The Teens’ speech – UK teens get uplugged, raw and real
Image via CrunchBase Zemanta is a blog plugin that supplies a list of online articles related to the content of one’s blog entry. About one minute after starting to write this blog entry, Zemanta should have enough input to work on and start making suggestions (it also suggests photos). One of Zemanta’s suggested articles was [...]
Brain Gym, or propaganda in schools
Image via Wikipedia Andrew Old, blogging on Scenes from the Battleground, wrote a piece on Brain Gym, a system of simple exercises promoted by Britain‘s Education Ministry and used in thousands of schools around the country. He includes a couple of video clips from a 2008 Newsnight program that suggest it’s not backed up by [...]
Other people’s lives, or Carlin and Nock
Image via Wikipedia Do you read autobiographies? I read a lot of books, but autobiographies is not a genre that has attracted me much for most of my life. At a certain stage of his life, my dad read and recommended autobiographies to me . I remember one. It was the autobiography of actor Dirk [...]
Is anyone minding the store?
Image via Wikipedia Mousetip to Douglas French at Mises Institute. And speaking of “enough”….Here’s another video of Grayson questioning Geithner. Image via Wikipedia
Phun with Philosophy
(mouse-tip to Recent Reflection for the link) Hurry! YouTube may not last much longer! And speaking of youtube and philosophy, check out this clever one on the history of Western philosophy, set to a catchy tune.
Which Japanese people are known in New Zealand?
NZ by bbqkarubi This might be of use in English-language or culture classes: A Japan Probe entry tells of a Japanese quiz program that asked New Zealanders which Japanese people they were familiar with. A Japanese quiz show recently traveled to a foreign country and asked people on the street to name famous Japanese people. [...]
$700 billion is nothing
Woah.
Sub-prime and financial meltdown explained
A highly respectable and knowledgable British invesment banker is interviewed by another highly respectable British interviewer to give you the basics of the recent upheavals in the financial markets. Short, sweet, brilliantly funny. Hat-tip to Tim Ferriss for the video. Ferriss, author of the phenomenal book The Four-Hour Workweek, uses this video to head the [...]
Japan’s food statistics
A friend’s shared Google Reader feed alerted me to this video created for the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF). It contains some interesting statistics, and begs some interesting questions. E.g.: Japan only produces about 40% of the food it consumes. This is the lowest among all major developed nations. This is the [...]
Revisiting “A Vision of students Today”
I’ve been an admirer of Mike Wesch, anthropology prof at Kansas State University, ever since I saw his very cool and slick video The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version) He then had some of his Cultural Anthropology students help him make another YouTube video to tell the world what they think of their education: [...]
