Poetry

A conversation with cognitive scientist Alexandra Horowitz, author of On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes (http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/08/12/on-looking-eleven-walks-with-expert-eyes/). 

Transcript and details here: http://brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/06/27/on-looking-alexandra-horowitz-interview/

Recorded for The Dish Book Club: http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/category/book-club/

Produced by Chas Danner / The Dish

TRANSCRIPT / DETAILS

On Looking: Maria Popova in conversation with Alexandra Horowitz

Composed and recorded by Zaed Naes
Lyrics and Vocals by Maii Waleed 
Mixed by Arabs With Synthesizers
Mastered by Moustache Mastering

Wujudek

El Ginena ft. Maii Waleed

El - Ginena (Ft. Maii Waleed)

Background and context: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/04/14/chinua-achebe-poetry-reading/

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Chinua Achebe reads his poetry

سيد رجب - جزء من السيرة الهلالية

Often quoted, but rarely interviewed, Mary Oliver is one of our greatest and most beloved poets. She’s just released a new volume, Felicity, at the age of 80. And so we’re revisiting the interview she granted us earlier this year on the wisdom of the world, the salvation of poetry, and the life behind her writing.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/mary-oliver-listening-to-the-world/7267

Mary Oliver — Listening to the World

First song recorded on my new (to me) 85-key August Förster upright piano. 

I re-recorded this song and made a YouTube video. Check it out here:
https://youtu.be/Z9Q2WZJwgis

If you enjoy my music, please "Like" my Facebook page, "Nick Harkola"
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August ( Piano Day 2016 )

مع مين رح يطلع... عنوان حلقة لقمان ديركي اليوم. ولتعرفوا التفاصيل تابعو ألف سردة وسردة مع لقمان ديركي.

ألف سردة وسردة السبت والإثنين والأربعاء 6:30 مساءً بتوقيت سوريا على راديو سوريالي.
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ألف سردة وسردة 303 - مع مين رح يطلع

Read the poem itself and hear Nye read it here: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/11/10/naomi-shihab-nye-kindness/

Excerpted from @onbeing: https://soundcloud.com/onbeing/naomi-shihab-nye-your-life-is-a-poem

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Naomi Shihab Nye on the story behind her poem "Kindness"

Soulspace - Lonespace (Original Mix) - Free DL

Forthcoming on Fluid Audio...

Lucia Adam + Alex Smalley
April 2017 - February 2019
Weimar, Germany

www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com

Tides

Ilm - Tides

Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/05/31/helen-fagin-walt-whitman/

POEM TEXT / CONTEXT

101-year-old Holocaust survivor Helen Fagin reads Walt Whitman

Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/03/15/today-another-universe-jane-hirshfield-ledger-jasmine

Kindly recorded by the poet for Brain Pickings.

Jane Hirshfield reads "Today, Another Universe"

Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/05/31/spell-to-be-said-against-hatred-jane-hirshfield

Amanda Palmer reads “Spell to Be Said against Hatred” by Jane Hirshfield

Social mobility, the 2000s and the gender pay gap
 
In this fourth episode, we move into the new millennium, when the study enjoyed a golden decade. With BCS70 greatly valued by scientists and policymakers, the study was funded to meet participants on three occasions and was regularly cited by New Labour in government policy. With this new-found recognition, researchers across the globe started using BCS70 in conjunction with other birth cohort studies to see how members of Generation X were faring compared to other generations. We also speak to study participants about their careers and lives in their thirties. 
 
We explore the 2000s with:
•         Professor Heather Joshi, former director of CLS and founder of the Millennium Cohort Study, who discusses her research on the gender pay gap and working mothers.
•         Dr Jo Blanden, reader in economics at University of Surrey, who talks about her work on social mobility and how BCS70 continues to inform debate on this subject.
•         Lord David Willetts, former Universities Minister and President of the Resolution Foundation, who explains the importance of BCS70 for informing government policy and thinking. 
•         Study members, who share their memories of life in the 2000s, and taking part in the study.

Full show notes: cls.ucl.ac.uk/bcs7050stories/pod…f-life-in-britain/

50 Years of Life in Britain - Social mobility, the 2000s and the gender pay gap

Recorded for Brain Pickings in the midst of a pandemic. Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/10/02/the-big-picture-ellen-bass/

Photograph: Amanda's son Ash, photographed by his mom.

Naomi Shihab Nye on the story behind her poem "Kindness"

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