2008 MacArthur “Genius” Grants Awarded

The 2008 MacArthurs were just announced. And one goes to Alex Ross, the New York­er music crit­ic who recent­ly pub­lished The Rest is Noise, a wide­ly praised work that makes sense of 20th cen­tu­ry clas­si­cal music. Below we have Ross talk­ing about his musi­cal back­ground, the New York music scene and the gen­er­al gist of his book.

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Michael Moore’s New Film (Slacker) Now Free Online

Just a quick reminder. Start­ing today (Sep­tem­ber 23), you can down­load Michael Moore’s new fea­ture film — Slack­er Upris­ing — via the web for free. This is unfor­tu­nate­ly only avail­able to US and Cana­di­an res­i­dents, and it will remain free for three weeks. You can get more info and down­load the film here.

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The New York Times Picks Five Online Lectures

In case this got lost over the week­end I am bump­ing it back up: The New York Times has a piece run­ning this week­end that sur­veys the land­scape of online uni­ver­si­ty lec­tures. (Get a jum­bo list of free cours­es here.) Along the way, they focus on five lec­tures that “no one should miss.” They are as fol­lows:

1.) Wal­ter H. G. Lewin, Pow­ers of 10 (M.I.T.)

2.) Randy Pausch, Real­ly Achiev­ing Your Child­hood Dreams (Carnegie Mel­lon)

3.) Dan Ariely, Pre­dictably Irra­tional (Duke and M.I.T.)

We post­ed this one below.

4.) Lang­don Ham­mer, Mod­ern Poet­ry (Yale)

5.) Chris­tine Hayes, Intro­duc­tion to the Old Tes­ta­ment (Yale)

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Chris Rock on Bill Clinton, Sarah Palin and Shooting Moose

Because it’s elec­tion sea­son and Rock cracks me up …

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