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≡ Category: Art, Film | ≅ 2 Comments
Chris Landreth turned to animation as a second career and eventually landed an Oscar with Ryan (2004), a short animated film based on the life of Ryan Larkin, an artist who produced influential animated films during the 1960s, before falling into a personal downward spiral. You can revisit two of Larkin’s animated films (both referenced in [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs | ≅ 7 Comments
Earlier this week, Sweden’s public television service, SVT (akin to PBS and the BBC), released a one hour documentary chronicling the history of WikiLeaks, starting with its early leaks of Scientology documents and ending with its recent release of American diplomatic cables. Since July, SVT reporters have followed WikiLeaks, traveling near and far to interview [...]
≡ Category: Comedy, Film | ≅ Leave a Comment
Right in time for the holiday season. Faux Werner Herzog reads an uber dark and satirical version of Twas The Night Before Christmas. Other fun clips in this video series feature Faux Herzog reading Curious George, Madeline, and Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel. via @eacion
≡ Category: Google, History, Literature | ≅ 2 Comments
Since 2004, Google has digitized more than 15 million books, mostly to build its Google Books service. But yesterday Google Labs released a nice little spinoff product, the Ngram Viewer, that provides a window into how we have historically used words, and what these usages say about our culture. This new visualization tool lets you map out the [...]
≡ Category: Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
Not to miss. PopSci has pulled together a gallery of “The Most Amazing Science Images of 2010.” It features 72 photos in total, including the image above – an E. Coli Sculpture that figures into artist Luke Jerram’s “Glass Microbiology” series of portraits. Find a short video his Malaria sculpture right here.
≡ Category: Philosophy | ≅ Leave a Comment
Last week, we added three philosophy courses by John Searle to our big list of Free Online Courses (now 300+ courses). This week, we’re bringing you five philosophy courses from America’s elite Catholic university, Notre Dame. You can access two courses in audio, and three in video via iTunes and the web. Here you go: [...]
≡ Category: Random, Science | ≅ 1 Comment
The folks at MIT show you a drop of water like you’ve never seen it before. A great little outtake from the Discovery Channel program “Invisible Worlds In The Water.” This video appears in our collection of 125 Great Science Videos. via Alltop
≡ Category: Life | ≅ 1 Comment
Back in 1931, during another period of economic malaise, The New York Times asked some big thinkers what the world will look in another 80 years. (That is, in 2011.) Some proved to be fairly prescient. Take, for example, William James Mayo (a founder of the Mayo Clinic) who said: Contagious and infectious diseases have [...]
≡ Category: History, Law | ≅ Leave a Comment
To commemorate the 219th birthday of the Bill of Rights, the National Constitution Center will host today (Wednesday) a free webcast exploring the history of the U.S. Constitution’s first ten amendments. It will start with James Madison’s initial work on this list of essential freedoms, then cover the years when these provisions were seldom applied, [...]
≡ Category: Audio Books, Literature | ≅ Leave a Comment
Through December 22, the Guardian’s new Short Stories podcast (iTunes – RSS – Web Site) will present 12 well-known authors reading stories by other famous writers. So far, we have Philip Pullman reading Chekhov, Anne Enright presenting Raymond Carver’s story “Fat,” and William Boyd reading JG Ballard’s “My Dream of Flying to Wake Island.” The schedule [...]
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