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≡ Category: Twitter | ≅ Leave a Comment
Guaranteed to make you smarter, or your money back. You can follow us on Twitter here. (Or become a Facebook fan.) Here they go:
RT @BoingBoing: Most beautiful bookstore – Buenos Aires’s Librería El Ateneo Grand Splendid http://bit.ly/c5iapa
RT @Alyssa_Milano: Two new MIT classes focus on helping #Haiti: http://is.gd/aa43H (via @brainpicker)
RT @guardianculture: “Solar” by Ian McEwan http://bit.ly/dpqBAq
RT @kirstinbutler: [...]
≡ Category: Art | ≅ 3 Comments
My old home town in time lapse video. Thanks Ian for the excellent find. Have a good weekend all.
≡ Category: Religion | ≅ 1 Comment
Christopher Hitchens — he’s an irritant to the left (a big defender of the bungled Iraq war) and to the right (an atheist who wrote the controversial bestseller God is Not Great). He’s an equal opportunity polemicist. Now, in the April edition of Vanity Fair, he’s back. This time, he’s deconstructing the Ten Commandments and offering his [...]
≡ Category: Sci Fi, Theater | ≅ Leave a Comment
The Twilight Zone aired between 1959 and 1964, and it became one of America’s iconic television shows. Although the program ended long ago, the show lives on today … on the radio. Airing on 200 stations across the US, Twilight Zone Radio dramatizes Rod Serling’s classic scripts for today’s radio audiences. And it does it [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ Leave a Comment
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This past weekend, François Alaux and Herve de Crecy’s 17 minute film, Logorama, won the Oscar for the best Short Film (Animated). The plot comes basically boils down to this: “In a world made up entirely of trademarks and brand names, Michelin Man [...]
≡ Category: Art, Film | ≅ Leave a Comment
Fans of avant-garde art, take note. UbuWeb hosts a vast archive of online avant-garde media, and they’ve been doing it since 1996. The site features a large mp3 sound archive, alongside an extensive film/video collection where you’ll find some vintage clips. Take these items for example:
Four American Composers: Philip Glass – Peter Greenaway’s documentary from [...]
≡ Category: Education, Web/Tech | ≅ 8 Comments
Professors are increasingly souring on students bringing their laptops to class. Some are banning them. (The Washington Post has more on that.) And some are banning them emphatically. Like the physics professor from the University of Oklahoma. (Watch the video above.) What’s the solution? Maybe this student has the right idea (said in jest).
≡ Category: Education | ≅ 2 Comments
The average American spends a good 100 minutes per day commuting to and from work. (More on that here.) That amounts to about 433 hours per year! Now imagine using that time to learn something new — to read a great book, to take a class from a top university, to learn a new language. To make [...]
≡ Category: Books, Literature | ≅ 1 Comment
A quick heads up for book lovers: Goodreads is a large social network for readers, with over 3,000,000 members who review, recommend and swap books. The site also features “book-give-aways” for its members. This month you can enter to win a free copy of If You Follow Me, a novel by Malena Watrous, a talented colleague [...]
≡ Category: Theater | ≅ Leave a Comment
A quick public service announcement:
Beginning Saturday, March 13, L.A. Theatre Works Radio Theatre Series will air Fallen Angels by Noel Coward, starring Annette Bening, Harriet Harris, Judith Ivey, Joe Mantegna, John Rubinstein, and Kristoffer Tabori. The broadcast can be heard locally in Southern California on Saturday from 10 pm to midnight on 89.3 KPCC, and can also be streamed on demand at http://www.latw.org/.
LA Theatre Works stages numerous [...]
≡ Category: Education | ≅ 1 Comment
Here’s one of the first videos to emerge from this weekend’s indie TED conference in New York City. More videos will eventually be posted on the TEDxTalks YouTube Channel, which we’re adding to our Smart YouTube collection. In case you’re not familiar with him, Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard law professor, has been a driving force behind [...]
≡ Category: Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
This humbling footage of the Milky Way was filmed on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the same location that recently gave us footage of stars orbiting a black hole. This is, of course, not a coincidence. Mauna Kea hosts the world’s largest observatory for optical, infrared, and submillimeter astronomy. Thanks Robert for sending this our way.
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≡ Category: Film | ≅ 1 Comment
Alice in Wonderland has a long tradition in American cinema. You can find versions from 2010, 1972, and 1951. You’ll even find a silent version dating all the way back to 1903. Thanks to the British Film Institute (BFI), you can watch online this silent version of Lewis Carroll’s classic tale for the first time. [...]
≡ Category: Twitter | ≅ Leave a Comment
What culture tweets and re-tweets did you miss this week? Let’s sum it all up below. You can follow us on Twitter here. Or become a Facebook fan here.
RT @EliseBlackwell: Excellent list of book reviewers on twitter:http://twurl.nl/l73yml
5 Best Music Streaming Services via @Lifehacker:http://bit.ly/ciCdsq
RT @BoingBoing: Free ebooks correlated with increased print-book sales http://bit.ly/cnCv2a12:31 AM Mar 5th via API
RT @kim: rt [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ 2 Comments
With the Oscars coming up, American Public Media re-aired today our interview from last November. Here, we tell radio listeners about the wealth of great movies available online for free. You can listen to the interview below (or here), and explore our ever-growing collection of Free Movies Online, which includes films by Hitchcock, Polanski, Coppola, [...]
≡ Category: Education, TED Talks | ≅ 2 Comments
A quick heads up: On Saturday, an independent TED conference will get underway in New York City. It’s dubbed TEDxNYED, and a top notch lineup of speakers (including Lawrence Lessig, Michael Wesch, Gina Bianchini, Henry Jenkins, Jay Rosen and others) will focus on a topic near and dear to our readers’ hearts: how new media and technology will shape the [...]
≡ Category: Life, Music | ≅ 4 Comments
The place: A produce market in Valencia, Spain. The day: Just a day like any other. But then suddenly Verdi’s La traviata booms out over the speakers, and opera singers, initially masquerading as shopkeepers, take center stage. Stick with it until the end. The customer reaction is precious. We’ve added this one to our YouTube [...]
≡ Category: Science | ≅ 2 Comments
This animated footage gives you a more global view of the Chilean earthquake in action. Seen from this vantage point, there’s a certain beauty to Mother Nature in action. Waves rippling across the Pacific, as if a stone were thrown into a calm pond. But, obviously, for those experiencing the earthquake on the ground, it’s [...]
≡ Category: Physics | ≅ Leave a Comment
Above, we bring you what astrophysicist Daniel Holz calls “one of the coolest movies in all of science.” What you see here is not exactly straightforward. But it’s the work of UCLA astronomer Andrea Ghez, and it essentially shows stars orbiting around a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy over the past 15 [...]
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