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Here’s a quick recap of this week’s pieces:
Atheists for Jesus, or Really a Debate Over Whether Religion and Science Can Get Along
25 Smart Video Podcasts That You Can Watch on Apple TV
Wikipedia’s (Sometimes Dirty) Little Secret
Starting Startups: A Free Course (and More) for the Entrepreneur
Apple TV: Turn Your TV into a [...]
≡ Category: Religion | ≅ Leave a Comment
Over the past two days, NPR’s Fresh Air has devoted two programs to interrogating whether religion and
science can co-exist. On Wednesday, air time was first given to Richard Dawkins, the famed Oxford University scholar of evolution who, with his recent publication of The God Delusion, has launched a vigorous defense of atheism. As you [...]
≡ Category: Apple, Technology, Web/Tech | ≅ Leave a Comment
Earlier this week, we discussed the recent release of Apple TV, the new gadget that lets you wirelessly download videos from iTunes to your cushy widescreen TV. For many consumers, the logical question to ask is whether there’s much to watch if they plunk down the $299 for the hardware. (Check it out in our [...]
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When you think Wikipedia, you think encyclopedia. And when you think
encyclopedia, you think education, self enrichment and all kinds of
good stuff.
A trip to Wikipedia’s home page initially confirms those impressions. It points you to rather edifying content: an introduction to the Pashtun people, an entry on the Australian pelican, a look at the Vikings’ historical [...]
≡ Category: Business | ≅ 3 Comments
It’s not every day that a course like this gets given away. So, if you’re a budding entrepreneur, consider it your lucky day.
Entrepreneurship and Business Planning is a free course available via podcast (iTunes Feed Mp3) that parallels a classroom course being offered at Carnegie Mellon within the Masters in Information Systems Management (MISM) [...]
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When Steve Jobs announced Apple’s new lineup of gadgets at Macworld in January (listen on iTunes or stream it), all eyes were focused on the planned release of the iPhone. Relatively lost in the commotion, however, was Apple TV, which started shipping this week. (Check it out in our Amazon store.) Despite [...]
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This is just a quick heads up. You can now watch online the first episode of This American Life. Showtime just started airing a televised version of the long-running and very popular radio program (which is also available as a podcast iTunes Feed Web Site). If you’re wondering how the show’s distinctive feel [...]
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Who knew that the iPod could help save lives? Check out this news story on Yahoo.
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Here’s a quick recap of this week’s pieces:
Podcast Primer
Oxford University Takes to iTunes
Oodles of Google Video Documentaries
Mr. Gore Goes Back to Washington
America’s Shadow Army in Iraq
The YouTube Threat to iTunes?
The New Psychology of Success
The Next Fifty Years of Science, and Other Videos from Googleplex
Understanding Why Alberto Gonzales May Go
Podcasts from Top American Law Schools
Access [...]
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Oxford University now has an official podcasting presence on iTunes, albeit a small one. It’s hard to know whether this is part of a wider university initiative, or whether it’s just one academic program acting on its own (it seems to be the latter), but you can now listen to a series of four Oxford [...]
≡ Category: Google, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 2 Comments
Last week, we talked about how it can be logistically difficult to find smart videos on Google Video and YouTube. Then, this week, we stumble upon this: a no-frills web site called Best Online Documentaries that aggregates, yes, you guessed it, high-quality online documentaries, almost all from Google Video. The video segments are divided into [...]
≡ Category: Video - Politics/Society | ≅ Leave a Comment
Al Gore made a much publicized trip back to Washington yesterday. As The New York Times describes it, "It was part science class, part policy wonk paradise, part politics and all theater as former Vice President Al Gore came to Congress … to insist that global warming constitutes a “planetary emergency” requiring an aggressive federal [...]
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MediaShift, the PBS blog which "tracks how new media—from weblogs to podcasts to citizen journalism—are changing society and culture," has just posted a new piece that you’ll want to check out. The article, given the snappy title "Will Video Kill the Audio Podcasting Star? Not Exactly," takes a good look at how audio podcasts are [...]
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The latest issue of Stanford Magazine features an intriguing article worth a little bit of your time. Carol Dweck, a psychology professor at Stanford, has spent much of her career looking at the psychological underpinnings of success, and her research has pointed to one broad conclusion: Those who believe their intelligence is fixed — who [...]
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Here is where the ideology of privatization logically ends up. As part of its occupation, the US government has flooded Iraq with private contractors. And while some build bridges and others help pump oil, a good number carry out military operations in America’s name, and they’ve positioned themselves to be subject to neither military nor [...]
≡ Category: Google, Science, Video - Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
Last week, we talked a little (here and here) about the trials and tribulations of finding enlightened content on GooTube (Google Video + YouTube). What we didn’t mention is that some of this good content comes straight from Google headquarters itself. This page, simply titled Videos from Googleplex, captures talks given mostly at corporate central, [...]
≡ Category: Podcast Articles and Resources | ≅ 5 Comments
We talk about podcasts a good deal around here. But given that only 12% of internet users have ever downloaded a podcast, and only 1% does so daily (see this Pew Research Center study), we wanted to provide an overview of podcasts and how to use them. In a few minutes, we want to get [...]
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The scuttlebutt is that President Bush may soon be looking for a new Attorney General. While Don Rumsfeld and his bungled war plan withered criticism for years, Gonzales has been pushed to the brink in a matter of weeks, and for issues that few seem to clearly understand. Yes, we know that it’s all over [...]
≡ Category: Law | ≅ 2 Comments
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American University - Washington College of Law iTunes Feed Web Site
An eclectic collection of legal podcasts.
Duke University School of Law iTunes Feed Web Site
Lectures, panels, conferences, etc.
Georgetown University - Georgetown Law iTunes Feed Web Site
One of the richer [...]
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Here’s a quick summary of our recent pieces:
Has Stephen Hawking Been Wrong For The Last 30 Years?
My Trip to Al Qaeda: A New Yorker Video
Smart Links
BondCast (AKA a James Bond Podcast)
Future Tense Radio Interview — Talking More About the Problem with GooTube
The Problem with GooTube (and Inside Iran)
25 UC Berkeley Courses Available via Free Video
If [...]
≡ Category: Video - Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
With his cutting-edge research on black holes in the 1970s, Stephen Hawking emerged as a major player in the physics world. Then, with the 1988 publication of the bestseller, A Brief History of Time, Hawking achieved international celebrity status.
As this BBC presentation shows, Hawking’s fame might rest on weaker foundations than most could have imagined. [...]
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You don’t see web video like this too often… On The New Yorker web site, you can now catch a video excerpt of a one-man play being staged in NYC by magazine staff writer, Lawrence Wright. (Click here to watch.)
The New Yorker prefaces the video with this:
"This week, the New Yorker staff writer Lawrence Wright [...]
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Here are a few good finds that we’ve recently stumbled upon:
60 Minutes Streamed on Yahoo: A nice addition
to Yahoo’s lineup, but it makes you realize how far behind Yahoo has
fallen in the web video space, and this was amazingly the one area that Yahoo had decided to
focus on while it let Google slip away with [...]
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Casino Royale, which gave the James Bond franchise a good shot in the arm, is being released this week on
DVD, and so why not mention a new James Bond podcast.
Cinematical has issued its first Bondcast that’s filled with news, rumors, speculations, stories and general minutiae about all things Bond. They”ll have a new [...]
≡ Category: Media | ≅ 1 Comment
With YouTube and Google Video now sitting under the same happy corporate umbrella, you can rest assured that the world will receive only a steadier stream of home-brewed videos of guitar riffs, treadmill dances, dorm room antics, and pet playtimes, the very stuff that makes up YouTube’s all-time list of favorites. Lucky us. But somewhere [...]
≡ Category: Most Popular, Online Courses, UC Berkeley | ≅ 26 Comments
Not long ago, we wrote a popular piece about UC-Berkeley’s iTunes initiative which, to sum it up,allows anyone, anywhere, to download complete university courses to their iPods for free. Amazing. Today, we want to point out that Berkeley also makes available full-fledged courses via video/webcast. You can find the complete list of courses here, but [...]
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Here’s a quick summary of our recent pieces:
Bono, Richard Dawkins and Al Gore Speaking at TED
The Top 25 Educational Podcasts on iTunes
The Famous Stanford Prison Experiment on YouTube
"Is America Too Damn Religious?" (A Debate)
Free Podcasts of Classic American and British Thrillers
This American Life Goes Hollywood (or Something Like That)
MLK’s "Stride Toward Freedom" (A Free [...]
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Every year, a thousand “thought-leaders, movers and shakers” get together at a four-day conference
called TED (which is short for Technology, Entertainment and Design). In past years, the list of speakers has ranged from Sergey Brin and Larry Page to Bill Gates, to Herbie Hancock and Peter Gabriel, to Frank Gehry and Billy Graham. This year [...]
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New entries since 2/22 are highlighted in red.
#1. Coffee Break Spanish iTunes Feed Web Site
See related Open Culture article: The #3 Podcast on iTunes: Coffee Break Spanish & The Threat to Traditional Media
#2. Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing iTunes Feed Web Site
#3. The French Pod Class [...]
≡ Category: Video - Science | ≅ 2 Comments
Back in 1971, Philip Zimbardo, a Stanford psychology professor, set up an experiment that quickly and now famously went awry. Here, Zimbardo had undergraduates play the role of prisoners and prison guards in a mock prison environment. Meant to last two weeks, the experiment was cut short after only six days when the guards, as [...]
