I’m addicted to a number of things on the internet, some pleasures being guiltier than others, but one particularly guiltless pleasure of the world wide web is my access the videos of the TED conference.
A friend of mine recently directed me to a very interesting video from this conference by Paula Scher which, I not [...]
One summer during college, I took a music history course on the elusive and esoteric art form of Jazz, “the only truly American art form” according to my professor. He (Mr. P.) was what one would expect in a music history teacher at a local community college: a white middle class male, an [...]
I recently read this landmark article from the Harvard Business Review by Charles Handy entitled “What’s a Business for?” I don’t typically list the HBR in my regularly read periodicals but this 2002 article, pointed out to me by my professor Michael Meeks, was too compelling to pass up. It was comforting [...]
I wrote previously about a little zine I had stumbled upon called Rad Dad about “Radical Parenting” for fathers. Well I didn’t get a chance to talk about what it was that I found so excellent about this zine and, I light of my last post I wanted specifically address one of the articles [...]
Meerkats posted about Erroll Morris’ blog about perception and photography at the New York Times.
In the article Morris brings up alot of interesting issues documentary filmmakers and journalists have to consider when telling a story. The crux of Morris’ point is that amid the myriad details conveyed in a scene, how does our mind [...]
One of my favorite radio shows / podcasts right now is a show called radiolab out of New York’s WNYC. Each episode they have a theme focused on some aspect of science and how it affects our lives; think This American Life but Science and you’re close. One of my favorite episodes talks [...]