And now, for your amusement, bogglement, edification, and education, a selection of wildly disparate YouTube videos that caught my attention over the last few days.
First, from the category of absolutely appropriate pairings and the unlikely beauty where it’s not expected, we’ve got Tom Waits doing a reading of a Bukowski poem:
Secondly, from the world of cool ideas that are really pretty damn depressing if you think about them, I’ve got this clip of Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson talking about why we might not be as smart as we think we are, and the possibility that we might just be too dumb as a species to understand the universe:
I’d love to see Dr. Tyson sit down over a beer with (Dr.) Peter Watts and talk about some of the intelligence/consciousness stuff from Watts’ book Blindsight.
(That clip, by the way, is from the end of Cosmic Quandries, and the whole program is on YouTube–it’s a fun 90 minutes, if you have them to kill.)
Thirdly, from the category of “sometimes advertising is like your dad trying to talk street”, we have this absolutely magnificent vintage IHOP ad:
Fourth, and finally, we have Noam Chomsky being interviewed by Israeli media, shortly after he was denied entry to Israel. I don’t think there’s much point in adding commentary to this one–for anyone interested in listening, the interview speaks for itself. I will say, though, that Chomsky’s a much more patient man than I am–although I expect he’s had a lifetime of practice with these kinds of questions, and this kind of tone.
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