UC Berkeley is following the example of Stanford and MIT and making almost all of their courses available online for free. I was just looking through their YouTube catalog and thought that, given the current situation in Burma, this lecture on nonviolence, might be of interest. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Or, if nonviolence isn’t your cup of tea, check out this wild Turkish version of Start Trek!
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Wait. Does this mean I don’t have to move to Berkeley to major in Tupac Studies?
http://www.vh1.com/artists/news/1171/09101997/2pac.jhtml
Tupac was a gifted artist. It’s a shame that his work isn’t appreciated more broadly than it is. People laugh when I tell them that I listen to it, but it’s very well done. I wish people would just give it a chance.
ha ha ha ha ha ha
Bonnie Franklin just IM’d me. She thinks you’re about to start fight and she doesn’t want you do to it on a site that your son reads. So, she’s asking that you please, please take this conversation someplace else.
If you’d like, I can direct you to some sites that no one ever visits. You can have domestic arguments there all day long without bothering another living soul.
I love UCTV, especially the weekend broadcasting–so many stellar lectures and presentations from the various UC schools.
But the C-SPANs can also be so good on the weekends, including a special about JFK last evening in which they showed a clip from JFK’s June 1963 commencement address at American University. Here is a link to the transcript, plus a little morsel of the speech, to entice while lifting your hearts up:
http://www.ratical.org/co-globalize/JFK061063.html
Thank you for bringing the conversation back around, Oliva. I was just thinking about the Kennedy brothers. A few nights ago, I was fortunate enough to have caught half of the American Experience on RFK. Those assassinations (of the Kennedy brothers, Malcolm X, and MLK) really put our country on the wrong track. Some of this stuff might have happened even if they’d been around, but I can’t imagine that we, as a nation, would be where we are today had some of them lived. RFK, at least for me, was the biggest loss.