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≡ Category: Random | ≅ 1 Comment
Shelley Jones and Marko Anstice “space hop” through Venice with the help of some stop motion photography. It’s a wintery Venice, very different from the city (watch video) millions come to know during the summer months. Appreciate the tip Ellen. If you have a great piece of intelligent media to share with your fellow readers, [...]
≡ Category: e-books, Literature | ≅ 1 Comment
The Iliad and Odyssey – they form the bedrock of western literature and culture. And now, thanks to Ian Johnston of Vancouver Island University, you can find online numerous English translations of Homer’s great epic poems, including some by major literary heavyweights. Johnston’s list features translations of the Iliad by Thomas Hobbes (1675), George Chapman (1614), Alexander Pope [...]
≡ Category: History, Politics | ≅ 2 Comments
We have been going a little vintage lately, and we’ll have to do it one more day. For today marks the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, the begining of a presidency that inspired many, even though it lasted scarcely more than 1000 days. Kennedy’s inaugural speech ran 1364 words and took 14 minutes [...]
≡ Category: Art | ≅ Leave a Comment
Back on a Vermont farm in 1885, Wilson A. Bentley attached a microscope to a bellows camera and became the first person to photograph an individual snowflake. Two decades later, he sent 500 prints of his snowflakes to the Smithsonian, where they still remain. (View some here.) And then, yet another two decades later, he [...]
≡ Category: Science, Video - Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
An evolving fractal landscape, all created with a WebGL 3D fractal renderer. If you join/log into Vimeo, you can download the video right here and watch “Surface Detail” in full detail… Related Content: Arthur C. Clarke Presents the Colors of Infinity
≡ Category: Film, Literature, Sci Fi | ≅ 2 Comments
A year before the Wright brothers launched the first airplane flight in 1903, Georges Méliès, a French filmmaker with already 400 films to his credit, directed a film that visualized a much bigger human ambition – landing a spacecraft on the moon. Loosely based on works by Jules Vernes (From the Earth to the Moon) [...]
≡ Category: Wikipedia | ≅ Leave a Comment
Wikipedia just turned 10 this weekend. And, to mark the occasion, The Atlantic asked ten “All-Star Thinkers” respond to a simple question: “What do you think about Wikipedia?” The responses? Well, they express the usual range of opinions, from appreciation to something approaching disdain. Take for example the two excerpts below: Yochai Benkler, professor, Harvard [...]
≡ Category: Apple, Life, Philosophy | ≅ 1 Comment
Every so often, we like to bring back a favorite talk of ours, and today seemed like a better day than most. Speaking at Stanford’s commencement in 2005, Steve Jobs gives the graduates a glimpse of his life philosophy. Some pearls of wisdom here for the young, to be sure. But if you have some [...]
≡ Category: History, Literature, Media, Technology | ≅ 1 Comment
There’s nothing new about it. Major periods of technological change have always engendered dislocation and debate. Some resist the changes wrought by new technology, and others embrace them. 1968 brings us back to one such moment, when the American novelist Norman Mailer and communication theorist Marshall McLuhan appeared on the CBC program, The Summer Way, to debate the [...]
Henry Jun Wah Lee captured this beautiful scene over the 2011 New Year weekend when a winter storm drifted into Yosemite National Park (California/Nevada). You will definitely want to check out his collection videos on Vimeo, which includes more scenes from Yosemite, Joshua Tree and beyond… via @zeitonline_vid
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