Princeton economists review recent events on Wall Street and assess the implications for the economy and public policy.
Panelists: Hyun Shin, Professor of Economics and associate chair of the Department of Economics; Markus Brunnermeier, Professor of Economics;
Harrison Hong, Professor in Finance;
Paul Krugman, professor of economics and international affairs; Alan Blinder, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and co‐director of the Center for Economic Policy Studies.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Bill Moyers Journal - Mortgage Mess
Bill Moyers Journal travels to ground zero of the mortgage meltdown — Cleveland, Ohio. Correspondent Rick Karr takes viewers to Slavic Village, one of the hardest hit neighborhoods in the nation when it comes to the spate of foreclosures caused by the subprime mortgage crisis..
Inspirace : by Karel Zeman
Karel Zemans amazing short "Inspiration" (Inspirace), made in 1948, is a love-story set inside a single drop of water, which Zeman animated by heating and bending fragile blown-glass figurines.
The films of master Czech animator and director Karel Zeman (1910 - 1989) are a glittering jewelbox filled with wonders spun from ancient myth and modern science: moon men and underwater pirates, pedal-powered airships and diabolical engines of destruction.
In films like THE FABULOUS WORLD OF JULES VERNE and BARON MUNCHAUSEN, Zeman combined cartoon and stop-motion animation, puppetry, matte paintings and live action, creating a fantastic mechanical clockwork that anticipated the work of later animator/directors such as Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. Born in 1910 in Ostromer, Czechoslovakia, Zeman began his career as a window dresser and poster artist, graduating to filmmaking in the mid-1940's with a series of shorts featuring his animated alter-ego, Mr. Prokouk. Inspired by the pioneering films of magician/director Georges Melies and the fiction of Jules Verne, Zeman began animating, art directing and often writing his own features in the early 1950's, overcoming miniscule budgets and rudimentary equipment to create his elaborate adventures. The joy of Zeman's work is often in the details: stop-motion owls against a crescent moon sky, a gold pocketwatch trapped in a bottle, a crew of sailors who literally paint their ship into existence.
The films of master Czech animator and director Karel Zeman (1910 - 1989) are a glittering jewelbox filled with wonders spun from ancient myth and modern science: moon men and underwater pirates, pedal-powered airships and diabolical engines of destruction.
In films like THE FABULOUS WORLD OF JULES VERNE and BARON MUNCHAUSEN, Zeman combined cartoon and stop-motion animation, puppetry, matte paintings and live action, creating a fantastic mechanical clockwork that anticipated the work of later animator/directors such as Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. Born in 1910 in Ostromer, Czechoslovakia, Zeman began his career as a window dresser and poster artist, graduating to filmmaking in the mid-1940's with a series of shorts featuring his animated alter-ego, Mr. Prokouk. Inspired by the pioneering films of magician/director Georges Melies and the fiction of Jules Verne, Zeman began animating, art directing and often writing his own features in the early 1950's, overcoming miniscule budgets and rudimentary equipment to create his elaborate adventures. The joy of Zeman's work is often in the details: stop-motion owls against a crescent moon sky, a gold pocketwatch trapped in a bottle, a crew of sailors who literally paint their ship into existence.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Conversations with History: Martha Nussbaum
Conversations Host Harry Kreisler welcomes philosopher Martha Nussbaum for a discussion of women and human development, religious freedom, and liberal education.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Nelson Mandela's Vision
Nelson Mandela's Vision
The education system in South Africa.
By Albert Wisco
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world,” said Nelson Mandela.
In 1994, Mandela became the President of South Africa, ending decades of apartheid. It was a result of the first all-race election in South Africa, an incredible event in global history. Now 90 years old, Mandela continues to fight for a world in which all children have access to a good education.
Recently, my family lived in South Africa. It was well over a decade after the end of apartheid, and I learned about the sacrifices parents make for their children – all children, for that matter.
Based on my conversations and reading, South Africans were most concerned about the following issues -- all interrelated, all having an impact on education: racism, crime, security, poverty, unemployment and HIV/AIDS.
Education has long been considered the key to improving lives. However, the quality of schools in South Africa varies greatly.
The government provides minimal funding, and it’s up to parents to pay school fees to improve on the basics. Nonetheless, there are still teacher shortages, over-crowded classrooms and poor school conditions. At the other end of the spectrum, the best state-run schools are priced out of reach for most people charging more than what most South Africans earn.
So what will parents do?
A friend who worked long hours as a domestic worker used her modest earnings to send her children and the orphans in her care to a school with conditions a step above the state school.
She awoke well-before dawn so that she could commute to work, and she made the return trip home often arriving after dark.
It can be said that the poor state of education in South Africa is rooted in segregation and the Bantu Education system. Although there’s no longer a legal basis for apartheid, the social, economic, and political inequalities between white and black South Africans continue to exist.
My friend, who is black and a single mother, worked tirelessly with the hope that education can improve the lives of her children.
The education system in South Africa.
By Albert Wisco
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world,” said Nelson Mandela.
In 1994, Mandela became the President of South Africa, ending decades of apartheid. It was a result of the first all-race election in South Africa, an incredible event in global history. Now 90 years old, Mandela continues to fight for a world in which all children have access to a good education.
Recently, my family lived in South Africa. It was well over a decade after the end of apartheid, and I learned about the sacrifices parents make for their children – all children, for that matter.
Based on my conversations and reading, South Africans were most concerned about the following issues -- all interrelated, all having an impact on education: racism, crime, security, poverty, unemployment and HIV/AIDS.
Education has long been considered the key to improving lives. However, the quality of schools in South Africa varies greatly.
The government provides minimal funding, and it’s up to parents to pay school fees to improve on the basics. Nonetheless, there are still teacher shortages, over-crowded classrooms and poor school conditions. At the other end of the spectrum, the best state-run schools are priced out of reach for most people charging more than what most South Africans earn.
So what will parents do?
A friend who worked long hours as a domestic worker used her modest earnings to send her children and the orphans in her care to a school with conditions a step above the state school.
She awoke well-before dawn so that she could commute to work, and she made the return trip home often arriving after dark.
It can be said that the poor state of education in South Africa is rooted in segregation and the Bantu Education system. Although there’s no longer a legal basis for apartheid, the social, economic, and political inequalities between white and black South Africans continue to exist.
My friend, who is black and a single mother, worked tirelessly with the hope that education can improve the lives of her children.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Louise L. Hay - Loving Yourself
Learning to love and accept yourself is the first step in bringing an abundance of Love, Peace and Joy into your life. Only by loving and accepting yourself first can you begine to love and accept others.
Louise Hay - The Law of Thinking
Mind is a powerful tool. There is a universal law of thinking; when you learn how it works, miracles happen. What you think, and what you believe, is what will come true for you. Your thoughts create your life. Every thought we think, and every word we speak, is creating our own future. Our thoughts go out into the universe, and accepted, and brought back to use as experience.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Do You Want To Live Forever?
Channel 4 Documentary following the revolutionary life-extension and immortality ideas of this somewhat eccentric scientist, Dr. Aubrey de Grey. This show is all about the radical ideas of a Cambridge biomedical gerontologist called Aubrey de Grey who believes that, within the next 20-30 years, we could extend life indefinitely by addressing seven major factors in the aging process. He describes his work as Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS). EngEdu Related websites: http://www.Mprize.org http://www.ImmInst.org http://www.sens.org Related topics include: Cryonics (cryogenics), anti-aging, caloric restriction, transhumanism, nanotechnology, technology, nanobots, immortality, Methuselah Mouse Prize, scientific conquest of death, longevity, fitness, health, population control, birth rate, death rate, rejuvination therapies, aging reversal, Aubrey de Grey, live forever, cancer research, technology, nanobots, research, gene therapies, disease, transplants, physics, chemistry, computers, computing, bioscience, nutrition, exercise, philosophy, sociology, politics, history, elixir, drugs, singularity, Ray Kurzweil, matrix, supplements, suspended animation, cryo sleep, scientific debate, MIT, Technology Review, Cambridge conference sponsored by Larry Ellison, overpopulation, 1000 year lifespan, thousand year lifespan, infant mortality, science breakthroughs, futurist, future, war on aging, medical, youthful, retirement, computer engineer, genetics, research, SENS, extreme life extension news.
Bush Family Fortunes
his hour long documentary follows the award-winning reporter-sleuth Greg Palast on the trail of the Bush family, from Florida election finagling, to the Saudi connection, to the Bush team's spiking the FBI investigation of the bin Laden family and the secret State Department plans for post-war Iraq. These are the hard-hitting reports that have been seen in films like Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, broadcast internationally on BBC Newsnight television, and are found in Palast's international bestselling book The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.
Bush Family Fortunes
his hour long documentary follows the award-winning reporter-sleuth Greg Palast on the trail of the Bush family, from Florida election finagling, to the Saudi connection, to the Bush team's spiking the FBI investigation of the bin Laden family and the secret State Department plans for post-war Iraq. These are the hard-hitting reports that have been seen in films like Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, broadcast internationally on BBC Newsnight television, and are found in Palast's international bestselling book The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.
Monday, October 6, 2008
Find Your True Self, Lift the Veils
How to transform your life by understanding who you really are. Are you your ego? Are you your personality? Knowing yourself is the key! Eliminate the repetitive patterns that aren't serving you. You can transform yourself.
The Enneagram is a key to understanding the different personality structures, each with its own gifts, focus, purpose and internal beliefs. Which personality structure are you? Knowing this is the beginning of awareness. If you are seeking to attain consciousness, the Enneagram will help you in understanding the ego and eliminating it.
If you are a counselor, coach, therapist or a growth oriented professional, you can use this knowledge to help your clients reach a higher consciousness and eliminate the repetitive patterns damaging to them. Read Deep Coaching: using the Enneagram as a catalyst for change. The first book of its kind to help you and help your clients gain inner freedom.
The Enneagram is a key to understanding the different personality structures, each with its own gifts, focus, purpose and internal beliefs. Which personality structure are you? Knowing this is the beginning of awareness. If you are seeking to attain consciousness, the Enneagram will help you in understanding the ego and eliminating it.
If you are a counselor, coach, therapist or a growth oriented professional, you can use this knowledge to help your clients reach a higher consciousness and eliminate the repetitive patterns damaging to them. Read Deep Coaching: using the Enneagram as a catalyst for change. The first book of its kind to help you and help your clients gain inner freedom.
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