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Explaining our addiction to risk: Naomi Klein

Posted on the December 16th, 2011

 

Brilliant, brave, funny and fiercely committed. In a recent talk, Naomi Klein analyzes why we as a society are addicted to risk, and why this is creating so much destruction all around us.

Click on screenshot above to see video. Link here also.

 


Links you may have missed (Oct 1, 2011)

Posted on the October 1st, 2011

Barroso’s crucial eurozone gamble (Irish Examiner)

Egyptian women and the revolution (Arabist)

More details on the “faster than the speed of light” neutrinos (ars technica)

The end of motoring (Guardian) – again, something no one predicted offers some hope in climate change crisis

Hal Foster: ‘If the Shard is a symbol of anything it’s a symbol of finance capitalism’ (Guardian) – video – Princeton art professor discusses Renzo Piano’s new creation from a political perspective. Interesting!

 


Links you may have missed (Sept 25, 2011)

Posted on the September 25th, 2011

“Kindly kill yourself immediately”: a tale of writing about 4chan (ars technica) – review of new book about 4chan

Professor Einstein, you can relax. E still equals mc2. Probably … (Guardian)

Saudi women given voting rights (Aljazeera) – with video

Al Jazeera’s change of guard (Aljazeera) — the news channel reports on itself and recent management surprise

Claire Tomalin: ‘Writing induces melancholy. You’re alone, a hermit’  (Guardian) – interview with author of new Charles Dickens biography. I can’t wait to read it! – related video below.

 

 


Links you may have missed today (Sept 19, 2011)

Posted on the September 19th, 2011

Imran Khan: ‘America is destroying Pakistan” (Guardian)  — a top contender to be the next Prime Minister of Pakistan voices a highly critical perspective on the US – Pakistan relationship

Microsoft paid out ‘more than £1 million’ to female executive” (Telegraph)

THE VIRTUAL MUSEUM: Google Zooms In On Art” (Huffington Post) – extraordinary!

Today’s treat: (click on video)

 

 

 

 


Links you may have missed: May 26, 2011

Posted on the May 26th, 2011

Links you may have missed: May 15, 2011

Posted on the May 15th, 2011

Clip from Disney’s Winnie the Pooh movie, 2011 (above)

Eeyore: Literature’s archetypal outsider (Guardian) – if you love Eeyore, you’ll love this tribute

 

My Paris: Eric Hazan (Guardian) – video

Daniel Barenboim conducts ‘peace concert’ in Gaza (Classical-Music.com/BBC)

 

Paul Nicklen: Tales of ice-bound wonderlands (TedTALKS) – video

Eli Pariser: Beware online “filter bubbles” (TedTALKS) – video

 

Picking up the pieces (Aljazeera) – extraordinary story – video

Tunisia’s dissident blog stays true to form (Aljazeera)

 

 


Links you may have missed: May 8, 2011

Posted on the May 8th, 2011

SPECK ‘N U: 9 (C.G. Jung and feminism)

Posted on the May 6th, 2011


Links you may have missed: April 17, 2011

Posted on the April 17th, 2011

Bob Dylan recently performed his first concert in China. On the program was “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.” Here’s a performance from 1964 (video a bit slow to load). Lyrics here.

 

In Praise of Distraction (The New Yorker)

Photoshop, journalism, and forensics: Why skepticism may be the best filter for photojournalism (Nieman Journalism Lab)

 

Signs of Spring (The Atlantic) – photo series

 

Shirky: “La Rete ci cambia in meglio” (La Stampa)

American radical (Aljazeera) – documentary film, part I

Blogging for HuffPo Is Like Writing Open-Source Software (GigaOM)

The Advanced User Polity or: Why the EU is like a primeval forest (Ideas on Europe)

Italy’s Growing Multi-Media Influence Impacts Purchase Decisions (Nielsen)

Saturday interview: Aung San Suu Kyi (The Guardian)

 


SPECK ‘N U:8 (C.G. Jung and feminism)

Posted on the April 14th, 2011