Pleading Planet: Review of the film Koyaanisqatsi
The first time I saw the film Koyaanisqatsi I was a college student rambling around on an aimless Saturday night. A campus hall was screening it for free, so I ducked inside, my curiosity piqued. I...
View ArticleNotes From a Life-Long Learner
I am a rabid, chronic life-long learner, and I'm starting this column because promoting life-long learning is one of the key components of our mission here at NYPL. Also, I bet there are a lot of...
View ArticleNotes From a Life-Long Learner: Social Dance
Social Dancing, which consists of various forms of dance, such as square dancing, is a communal tradition brought to the American continent by its earliest immigrants. Big in centuries past, social...
View ArticleNotes From a Life-Long Learner: Comedy Writing
"It's the jokes. I need the jokes."This is something a young library patron said to me the other day. He wanted me to find him a DVD of Abbott and Costello’s greatest movies and routines. I felt an...
View ArticleNotes From a Life-Long Learner: Rattlesnake!!!
The sound of a Rattlesnake's warning is terrifying and hard to describe. It doesn’t sound like a baby’s toy. Well, it might if the toy was being shaken at a million times per second by an angry,...
View ArticleNotes From a Life-Long Learner: God — To Be(lieve) or Not To Be(lieve)
I spent a recent weekend pondering the existence of God. It’s something I do from time to time because I was a religious person once, in the Judeo/Christian tradition, but am not so now. After many...
View ArticleNotes From a Life-long Learner: Podcasting
A podcast is an audio program anyone can make, post to a website, and make available for download onto a computer or portable device, such as an iPod (hence the term “podcast”). Listeners can subscribe...
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