Brazil, India, South Africa and other emerging markets. Why will they [...]
≡ Category: Media, Philosophy | ≅ 5 Comments
This week, The New York Times began a philosophy blog called The Stone, moderated by Simon Critchley. The series will address “issues both timely and timeless – art, war, ethics, gender, popular culture and more.” And it will ask: “What does philosophy look like today? Who are philosophers, what are their concerns and what role [...]
≡ Category: Film, Sci Fi, Science | ≅ 2 Comments
As Robert Bly noted in his book, The Science in Science Fiction, some of the most intriguing scientific ideas have originated not in labs, but in sci-fi books and movies. With Iron Man 2 hitting the screens, Sidney Perkowitz, a physicist at Emory University, talks about whether the science in the new pop movie has any roots [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ 1 Comment
David Lynch is no stranger to commercials. In the past, he lent his filmmaking talents to Calvin Klein, Giorgio Armani and others (watch the ads here). And now it’s Dior. Shot in Shanghai, Lynch’s internet movie, Lady Blue Shanghai, runs 16 minutes and stars the Oscar-winning French actress Marion Cotillard. Although largely given free reign here, [...]
≡ Category: Psychology | ≅ Leave a Comment
Viktor Frankl, a trained Austrian psychiatrist, spent five long years in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, eventually ending up in Auschwitz. During this time, he helped fellow prisoners cope with their ordeal and worked out a new approach to psychology called Logotherapy. This theory embodied Frankl’s belief that we’re all fundamentally driven by [...]
≡ Category: Uncategorized | ≅ Leave a Comment
A quick fyi: Stanford Continuing Studies will open up registration Monday morning (8:30 am California time) for its summer lineup of online writing courses. Offered in partnership with the Stanford Creative Writing Program (one of the most distinguished writing programs in the country), these online courses give beginning and advanced writers, no matter where they live, the chance [...]
≡ Category: Literature, Music, Poetry | ≅ 3 Comments
Next up: Tom Waits reads Charles Bukowski’s poem, The Laughing Heart. As Zoran (a reader from Greece) observes, Waits reads the poem much like Bukowski would have read it himself. Of course, this raises the question: How did Bukowski read his poetry? The Secret of My Endurance holds the answer. Thanks Zoran…
≡ Category: Film, History | ≅ Leave a Comment
Seventy-five years ago today, on the morning of May 13, 1935, a 46-year-old retired British army officer was riding his motorcycle home from the post office, when he swerved to avoid hitting two boys on bicycles. He was thrown onto the road and sustained head injuries, then died six days later in a provincial hospital. [...]
≡ Category: iPhone, Philosophy | ≅ Leave a Comment
AskPhilosophers puts real philosophers at the service of the general public. Have a big, lofty question that only a professional philosopher can tackle? They’ll answer it on the web. And now on the iPhone. This new, free app (designed by Amherst College) lets you access their Q&A archive on the go. While waiting in line for [...]
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