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≡ Category: Books, Education, Literature | ≅ 4 Comments
Thousands of public school teachers won’t be returning to the classroom this fall, thanks to budget cuts nationwide. And that means more than a few Jay Criche’s won’t get the chance to tap the hidden talents of young students. Jay Criche, in case you’re wondering, taught English at Lake Forest High School and counted Dave Eggers [...]
≡ Category: History, Television | ≅ Leave a Comment
Let’s rewind the videotape to 1956, to Samuel James Seymour’s appearance on the CBS television show, “I’ve Got a Secret.” At 96 years of age, Seymour was the last surviving person present at Ford’s Theater the night Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth (April 14, 1865). Only five years old at the time, [...]
≡ Category: Art | ≅ 3 Comments
Every year, five million visitors stream into the Louvre in Paris, making it the most visited museum in the world. And, more than any other painting, visitors head to see Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, painted circa 1503 – 1519. It’s tempting to attribute the popularity of the Mona Lisa to the enduring genius of da Vinci. [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs, Film, Politics | ≅ 3 Comments
No one is happy with Washington D.C. this week, and that includes filmmaker David Lynch, who gives you his commentary in sounds and images, not words. The symbolism? America is in a dark position and moving backwards? The deficit deal is flat out garbage? H/T @opedr Related Content: David Lynch and Interpol Team Up on [...]
≡ Category: Music | ≅ Leave a Comment
It’s hard to overestimate how much Muddy Waters, the blues legend meant to the Rolling Stones. During their very early days, the band members landed a gig and had to give an official name (they didn’t have one yet). Thinking quickly, they looked at The Best of Muddy Waters album sitting on the floor of their [...]
≡ Category: History, Media, Technology | ≅ Leave a Comment
Head over to SoundCloud, and you’ll find 10 audio files that span three centuries. It’s a fairly random collection, we’ll admit. But two recordings from the 19th century immediately stand out. First we have Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 – 1892), Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during Queen Victoria’s reign, reading “The Charge of the Light [...]
≡ Category: Business, Current Affairs, Economics | ≅ 7 Comments
Al Jazeera forced many Westerns viewers to take their reporting seriously during the Egyptian uprising this spring, and now the Qatar-based news network has released a timely reportage (Aug. 2) on the fault lines in America — on the gap between rich and poor that only grew wider this week. Alexis de Tocqueville they’re not. [...]
≡ Category: Physics, Video - Science | ≅ 3 Comments
Richard Feynman was a once in a generation intellectual. He had no shortage of brains. (In 1965, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on quantum electrodynamics.) He had charisma. (Witness this outtake from his 1964 Cornell physics lectures available here.) He knew how to make science and academic thought available, even entertaining, [...]
≡ Category: e-books, Education | ≅ Leave a Comment
It’s hot off the digital press. Anya Kamenetz, a senior writer at Fast Company Magazine and author of DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education, has teamed up with the Gates Foundation to release a free ebook, The Edupunks’ Guide to a DIY Credential. The new ebook offers a “comprehensive guide to learning online [...]
≡ Category: Animation, Current Affairs, Religion | ≅ Leave a Comment
Intelligence Squared (iTunes – Feed – Web Site) brings Oxford-style debating to America. Each debate features one motion, one moderator, and three panelists arguing for a motion, and three arguing against. Should Airports Use Racial and Religious Profiling? Is Islam A Religion Of Peace? Is The Two-Party System Making the U.S. Ungovernable? These are some of the recent topics that [...]
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