Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age
Posted on November 14, 2009 - Filed Under Video, Tech & Science | Leave a Comment
Here is an interview we did with our friend author Kurt Beyer, who has just published “Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age” (MIT Press www.admiralgracehopper.com). It is the story of a woman who broke the glass ceiling in the 1940s as second in charge of the room-sized top secret computer at Harvard [...]
Read More..>>Sustainable Tourism: Video Demo of our Intro to Travel and Tourism Course
Posted on October 27, 2009 - Filed Under Video, Sustainable Tourism, Travel Biz | 2 Comments
Take a look at a demo (with a short piece on sustainable tourism) of our new edition of “Travel and Tourism: Opening Doors for Your Future,” an interactive course that introduces the Travel and Tourism industry as a serious career path to high school or entry-level college students, people who are about to enter the [...]
Read More..>>Qik: Yikes, Is That A Reality Show in Your Pocket?
Posted on April 30, 2009 - Filed Under Video, Gadgets & Cameras, Tech & Science | Leave a Comment
I used to dread it when my wealthy aunt dragged out the magic lantern, put up the screen and proceeded to torture us youngsters (and I am sure our less-traveled parents) with fuzzy slides and stilted stories about her encounters with the pigeon pocked monuments of Europe. Now, thanks to the internet, we have tedium [...]
Podcast VideoCharles Darwin Meets Gilbert and Sullivan
Posted on March 27, 2009 - Filed Under Video, Entertainment, Tech & Science | Leave a Comment
If it ever comes to your neighborhood, as it did ours last night at San Francisco’s Jewish Community Center, see Richard Milner’s “Charles Darwin: Live and In Concert.” Milner combines his love of musical theater, especially Gilbert and Sullivan, with his scholarship as an anthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History to do Darwin [...]
Read More..>>Floating Through Kerala
Posted on February 14, 2009 - Filed Under Video, Culture, India, Sustainable Tourism | Leave a Comment
My first impression of India was high culture plus high chaos. But then I hadn’t been to Kerala, a multicultural waterworld in India’s southwest.
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Floating Through Kerala [5:41m]: 
