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≡ Category: Music | ≅ 2 Comments
Nigel Tufnel, lead guitarist for Spinal Tap (wink, wink) sets the stage for you. This afternoon (March 3), Berklee Music will hold what it hopes will be the largest online guitar lesson ever. It all starts at 1:30 EST. Get details and join in here.
≡ Category: Current Affairs, TED Talks | ≅ Leave a Comment
Where will the Middle East go from here? Towards democracy, as many hope? Towards a more theocratic model, as some despair? Or, towards more of the same disillusioning autocracy? On the first day of the big TED conference, Wadah Khanfar, the head of Al Jazeera, offered a supremely optimistic take on the revolutions transforming Tunisia, [...]
≡ Category: Film, Literature, Sci Fi | ≅ 2 Comments
We mentioned this documentary some time ago, and it’s time to give it another look. Why? Because Philip K. Dick, the great sci-fi writer, would have turned 82 years old today – and because Adjustment Bureau, a film loosely based on Dick’s short story, “Adjustment Team” (read it online here), will hit movie theaters later [...]
≡ Category: Astronomy, Science, Video - Science | ≅ 1 Comment
Last Thursday, the sun delivered the goods, unleashing a beautiful solar flare. The eruptions lasted somewhere around 90 minutes, and the plasma flares were all captured in high def by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, a project dedicated to studying the sun and its impact on space weather. This footage comes soon after another groundbreaking NASA video [...]
≡ Category: Film, TED Talks, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ Leave a Comment
This week, some of the world’s greatest thinkers (and biggest spenders) are gathered in Palm Springs and Long Beach, California for TED’s annual conference. In case your invitation to TED2011 got lost in the mail along with ours, you can still keep up with the conference through TED’s homepage. Some highlights so far include an [...]
≡ Category: History | ≅ Leave a Comment
On March 1, 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order 10924, officially authorizing the establishment of an “agency in the Department of State which shall be known as the Peace Corps.” Fifty years later, that Agency has sent more than 200,000 volunteers to over 93 countries. A note:  If you’ve ever wondered about all those [...]
≡ Category: Film, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ Leave a Comment
Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don’t have any. – Jane Russell Jane Russell learned the power of notoriety at an early age. Director Howard Hughes (the reclusive billionaire) had cast the voluptuous 19-year-old in his epic Western The Outlaw (1943), with the full intention of making her a sex symbol. Hughes essentially [...]
≡ Category: Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 3 Comments
In this beautiful time lapse video, Josh Owens (aka Mindrelic) shows us New York City as we’ve never seen it before. We begin with an unassuming shot of a boat in a harbor, but then the action picks up. We pass quickly through iconic landmarks of the city – Times Square, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Holland [...]
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