Thursday, December 22, 2011

8 (Free) Books Every Intelligent Person Should Read


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Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists 8 (Free) Books Every Intelligent Person Should Read


A Reddit.com user posed the question to Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Which books should be read by every single intelligent person on the planet?”
Below, you will find the book list offered up by the astrophysicist, director of the Hayden Planetarium, and popularizer of science. Where possible, we have included links to free versions of the books, all taken from our Free Audio Books and Free eBooks collections. Or you can always download a professionally-narrated book for free from Audible.com. Details here.
If you’re looking for a more extensive list of essential works, don’t miss The Harvard Classics, a 51 volume series that you can now download online.
1.) The Bible (eBook) - “to learn that it’s easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself.”
2.) The System of the World by Isaac Newton (eBook) – “to learn that the universe is a knowable place.”
3.) On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (eBookAudio Book) - “to learn of our kinship with all other life on Earth.”
4.) Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (eBookAudio Book) – “to learn, among other satirical lessons, that most of the time humans are Yahoos.”
5.) The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine (eBookAudio Book) – “to learn how the power of rational thought is the primary source of freedom in the world.”
6.) The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (eBookAudio Book) - “to learn that capitalism is an economy of greed, a force of nature unto itself.”
7.) The Art of War by Sun Tsu (eBookAudio Book) - “to learn that the act of killing fellow humans can be raised to an art.”
8.) The Prince by Machiavelli (eBookAudio Book) - “to learn that people not in power will do all they can to acquire it, and people in power will do all they can to keep it.”
Tyson concludes by saying: “If you read all of the above works you will glean profound insight into most of what has driven the history of the western world.”
He has also added  some more thoughts in the comments section below, saying:
Thanks for this ongoing interest in my book suggestions. From some of your reflections, it looks like the intent of the list was not as clear as I thought. The one-line comment after each book is not a review but a statement about how the book’s content influenced the behavior of people who shaped the western world. So, for example, it does no good to say what the Bible “really” meant, if its actual influence on human behavior is something else. Again, thanks for your collective interest. -NDTyson

Monday, December 19, 2011

Deck the courts with bows to folly


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Have you ever been: beaten, fired, evicted for not believing in Santa? Of course, you haven't. I've experienced ALL the above, for not believing in gods. Have you ever had someone tell you your loyalty to your country's principles, your commitment to informed democracy and your heart-felt support of the Constitution and Bill of Rights is un-American, even as your accuser tries to strip them from civil discourse? I do, every day. Have you ever been accused of aggression, hate, intolerance by someone who, under a Taliban-like banner of theocracy, uses exactly those same hate-mongering tactics to vilify you, for no reason except that you don't support totalitarianism? You're doing it to me, right now. The majority of the US citizenry doesn't have cerebral palsy, either. Does this mean people with CP should have no rights? I don't want to live in a superstitious, brutal Dark Ages. If I resist your hate speech, this is why. Last gasps of a dying mentality, overwhelmingly outdated by modern, scientific thought, rationality and unabashed curiosity about reality. Go live in North Korea; you'll be very happy there. 

Deck the courts with bows to folly

 

Sunday, December 18, 2011

"Atheist Carol"


I don't find the song depressing; I find it poignant, sweet. Ir's very forgiving of why we find ourselves bound by superstitions and myths: warmth out of cold as "divine intervention," etc. It's about how dark and scary reality is, how we flock for comfort, safety in numbers.

I can't belittle the need for comfort, since I have so little of my own.

The song is only sad for me because none of it applies.

There's another, atheist xmas song to which I can't even listen, "White Wine in the Sun." http://youtu.be/fCNvZqpa-7Q

I know people with families and friends don't intend hurt, but intend expressing gratitude. But I have exactly the same sensation I had when overlooked by my church at Mother's Day, watching only the women with living children, gifted a flower. Same feeling I have seeing these Mexican and Native ceremonies, lights, scents, flavors, sounds, ancient traditions. I can watch and sample, but these are not mine; I have none. And I feel a deep loss in that. Hell, as I say at the end, I don't even know if my mother is alive or dead; I certainly know nothing of cultural heritage or even a tradition against which to rebel!

I was homeless once, in a quaint, little town on the California coast, at Winter Solstice. The weather was damp and chill. I walked empty roads of tiny houses, lit and decorated. I could see the people in the warm. It's a brutally heavy feeling in the solar plexus to experience this, year after year, all alone.
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Saturday, December 17, 2011

"Atheist Carol"


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"The Atheist Carol" Vienna Teng http://viennateng.com/
It's the season of grace coming out of the void
Where a man is saved by a voice in the distance
It's the season of possible miracle cures
Where hope is currency and death is not the last unknown
Where time begins to fade
And age is welcome home

It's the season of eyes meeting over the noise
And holding fast with sharp realization
It's the season of cold making warmth a divine intervention
You are safe here you know now

Don't forget
Don't forget I love
I love
I love you

It's the season of scars and of wounds in the heart
Of feeling the full weight of our burdens
It's the season of bowing our heads in the wind
And knowing we are not alone in fear
Not alone in the dark
Don't forget
Don't forget I love
I love
I love you

Old Town Albuquerque Christmas Eve 2008
http://youtu.be/yf2i7psjKA0
Uploaded by doridoidae on Dec 25, 2008
Old Town Albuquerque Christmas Eve 2008

Chimayo Church, New Mexico
http://youtu.be/cBBERZRgDfg
Uploaded by chicoguy1303 on Feb 24, 2007
Believed to be built on sacred earth with miraculous healing powers, the legendary shrine El Santuario de Chimayó, is probably the most visited church in New Mexico. The crucifix which began the original shrine still resides on the chapel alter, but for some reason its curative powers have been overshadowed by El Posito, the "sacred sand pit" from which it sprang. Each year during Holy Week thousands of people make a pilgrimage to Chimayó to visit the Santuario and take away a bit of the sacred dirt. Pilgrims walk a few yards or a hundred miles. Chimayó is located 40 miles south of Taos and 24 miles northeast of Santa Fe, about ten miles east of Espanola in the Sangre de Cristo mountains.

danza de nuestra Sra. de Guadalupe
Matachines De Plainview
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Uploaded by jose89459 on Dec 4, 2009
una Tarede muy Fria
en un rosario para la Virgen Maria

Las Posadas Olvera Street 2010 - Uzumaki by La Santa Cecilia
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Uploaded by coyo222 on Jan 20, 2011
Las Posadas at Olvera Street in Los Angeles on Christmas eve 12/24/2010. Featuring Marisoul of La Santa Cecilia singing their song Uzumaki.


Friday, December 16, 2011

Rogi Haz Headache!


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People with brain injuries re-injure our heads all the time. It's just not fair! Stuff that just annoys u neurotypicals can KILL us!
Now, having a headache, it took a long time to assemble this today. It's 8:15pm and the damn thing's 65% uploaded to YouTube. The headache remains. I'm also dizzy and my eyes are bothering me. So, if you think you're off the hook with sending virtual, chicken soup, guess again. This video pertains on Friday, Dec. 16, as well. Thanks.

"And When I Die"
Laura Nero
I'm not scared of dyin'
And I don't really care
If it's peace you find in dyin'
Well then let the time be near
Just bundle up my coffin
'Cause its cold way down there
And when I die
And when I'm gone
There'll be one child born
And a world to carry on

My troubles are many
They're deep as a well
I swear there ain't no heaven
And I pray there ain't no hell
But I'll never know by livin'
Only my dyin' will tell
And when I die
And when I'm gone
There'll be one child born
And a world to carry on

Give me my freedom
For as long as I be
All I ask of livin'
Is to have no chains on me
All I ask of livin'
Is to have no chains on me
And all I ask of dyin'
Is to go naturally
And when I die
And when I'm gone
There'll be one child born
And a world to carry on

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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Different "Time" covers, redux


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Top one posted by MSNBC: bottom posted by Time.


Occupy Stonington, CT and Dorry Clay also shared a link.
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Live on TODAY Wednesday, TIME magazine revealed the 2011 choice for its iconic Person of the Year cover: The Protester.
Occupy Stonington, CT shared a link.
 
 
Thank You to all my fellow Activists, who refuse to stand by and accept Injustice!!!!!
www.time.com
 
No one could have known that when a Tunisian fruit vendor set himself on fire in a public square, it would incite protests that would topple dictators and start a global wave of dissent. In 2011, protesters didn’t just voice their complaints; they changed the world

Monday, December 12, 2011

Queer Folk Song for TheLivingDinosaur


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A thank you video for TheLivingDinosaur, who has promoted Gender Queer Atheists on FaceBook http://www.facebook.com/groups/257889894257845/
within the description and credits of his latest Holy Hallucination 29. He has also "favorited" my video, "Death of YouTube Atheism?" on his channel.
Or, as I put it to Gender Queer Atheists:
"Oh, my FREAKING DOG!!!!!!! TheLivingDinosaur FAVORITED my YouTube video on the Death of Atheism! ME??? I'm nobody!!! I'm right up there with PZ Meyers! I'm gonna CRY!
LOOK! http://www.youtube.com/user/TheLivingDinosaur "
My entire mental breakdown over this can be read in my blog here:
http://rriverstone.blogspot.com/2011/12/holy-hallucinations-29.html

The song:
"Ode to a Gym Teacher" written and performed by Meg Christian
From the album, "I Know You Know"
Olivia Records, 1974
Mirrored from LesbianMusic on YouTube: http://youtu.be/pT_wmo3O9zM

Some of my best friends are Parrots; some are Lesbians; some are not.


Sunday, December 11, 2011

Acknowledgement from TheLivingDinosaur

The little clip at the end of Holy Hallucinations 29 that is about Gender Queer Atheists on Facebook can be seen here: http://youtu.be/B-eeVelPtmc?t=21m56s

The entire Holy Hallucinations 29 is below


TheLivingDinosaur has promoted Gender Queer Atheists on FaceBook within the description of his latest Holy Hallucination. He has also "favorited" my video, "Death of YouTube Atheism?" on his channel. Or, as I put it to the Gender Queer Atheists on Facebook just now,
Oh, my FREAKING DOG!!!!!!! TheLivingDinosaur FAVORITED my YouTube video on the Death of Atheism!!!!!!!!! ME??? I'm nobody!!! I'm right up there with PZ Meyers! I'm gonna CRY!!! LOOK! http://www.youtube.com/user/TheLivingDinosaur
 
TheLivingDinosaur

u made my nose hurt

Paul,

Oh, Paul. Thank you. I'm a bit too choked up to be articulate right now. I wish I could give you a hug. You cannot know what your acknowledgement means to me. My dad was a scientist. He was a bastard, but he was a scientist. It's in my blood, but not in my damaged brain.

I'm crying too hard and it really hurts, so just read the email I sent to my friends.

You can't know how important that little copy & paste of links to my channel and to Gender Queer Atheists in your description bar is to me.
Email to friends: 
Dear kate, Rachel and michelle,

I'm crying so hard, I can barely see to type this.

He's a crusty old Brit, a scientist and a "debunker" of "creationist" pseudo-science. He's grouchy and, on occasion, vicious. His science is impeccable; he NEVER makes a claim he can't back up, and does it in miniscule detail. If your thinking is sloppy, he'll tear you apart. His animation software is fantastic. His scripts are SO intense and detailed, most of his subscribers, he told me, re-watch them several times, and he says he would, too. He's HYSTERICALLY funny, in that deadpan Brit accent that, to us in the 'states, sounds so sophisticated and urbane. He's dry as toast and rich as cheese cake. He has...I'm freaking out...he has over SIXTEEN THOUSAND SUBSCRIBERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I sent him my little video on Gender Queer Atheists on FaceBook. I asked if he could help me promote the group. He agreed. It took quite awhile for his most recent video to get done. In fact, it's on his channel, but hasn't shown up in my email notices yet, so it's very fresh.

I wondered why, all day today, Gender Queer, Trans, LGBT, etc. people have been asking to join the group this afternoon. Well, Paul put a link to our group, which he misnamed "LGBT," in the description to the video.

He did more than that. He put a link to my channel. And, on HIS channel, in his "favorite" videos from other people, right at the top, above REAL SCIENTISTS AND FAMOUS PEOPLE, he has "favorited" my humble, little video (only my 4th), "Death of YouTube Atheism."

Me? Really? Are you sure?

I'm scared half out of my mind.

So, michelle, thank you SO MUCH for getting that little camera for me; it should be here in 4 days, and the post office knows not to send it back, cuz it's addressed wrong; they'll hold it for me in General Delivery.

And kate, just thanks for loving me and appreciating me and feeding back stuff to me that's been very helpful in setting my course to lovingly address human beings in public.

And Rachel, thanks for sticking around, recognizing the practical tools I've needed and gone without and helping me provide those for myself. That little netbook you brought me got me onto YouTube.

A REAL scientist has acknowledged my WORK! I never finished college. I can't do maths. I'm only now able to partly control the impulsive, irrational, violent, undisciplined parts of my chewed-up brain and habits.

I wanted to be Carl Sagan when "I grew up." I wanted to popularize science, contribute to an informed democracy, make unnecessary the intrusion of superstition and prejudice from human politics.... I wanted people to understand how phenomenal it is, just to exist, let alone be conscious, however vaguely, of our position in the Universe.

A SCIENTIST acknowledged my tiny, amateurish, inarticulate, out-of-focus, semi-literate work today.

I also think I broke my nose today, probably gave myself a black eye and am bleeding very close to my left eye. A board snapped as I was pulling on it and hit me across the bridge of my nose. So it really hurts to be crying right now.

I crossed a threshold today I never thought I'd even SEE, let alone pass through. I'm just inside the door. I'm not important, and never will be, but I'm in the same room with the people I admire and respect most on the planet!

And Dec 21st will be the anniversary of Sagan's passing.

Ouch. My nose hurts!
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I had been working on a response to another notorious YouTube fucktard when PPSimmons splattered the internet with their latest bout of explosive diarrhea. Since I've promised to not let these exceptionally vile shitheads get away with anything I put my other project on hold and got stuck into this one.

Unfortunately their latest offering is so unbelievably puerile that even a child could point out to Mr. Gallups and his inept cronies exactly why they're more full of shit than his colostomy bag after a night of lagers and a dodgy mutton vindaloo. As a result this video is somewhat less heavy on science and technicalities since all that was needed to debunk this video was a barely cursory knowledge of the methodologies and history of science.


As a result I took the opportunity to pad out the remainder of the video with a super heaping helping of insults and profanity which, while perhaps a little over-the-top, I feel are more than well deserved. Apologies if you don't find this episode as illuminating or educational, but I hope at least that you will find some entertainment within.


In case you don't see anything else from me before the holidays, I'd like to take the opportunity here to thank all my subscribers for your support and kind words over the past year and to wish you all a very merry Winter Solstice and a Happy, pwnage-filled New Year!


Carl and crew's original putrid video can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sssKuWhc-NY


Robert Roselli's shit-stain of a webshite can be found here:

http://www.theoryoflivevolution.com/


Atheist LGBT Facebook Group:

http://www.facebook.com/groups/257889894257845/


rriverstone1's channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/rriverstone1


Intro by the one-and-only ONESPECIES (check him out too!):

http://www.youtube.com/ONESPECIES


Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 55 in B flat major, (K 214).


References:

Blount, Z.D., Borland, C.Z., and Lenski, R.E. (2008). Historical contingency and the evolution of a key innovation in an experimental population of Escherichia coli. Proc. Natl.l Acad. Sci. USA 105: 7899-7906.

Eldredge, N. and Gould, S.J. (1972). Punctuated equilibria: an alternative to phyletic gradualism. In Models in Paleobiology, Schopf, T.J.M., ed., San Francisco: Freeman Cooper. pp. 82-115.


Gould, S. J. (1977). Evolution's Erratic Pace. Natural History 86: 12-16.


Video transcript:

http://thelivingdinosaur.webs.com//HH%20Transcripts/Holy%20Hallucinations%202...

Atheists ARE Winning!


find Atheist YouTube Community on FaceBook. Post yer stuff there, so other (mostly US & European, but not exclusively) atheists can watch. Congrats on the responses! This is great! U know I'm a fan. I post yer stuff on FaceBook, too. Keep it up! I LOVE yer positive attitude! Maybe white boy atheism on youtube is "Dead," but the rest of us are just getting started! brilliant!

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Wednesday, December 07, 2011

The Insects' Christmas (1913) "Rozhdestvo obitateley lesa" (Wladyslaw St...


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This fascinating stop motion animated film was produced by the Khanzhonkov Company, Moscow Russia in 1913 .

Due to the quality of film I had to work with, it is fully intact, however, the textual elements were removed. (NO, it is not supposed to be BLUE. This is the ORIGINAL black and white film.) A silent film, but I replaced the cutaway titles with overlay. I kept the same dialogue as it's original lower quality version. I enhanced the image and it became a wonderful dreamlike state. Since there was no audio, I created a layered audio effect with elements from the Edward Scissorhands soundtrack. Composer, Danny Elfman:
http://amzn.to/EdScissorhands

"Froeliche Weinachten" appears in the animation near the end, however, they should have spelled it "Froehliche Weihnachten", which is German for "Merry Christmas".

Vladislav Starevich (1882 - 1965), born Władysław Starewicz (Russian: Владисла́в Алекса́ндрович Старе́вич), was a Polish stop-motion animator who used insects and animals as his protagonists. (His name can also be spelled Starevitch, Starewich and Starewitch.) He is also referred to by some as Ladislaw Starewicz.

Władysław Starewicz was born in Moscow, Russia from Polish parents (father Aleksander Starewicz from Surviliškiai near Kėdainiai and mother Antonina Legęcka from Kaunas, both from "neighbourhood nobility", in hiding after the failed Insurrection of 1863 against the Tsarist Russian domination), and had lived in Lithuania which at that time was a part of the Russian Empire. The boy was raised by his grandmother in Kaunas, then a capital of Kovno Governorate. He attended Gymnasium in Dorpat (today Tartu, Estonia).

Starewicz had interests in a number of different areas; by 1910 he was director of a museum of natural history in Kaunas. There he made four short live-action documentaries for the museum. For the fifth film, Starewicz wished to record the battle of two stag beetles, but was stymied by the fact that the nocturnal creatures inevitably went to sleep whenever the stage lighting was turned on. Inspired by a viewing of Les allumettes animées [Animated Matches] (1908) by Emile Cohl, Starewicz decided to re-create the fight through stop-motion animation: he removed the legs and mandibles from two beetle carcasses, then re-attached them with wax, creating articulated puppets. The result was the short film Lucanus Cervus (1910), apparently the first animated puppet film with a plot and the natal hour of Polish and Russian animation.

In 1911, Starewicz moved to Moscow and began work with the film company of Aleksandr Khanzhonkov. There he made two dozen films, most of them puppet animations using dead animals. Of these, The Beautiful Leukanida (premiere - 1912), a fairy tale for beetles, earned international acclaim (one British reviewer was tricked into thinking the stars were live trained insects), while The Grasshopper and the Ant (1911) got Starewicz decorated by the czar. But the best-known film of this period, perhaps of his entire career, was Mest' kinematograficheskogo operatora (Revenge of the Kinematograph Cameraman, aka The Cameraman's Revenge) (1912), a cynical work about infidelity and jealousy among the insects. Some of the films made for Khanzhonkov feature live-action/animation interaction. In some cases, the live action consisted of footage of Starewicz's daughter Irina. Particularly worthy of note is Starevich's 41-minute 1913 film The Night Before Christmas, an adaptation of the Nikolai Gogol story of the same name. The 1913 film Terrible Vengeance won the Gold Medal at an international festival in Milan in 1914, being just one of five films which won awards among 1005 contestants.

Wishing to remain independent, Starevich moved to Fontenay-sous-Bois and started on a series of puppet films that would last for the rest of his life. In these films he was assisted first by his wife France Starevich and later by his daughter Irina (who had changed her name to Irène). The first of these films was Les Grenouilles qui demandent un roi (The Frogs That Demand a King, aka Frogland [US]) (1922), probably the closest Starevich ever came to political commentary in his French films.

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The Insects' Christmas (1913) "Rozhdestvo obitateley lesa" (Wladyslaw St...


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Soundtrack ► http://amzn.to/EdScissorhands

This fascinating stop motion animated film was produced by the Khanzhonkov Company, Moscow Russia in 1913 .

Due to the quality of film I had to work with, it is fully intact, however, the textual elements were removed. (NO, it is not supposed to be BLUE. This is the ORIGINAL black and white film.) A silent film, but I replaced the cutaway titles with overlay. I kept the same dialogue as it's original lower quality version. I enhanced the image and it became a wonderful dreamlike state. Since there was no audio, I created a layered audio effect with elements from the Edward Scissorhands soundtrack. Composer, Danny Elfman:
http://amzn.to/EdScissorhands

"Froeliche Weinachten" appears in the animation near the end, however, they should have spelled it "Froehliche Weihnachten", which is German for "Merry Christmas".

Vladislav Starevich (1882 - 1965), born Władysław Starewicz (Russian: Владисла́в Алекса́ндрович Старе́вич), was a Polish stop-motion animator who used insects and animals as his protagonists. (His name can also be spelled Starevitch, Starewich and Starewitch.) He is also referred to by some as Ladislaw Starewicz.

Władysław Starewicz was born in Moscow, Russia from Polish parents (father Aleksander Starewicz from Surviliškiai near Kėdainiai and mother Antonina Legęcka from Kaunas, both from "neighbourhood nobility", in hiding after the failed Insurrection of 1863 against the Tsarist Russian domination), and had lived in Lithuania which at that time was a part of the Russian Empire. The boy was raised by his grandmother in Kaunas, then a capital of Kovno Governorate. He attended Gymnasium in Dorpat (today Tartu, Estonia).

Starewicz had interests in a number of different areas; by 1910 he was director of a museum of natural history in Kaunas. There he made four short live-action documentaries for the museum. For the fifth film, Starewicz wished to record the battle of two stag beetles, but was stymied by the fact that the nocturnal creatures inevitably went to sleep whenever the stage lighting was turned on. Inspired by a viewing of Les allumettes animées [Animated Matches] (1908) by Emile Cohl, Starewicz decided to re-create the fight through stop-motion animation: he removed the legs and mandibles from two beetle carcasses, then re-attached them with wax, creating articulated puppets. The result was the short film Lucanus Cervus (1910), apparently the first animated puppet film with a plot and the natal hour of Polish and Russian animation.

In 1911, Starewicz moved to Moscow and began work with the film company of Aleksandr Khanzhonkov. There he made two dozen films, most of them puppet animations using dead animals. Of these, The Beautiful Leukanida (premiere - 1912), a fairy tale for beetles, earned international acclaim (one British reviewer was tricked into thinking the stars were live trained insects), while The Grasshopper and the Ant (1911) got Starewicz decorated by the czar. But the best-known film of this period, perhaps of his entire career, was Mest' kinematograficheskogo operatora (Revenge of the Kinematograph Cameraman, aka The Cameraman's Revenge) (1912), a cynical work about infidelity and jealousy among the insects. Some of the films made for Khanzhonkov feature live-action/animation interaction. In some cases, the live action consisted of footage of Starewicz's daughter Irina. Particularly worthy of note is Starevich's 41-minute 1913 film The Night Before Christmas, an adaptation of the Nikolai Gogol story of the same name. The 1913 film Terrible Vengeance won the Gold Medal at an international festival in Milan in 1914, being just one of five films which won awards among 1005 contestants.

Wishing to remain independent, Starevich moved to Fontenay-sous-Bois and started on a series of puppet films that would last for the rest of his life. In these films he was assisted first by his wife France Starevich and later by his daughter Irina (who had changed her name to Irène). The first of these films was Les Grenouilles qui demandent un roi (The Frogs That Demand a King, aka Frogland [US]) (1922), probably the closest Starevich ever came to political commentary in his French films.

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Tuesday, December 06, 2011

Beethoven, Symphony 9, 4th movement (complete), Presto, Philharmonia Bar...


 Sir, u never acknowledge my comments, so I don't know if u will c this. This is prob. the most important pieces of music every conceived. Thx u 4 all this very time-consuming &, I'd guess on occasion, tedious, precise exacting work. I hear more music this way, b/c I can c the instruments, voices. Thx 4 translating, 2. Never knew what the words meant b4 tonight. U had better never die or close this channel, as this is in my music favs now. Will return 2 it frequently. Helluva job. Bravo

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The last movement of Beethoven's last symphony, performed by the Philharmonia Baroque orchestra, directed by Nicholas McGegan. The chorus includes members of three choirs: ???, ???, and ???. The soloists are soprano ???, alto ???, tenor ???, and baritone ???.

The recording was licensed from Magnatune, where you can listen to or purchase it:
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In this graphical score, the notes of the string instruments are shown as rhombi, the brass and winds are colored rectangles, the percussion instruments are gray (from top to bottom: triangle, cymbals, timpani, bass drum), and the vocal parts are ellipses.

The original (1080p) version of this video will be available for purchase here:
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Luis von Ahn: Massive-scale online collaboration


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http://www.ted.com After re-purposing CAPTCHA so each human-typed response helps digitize books, Luis von Ahn wondered how else to use small contributions by many on the Internet for greater good. At TEDxCMU, he shares how his ambitious new project, Duolingo, will help millions learn a new language while translating the Web quickly and accurately -- all for free.
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