BBC: "Geoff Ward examines the strange life and terrifying world of the man hailed as America's greatest horror writer since Poe.
During his life, Lovecraft's work was confined to lurid pulp magazines and he died in penury in 1937. Today, however, his writings are considered modern classics and published in prestigious editions. How did such a weird, wild and ungodly writer get canonised? Among the writers considering his legacy are Neil Gaiman, ST Joshi, Kelly Link, Peter Straub and China Mieville." Listen here
1.) Tundra
2.) Sqaurepusher Theme
3.) Bonneville Occident
4.) Full Rinse
5.) A Journey To Reedham (7am Mix)
6.) Port Rhombus
7.) I Wish You Could Talk
8.) Venus No.17
9.) The Exploding Psychology
10.) Welcome To Europe
11.) Come On My Selector
12.) Male Pill Part 5
13.) Unreleased
dradio.de: "Welche Bedeutung hat Podcast aktuell im Studium, wer nutzt es, wie werden Studieninhalte "podcast-fähig" und was ist beim Urheberrecht zu bedenken?" Weiter
Kriminologie per podcast
dradio.de: "Wer studieren will, muss bereit sein, für sein Wunschfach auch den Wohnort zu wechseln. Doch damit könnte bald Schluss sein. An der Ruhruniversität Bochum gibt es den Masterstudiengang Kriminologie und Polizeiwissenschaften, online. Das heißt ein Studium vom Schreibtisch zuhause ist möglich. Weiter
wnyc.org: "Could the best medicine be no medicine at all? With new research demonstrating the startling power of the placebo effect, Radio Lab examines the chemical consequences of belief and imagination...from the symbolic power of the doctor coat to the very real stash of opium in your mind." Listen here
BBC: "Dead at the age of 29, Hank Williams Snr. nonetheless managed to create such a body of work that he is now seen as the founding father of modern country music. In his short career - only 6 years - he cut over 170 songs, many of them now classics, which have been recorded by nearly everyone who is anyone in country." Listen here
Gedankenlesen per Computer
dradio.de: "Wissenschaftler können inzwischen die Vorbereitung einer Entscheidung im Gehirn verfolgen. Durch Messungen der Hirnaktivität lässt sich erkennen, für welche Alternative eine Versuchsperson sich entscheidet. Der elektrische Impuls im Gehirn allein reicht jedoch nicht aus, um vorherzusagen, was ein Mensch am Ende tun wird." Weiter
Die Suche nach dem Selbst im Gehirn
dradio.de: "Selbstbewusstsein, Selbst, Subjektivität. Es gibt viele Namen, mit denen die alten Denker versucht haben, das Ich zu fassen. Aber so viele Namen die Philosophen ihm auch gaben, so zerstritten waren sie auch: Ist das Ich eine bloßer Gedanke, eine notwendige Voraussetzung unseres Daseins oder eine Substanz ganz eigener Art? Fragen, die sowohl Hirnforscher, als auch Phoöosphen beschäftigen." Weiter
Tiefe Hirnstimulation bei psychischen Erkrankungen Bei der tiefen Hirnstimulation setzt ein Neurochirurg eine dradio.de: "Elektrode in das Gehirn des Patienten und stellt sie so ein, dass diese dann wie ein Herzschrittmacher fortlaufend elektrische Impulse abgibt. Die teilweise beeindruckenden Erfolge der ungewöhnlichen Behandlung hat Nachahmer auf den Plan gerufen: So versuchen Mediziner seit einiger Zeit, psychischen Leiden mit der tiefen Hirnstimulation zu Leibe zu rücken.Weiter
onpointradio.org: "We all know the story, delivered in grade school textbooks across the country, of how the universe began. The Big Bang. Fourteen billion years ago. Space and time and everything, exploding into being in a flash, and still exploding as celestial bodies race apart across the cosmos.
Well, maybe so. But the Big Bang theory has taken its lumps in recent years.
Now, renegade physicists are making a new case. That it didn't all start in an instant. That there is no beginning, and no end. And those are fighting words in the halls of science."
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freshmilk.tv: "Nun ist er fast verschwunden und Vergangenheit geworden - der Palast der Republik. Was bleibt sind zahllose Erinnerungen...so auch ein legendäres Konzert der Einstürzenden Neubauten. Blixa Bargeld spricht über Altes und Neues und über eine soziale Kraft, die niemals in Vergessenheit geraten soll...und es gibt eine DVD die schon jetzt ein Stück Geschichte ist."
MVD: "This performance was filmed on November 4, 2004 at the Palast der Republik in Berlin, the former Parliament building and symbol of the no longer extant DDR (East Germany). The Neubauten found the steel skeleton of the ruins of the Palast a congenial location for their architectural-musical fantasies and field studies. Accompanied by a 100 member choir, recruited from the supporters of the www.neubauten.org Internet project, they played in and with the building in their inimitable, almost literally building-collapsing fashion. Contains previously unreleased songs, band commentary and more."
wnyc.org: "Hear an hour of music by the elfin Icelandic singer and songwriter Björk on this edition of New Sounds. Listen to selections from albums like “Medulla,” “Vespertine,” and more. Plus, unusual arrangements of Björk songs by the Brodsky Quartet, Geoff Keezer, Rachel Z, and the Decemberists, among others." Listen here
wnyc.org: "On this edition of New Sounds, John Schaefer welcomes Dutch ten-string Renaissance lute player Josef van Wissem, along with guitarist Gary Lucas, the NYC-based musician well known from his days with Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. Together, on their unusual combination of instruments, they perform quirky original works live in the WNYC studio." Listen here
npr.org: "The sky is high and the emperor is far away." The logic of the traditional Chinese saying is that the farther you are from the capital, the freer things are.
But in reality, a lot goes on in Beijing, right under the "emperor's" nose. Today's Beijing is home to rock 'n' roll rebels, subversive artists and a livelier alternative cultural scene than in any other Chinese city." Listen here
TV Sendung auf ARTE (Samstag, 2.6.07 um 20 Uhr und Sonntag, 3.6.07 um 12.45 Uhr) zum Thema Urheberrecht.
"Das neue Urheberrecht sollte die „Verfassung des digitalen Zeitalters“ werden, doch Kritiker meinen, dass es weder Künstlern noch der Allgemeinheit nutzt – im Gegenteil gefährdet es vielmehr den kreativen Umgang mit dem kulturellen Erbe." Weiter
"The Pew Internet and American Life Project has just issued a new report (PDF) on Wikipedia. According to the report, 36% of American adults consult Wikipedia. One of the more interesting aspects of the report is the amount of traffic to Wikipedia that's driven from search engines. The report cites Hitwise data that showed "over 70% of the visits to Wikipedia in the week ending March 17 came from search engines." This success must be one of the reasons that Wikipedia has announced they plan to launch a search engine." Download the report
found via randomculture.com
wpr.org: "It's an invasion that shows no signs of slowing down. It's Japanese popular culture. And it's more pervasive here in America than you might realize. It's not just cute "Hello Kitty" backpack purses and Pokemon, "pocket monsters." It's also the eerie "dead wet girls" of Japanese horror movies like "The Ring." In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll explore Japanese popular culture and find out why it's taken such a strong hold of the American imagination." Listen here
