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≡ Category: Art | ≅ Leave a Comment
As a chronicler of war, Don McCullin is a legend. Henri Cartier-Bresson once compared him to Goya, and John Le Carré wrote, “He was a communicator of the world’s worst agonies, a pilgrim to the front line of human suffering, returning with his kit-bag of horrors to appal the comfortable, the wilfully blind and the unknowing.” As a [...]
≡ Category: Physics, Video - Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
Prepare to have your mind blown. You may have seen levitation tricks performed by magicians, but rest assured that they can’t beat this: quantum levitation. The video above was captured at the 2011 ASTC conference, a gathering of scientists in Baltimore, Maryland, with the purpose of demonstrating “how science centers and museums are putting new [...]
≡ Category: Books, Literature | ≅ 3 Comments
Novels — they’re in inevitable decline. They can’t compete with the movie screen, the TV screen and now the computer screen. Give things 25 years, and there will be just a small cult of readers left. That’s the prediction of American author, Philip Roth, who has 27 novels to his credit. And apparently, Roth is [...]
≡ Category: Music | ≅ 1 Comment
“If you had to give rock and roll another name,” John Lennon once said, “you might call it ‘Chuck Berry.’” The man known as the father of rock and roll turns 85 today and he’s still going strong. To celebrate, we bring you this powerful 1958 performance of “Johnny B. Goode.” Berry was born October [...]
≡ Category: Animation, Math, Physics, Video - Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
The Open University strikes again. In June, they released The History of English, a series of witty animated videos that covered 1600 years of linguistic history in ten minutes. Now, they’re back with 60-Second Adventures in Thought, another animated sequence that highlights six famous thought experiments. It all starts with Zeno’s ancient Paradox of the Tortoise and Achilles. [...]
≡ Category: Random | ≅ 1 Comment
El Caminito del Rey (The King’s Little Path), often abbreviated to El Camino del Rey, is a walkway that winds its way along the walls of El Chorro, a gorge in southern Spain near the village of Álora. It is generally considered one of the most dangerous hikes in the world. The construction of the walkway was [...]
≡ Category: Math | ≅ 2 Comments
Doodling — it’s usually a sign of boredom, an escape from tedium. Vi Hart turns it all upside down, and shows how doodling can be an engaging form of pedagogy. On her web site, you will find other math doodling videos called Stars, Snakes + Graphs, Binary Trees, Sick Number Games and Squiggle Inception. The video above is called Infinity Elephants. Thanks [...]
≡ Category: Music | ≅ 3 Comments
Oh Hell, it’s Monday. You’re back in the pressure cooker. The veins in your forehead are beginning to throb. Don’t panic! Take a deep breath and watch this 1964 television performance of “The Girl from Ipanema” by Brazilian bossa nova singer Astrud Gilberto and American jazz saxophonist Stan Getz. The arrangement is from the classic [...]
≡ Category: Animation, Film, Literature | ≅ 1 Comment
In 1956, Italo Calvino, one of Italy’s finest postwar writers, published Italian Folktales, a series of 200 fairy tales based sometimes loosely, sometimes more strictly on stories from a great folk tradition. When first published, The New York Times named Italian Folktales one of the ten best books of the year, and, more than a half century later, the [...]
≡ Category: Life, Literature, Psychology | ≅ 1 Comment
Aldous Huxley put himself forever on the intellectual map when he wrote the dystopian sci-fi novel Brave New World in 1931. (Listen to Huxley narrating a dramatized version here.) The British-born writer was living in Italy at the time, a continental intellectual par excellence. Then, six years later, Huxley turned all of this upside down. He [...]
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