33 Things: The Week’s Amusing and Intriguing Links
By Robin Dembroff in Other — March 19, 2010 at 12:02 amCool technology, more Tim Burton (because, let’s admit it, we can never have enough), ‘how to survive in fairy land’, and (if you didn’t think that was random enough) Godzilla poetry. Yes, because we’re that awesome.
1. 83 years of Popular Science – for free!
2. Never mess with a police dog. Ever.3. Hipsterdom–it’s for the dogs.
4. Slavery in America: an...
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Art & Literature, Film, Picturing the Word
Uh, What Do You Mean By “Great Responsibility” ?
By Picturing the WordWelcome back! We hope you enjoyed last week’s podcast. Danielle and I are thrilled to continue our discussion of heroes...
Mar 17, 2010 1:00
Economics & Law, Politics
Healthcare, Budgeting, and Student Loans – Time for Common Sense
By Dustin R. SteeveThe President, his economists, and the CBO defy common sense when they discuss the costs of the 2010 Budget and new entitlement...
Mar 18, 2010 0:01
Lunch with TED
Decentralizing Healthcare – Lunch w/ TED
By Dustin R. SteeveEric Dishman, healthcare researcher for Intel, wants us to take medicine back to the future. Dishman wants us to envision...
Mar 18, 2010 0:00
Book Reviews, Culture, Religion
Classics for the Contemporary Christian: Freud’s Non-Libidinal Rub
By Robin DembroffWhat do you want, purpose or happiness?
If you don’t think the two pursuits are exclusive, take it up with Freud,...
Mar 15, 2010 0:05
Recent Articles
A Dream That Tells The Truth: Alice in Wonderland
By Hayden Butler
Alice in Wonderland offers a fanciful study in dreaming that provokes the question of whether Wonderland is merely a dream from which we may at any time awaken. What makes the film great, though, is the follow-up question as to whether it being a dream even matters. At its core, Alice in Wonderland...
March 16th, 2010 | Culture, Film, Media | Read More Predatory Loneliness: Nighthawks
By Renee Bolinger
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks maybe the most famous painting of urban isolation. Don’t buy it? Let me try to help. When you’re attempting to understand a piece, the first step is to see it well. Look at the formal elements: color, shapes, and focal points. Once you can see what you’re...
March 16th, 2010 | Art & Literature, Media | Read More Classics for the Contemporary Christian: Freud’s Non-Libidinal Rub
By Robin DembroffWhat do you want, purpose or happiness?
If you don’t think the two pursuits are exclusive, take it up with Freud, who says as much in his treatise Civilization and its Discontents.
“The idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system,” he said. “We will therefore...
March 15th, 2010 | Book Reviews, Culture, Religion | Read More 33 Things: The Week’s Amusing and Intriguing Links
By Robin Dembroff
Masculine slang-Victorian style, disagreements about Tim Burton, Godzilla, Symbols, Color-by-number toilet paper…oh…and even a little politics. (Meh!)
1. Forty “Bad” Books, according to the “experts”.
2. I Stopped Denying People: Ex- Bank of America CSR Tells All
3....
March 12th, 2010 | Thirty Three Things | Read More The Suprising Spread of “Idol” TV in the Middle East- Lunch w/TED
By Lauren Myracle
Reality TV in the United States has a poor reputation. And frankly, it often deserves it. After all, some of this year’s biggest reality hits include raunchy, mindless fare like “Jersey Shore,” “The Real Housewives” franchise, and “The Hills.” As for less smutty, more family-friendly shows...
March 11th, 2010 | Lunch with TED | Read More Is there really room for another Austen remake? You bet your Pride and Prejudice!
By Amy Cannon
Like clockwork, the BBC has come out with a television serial of Jane Austen’s classic, Emma. Weirdly, film adaptations of this particular novel seem to come in pairs: both Kate Beckinsale and Gwyneth Paltrow portrayed the eponymous heroine in 1996 — on British television and American movie...
March 10th, 2010 | Art & Literature, Film | Read More What’s In a Name? That By Which We Call A Hero By Any Other Name Wouldst Act As…Villainous? Courageous? Cunning?
By Picturing the WordWelcome to Week 3 of Picturing the Word!
This week in class we watched movies and read books with the theme “You have great power.”
We watched:
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Chris Columbus, 2002)
Spider-Man (Sam Raimi, 2002)
Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977)
Star Wars: Episode II — Attack...
March 10th, 2010 | Art & Literature, Film, Picturing the Word | Read More Fear of the Elements: Tsunamis, Typhoons, and Turner
By Renee Bolinger
Recent tsunami warnings in Hawaii brought to mind a powerful painting by JMW Turner. He was a good painter, but not gifted with pithy titles. Proof? This one’s named: ‘Slavers throwing overboard the Dead and Dying—typhon coming on.’ He didn’t misspell ‘typhoon’; that’s...
March 9th, 2010 | Art & Literature, Media | Read More Classics for the Contemporary Christian: Is Your Identity As You Like It?
By Robin Dembroff
If the world is a stage, we like putting on the same shows. The Matrix, The Truman Show, Equilibrium…not original. Even in Shakespeare’s 17th century comedy As You Like It, we confront the suggestion that the world is a sham and humans are the sham’s pawns.
At surface-level, the play is a ball...
March 8th, 2010 | Book Reviews, Culture, Media | Read More 33 Things: The Week’s Amusing & Intriguing Links
By Robin DembroffYou know…I just don’t feel like writing an introduction. So shoot me!
(Oh, but do check out the top 100 films.)
1. It’s rare for a company to admit to child labor, much less do their own investigation — let’s hope systemic solutions will quickly follow.
2. How to use that...
March 5th, 2010 | Thirty Three Things | Read More You Are A Muggle
By Picturing the WordWelcome back! We hope you enjoyed the first podcast and are excited to continue to discuss what makes a hero and a myth.
For the second class, we watched:
Superman (Richard Donner, 1978)
The Last Son of Krypton from “Superman: The Animated Series”
Pilot from “Smallville”
Superman on Earth from...
March 4th, 2010 | Art & Literature, Film, Other, Picturing the Word | Read More 
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