Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Los Indios Tabajaras Adios, Begin the Begining
Signing off with one of my favorites, listen to the sweet sounds...great arrangement, and more, it is a song that makes you long for more...
Amy Winehouse - Back To Black (2006) - Full Album
Listen to the band, they are in their glory in this number, super!
Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the blue - Full album [HQ]
Now, to get to music mixing, listen to this from the 70's
Jethro Tull - Live at Madison Square Garden 1978 - Full DVD
I think it is appropriate to listen to this now, because we just heard Peter and the Wolf, see what I mean about creative....
Beatboxing Flute "Peter and the Wolf"
this is an example of being creative....I like the beatbox sound, it almost has a gypsy sound, so now its your turn to be creative!
Peter and the Wolf Part 1 (Orchestral Suite)
Creativity...seeing the movie with the music, then listening to the music after you saw the movie and thinking about what the music calls into your mind. Are birds singing and why?
MANTOVANI - WARSAW CONCERTO
I have probably mentioned this before, as one of the most beautiful and profound songs of the Century, in my estimation. It is in the style or Rachmaninoff, I think..... yet written for a movie, though it breathes and sings like a classical composition....breath taking beauty in music.
MANTOVANI - GONE WITH THE WIND (TARA'S THEME)
Another memory teaser, the film and the music, will bring you back in time.
Brazil by Xavier Cugat & Orch. on 1958 Columbia LP.
Is it me? I think that the variety of music we listened to was a greater variety than teens do today? Maybe it has something to do with the radio. Radio was still big in our lives, if we did not have one in our car, we had a portable battery radio we took everywhere. What do you think?
Cuban Pete sung by Desi Arnaz
This is the best...to me. Louis Armstrong did it too, but...this style is the very best for the song...this recording is not the best...but, you get the style, the pace....and...it brings back memories...
Tito Puente - Cuban Pete
this song always makes me think of Desi and Lucy....how wonderful they were! So today we will compare styles...this version vs Desi, and see what you think
Most important observations
This is a fabulous source for keeping abreast of the important events in the world.
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August 21, 2012
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THE THIRD CULTURE
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A NEW KIND OF SOCIAL SCIENCE FOR THE 21st CENTURY
A Conversations with Nicholas Christakis
Edge Video (40-Minutes)
"These three things—a biological hurricane, computational social science, and
the rediscovery of experimentation—are going to change the social sciences in
the 21st century. With that change will come, in my judgment, a variety of
discoveries and opportunities that offer tremendous prospect for improving the
human condition.
"It's one thing to say that the way in which we study our object of inquiry,
namely humans, is undergoing profound change, as I think it is. The social
sciences are indeed changing. But the next question is: is the object of inquiry
also undergoing profound change? It's not just how we study it that's changing,
which it is. The question is: is the thing itself, our humanity, also changing?"
NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKIS is a Physician and Social Scientist, Harvard University;
Coauthor (with James Fowler) of CONNECTED: THE SURPRISING POWER OF OUR SOCIAL
NETWORKS AND HOW THEY SHAPE OUR LIVES
Nicholas Christakis's EDGE Bio Page: http://www.edge.org/memberbio/nicholas_a_christakis
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A NEW KIND OF SOCIAL SCIENCE FOR THE 21st CENTURY
[NICHOLAS CHRISTAKIS] "In the 20th century, there was a tremendous expectation,
or appreciation, for the role that the biological and the physical sciences
could play in improving human welfare and human affairs. We had everything from
the discovery of nuclear power to plastics to, in biology, the discovery of new
drugs, beginning with penicillin (which is one of the gigantic feats of human
ingenuity ever). We had this phenomenal progress that was made in the sciences,
in the physical and the biological sciences.
"In the 21st century, the social sciences offer equal promise for improving
human welfare. The advances that we have made and will be making, especially in
understanding human behavior and its very deep origins, will be translated into
interventions of diverse sorts that will have a much bigger impact in terms of
improving human welfare than many of the prior examples that I gave."
This new frontier in the social sciences is being abetted and even accelerated
by three things that are happening. The first is that a biological hurricane is
approaching the social sciences. Discoveries in biology are calling into
question all kinds of ideas, historically important ideas, in the social
sciences—everything from the origin of free will, to collective expression and
collective behavior, to the deep origins of basic human behaviors. All of these
things are being challenged and elevated by discoveries in biology.
[MORE...]
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Edge.org
August 21, 2012
http://www.edge.org
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THE THIRD CULTURE
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A NEW KIND OF SOCIAL SCIENCE FOR THE 21st CENTURY
A Conversations with Nicholas Christakis
Edge Video (40-Minutes)
"These three things—a biological hurricane, computational social science, and
the rediscovery of experimentation—are going to change the social sciences in
the 21st century. With that change will come, in my judgment, a variety of
discoveries and opportunities that offer tremendous prospect for improving the
human condition.
"It's one thing to say that the way in which we study our object of inquiry,
namely humans, is undergoing profound change, as I think it is. The social
sciences are indeed changing. But the next question is: is the object of inquiry
also undergoing profound change? It's not just how we study it that's changing,
which it is. The question is: is the thing itself, our humanity, also changing?"
NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKIS is a Physician and Social Scientist, Harvard University;
Coauthor (with James Fowler) of CONNECTED: THE SURPRISING POWER OF OUR SOCIAL
NETWORKS AND HOW THEY SHAPE OUR LIVES
Nicholas Christakis's EDGE Bio Page: http://www.edge.org/memberbio/nicholas_a_christakis
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A NEW KIND OF SOCIAL SCIENCE FOR THE 21st CENTURY
[NICHOLAS CHRISTAKIS] "In the 20th century, there was a tremendous expectation,
or appreciation, for the role that the biological and the physical sciences
could play in improving human welfare and human affairs. We had everything from
the discovery of nuclear power to plastics to, in biology, the discovery of new
drugs, beginning with penicillin (which is one of the gigantic feats of human
ingenuity ever). We had this phenomenal progress that was made in the sciences,
in the physical and the biological sciences.
"In the 21st century, the social sciences offer equal promise for improving
human welfare. The advances that we have made and will be making, especially in
understanding human behavior and its very deep origins, will be translated into
interventions of diverse sorts that will have a much bigger impact in terms of
improving human welfare than many of the prior examples that I gave."
This new frontier in the social sciences is being abetted and even accelerated
by three things that are happening. The first is that a biological hurricane is
approaching the social sciences. Discoveries in biology are calling into
question all kinds of ideas, historically important ideas, in the social
sciences—everything from the origin of free will, to collective expression and
collective behavior, to the deep origins of basic human behaviors. All of these
things are being challenged and elevated by discoveries in biology.
[MORE...]
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Edge Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit private operating foundation under
Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
"The World's Smartest Website", John Naughton, THE GUARDIAN
(http://bit.ly/JQYglO )
----------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------
EDGE.ORG
John Brockman, Editor and Publisher
Russell Weinberger, Associate Publisher
Karina Knoll, Editorial Assistant
Copyright (c) 2012 by Edge Foundation, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.
Published by Edge Foundation, Inc.,
5 East 59th Street,
New York, NY 10022
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Monday, August 20, 2012
Black Book, guaranteed you will love it! I watched it all in Dutch German, then again with subtitles
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The King... By Jose Feliciano... Honors His Longtime Childhood Hero Elvis Presley... -- NEW YORK, June 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
The King... By Jose Feliciano... Honors His Longtime Childhood Hero Elvis Presley... -- NEW YORK, June 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cathing up with the great Jose Feliciano and his new album..
My Way Andre Rieu on his violin in New York - YouTube
My Way Andre Rieu on his violin in New York - YouTube My brother sent me this, and it does bring tears to our eyes, to hear this and thank Frank Sinatra for our lives to be filled with his music.
Sunday, August 19, 2012
U.S. Bridges, Roads Being Built by Chinese Firms | Video - ABC News
U.S. Bridges, Roads Being Built by Chinese Firms | Video - ABC News There is more to the story than has been reported here.