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≡ Category: Random, Technology | ≅ 3 Comments
Students at Poland’s Wroclaw University of Technology got a little techie (or is it techno?) this week, turning their dorm windows into a full color light show. Happily, we can report that all lights were controlled wirelessly. Thanks Bartosz for sending this our way.
≡ Category: Books, Film, Literature | ≅ 2 Comments
He was Argentina’s favorite son, one of the great South American writers of the last century (along with Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carlos Fuentes, and Mario Vargas Llosa), and the winner of 46 national and international literary prizes. We’re talking about Jorge Luis Borges, the master of the postmodern short story. Borges was born in 1899, and to [...]
≡ Category: Psychology, Science | ≅ 5 Comments
How can you change behavior for the better? It’s simple. Make it fun. The next thing you know, people will climb stairs instead of ride the escalator. And they’ll properly throw their trash away too (the subject of another engaging video)… Thanks Adolfo for the great finds.
≡ Category: Science | ≅ 1 Comment
The Big Bang gave birth to our universe. But what will bring it to an absolute end? In 21 minutes, a mere mega blip of time, this episode of Cosmic Journeys offers an impressive visual account of this big enchilada question, taking you across trillions of years. The sun will die but make the earth [...]
≡ Category: Music, Television | ≅ Leave a Comment
Another great way to remember the great Lena Horne. This clip brings you back to 1958, when Horne appeared on What’s My Line, the longest-running game show in American television history. During its eighteen seasons, the show featured hundreds of celebrities, including some of America’s leading cultural figures. You can rewind the video tape and [...]
≡ Category: Film, Music | ≅ Leave a Comment
Sad to note the passing of Lena Horne, one of the first black talents to break the color barrier in Hollywood. Here we have her singing her signature song “Stormy Weather” in 1943. Thanks to @wesalwan, a regular contributor, for flagging this vintage piece.
≡ Category: Art, Random, Science | ≅ 1 Comment
The tech/internet billionaires of the 1990s were never known for their largesse. They built their massive yachts. They bought their sports teams. They didn’t give much back to the public domain, as the Rockefellers, Mellons and the Gettys once did (despite their many other flaws). There are some  exceptions, of course. Bill Gates finally found [...]
≡ Category: Comedy, Google, Media, Television | ≅ 3 Comments
Conan O’Brien’s Silicon Valley tour winds up at Google as part of his “Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour.” In this setting, you can really see his comic/improvisational talents come alive (more so than on late night TV). Give it a watch and tell me if you don’t get a good laugh…
≡ Category: Audio Books, Literature, Radio, Theatre | ≅ 7 Comments
The CBS Radio Workshop was an “experimental dramatic radio anthology series” that aired between 1956 and 1957. And it premiered with a two-part adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s now classic 1932 novel, Brave New World. Huxley himself introduced and narrated the program, and now this classic radio drama has resurfaced online. You can listen to Part [...]
≡ Category: Film, Life, Philosophy, Religion | ≅ Leave a Comment
As he grows older, Woody Allen increasingly finds himself positioned as the philosopher filmmaker. Fresh Air host Terry Gross asked him some heavy existential questions in an interview last year. (Listen here). And, more recently, we have Allen grappling with some big life questions in an interview conducted by Father Robert E. Lauder in the Catholic magazine, Commonweal. [...]
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