Talks

"Easy to know that diamonds are precious. Good to learn that rubies have depth. But more to see that pebbles are miraculous." Excerpt from https://soundcloud.com/designmatters/interactionofcolor

Background, context, and discussion <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/08/16/interaction-of-color-josef-albers-50th-anniversary/">here</a>.

Josef Albers as an educator

Excerpt from https://soundcloud.com/designmatters/interactionofcolor

Background, context, and discussion <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/08/16/interaction-of-color-josef-albers-50th-anniversary/">here</a>.

Josef Albers and the art of seeing

Josef Albers on education as discovery

Josef Albers and unlocking the magic of color

Consciousness is the ‘hard problem’, the mystery that confounds science and philosophy. Has a new theory cracked it?

Michael Graziano - How The Light Gets Out: How consciousness works. And why we believe in ghosts

Commemorating the late Nobel laureate with this exquisite reading of one of his most famous masterpieces. Poem text plus timeless wisdom on poetry from his Nobel acceptance speech here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/08/30/seamus-heaney-reads-death-of-a-naturalist-nobel-lecture

Seamus Heaney reads "Death of a Naturalist"

Anthony Gormley Talk at Philadelphia museum of art

Courage is borne out of vulnerability, not strength. This finding of Brené Brown’s research on shame and "wholeheartedness" shook the perfectionist ground beneath her own feet. And now it’s inspiring millions to reconsider the way they live, parent, and navigate relations with members of the opposite gender.

See more at http://www.onbeing.org/program/brene-brown-on-vulnerability/4928

Brené Brown — The Courage to Be Vulnerable (Dec 5, 2013)

Check out the full video of this lecture: http://win.gs/1hfJl4m
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Matmos Lecture RBMA 2010

A recording created as part of the Golden Record carried into space by the Voyager spacecraft in 1977. Story here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/02/10/murmurs-of-earth-sagan-golden-record/

FULL STORY

The Sounds of Earth (The Golden Record)

Recorded at the New York Public Library. Details, context, and transcript: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/06/24/malcolm-gladwell-nypl-interview/

TRANSCRIPT / DETAILS

Malcolm Gladwell on tolerance

Malcolm Gladwell on changing your mind

Seamus Heaney in conversation with Bernard O'Donoghue about his life and the influences that inform his work , with Nick Laird, Andrew O'Hagan, Jon Stallworthy and Jo Shapcott reading selections of Heaney's work.


A Life in Poetry (Seamus Heaney)

Background, transcribed highlights, and more: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/03/26/sense-of-nonsense-alan-watts-tao-of-philosophy/

CONTEXT / TRANSCRIPT

Alan Watts: Sense of Nonsense

Background, context, and transcript: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/05/01/jfk-amherst-speech/

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JFK on poetry and power (Amherst College, 1963)

Background, context, and transcript: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/06/12/elizabeth-gilbert-nypl

Photograph by Jori Klein for NYPL

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Elizabeth Gilbert on Tom Waits and creativity

Annotations and transcribed highlights: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/06/16/neil-gaiman-how-stories-last

Recorded at the Long Now Foundation (http://longnow.org/) on June 9, 2015. 

Follow @https://soundcloud.com/longnow and subscribe to the podcast of their excellent seminars on long-term thinking on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/seminars-about-long-term-thinking/id186908455?mt=2

Neil Gaiman on how stories last

Background and transcript in English: https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/10/23/gabriel-garcia-marquez-nobel-prize-acceptance-speech/

TRANSCRIPT IN ENGLISH

Gabriel García Márquez's Nobel Prize acceptance speech

Seamus Heaney, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, recited a celebratory poem for the occasion of Harvard’s 350th Anniversary.

Seamus Heaney, 1986 - Harvard Voices

Ellsworth Kelly, artist, in conversation with Marla Prather, curator and head of the department of 20th-century art, National Gallery of Art. Contemporary artist Ellsworth Kelly joins curator Marla Prather in this podcast recorded on April 21, 1999, at the National Gallery of Art. Spanning more than 60 years, Kelly's career has shown commitment to abstraction and humanism. His intuitive ability to merge space, color, and shape has positioned him as one of the leading post-war American artists working today. The Gallery has more than 200 works by Kelly in its collection including paintings, prints, and sculptures. Kelly's Stele II was one of the 17 major works to be included in the Gallery's Sculpture Garden when it first opened a month after this Elson Lecture program.

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