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33 Things: The Week’s Amusing and Intriguing Links

Cool 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...
March 19th, 2010 | Thirty Three Things | Read More

Decentralizing Healthcare – Lunch w/ TED

Eric Dishman, healthcare researcher for Intel, wants us to take medicine back to the future.  Dishman wants us to envision medicine as it was practiced before 1787, before it was centralized in hospitals that departmentalized the body and its problems, but he wants us to do so while employing cutting...
March 18th, 2010 | Lunch with TED | Read More

33 Things: The Week’s Amusing and Intriguing Links

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

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

33 Things: The Week’s Amusing & Intriguing Links

You 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

Welcome 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

David Cameron on The Next Age of Government – Lunch w/ TED

If there’s one thing that liberals and conservatives can agree on it is this: that an informed citizenry is both necessary and beneficial to the growth and flourishing of a democratic nation. This week’s Lunch with TED features David Cameron, the leader of the Conservative party in the United Kingdom...
March 4th, 2010 | Conservative/Liberal, Lunch with TED | Read More

33 Things: The Week’s Amusing and Intriguing Links

If you are amused by the aesthetics of Disney zombie art or Nietzschean cartoons, intrigued by articles on C.S. Lewis or how to think about sin or–this is the best one–interested in how you are actually being productive by reading this 33 Things rather than tackling that to-do list, this...
February 26th, 2010 | Thirty Three Things | Read More

J.J. Abrams on Story, Technology, and “Mystery Boxes” – Lunch w/ TED

Our “Lunch with TED” feature is back—and here to stay. (For the uninitiated, see Dustin’s original TED post here.) To commemorate this momentous occasion (and, frankly, the return of Lost, now in its sixth season) I chose to highlight a TED Talk by one of my favorite filmmakers—J.J. Abrams,...
February 25th, 2010 | Lunch with TED | Read More

And Now For Something Completely Different: Focus on the Family vs. John Cleese

If there’s one thing Monty Python star John Cleese and Focus on the Family agree on, it’s that hell is a decidedly British place. At least, that’s what one might assume after hearing their competing audio interpretations of C.S. Lewis’ classic book, The Screwtape Letters. John Cleese’s masterful...
February 23rd, 2010 | Other | Read More