While they are all of interest to entrepreneurs, investors, and tech enthusiasts, the latest lecture and conversation with Marc Andreessen is particularly fascinating in that it offers an amazing snapshot into the Netscape co-founder's thoughts on both being an entrepreneur and a VC.
In his latest lecture, Kristian studies the work of Ben Burtt, the sound designer responsible for the majority of the sound effects in the Star Wars library, which Kristian says holds over 5,000 unique sounds.
Though the movie sounds perilously twee, "Griff the Invisible" works as a slice of emotional life for the most part because of its lead performances (and despite a late lecture about how the kooks are all right).
And it is still central to Schleiermacher's political thought in his (otherwise more conservative) late lectures on the theory of the state from 1829-33, in which he argues that the three spheres of sociality, religion, and science (e.g. the universities) lie beyond the legitimate power of the state, and critically notes that the current (Prussian) state falls short of this ideal.
His official reason was the long commute and late lectures he gave in Philadelphia.
Incidental Intelligence: A recent lecture on "The Determination of Precise Time" by Sir Harold Spencer Jones, Astronomer Royal, at Columbia, got started ten minutes late and ran forty minutes overtime.
She also told some excellent anecdotes about Cudlipp a couple of weeks ago before the latest memorial lecture in her old boss's name.
My latest multimedia lecture, "Screen Shot: How Media Instigates Gun Violence and Rape Culture," looks at how misogynistic mass shootings, sexual assault on and off campus, and street harassment are portrayed in journalism, scripted and reality TV, movies, music videos, and advertising.
"Look at it this way," the mad-dog protagonist of his latest potboiler lectures him.
But he, a Pritikin devotee, could not resist adding, "I guess it is too late to lecture you on good eating and good lifestyle habits".
These emails, which form the bulk of Martinez's latest performance-lecture My Stories, Your Emails, are all responses to a video posted online without Martinez's consent.
