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'Drew', first lead track from the new album "Tales of Us" , out now on Mute. Get "Tales Of Us" here: iTunes: http://smarturl.it/talesofusitunes
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Goldfrapp - Drew

My Camaro Has No Brakes

Este es uno de los poemas leídos por Tom para 'The Love Book'

Talking in Bed - Tom Hiddleston

'One Cigarette' - Tom Hiddleston

Tom Hiddleston Reads To His Coy Mistress

In the first L.A. Weekly podcast, staff writer Gendy Alimurung discusses her two-part series on people who say they've been abducted by aliens.

The L.A. Weekly Podcast - Alien Abductions

Pamela Peters' photography and film work, a modern riff on The Exiles, is on display this weekend.

The modern Native American experience, through a young Navajo photographer's lens

Christopher Hitchens delivers an anthem for free speech

Christopher Hitchens On Free Speech

A rare 1929 recording by the Dominion Gramophone Company. Background and story here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/02/13/a-a-milne-reads-winie-the-pooh-1929/

A.A. Milne reads from Winnie-the-Pooh, 1929

Recorded at TED 2014. Transcript and context: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/03/20/neil-gaiman-ghost-stories/

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Neil Gaiman on why there is no such thing as "children's" books

Background and poem text: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/04/11/dorothy-parker-reads/

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Dorothy Parker reads "Inscription For The Ceiling Of A Bedroom"

From the Criterion Collection disc 'Wise Blood.' Context and more: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/03/25/flannery-o-connor-grotesque-reading/

Flannery O'Connor reads "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"

Background and poem text: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/03/27/frank-ohara-reads-metaphysical-poem/

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Frank O'Hara reads his "Metaphysical Poem"

Zachary Karabell, Head of Global Strategy at Envestnet and author of "The Leading Indicators: A Short History of the Numbers that Rule Our World" argues that current economic indicators are outdated and must be reinvented.  

Why We Don't Need GDP and Unemployment Numbers Anymore

Continuing discussion of David Brin’s novel Existence (without him) and adding Nick Bostrom’s essay “Why I Want to Be a Posthuman When I Grow Up” (2006).

Are our present human capabilities sufficient for meeting the challenges our civilization will face? Should we devote our technology to artificially enhancing our abilities, or would that be a crime against nature, a God-play that would probably lead to disaster? Is thinking about this issue a juvenile waste of time?

Mark, Seth, Dylan, and Brian Casey are rejoined by Wes to reflect on ep. 90′s discussion with David Brin and figure out how his project is related to transhumanism. While you’ll get a more thorough introduction to transhumanism from Rationally Speaking or many other web sources, we did confront Bostrom’s argument that extending our lives and enhancing our IQ and emotional range would be good, and human-all-too-human fun was had.

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Transhumanism and Response to Brin - Partially Examined Life

New version with 25% more audio diary!  In 1984 your host was twelve years old and like George Orwell’s protagonist Winston Smith, he kept a diary for the citizens of the future. For this special installment of Benjamen Walker’s Theory of Everything we travel back in time and give this diary a soundtrack. TV commercials, radio spots, movie clips -  all sound from 1984 (the year not the book).  Along with personal memories of making the transition to middle school, the show focuses on four of the most important people of year:  Ronald Reagan, Michael Jackson, Steve Jobs and Clara Peller. Find out what totalitarianism really sounds like.
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1984 (the year not the book)EXPANDED VERSION

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The acclaimed actors Helena Bonham Carter, Bill Nighy, Tom Hiddleston and Harry Enfield bring poems alive with the iF Poem iPhone/iPad App. 10% of all sales goes to the Save The Children charity.

The iF Poems App is available here on iTunes: 
For the iPad: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/if-poems/id474446630?mt=8 
For the iPhone: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/if-poems-for-the-iphone/id476329476?mt=8

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Tom Hiddleston - Bright Star - (Download our app for more audio!)

Background: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/08/carl-sagan-message-to-mars/

Carl Sagan's message for Mars

For full poem text, plus Eliot on idea-incubation and the mystical quality of creativity, go here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/09/26/t-s-eliot-on-creativity/

T.S. Eliot Reads "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

LABACI & LOVEWORK
LADY DEEP EP
including
1) Lady Deep (main mix)
2) Lady Deep (deepest mix)

LaBaci & Lovework - Lady Deep - BR0027 Baci Recordings

Sylvia Plath reads "A Birthday Present." Written in September of 1962, recorded in October. Background and full text: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/10/29/sylvia-plath-reads-a-birthday-present-1962/

Sylvia Plath Reads "A Birthday Present" (1962)

An extract from the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl, including the 5 'missing pages' discovered by the Anne Frank Foundation in 2001. Insightfully read by the actress Helena Bonham Carter. 

The book is now also available digitally, watch the app trailer here: po.st/hTXSEh 

In Amsterdam, in the summer of 1942, the Nazis forced teenager Anne Frank and her family into hiding. For over two years, they, another family and a German dentist lived in a 'secret annexe', fearing discovery. All that time, Anne kept a diary.

An intimate record of tension and struggle, adolescence and confinement, anger and heartbreak, Anne Frank's diary is one of those unique documents, famed throughout the world.It portrays innocence and humanity, suffering and survival in the starkest and most moving terms.

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (Saturday, 20th June 1942) read by Helena Bonham Carter

Background, context, and transcript: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/06/20/tennessee-williams-reads-hart-crane

Tennessee Williams reads "The Broken Tower" by Hart Crane (1960)

Tennessee Williams reads "The Hurricane" by Hart Crane (1960)

The Real King's Speech: Empire Broadcast Message by George VI September 3rd 1939.

The Real King's Speech - Episode 1

Born in Milan, Roberta Baci – LaBaci - grew with a father bohemien, that left her the heritage of an extreme passion for bossa nova, russian classic music and jazz. 
He was a trumpet player for fun, but his uncle and his aunt played seriously: uncle Giuseppe Ferrari was first cello in the Symphonic Orchestra of RAI, the italian television, and aunt Nerina Ferrari was first soprano at The Scala Theatre. 
During the first 90ies she met house music, she fell in love with it and she never left it, becoming an appreciated producer and finally establishing her own label: Baci Recordings. 
"Where The Rules End" is her last EP and includes a new track, definitely tech house style, that gives the title to the EP and the remastered version of "The Machine's Prayer", one of her best sellers, a tribute to Stanley Kurick's Space Odissey with the voice of Hal 9000 praying for his life.

BR1316 LaBaci feat. Hal 9000 - The Machine's Prayer (remastered mix)

Excerpt from Orwell's fantastic 1946 essay outlining his 11 "golden" rules of tea perfection: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/14/george-orwell-a-nice-cup-of-tea/

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George Orwell on how to make the perfect cup of tea

Patti Smith reads her stirring remembrance of Robert Mapplethorpe. Background, poem text, and original handwritten manuscripts here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/31/patti-smith-the-coral-sea-reading/

Patti Smith reads from The Coral Sea

T.S. Eliot reads from his celebrated classic, Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/06/04/t-s-eliot-reads-t-s-eliot-the-ad-dressing-of-cats-1947/

Frank O'Hara reads his "Metaphysical Poem"

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