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≡ Category: Business, Current Affairs, Economics | ≅ 4 Comments
Doc Zone, a documentary series produced by CBC Television, is now airing, Meltdown, a four part investigation into the great financial debacle of 2008. Along the way, the CBC’s Terence McKenna takes viewers “behind the headlines and into the backrooms at the highest levels of world governments and banking institutions, revealing the astonishing level of [...]
≡ Category: Music | ≅ 3 Comments
One of the most original and distinctive songs Led Zeppelin ever recorded was the exotic, eight-and-a-half minute “Kashmir,” from the 1975 album Physical Graffiti. In this clip from Davis Guggenheim’s film It Might Get Loud (2009), Jimmy Page explains the origins of the song to fellow guitarists Jack White and The Edge. Then Page demonstrates it [...]
≡ Category: Science, Video - Science | ≅ 1 Comment
This is what you’d call efficient. In two minutes, we watch our planet take form. 600 million years of geological history whizzes by in a snap. Then we see what the next 100 million years may have in store for us. If you don’t have the patience to watch 700 million years unfold in 180 [...]
≡ Category: Random | ≅ 4 Comments
Random? Yes. Handy? Double yes. The ultimate culinary lifehack from SAVEUR magazine’s Executive Food Editor, Todd Coleman… Follow us on Facebook and Twitter and we’ll keep pointing you to free cultural goodies daily…
≡ Category: History, Psychology | ≅ Leave a Comment
In July, the Edge.org held its annual “Master Class” in Napa, California and brought together some influential thinkers to talk about “The Science of Human Nature.” The highlights included: Princeton psychologist Daniel Kahneman on the marvels and the flaws of intuitive thinking; Harvard mathematical biologist Martin Nowak on the evolution of cooperation; Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker on the [...]
≡ Category: Film, Literature | ≅ 3 Comments
Today is believed to be the birthday of the great Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote. He was baptized on October 9, 1547 in the village of Alcalá de Henares, north of Madrid, and while the exact date of his birth is unrecorded, September 29 is the feast day of Saint Michael the Archangel. [...]
≡ Category: Art, Television | ≅ 3 Comments
Before he became a fixture on 60 Minutes, Mike Wallace hosted his own short-lived TV show, The Mike Wallace Interview (1957-58), which let Americans get an up-close and personal view of some legendary figures - Frank Lloyd Wright, Eleanor Roosevelt, Reinhold Niebuhr, Aldous Huxley, Erich Fromm, Adlai Stevenson, Henry Kissinger, and Gloria Swanson. Then let’s also add Salvador Dali to the list. In [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs, Economics, History | ≅ 3 Comments
We’re tackling another big question today with the help of Harvard economic historian Niall Ferguson. And the question goes like this: Why has the West created so much prosperity and stability over the past several centuries, when the rest of the world did not? For Ferguson, the “great divergence” can be explained by six big [...]
≡ Category: Physics | ≅ 4 Comments
In 2009, Richard Dawkins invited Lawrence Krauss, an internationally-known theoretical physicist and author of The Physics of Star Trek, to talk about some big enchilada questions. What is our current picture of the universe? When did the universe begin? What came before it? How could something come from nothing? And what will happen to the [...]
≡ Category: Books | ≅ Leave a Comment
Late last week, Stephen King treated an audience at George Mason University to a 10-minute reading from his upcoming book Dr. Sleep . It’s not just any other book. It’s the sequel to The Shining, his 1977 thriller that Stanley Kubrick fammously adapted to film. (Don’t miss Making the Shining here.) King first started talking about a [...]
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