Really cool talk about the knowledge lost as languages vanish. Pretty amusing, too. From http://longnow.org/seminars/02009/mar/20/endangered-languages-lost-knowledge-and-future/
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LongNow: Daniel Everett, “Endangered languages, lost knowledge and the future”
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Red Mondays and Gemstone Jalapeños: The Synesthetic World
"Synesthesia is the blending or mixing of senses. A synesthete, for example, might see colors when listening to music or taste flavors when hearing a word. Dr. David Eagleman of Baylor College of Medicine explains this strange condition, and four synesthetes explain how they perceive the world."
http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/displayevent.aspx?fID=572&rID=29222
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Clay Shirky - ‘Let a thousand flowers bloom to replace newspapers; don’t build a paywall around a public good’ (Harvard Shorenstein Center talk)
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Dmitry Orlov - Social Collapse Best Practices
From http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars/ It’s pretty great.
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Alain de Botton - The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/the-pleasures-and-sorrows-of-work via @adactio. Mr. Keith, I request a re-blog feature, please?
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“Imaginary Companions in Early Childhood” lecture by Tracy Gleason, Wellesley College
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Special Lecture: Co-Ed Wellesley or Single Sex: The 1971 Commission on the Future of the College
From http://education.mobile.podcast.com/226688/56776/30577578/ via Wellesley on iTunes. We’ll see if this URL works. Fun lecture—I miss these a lot.