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The best free cultural & educational media on the web
≡ Category: Current Affairs, Life | ≅ 1 Comment
So far, the BP oil spill has remained fairly abstract. We’ve seen it depicted in graphs and satellite images. Now we get to see it right up close. These photos show in brutal detail exactly what’s happening to the wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico. Consider the photos a very quick glimpse into the larger environmental disaster [...]
≡ Category: Education, Technology | ≅ Leave a Comment
Fast forward a generation, and you might hardly recognize the humanities. Big data is here, and it’s allowing tech savvy students to take a whole new approach to “reading” texts. Using Google’s digital library and other tools powered by high power computing, students can now quantitatively analyze large bodies of literature and draw new conclusions about the evolution [...]
≡ Category: Music | ≅ Leave a Comment
Yesterday, President Obama awarded the Gershwin Prize For Popular Song to Sir Paul McCartney. (Watch it here). Then, the good part. McCartney took to the stage and performed the Beatles classic Michelle (the reference is obvious), Eleanor Rigby, and Hey Jude, during which he was joined by Jack White, Stevie Wonder, Dave Grohl and others. [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ 1 Comment
A four minute film, featuring an American pair of Levis traveling the globe for two years, all shot by a Japanese director Takayuki Akachi. Nice find by Ian in El Salvador or … is it now Brazil?
≡ Category: Education | ≅ Leave a Comment
This is a cause you can all relate to: Creative Commons is kicking off a campaign this week to raise money for its recently-launched Catalyst Grants program. Put simply, these grants will help “empower individuals and organizations everywhere … to make knowledge easily, freely, and legally available to everyone.” Grant sizes will range from $1,000 to $10,000, [...]
≡ Category: Math | ≅ 4 Comments
In this 90-minute BBC documentary, Dangerous Knowledge, David Malone takes a close look at four mathematicians – Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing – whose thinking profoundly influenced modern mathematics but also drove them (or so the program argues) to insanity and eventually suicide. Cantor gave us “set theory.” Boltzmann made important [...]
≡ Category: Film, Poetry | ≅ 1 Comment
The poem is “If” by Rudyard Kipling (1899). The scene is The Johnny Cash Show, 1970. Hard to beat this… via @caitlinroper
≡ Category: Music | ≅ Leave a Comment
You have to like the ambition of this project. Roger Greenawalt and David Barratt started recording all 185 original Beatles compositions on the ukulele. They’re making a new song available every week until July 31, 2012, the eve of the London Olympics. And, in each instance, they’re working with different accompanying artists. As you’ll see, [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses | ≅ Leave a Comment
If you blink, you might miss the latest new venture looking to centralize the dizzying number of free online courses. Here’s the latest: The Einztein Knowledge Network. The more the merrier, I say…
≡ Category: Media | ≅ Leave a Comment
Working for The Washington Post in 1972, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein blew open the explosive Watergate scandal – something one newspaper exec called “maybe the single greatest reporting effort of all time.” (The whole saga gets documented in All the President’s Men, available in print and film.) Almost 40 years later, Woodward still writes for the [...]
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