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≡ Category: History, Media, Music | ≅ Leave a Comment
Thirty years ago today, the New England Patriots-Miami Dolphins game was winding down, the end of another Monday Night Football game. Then, Howard Cosell, America’s legendary sportscaster, broke the news to unsuspecting viewers: “An unspeakable tragedy confirmed to us by ABC News in New York City: John Lennon, outside of his apartment building on the West [...]
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Ryan Woodward has worked on the art direction of many big name Hollywood films – Ironman 2, Spiderman 2 & 3, The Iron Giant, the list goes on. But he had an idea for a short animated film, a love story expressed through dance, and it led to a fruitful collaboration with dance choreographer Kori [...]
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The 92nd Street Y, a cultural pillar of New York City, has released from its audio archive another little gem – Saul Bellow reading from his 1975 novel Humboldt’s Gift, which won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and contributed to Bellow’s Nobel Prize in Literature. Bellow’s reading (access it via iTunes, RSS, or the mp3 player [...]
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Tor Even Mathisen shot these three minutes of timelapse beauty with a Canon EOS 5D mark II. Equally beautiful is this still-frame shot. Many thanks to @Eugenephoto for sending this our way… Beatles Box Sale: Just a heads up. We noticed that Amazon.com has deeply discounted the remastered Beatles Box Sets. The Stereo Box Set now [...]
≡ Category: Books, e-books, Google | ≅ 3 Comments
This morning, Google officially opened up the new Google eBookstore, which gives consumers access to three million ebooks, including many free classics. Taking a page out of Amazon’s playbook, Google now lets you purchase books at competitive ebook prices and read them across multiple platforms – meaning you can start reading a novel on your computer’s web [...]
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Last year, Dave Brubeck’s jazz standard, Take Five, turned 50 years old. (Watch his 1961 performance above.) And, today, the artist celebrates his 90th birthday. Throughout his 80s, Brubeck continued to perform across the US  (we have him playing Take Five at the Montreal Jazz Festival just last year) and onward he plans to go – [...]
≡ Category: History, Math | ≅ 5 Comments
Hans Rosling, a professor of global health at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, focuses on ‘dispelling common myths about the so-called developing world’ (as his TED bio well notes). And he has established a reputation for presenting data in extremely imaginative ways. Just watch the video above, an outtake from the BBC show “The Joy of Stats”). In four [...]
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Computer scientists at UNC-Chapel Hill and colleagues at the Swiss university, ETH-Zurich, have created an algorithm that searches through millions of photos on Flickr, then uses them to build a 3D model of landmarks and geographical locations. Case in point, the video above. According to The Daily Tar Heel, “researchers demonstrated the technique by using [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs | ≅ 10 Comments
Trying to make heads or tails of WikiLeaks, which just released 250,000 US diplomatic cables this week? Then you may want to spend some time with one article and one video. First, The New Yorker published this summer an extensive profile of Julian Assange, the driving force behind WikiLeaks. A key passage explaining Assange’s world view [...]
≡ Category: History | ≅ 1 Comment
These days, it’s easier to come across footage of the Titanic below water rather than above. But here you have it. The Titanic under construction in Belfast in 1911 – a year before it became the stuff of legend. Thanks Lauren for sending this our way. Always appreciate readers joining in on the fun…
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