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≡ Category: Education, Google, YouTube | ≅ 1 Comment
On YouTube, the path to education is as narrow and as difficult to walk as a razor’s edge. Left to their own devices, kids have a tendency to veer away from the math tutorials and head straight for the water-skiing squirrels. What’s an educator to do? Google believes it has the answer with “YouTube for [...]
≡ Category: Math, Television | ≅ 2 Comments
Countdown is a British TV game show revolving around words and numbers. In the numbers round, contestants select six of twenty-four shuffled tiles with numbers on them. Next, a computer generates a random three-digit target number and the contestants have thirty seconds to get as close to that number as possible by combining the six [...]
≡ Category: Film, Music | ≅ 2 Comments
Sir David Attenborough is England’s finest natural history filmmaker, best known for his Life collection, a series of nine nature documentaries aired on the BBC between 1979 and 2008. It’s widely considered the standard by which all other wildlife programs are measured. In recent weeks, British and American audiences have been treated to Attenborough’s latest production, Frozen Planet (see trailer [...]
≡ Category: Film, Television | ≅ 3 Comments
Spike Jonze has made a name for himself as a wildly inventive director of music videos and feature films, like Being John Malkovich and Adaptation. He has also created some of the most distinctive television commercials of the past decade. Today we bring you a few of his greatest hits. In late 2002 Jonze created [...]
≡ Category: Art, Music | ≅ Leave a Comment
Here’s a little known fact about the rapper and actor Ice Cube. During his younger days, before he became a star, Mr. Cube studied architectural drafting at the Phoenix Institute of Technology in Arizona, where he gained an appreciation for the way architects, like rappers, can take existing materials and work them into entirely new creations. [...]
≡ Category: Physics, Science | ≅ 1 Comment
Cambridge University has had many famous graduates, but perhaps none is more famous than Isaac Newton (class of 1665). This week, Cambridge continues to honor Newton by opening a digital archive of Newton’s personal papers, which includes an annotated copy of the Principia, the landmark work where the physicist developed his laws of motion and gravity. The [...]
≡ Category: Apple, e-books, Music | ≅ Leave a Comment
A year ago, Apple began selling The Beatles’ catalogue of music on iTunes. Now, twelve months and many millions of downloads later, Apple is giving away The Beatle’s Yellow Submarine as a free ebook. It’s not just any ebook. Based on the 1968 film, this ebook features animated illustrations, 14 video clips from the original [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs, Economics, Harvard | ≅ Leave a Comment
Last Wednesday, the Occupy movement gained a little more intellectual momentum when eight faculty members from Harvard, Boston College, and N.Y.U. gathered in Cambridge to present a daylong Teach-In. In one talk, Archon Fung (Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship and Co-Director of Transparency Policy Project at Harvard) took a vague thesis of the Occupy movement — [...]
≡ Category: Philosophy, Podcast Articles and Resources | ≅ Leave a Comment
How many of the great philosophers have you actually heard speak? This clip comes from the 1976 documentary Sartre by Himself, which features discussions with Jean-Paul Sartre and his near-equally famous wife Simone de Beauvoir, among others. The film was released with English subtitles in 1979, a year before Sartre died. In this clip, Sartre criticizes modern intellectuals [...]
≡ Category: Science, Video - Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
What is nano? And how will nanoscience (the study of phenomena and manipulation of materials at the nanoscale) shape our future, from the way we build houses to how we cure diseases? It’s all explained in a snappy 17 minute video narrated by Stephen Fry (British writer, actor and director). Produced in partnership with Cambridge University, [...]
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