This American life from March 11, 2011. is an incredible overview of the impacts of war and stories of soldiers on leave from the Iraq war. 429:
Nezar AlSayyad is a Cairo-born professor of Architecture, Planning and Urban History and the chair of Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. He's also a lucid thinker and the author of the forthcoming book Cairo: Histories of a City
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"Footage of the Tunisian and Egyptian democratic revolutions mixed with timelapses and set to Carl Sagan reading from his book "Earth - The Pale Blue Dot.""
A fascinating digital re-edit of a Carl Sagan lecture overlaid with video from the Egyptian and Tunisian uprising.
Micheal Shear's blog post on NY Times Caucus, on the utter differences of both Palin's and Obama's speeches yesterday, worth a look.
Wednesday was bookended by two remarkable — and remarkably different — political performances that demonstrated the vast expanse of America’s political landscape.
The day began at 5 a.m. when Sarah Palin posted a 7½- minute video statement that captured with precision the bubbling anger and resentment that is an undercurrent of the national conversation about our public discourse.
It ended with President Obama, whose plea for civility, love and compassion — for us to all be not just better citizens but better people — exposed for the first time the emotions of a leader who has spent two years staying cool and controlled for a nation beset by difficult times.The tone of the two speeches could not have been more different. The venues were a world apart — the smallness of a rectangular video on a computer screen and the vastness of an echo-filled basketball arena.