Humanities Videos

On this podcast we re delighted to introduce another two irregulars, Jennifer Howard, a writer for the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Josh Greenberg, the director of digital strategy and scholarship at the New York Public Library. Jennifer and Josh give us terrific insights into the challenges that digitization and open access are posing to libraries and publishers, and speak of new models that are emerging out of the chaos, including coalitions of publishers and the Internet Archive s BookServer. Links mentioned on the podcast: Research Librarians Discuss How to Sell Scholars on Open Access, and More Columbia and Cornell Libraries Announce Radical Partnership Open Access to Research Is Inevitable, Libraries Are Told Running time: 44:25 Download the .mp3

Raw footage from the upcoming video documentary, shot in Bahia de Kino, Mexico

Raw footage from the first day of shooting the documentary video.

How and why do a critical mass of people adopt new technologies such as virtual worlds or the Theremin? That s just one of the issues we discuss on a freewheeling podcast featuring another two irregulars, Steve Ramsey and Bryan Alexander. The news roundup includes an analysis of the Nook and the Droid, among other oddly-named devices, and an exploration of what real-time search could do for researchers. Running time: 54:10 Download the .mp3

Underwater archaeologists surveying the worlds oldest submerged town have found ceramics dating back to the early Bronze Age. This suggests that Pavlopetri, off the southern Laconia coast of Greece, was occupied some 5000 years ago making the site even more important than first thought. The Pavlopetri Underwater Archaeology Project, involving the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and The University of Nottingham, aims to establish when the site was occupied, what it was used for and through a systematic study of the geomorphology of the area, how the town became submerged. Dr Jon Henderson, from the Department of Archaeology, takes up the story.

While Dan is distracted and rendered unintelligent by his first experience with Google Wave, Mills, Tom, and newcomer Lisa Spiro manage to have a cogent discussion of whether Wave will have any (positive) impact on education, update the ongoing Google Books saga, examine Chrome within Internet Explorer, highlight the Kindle underperforming on campus, debate the FTC s ruling on bloggers accepting gifts (including university presses giving free books to bloggers), and look at advance of net neutrality. Picks of the podcast include a wiki for seeing into the future, an assessment of collegiate internet use, tools for Twitter and RSS, and a time-waster of a blog. Links mentioned on the podcast: Horizon Report wiki Everyday life, online: U.S. college students’ use of the Internet Twitter Feed RSS Digest (WordPress Plugin) Futility Closet blog Running time: 43:45 Download the .mp3

One of the important concepts behind the JudeoChristian is utter bullshit when you take the pickup-truck of logic and park it on God's face... because GOD + Free WIll = BULLSHIT

In this installment of Digital Campus, we couldn t decide if we were happy with Google or mad at Google. Tom, Dan, and Mills were so confused about our feelings on the whole Google issue that we invited two new irregulars to join us Jeff McClurken and Amanda French but they proved to be just as unsettled as we were. Even though they didn t help us much on our core problem, we enjoyed having them on the show so much that we ve decided to ask them back on the show again along with some other irregulars to be named later. All five of us also discussed the future of libraries in the digital age and a new raft of picks you should check out. Links mentioned on the podcast: Libraries of the Future conference Google study tips Invincible Cities Planned Obsolescence TED talk: Schools Kill Creativity TED talk: The Best Stats You ve Ever Seen Jeff McClurken and Tim O Donnell s seminar using TED talks Running time: 51:01 Download the .mp3

Helen Facenna, is a 39 year old self-taught artist from the UK. She painted and drawn for as long as she can remember - it's a very important part of her existence. She finds inspiration in the physical human form. In faces, detailed expressions, in the theatrical and dramatic forces that the body and face can convey. Her work is a celebration of the upliftment of the human spirit, which takes her on a constant journey through the complicated world of man's psyche. She works in mediums of colored pencil, watercolor/pastels and acrylic on paper creating dramatic sensual nudes and portraits; beautiful original drawings, paintings and prints in its exquisite lines, textures and colors. Her new works is found mostly on eBay; I first knew about her via her website when I goggle searched nude male gay art way back September 2007. All her works shown in this video are sold out. Here are renderings and interpretations of celebrities in the field of acting, modelling and body building. She captures the men at the height of their youth, virility and beauty focusing on pulchritude centered on body proportion and their enigma that captivates us to what is interesting in their persona. Facenna's masterpieces evolves with individual characters in what they signify as she transports us to a higher level of artistic expression. NUDE - unclothed live model, or a work of art representing a person without clothing. The nude is classic, timeless, elemental, primal, and universal. Because we are all creatures of our own nakedness, it is the subject of ultimate empathy. And yet in the hands of an artist, that fleeting, imperfect, and fragile package that carries all of our souls gains a noble immortality and perfection that transcends its mere physicality. IN THE NEWS: In April of 2006, Sydney McGee, an elementary art teacher at Wilma Fisher Elementary School (in the Dallas, TX, exurb of Frisco), led fifth graders (11 and 12 years old) through European and contemporary galleries of the Dallas Museum of Art. One of her students saw nude art in the museum, and after the child s parent complained, Ms McGee was suspended. Although the tour had been approved by the principal, and the 89 students were accompanied by four other teachers, at least twelve parents and a professional museum guide, Principal Nancy Lawson reprimanded Ms. McGee, saying: During a study trip that you planned for fifth graders, students were exposed to nude statues and other nude art representations. Although school representatives have said that other concerns prompted Ms McGee's dismissal, the evidence betrays this school community's gymnophobia. See a NY Times article about this story. An important goal of education (as it is of art) is to challenge students to consider more advanced ideas. In doing so, viewers must see images that some might consider problematic. Approaching the examination of disturbing subjects, educators are wise to gauge community concerns, and to accomodate them in some ways. Nevertheless, it is generally appropriate to expect that maturing students can and should view many challenging works in a scholarly manner, and that their scholarly pursuits are not be impeded by gymnophobia. GYMNOPHOBIA: An abnormal and persistent fear of nudity. Sufferers of this phobia experience undue anxiety even though they realize their fear is irrational. They may worry about seeing others naked or being seen naked, or both. Their fear may stem from anxiety about sexuality in general, from a fear that their bodies are physically inferior, or from a fear that their nakedness leaves their bodies--and their personalities--exposed and unprotected."Gymnophobia" is derived from the Greek "gymnos" (naked) and "phobos" (fear). The word "gymnasium" comes from the Greek "gymnasion" (a place for athletic exercises) and the Greek "gymnasein" (to train naked).

Islam (Muslims) openly deny that Jesus is God in the flesh, oh, they claim that they believe in Jesus but only as a prophet, and that my dear friends is blasphemy it's clearly and blatantly a denial of the Holy Spirit, and those that do such things will not enter the kingdom of Heaven. Satan is the father of allah, and he's nothing more than a figment of Muhammad's imagination a worthless god made-up out of that man's twisted imagination, and he can't save anyone. Jesus is the true and living God who can save all who call on his name. This isn't my opinion it's all tangible facts of History, allah is never mentioned in the Holy Bible no not once but Jesus is.

A tongue-in-cheek look at all the reasons why GE may NOT be the right place for you to take your first job. Our host Anna starts out with the notion that GE is not right for her--but through her interactions with students, she becomes convinced otherwise.

Giants of Peru,India,Turkey and China

Konzentrationslager Auschwitz (help·info)) was the largest of Nazi Germany's concentration camps. Located in German-occupied southern Poland, it took its name from the nearby town of Oświęcim (Auschwitz in German), situated about 50 kilometers west of Kraków and 286 kilometers from Warsaw. Following the German occupation of Poland in September 1939, Oświęcim was incorporated into Germany as part of the Katowice District (Regierungsbezirk Kattowitz), or unofficially East Upper Silesia (Ost-Oberschlesien), and renamed Auschwitz. The word Birkenau means 'Birch tree' of which there are many surrounding the Birkenau area of the complex. The complex consisted of three main camps: Auschwitz I, the administrative center; Auschwitz II (Birkenau), an extermination camp or Vernichtungslager; and Auschwitz III (Monowitz), a work camp. There were also around 40 satellite camps, some of them tens of kilometers from the main camps, with prisoner populations ranging from several dozen to several thousand. [1] The camp commandant, Rudolf Höss, testifed at the Nuremberg Trials that up to 2.5 million people had died at Auschwitz. The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum revised this figure in 1990, and new calculations now place the figure at 1.1--1.6 million, [2][3] about 90 percent of them Jews from almost every country in Europe. [4] Most of the dead were killed in gas chambers using Zyklon B; other deaths were caused by systematic starvation, forced labor, lack of disease control, individual executions, and so-called medical experiments.

Carlos Drummond de Andrade em documentário de Fernando Sabino e David Neves. 1972. (no DVD Encontro Marcado Todos os direitos reservados)

Shaolin Monks Documentary

http://www.globalchange.com Facts about global warming science. Controversy and arguments against global warming. Rising sea levels. Sustainability, environment, climate change, sea levels, carbon dioxide levels. Business and corporate responsibility. Reducing carbon footprint. Carbon offsetting and carbon sequestration capture technology for energy industry. Cleaner power generation and energy saving. Solar power, wind power, wave power, geothermal power. Impact on manufacturing, chemical industry, banking, transport, travel, tourism. Keynote conference speaker Dr Patrick Dixon

http://www.globalchange.com Drop in fertility, aging impact. On current trends 8 great grandparents will be needed to produce a single great grandchild in countries such as Germany, Italy and Russia. Huge impact on markets, pensions, consumer choice, governments. New products and services for older clients. Longevity and life expectancy. Demographics and business. Workforce recruitment. Pensions crisis. Wealth management. Future of banking and financial services / insurance. Video of keynote conference lecture for financial services / bank by Dr Patrick Dixon

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My Grandparents were in thier early 20's then. I spent just as much time with them as I did my parents. I can never remember them complaining about anything. Music from the O Brother soundtrack, Chris Thomas King