John Frederick Carden Michell (9 February 1933 – 24 April 2009) was an English author and esotericist who was a prominent figure in the development of the Earth mysteries movement. Over the course of his life he published over forty books on an array of different subjects, being a proponent of the Traditionalist school of esoteric thought. Born in London to a wealthy family, Michell was educated at Cheam School and Eton College before serving as a Russian translator in the Royal Navy for two years. After failing a degree in Russian and German at Trinity College, Cambridge, he returned to London and worked for his father's property business, there developing his interest in Ufology.Embracing the counter-cultural ideas of the Earth mysteries movement during the 1960s, in The Flying Saucer Vision he built on Alfred Watkins' ideas of ley lines by arguing that they represented linear marks created in prehistory to guide extraterrestrial spacecraft. He followed this with his most influential work, The View Over Atlantis, in 1969. His ideas were at odds with those of academic archaeologists, for whom he expressed contempt. Michell believed in the existence of an ancient spiritual tradition that connected humanity to divinity, but which had been lost as a result of modernity. He believed however that this tradition would be revived and that humanity would enter a Golden Age, with Britain as the centre of this transformation. Michell's other publications covered an eclectic range of topics, and included an overview on the Shakespeare authorship question, a tract condemning Salman Rushdie during The Satanic Verses controversy, and a book of Adolf Hitler's quotations. Keenly interested in the crop circle phenomenon, he co-founded a magazine devoted to the subject, The Cereologist, in 1990, and served as its initial editor. From 1992 until his death he wrote a column for The Oldie magazine, which was largely devoted to his anti-modernist opinions. He accompanied this with a column on esoteric topics for the Daily Mirror tabloid.A lifelong marijuana smoker, Michell died of lung cancer in 2009. Michell's impact in the Earth mysteries movement was considerable, and through it he also influenced the British Pagan movement. During the 2000s, his ideas also proved an influence on the Radical Traditionalist sector of the New Right. (Wikipedia).
Mark Waid on Reinventing Comics and Graphic Novels for Digital - TOC 2013
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A Brief History of Stephen Hawking - with Len Mlodinow
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John Oakes interviewed at TOC 2011
John Oakes, Co-founder (OR Books), John Oakes is the co-founder of OR Books, an alternative publishing company that embraces e-books and other new technologies. Oakes started in publishing with Barney Rosset's legendary Grove Press. In 1987 he co-founded Four Walls Eight Windows, which h
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Tom Lehrer: The Moonlighting Mathematician Part 5
Part 5 of my talk. A biography of Tom Lehrer.
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Aldous Huxley - 1950s Interview
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Is Reading a Form of Writing? | BOOK CLUB: Pierre Menard, Borges
Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/donateidea Deconstructing Jorge Luis Borges’ “Pierre Menard, Author of The Quixote” READ THE SHORT STORY HERE: http://genius.com/Jorge-luis-borges-pierre-menard-author-of-the-qui
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B. Gris - A sub-riemannian metric from constrained deformations
A general method to study a population of objects (images, meshes) is to examine how these objects can be deformed by a chosen class of diffeomorphisms. When these objects satisfy some constraints (for instance biological constraints), it can be relevant to incorporate them in the choice o
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The chaotic brilliance of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat - Jordana Moore Saggese
Learn about the life of American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, from his start as part of graffiti duo SAMO to his rise as an internationally renowned painter. -- Like Beat writers who composed their work by shredding and reassembling scraps of writing, artist Jean-Michel Basquiat used si
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Desktop Diaries: Michael Pollan
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People of Science with Brian Cox - Richard Fortey on Charles Lyell
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Analytic tools for the study of flows and inverse problems – Colin Guillarmou – ICM2018
Partial Differential Equations Invited Lecture 10.1 Analytic tools for the study of flows and inverse problems Colin Guillarmou Abstract: In this survey, we review recent results in hyperbolic dynamical systems and in geometric inverse problems using analytic tools, based on spectral the
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Blaine LAWSON - A Monge - Ampère Operator in Symplectic Geometry
Talk presented by P. PANSU https://indico.math.cnrs.fr/event/2432/material/17/0.pdf
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18. Democracy and Participation: Rousseau's Discourse
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Black Women and the Suffrage Movement | 100 Years After Women's Suffrage
Once the 19th Amendment passed in August 1920, the women who showed up to register to vote still confronted many hurdles. Racism was the most significant one. This conversation about the critical role Black women played in the suffrage movement was originally livestreamed to the National G
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Nobel Prize Winner John Mather Explains JWST
My guest today is Dr. John Mather, Senior Astrophysicist in the Observational Cosmology Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Dr. Mather received a Nobel Prize for his influential cosmology work, helping to confirm the Big Bang. He's been involved in almost every major astronom
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True Detectives - Still Untitled: The Adam Savage Project - 2/11/2014
This week Adam, Will, and Norm discuss the new TV show, True Detectives, while Norm manages to suss out a shameful secret of Adam's. Enjoy!
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TEDxCaltech - Stephen Hawking, John Preskill, Rives, Kip Thorne - Finding Things Out
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Last Jedi Trailer and Passengers SPOILERCAST - Still Untitled: The Adam Savage Project - 4/20/17
Recording later in the week, Adam, Will, and Norm catch up on Star Wars Celebration's reveal of The Last Jedi's teaser trailer, drop some Pete Seeger knowledge, and dive into a Spoilercast discussion of the recent film Passengers. Plus, we get excited for Silicon Valley Comic Con and the S
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