Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett (APM)
From Faith to Being (September 9, 2010)
A retrospective show examining how Speaking of Faith has grown into its spacious new name, Being. We hear the voices and stories of our many guests and listeners who have participated in this conversation on faith, meaning, ethics and ideas.
(review, feed)
Distillations
Episode 103: Herbal Remedy
Before pharmaceuticals existed, all medicines had to come from natural sources—like plants. On this week’s show, we focus on such remedies.
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Hebrew Podcasts
Lesson 068 - Eliezer Ben Yehuda
The revival of Hebrew as a modern spoken language is primarily the initiative of Eliezer Ben Yehuda. In our lesson today we learn about him from a conversation between Gali and her friend Yossi.
(review, feed)
Volkis Stimme
Ausgabe 100: Best of Wetter
Volkis Stimme sagt "Tschüss" und feiert 2. Geburtstag!
Dazu gibt's die schönsten Meldungen aus zwei Jahren Wetter.
(review, feed)
Friday, September 10, 2010
Europe from its origins - Cultural shift in the High Middle Ages
The history vodcast Europe from its Origins just came out with a new chapter Cultural Shift 1200-1300 (feed). This chapter explains exactly as the tile indicates, the cultural shift that takes place through the 13th century. Europe urbanizes and its economy shifts from subsistence to a market economy. Simultaneously art and religion show changes and most remembered is the development in architecture from the Romanesque style to Gothic.
Gothic, by the way, as host Joseph Hogarty explains, is about as bad a misnomer as it could be. The high rising, pointy churches associated with this name are first developed in Paris at the Church of Saint-Denise (which by the way also figures in the book and TV Series Pillars of the Earth) and are rather French than German, let alone Gothic. On top of that, Gothic in those times had the meaning of barbaric - a far cry to the high-tech of the day.
What this all amounts to is not just to note how the high middle ages are different from the earlier, but Hogarty also seems to suggest that the burgeoning Renaissance is already enclosed in these developments and by virtue of that is much less of a revolutionary occurrence than it is usually portrayed as. Again Hogarty has given us a great piece of history podcast (video podcast) which professionally tells and explains history and in one fell swoop takes a courageous opinion in historiography.
More Europe from its origins:
Europe from its origins - A history of Europe,
Podcast with pictures - Europe from its origins,
A history of Europe.
What this all amounts to is not just to note how the high middle ages are different from the earlier, but Hogarty also seems to suggest that the burgeoning Renaissance is already enclosed in these developments and by virtue of that is much less of a revolutionary occurrence than it is usually portrayed as. Again Hogarty has given us a great piece of history podcast (video podcast) which professionally tells and explains history and in one fell swoop takes a courageous opinion in historiography.
More Europe from its origins:
Europe from its origins - A history of Europe,
Podcast with pictures - Europe from its origins,
A history of Europe.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Heads-up for 9 September 2010
London School of Economics: Public lectures and events
The Case of the Pope: Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse
The Case of the Pope delivers a devastating indictment of the way the Vatican has run a secret legal system that has shielded paedophile priests from criminal trial around the world. Is the Pope morally responsible or legally liable under domestic or international law for the negligence that has allowed so many terrible crimes to go unpunished? Should he and his seat of power, the Holy See, continue to enjoy an immunity that places them above the law? To what extent do Vatican dogmas conflict with human rights treatise, and why has the United Nations allowed this church – alone of religions and NGOs – a privileged platform to promote them? Geoffrey Robertson QC demonstrates a deep respect for the good works of Catholics and their church. But, he argues, unless Pope Benedict XVI can divest himself of the beguilements of statehood and devotion to obsolete canon law, the Vatican will remain in grave breach of the convention on the Right of the Child and in some other respects, an enemy of human rights.This event marks the publication of Geoffrey Robertson's new book The Case of the Pope: Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse.
(review, feed)
TED Talks
An independent diplomat - Carne Ross (2009)
After 15 years in the British diplomatic corps, Carne Ross became a "freelance diplomat," running a bold nonprofit that gives small, developing and yet-unrecognized nations a voice in international relations. At the BIF-5 conference, he calls for a new kind of diplomacy that gives voice to small countries, that works with changing boundaries and that welcomes innovation.
(review, feed)
The Economist
The balkanisation of the internet
Still a universal network?
(review, feed)
The Case of the Pope: Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse
The Case of the Pope delivers a devastating indictment of the way the Vatican has run a secret legal system that has shielded paedophile priests from criminal trial around the world. Is the Pope morally responsible or legally liable under domestic or international law for the negligence that has allowed so many terrible crimes to go unpunished? Should he and his seat of power, the Holy See, continue to enjoy an immunity that places them above the law? To what extent do Vatican dogmas conflict with human rights treatise, and why has the United Nations allowed this church – alone of religions and NGOs – a privileged platform to promote them? Geoffrey Robertson QC demonstrates a deep respect for the good works of Catholics and their church. But, he argues, unless Pope Benedict XVI can divest himself of the beguilements of statehood and devotion to obsolete canon law, the Vatican will remain in grave breach of the convention on the Right of the Child and in some other respects, an enemy of human rights.This event marks the publication of Geoffrey Robertson's new book The Case of the Pope: Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse.
(review, feed)
TED Talks
An independent diplomat - Carne Ross (2009)
After 15 years in the British diplomatic corps, Carne Ross became a "freelance diplomat," running a bold nonprofit that gives small, developing and yet-unrecognized nations a voice in international relations. At the BIF-5 conference, he calls for a new kind of diplomacy that gives voice to small countries, that works with changing boundaries and that welcomes innovation.
(review, feed)
The Economist
The balkanisation of the internet
Still a universal network?
(review, feed)
Amar Bhide in podcast
The economist Amar Bhidé has recently written a book "A call for Judgment" which compares major segments of the economy where imagination and judgment rule the day with the financial sector that is marked by the excessive use of models which are increasingly centralised, distanced, and mechanistic. Bhidé would like to see the same kind of imagination and judgment (or would one have to call this common sense) to be applied in finance as it is elsewhere.
He goes as far as to call it the REAL economy as opposed to some kind of virtual or theoretic economy of the financial sector. Needlessly, this analysis is a response to the disastrous effect the crisis in the financial sector has had on the whole economy.
Bhidé can be heard on Harvard Business IdeaCast in August 2010 "Bringing Judgment Back to Finance" (feed) and on The Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show in February 2010, which reran an old phone call with him: "Amar Bhide Break Up The Fed" (feed) And he is also to be found in the 2009 archives of Econtalk, where he spoke aboput his previous book. "Bhide on Outsourcing, Uncertainty, and the Venturesome Economy." (feed, 2009 feed)
He is expected to speak at the London School of Economics in October and I would expect this lecture to appear in the LSE podcast then. (feed)
More EconTalk:
Helprin on Copyright - EconTalk,
Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia,
New Deal and War Economy,
The Depression,
Wildlife, Property and Poverty.
More Harvard Business IdeaCast:
Silver lining in the sky,
Harvard Business IdeaCast review.
More LSE Podcast:
Quest for Meaning,
The plundered planet,
China and India,
The China Hegemony,
The myth of work.
He goes as far as to call it the REAL economy as opposed to some kind of virtual or theoretic economy of the financial sector. Needlessly, this analysis is a response to the disastrous effect the crisis in the financial sector has had on the whole economy.
Bhidé can be heard on Harvard Business IdeaCast in August 2010 "Bringing Judgment Back to Finance" (feed) and on The Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show in February 2010, which reran an old phone call with him: "Amar Bhide Break Up The Fed" (feed) And he is also to be found in the 2009 archives of Econtalk, where he spoke aboput his previous book. "Bhide on Outsourcing, Uncertainty, and the Venturesome Economy." (feed, 2009 feed)He is expected to speak at the London School of Economics in October and I would expect this lecture to appear in the LSE podcast then. (feed)
More EconTalk:
Helprin on Copyright - EconTalk,
Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia,
New Deal and War Economy,
The Depression,
Wildlife, Property and Poverty.
More Harvard Business IdeaCast:
Silver lining in the sky,
Harvard Business IdeaCast review.
More LSE Podcast:
Quest for Meaning,
The plundered planet,
China and India,
The China Hegemony,
The myth of work.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Heads-up for 8 September 2010
Elucidations: A University of Chicago Podcast
Brian Leiter discusses religious toleration
In this episode, Brian Leiter considers whether claims of religious conscience--as opposed to claims of other matters of conscience--should be given special status under the law.
(review, feed)
TED Talks
Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education
Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.
(review, feed)
History 5, 001|Fall 2010 UC Berkeley
Lecture 4 by Thomas W. LAQUEUR: New Worlds, New Peoples, New Goods
The period 1450-1550 witnesses a radical re-conceptualization of the place of "man" in
the cosmos and the place of Europe and Europeans on the earth. Worlds unknown to any ancient civilization came under the European sway radically altering their ways of being and that of the Europeans.
Europe began in this period its rise to world dominance; Europeans came to regard themselves as the center of a world, which they could, and indeed had a right to, dominate. These claims, however, produced powerful and subtle voice, which questioned the assumption on which these claims were based. The "new" world thus consolidated European peoples sense of themselves as uniquely civilized at the same time as it provided evidence which belies that claim.
A new world economy based on new sorts of desire began to develop in this period. It was dependent on African slavery and would become more so in the centuries that followed. Europe is on the brink of its extraordinary dominance of a world economy, which it is in the process of creating.
(review, feed)
Ciencia y Genios
Antoine y Marie Anne Lavoisier, una pareja con química.
El final de la vida de Antoine Laurent Lavoisier es una de las páginas más tristes de la historia de la ciencia. El llamado “Padre de la Química Moderna” murió guillotinado en 1794. Junto a él, compartió su vida científica y participó activamente en sus logros, su esposa Marie Anne. Aunque es poco conocida, algunos la consideran como la “Madre de la Química moderna”. Les invitamos a escuchar la vida de Antoine y a leer la contribución de Marie Anne en la información complementaria.
(review, feed)
Rear Vision
Remembering 9/11
Rear Vision visits several 9/11 memorials and exhibits in New York, as Americans prepare to mark the ninth anniversary of terrorist attacks that still reverberate in unpredictable ways in the political life of both the city and the nation beyond.
(review, feed)
NPR Fresh Air
1) Journalist Lawrence Wright's 'Trip To Al-Qaeda' 2) Maybe We All Need Some 'Sensitivity' Training
(review, feed)
Geography C110, Interdisciplinary Studies Field Maj C101, 001|Fall 2010 UC Berkeley
Lecture 4: Capitalism Unleashed: Accumulation, Labor, Nature and Technology by Richard A. WALKER
(review, feed)
Brian Leiter discusses religious toleration
In this episode, Brian Leiter considers whether claims of religious conscience--as opposed to claims of other matters of conscience--should be given special status under the law.
(review, feed)
TED Talks
Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education
Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.
(review, feed)
History 5, 001|Fall 2010 UC Berkeley
Lecture 4 by Thomas W. LAQUEUR: New Worlds, New Peoples, New Goods
The period 1450-1550 witnesses a radical re-conceptualization of the place of "man" in
the cosmos and the place of Europe and Europeans on the earth. Worlds unknown to any ancient civilization came under the European sway radically altering their ways of being and that of the Europeans.
Europe began in this period its rise to world dominance; Europeans came to regard themselves as the center of a world, which they could, and indeed had a right to, dominate. These claims, however, produced powerful and subtle voice, which questioned the assumption on which these claims were based. The "new" world thus consolidated European peoples sense of themselves as uniquely civilized at the same time as it provided evidence which belies that claim.
A new world economy based on new sorts of desire began to develop in this period. It was dependent on African slavery and would become more so in the centuries that followed. Europe is on the brink of its extraordinary dominance of a world economy, which it is in the process of creating.
(review, feed)
Ciencia y Genios
Antoine y Marie Anne Lavoisier, una pareja con química.
El final de la vida de Antoine Laurent Lavoisier es una de las páginas más tristes de la historia de la ciencia. El llamado “Padre de la Química Moderna” murió guillotinado en 1794. Junto a él, compartió su vida científica y participó activamente en sus logros, su esposa Marie Anne. Aunque es poco conocida, algunos la consideran como la “Madre de la Química moderna”. Les invitamos a escuchar la vida de Antoine y a leer la contribución de Marie Anne en la información complementaria.
(review, feed)
Rear Vision
Remembering 9/11
Rear Vision visits several 9/11 memorials and exhibits in New York, as Americans prepare to mark the ninth anniversary of terrorist attacks that still reverberate in unpredictable ways in the political life of both the city and the nation beyond.
(review, feed)
NPR Fresh Air
1) Journalist Lawrence Wright's 'Trip To Al-Qaeda' 2) Maybe We All Need Some 'Sensitivity' Training
(review, feed)
Geography C110, Interdisciplinary Studies Field Maj C101, 001|Fall 2010 UC Berkeley
Lecture 4: Capitalism Unleashed: Accumulation, Labor, Nature and Technology by Richard A. WALKER
(review, feed)
Heidegger in podcast - news
About half a year ago I wrote a post about where to find material on Heidegger in podcast and this post turned out to be, if not the cause for controversy then at least to a lot of attention - it is still one of the best visited pages on the blog.
I struck up a short exchange with Nigel Warburton of Philosophy Bites who kicked off on Twitter by tweeting: Heidegger - too foggy, pretentious & obscure as topic for PB? Possibly. Anne is a Man thinks not. Although I have a hard time understanding Heidegger, I would not dare to call him foggy, pretentious and obscure. I figure, even if Warburton thinks so and has good reason and authority to that effect, it would suit to a podcast like Philosophy Bites to help us on the way.
Until then, we might give yet another try to Berkeley's Philosophy 6 the course in which Hubert Dreyfus once again will teach about "Man, God, and Society in Western Literature" which goes from the Odyssey to Moby Dick and which has Heidegger's view on being in mind (feed). When I listened to the first lecture in the course, I learned that it has turned into a book that is to be published soon: All Things Shining, by Hubert Drefuys and Sean Dorrance Kelly.
The other author, Sean Kelly, used to be Dreyfus's right hand in the course. He has moved on to become a professor at Harvard and there he offers his own course on Heidegger which can be had as a podcast (feed). Although Dreyfus has his good points, Kelly seems to be easier to follow and I enjoyed the first lesson in the series and for the first time when I tried to get some Heidegger I actually managed to learn something; how things can become transparent when we use them well.
Other podcast sources on Heidegger:
Entitled Opinions - conversation,
J Drabinsky - university course,
Dichter und Denker in Freiburg - lecture (in German).
I struck up a short exchange with Nigel Warburton of Philosophy Bites who kicked off on Twitter by tweeting: Heidegger - too foggy, pretentious & obscure as topic for PB? Possibly. Anne is a Man thinks not. Although I have a hard time understanding Heidegger, I would not dare to call him foggy, pretentious and obscure. I figure, even if Warburton thinks so and has good reason and authority to that effect, it would suit to a podcast like Philosophy Bites to help us on the way.
Until then, we might give yet another try to Berkeley's Philosophy 6 the course in which Hubert Dreyfus once again will teach about "Man, God, and Society in Western Literature" which goes from the Odyssey to Moby Dick and which has Heidegger's view on being in mind (feed). When I listened to the first lecture in the course, I learned that it has turned into a book that is to be published soon: All Things Shining, by Hubert Drefuys and Sean Dorrance Kelly.The other author, Sean Kelly, used to be Dreyfus's right hand in the course. He has moved on to become a professor at Harvard and there he offers his own course on Heidegger which can be had as a podcast (feed). Although Dreyfus has his good points, Kelly seems to be easier to follow and I enjoyed the first lesson in the series and for the first time when I tried to get some Heidegger I actually managed to learn something; how things can become transparent when we use them well.
Other podcast sources on Heidegger:
Entitled Opinions - conversation,
J Drabinsky - university course,
Dichter und Denker in Freiburg - lecture (in German).
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