Category Archives: Hero

RIP Chritopher Hitchens

Posted on December 17, 2011 by admin

Christopher Hitchens died Friday December 16, 2011 Whenever a famous person dies I experience all of my unresolved grief. I feel a deep lose of a person I never met and yet I identified with deeply. This experience reminds me … Continue reading →

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275 Cultural Icons: Great Artists, Writers & Thinkers in Their Own Words

Posted on November 13, 2011 by admin

Great writers, dazzling filmmakers and musicians, brilliant philosophers and scientists — you can hear and see them in their own words. Here OpenCulture presents audio and video that captures the words of our greatest cultural icons. Here is a partial … Continue reading →

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Tank Man (raw footage)

Posted on July 21, 2010 by admin

Spliced together footage from the documentary, The Tank Man (2006), removing the narration and intervening talking heads, in order to show only the remarkable courage of this man without the other “noise.”

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Jonathan Miller

Posted on November 30, 2009 by admin

Jonathan Miller is one of my heroes. Five minutes with Jonathan Miller On the Dick Cavett Show 1980 The Body in Question PART ONE – Naming of the parts – Part 1 (1/6) PART TWO – Try a little tenderness … Continue reading →

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