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Richard Feynman on Beauty, Honors, and Curiosity | Brain Pickings

Brain Pickings is one of my regular stops in search if inspiration or diversion. I have to restrain myself from re-blogging everything they do but this series of films made from stock footage and interviews with the late, great Richard Feynman are too good not to share.

Richard Feynman on Beauty, Honors, and Curiosity | Brain Pickings

Learning for the visually minded

RSA Animate – First as Tragedy, Then as Farce.

If, like me, you only really understand something when you understand it visually you will love the RSA Animate series of illustrated lectures. The one linked above is the philosopher Slavoj Žižek talking about how the new ethical consumerism perpetuates poverty and how charity in general can "demoralize and degrade". Check the RSA website for more, there is an excellent one from Mathew Taylor about 21st century enlightenment.