Laurie Anderson's Commencement speech
Another great speech to watch, especially, but not exclusively, for artists.
Kayaking with Jen - 06 on Flickr.
Kayaking on May 28, 2012
Bear Run Nature Reserve on Flickr.
Bear Run Nature Reserve
Fallingwater on Flickr.
From my trip to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater on May 27, 2012
Because the U.S. Doesn't Give a Fuck About Family
One of THREE countries that does not give paid maternity leave. Yes, the “leader of the free world” has the same family leave policy as Papua New Guinea and Swaziland.
Sans beard
Neil Gaiman’s commencement address - a really lovely message to artists.
Bryan Magee’s In-Depth, Uncut TV Conversations With Famous Philosophers
cjmarshall, openculture.com
Bryan Magee comes from a tradition that produced some of the twentieth century’s most impressive media personalities: that of the scholarship-educated, Oxbridge-refined, intellectually omnivorous, occasionally office-holding,…
A great collection of conversations with and about philosophers.
Einstein Explains His Famous Formula, E=mc², in Original Audio
Dan Colman, openculture.com
Last week we played for you the only known recording of Sigmund Freud’s voice (1938). Now it’s time to revive the voice of another intellectual giant, Albert Einstein. In this recording, the physicist offers the briefest explanation of …
Neat!
Activists Charged with Providing Material Support for Terrorism Ahead of NATO Summit | The Dissenter
You’d like to think we still have our constitutionally protected freedoms, wouldn’t you. Yeah, well, it’s a nice story but it ain’t exactly true.
Because being obscenely wealthy isn't enough
Yes, Zuckerberg, you are an asshole for many reasons.
Sociologist Barbara Rothman asked a group of mothers to describe the movements of their fetuses in the last three months of pregnancy. Among the women who didn’t know the sex of their baby while they were pregnant, there was no particular pattern to the way that (what turned out to be) male and female babies were described. But women who knew the sex of their unborn baby described the movements of sons and daughter’s differently.
Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine
There is no gender-free zone.
“Porcelain Unicorn” - It’s amazing the depth of story you can tell in just 3 minutes. Beautiful.
Glenn Greenwald on the obscenity that is "collateral damage"
“At some point — and more than a decade would certainly qualify — the act of continuously killing innocent people, countless children, in the Muslim world most certainly does reflect upon, and even alters, the moral character of a country, especially its leaders.
“You can’t just spend year after year piling up the corpses of children and credibly insist that it has no bearing on who you are. That’s particularly true when, as is the case in Afghanistan, the cause of the war is so vague as to be virtually unknowable.”
Really great live version of Peter Murphy singing Strange Kind of Love.