Carl Sagan’s beautiful riff on our “Pale Blue Dot” is an incredible amalgam of science, philosophy and some kind of word jazz, and has inspired more than one video treatment (just search for “pale blue dot” in YouTube and you’ll see what I mean). Here’s the best treatment I’ve found. I particularly love the…
Here’s a courageous young woman who understands what too many of us too often forget … that she owns her government. Her criticism is so vitriolic that she is physically hauled out of the Senate hearing on SB1 (the Abortion Bill). I’m tagging this politics and poetry. Enjoy.
I caught this song on the tail-end of a segment on Democracy Now a day or so ago, and I was thrilled by the inspiring imagery — both musical and visual — of the rise of woman power. The song — an anthem, really — is a collaboration between the Eurythmics (Annie Lennox) and…
Another offering in John Boswell’s beautiful “Symphony of Science” series. He labels this one, “We Are Star Dust,” which is not a metaphor, or … not just a metaphor. It’s also a plain scientific fact. Boswell is working on both sides of our brains with these science/music videos. His work reminds us that if…
Terry Gross of NPR’s “Fresh Air” interviewed Maurice Sendak four times over several decades, the first time in the mid-1980s and most recently several months ago. Her show yesterday was a compilation of all those interviews, a full hour dedicated to Sendak. Radio is not so fashionable these days, and most of us don’t…