Albert Camus's “The Human Crisis” read by Viggo Mortensen

Viggo Mortensen, reads an English translation of a lecture by Albert Camus in 1946 at the Columbia University. The original lecture was delivered in French and had the title “La Crise de l’homme”, on the occasion of Camus only trip to the United States. What I found disturbing about this lecture is that it does not seem to be written 70 years ago, it could have been written today. What I like about it is that Camus explains to us why we should resist, why we should not simply accept the system that is presented to us as inevitable, or unique, or the only to make sense.

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La pioggia nel pineto (Gabriele D'Annunzio) - declaimed by Roberto Herlitzka

Since Federico is not contributing yet, I will post one of his suggestions on Italian poetry. This is a declamation (more than a reading) by Roberto Herlitzka, and it is part of the Vittorio Gassman's personal anthology of recited poetry from Italian authors. Feel the bucolic environment and the euphemistically romantic tensions. And then, the crescendo...

Slow science/publishing and educational system

Guys, I don't know if you already know about the ''Slow science movement'' or not, well this is a wiki definition for it: Slow science is part of the broader slow movement . It is based on the belief that science should be a slow, steady, methodical process, and that scientists should not be expected to provide "quick fixes" to society's problems. Slow science supports curiosity -driven scientific research and opposes performance targets . I'm personally interested in it if you remember Gabriel once we had a discussion on the waste of energy and resources to produce junk science and the fact that scientists are losing balance on looking into science. Sometimes people do not know why they publish and for the sake of what?! it's become a tradition or kinda religion. I'm most agreed with the directed scientific activities, slowly going ahead and touching the problem, whenever you can swallow the problem with...

RSA Animate - Drive: the surprising truth about what motivates us - Daniel Pink

RSA Animate is a collection of 10 min cartoon-like animations on a whiteboard that partners with a synthesis of a conference given by renown academics in RSA Events . This series is put forward by the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), who aim at a 21st century enlightenment . I first saw some of the short-film series while being in Cuba. I remember I was astonished by the amount of information they could compress in a 10 min talk. Then, I noticed that there was a great deal of post-processing after the 'natural' 30 min or so talk. Nonetheless, it is still amazing how they can manage to do it so smoothly. The animations deserve special attention. They are not only accompanying the talk but they actually supply complementary information, in terms of irony, cultural references, etc., while marking a step-by-step evolution of the speech in a better way than any slide show could do. Here is an RSA Animate example on "Drive: the surprising truth about what motivates us", ...

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