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Wednesday, April 19th, 2017
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| 8:00a | New, Interactive Web Site Puts Online Thousands of International Folk Songs Recorded by the Great Folklorist Alan Lomax These days everyone’s hung up on identity. But I don’t mean to talk politics, though my point is maybe inescapably political: the identities our jobs and incomes give us—the status or lack... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]  |
| 2:15p | Watch the First Chinese Animated Feature Film, Princess Iron Fan, Made Under the Strains of WWII (1941) Note: To watch this film with subtitles, please click “cc” at the bottom of the video player. When we talk about traditionally animated feature films, we most often talk about Disney in the West and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
| 5:17p | Watch The Bicycle Trip: An Animation of The World’s First LSD Trip Which Took Place on April 19, 1943 In 1943, Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann was synthesizing a new compound called lysergic acid diethylamide-25 when he got a couple of drops on his finger. The chemical, later known worldwide as LSD,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
| 7:15p | Hear What the Language Spoken by Our Ancestors 6,000 Years Ago Might Have Sounded Like: A Reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European Language As scholars of ancient texts well know, the reconstruction of lost sources can be a matter of some controversy. In the ancient Hebrew and less ancient Christian Biblical texts, for example, critics... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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