Explaining our addiction to risk: Naomi Klein
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)
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)
“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)
“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
Quatuor Artemis _ Beethoven, Op.135 “Lento assai, cantante & tranquillo”.mov – (video above)
Greenpeace Takes a Stand Against Facebook’s Unclean Ways (AgencySpy) – with video
Schwarzenegger and DSK: When Powerful Men Cross Lines (ProPublica)
A Lesson for the Bigoted Right (London Review of Books) — commentary on Italy’s local elections last week
Bob and Roberta Smith: ‘It’s important to undermine and subvert things’ (Guardian)
A reporter’s view on the news industry’s broken commenting system (10,000 Words)
Hollywood shuns intelligent entertainment. The games industry doesn’t. Guess who’s winning? (Guardian)
La politica estera americana e la promozione della democrazia (Epistemes) – Italian only
India’s unwanted girls (BBC)
Teaching Happiness: The Prime Minister of Bhutan Takes on Education (The Solutions Journal)
The Netherlands To Enact Law That Ensures Net Neutrality (GigaOM)
Links you may have missed: May 15, 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
The last laugh (Aljazeera) – video (above)
Just Like Us in Tribeca Film Festival, Comedy Night with Ahmed Ahmed – video
The Chernobyl that nobody wants (Eurozine) – translated from Belarusian version
Obama and the End of Al-Qaeda (Informed Comment)
Parigi, le tartarughe-elmetto contro la guerra (la Repubblica) – photo series of art exhibition
EU unveils plans to pay fishermen to catch plastic (Guardian)
WSJ remains largest circulation U.S. daily newspaper (Poynter.org)
The newsonomics of the new ABCs of journalism (Nieman Journalism Lab)
Columbia j-school’s highest honor goes to Al Jazeera English (Poynter.org)
Women on Boards: America Is Falling Behind (Harvard Business Review)
Why McKinsey Has Women’s Empowerment All Wrong (Huffington Post)
Women of Outstanding Achievement Awards 2011 – in pictures (Guardian)
SlutWalking gets rolling after cop’s loose talk about provocative clothing (Guardian)
SPECK ‘N U: 9 (C.G. Jung and feminism)
Links you may have missed: April 17, 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)
