We take you back to a classic Monty Python skit. The scene is the 1972 Munich Olympics. The event is a football/soccer match, pitting German philosophers against Greek philosophers. On the one side, the Germans — Hegel, Nietzsche, Kant, Marx and, um, Franz Beckenbauer. On the other side, Archimedes, Socrates, Plato and the rest of the gang. The referee? Confucius. On May 9, this match will be recreated by The Philosophy Shop, a group dedicated to promoting philosophy among primary schoolchildren. The Telegraph gives you more details. (FYI, the Monty Python clip is now added to our YouTube Favorites.)

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Ok, it’s not really Werner Herzog. Just a little playful satire. A guess at how the German director might reinterpret/read the children’s classic Curious George. This version is dark and existential.

via Abe Books

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Kurt Kuenne’s short film, ”Validation,” has played at 34 film festivals and won 17 awards. This 16 minute indie offers a “fable about the magic of free parking” — meaning they’re talking about “validation” in a larger sense than parking per se … We’ve added the clip to our YouTube favorites.

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This imaginative bit was a student’s final project for an art course. The flipbook, made entirely out of biro pens, was created with 2100 pages of drawings and took about 3 weeks to develop. Needless to say, the student got an A.

Thanks to @kirstinbutler for flagging this one.

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For those not old enough to remember (or not familiar with American comedy), Father Guido Sarducci was a character from Saturday Night Live’s heyday in the 1970s. He’s the brainchild of the comedian Don Novello, and here we have him offering a new model of university education. We haven’t aired this bit in 2+ years. So it was time to bring it back. Hope you enjoy.

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A little case of disruptive technology in Computer Science 1301 at Georgia Tech…

via Andrew Baron

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In the past couple of years, The New Yorker has rolled out a series of animated cartoons, which puts in motion its famous cartoons. They can be watched as video podcasts or as streamed videos. You should definitely head over to The New Yorker web site to view the larger collection.

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Gotta love comedy that riffs on the Large Hadron Collider. I’ll have some more serious things to say about the LHC in the coming weeks. In the meantime, enjoy the comic bit. Have a good weekend…

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