Sunday, January 29, 2017

The Zoos Know You Need to See Cute Animals Right Now

 Great National Cute Animal Tweet-Off of 2017.

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Skin the color of the cerulean sea, blue iguanas do not have as vibrant a history. 
Luckily, things are looking up:







your friends and family.


Screaming hairy armadillo, Amber! She likes to climb & tear up plants.


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A milk sample can tell us about infant growth, lactation physiology, AND what’s happening between mom AND baby.










Keeper Erin Stromberg trained gorilla Mandara to voluntarily participate in having her milk expressed. Learn how:



🐣Watch how the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute breeds endangered cranes.



Two-toed sloths are primarily nocturnal, but recently Howie has been making some daytime appearances in Amazonia!





Vanishing Animals

 


  

Laurie Smith Wood 








 

Photo published for Nigeria is planning a six-lane 'superhighway' through a remote rainforest. Environmentalists are...
             







On 28 September, the pangolin, the doctored animal trade in the world, has been banned




 


Sunday, January 8, 2017

Umberto Eco in conversation with Paul Holdengräber


 
Uploaded on Nov 22, 2011
http://www.intelligencesquared.com/ev...

This conversation took place at Kensington Town Hall on 19th November 2011.

Speakers:

UMBERTO ECO: Italian semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist

PAUL
HOLDENGRÄBER: Director of LIVE from the New York Public Library where
he has interviewed and hosted President Clinton, Norman Mailer, Spike
Lee and Jay-Z

Event info:

CONSPIRACY, PARANOIA & THE NOVEL

A Conversation with Umberto Eco.

* Writing fiction about the real
* Exploring the persistence of conspiracies
* Adapting "The Name of the Rose" for the internet generation
* Grasping the infinity of lists
* Exploring the future of books
* Losing yourself in a 50,000-volume library

These
are some of the topics Umberto Eco will be discussing with Paul
Holdengräber, Director of LIVE at the New York Public Library.

Their
wide-ranging conversation will in part focus on Eco's latest work of
fiction, The Prague Cemetery. The book is an historical
pseudo-reconstruction set in a 19th-century Europe teeming with secret
service forgeries, Jesuit plots, murders and conspiracies, and covering
everything from the unification of Italy, the Paris Commune, the Dreyfus
Affair to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It has been criticised
by both the Vatican-backed newspaper the Osservatore Romano and the
Chief Rabbi of Rome.



The "forerunner" of Rodin's The Thinker



 

The "forerunner" of Rodin's The Thinker Terracotta statuette of a pensive youth seated on a rock-Boeotian-Hellenistic c.300 BC

Saturday, January 7, 2017

Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder


 
Uploaded on Jan 21, 2012
Album: The Sidewinder
Year: 1963
Label: Blue Note

Lee Morgan - trumpet
Joe Henderson - tenor saxophone
Billy Higgins - drums
Barry Harris - piano
Bob Cranshaw - bass




Donald Byrd - "Cristo Redentor" (A New Perspective - 1963)


 
Personnel
on "A New Perspective" album includes: Donald Byrd (trumpet); Hank
Mobley (tenor saxophone); Donald Best (vibraphone); Herbie Hancock
(piano); Kenny Burrell (guitar); Butch Warren (bass); Lex Humphries
(drums)
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*Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on January 12, 1963.


Donald Byrd - Christo Redentor funky


Uploaded on Jun 28, 2009
Donald Byrd - Christo Redentor
track 7 from the 1978 album
Thank You For ... FUML
Elektra




Billie Holiday - My First Impression Of You


The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia CD 4

Billie Holiday - My First Impression Of You

Lyrics:

My first impression of you
Was like the sight of flowers in spring
You were a glorious thing to see

My first impression of you
Was something indescribably new
I stood there looking at you
Smiling at me

If you had stepped right out of heaven
It wouldn't surprise me more
I thought you were an angel
From heaven's door

It may sound silly, but true
My heart just stopped
When I caught your eye
So overwhelming
Was my first impression of you