The Problem with Video Essays

Posted on July 1, 2025 by agogo22

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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Aristotle, De Caelo
Aristotle, On Generation and Corruption
Amir Alexander, Liberty’s Grid
Hakob Barseghyan, Nicholas Overgaard, & Gregory Rupik, “Chapter 8,” in Introduction to History and Philosophy of Science
John Brinckerhoff Jackson, “Jefferson, Thoreau, and After,” in Landscape in Sight: Looking at America
Robert C. Bosanquet, “Greek and Roman Towns I,” in Town Planning Review
Rene Descartes, Principles of Philosophy
Rene Descartes, Meditations
John Dunne, “Measuring Locke’s Shadow”
Matthew H. Edney, “Review of Liberty’s Grid,” in Imago Mundi
John Henry, “The Mechanical Philosophy,” in The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science
James E. Lewis, “Review of Liberty’s Grid,” in William and Mary Quarterly
John Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke, Two Treatises of Government
Isaac Newton, Principia
Steven Shapin, “On Gods and Kings: Natural Philosophy and Politics in the Leibniz-Clarke Disputes,” in Isis
Dan Stanislawski, “The Origin and Spread of the Grid-Pattern Town,” in Geographical Review
Martyn Thompson, “Locke’s Contract in Context,” in The Social Contract From Hobbes to Rawls
James Tully, “Rediscovering America”
James D. Walsh, “Everyone is Cheating Their Way Through College,” in New York Magazine
Wil Williams, “The Video Essays That Spawned an Entire YouTube Genre,” in Polygon

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Nina Richards – Happy String Drone
Nina Richards – Albedo

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Researchers at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA stimulated the skin of a dead squid with music from an iPod.

Posted on July 1, 2025 by agogo22

Researchers at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA stimulated the skin of a dead squid with music from an iPod.
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Incredibly smooth ring juggling by an Australian circus performer

Posted on July 1, 2025 by agogo22

Incredibly smooth ring juggling by an Australian circus performer
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Eagle hijacking a rabbit from a fox

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Eagle hijacking a rabbit from a fox
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“The Anthem With No Country: You’ve Heard It… But Do You Know It?”

Posted on July 1, 2025 by agogo22

What if your national anthem wasn’t tied to a land—but to a melody?
In this episode, we explore “Gelem, Gelem,” the powerful Romani anthem that unites 12 million people across more than 30 countries—without a flag, without borders, and without a nation.

The Romani people (often misnamed as “Gypsies”) have walked for over 1,500 years, migrating from Northern India through Persia, the Ottoman Empire, and all across Europe. Along the way, they carried something more powerful than land: music.

🎶 Discover how Djelem, Djelem was born from a haunting folk melody and the words of a Holocaust survivor, Žarko Jovanović.
🎻 Learn how Romani music shaped genres like flamenco, Balkan brass, Jazz Manouche, and classical violin traditions.
🎬 And explore how cinema—from Time of the Gypsies to Gadjo Dilo—captured the beauty, chaos, and survival of a people defined by sound, not soil.

As a musician and professor at Berklee College of Music, I invite you into the story of an anthem with no country—and a people who turned exile into art.

🛤️ Walk with us — and hear the anthem of no-land.

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There’s so much buried underground 😱

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Art Daily Dose (@art_dailydose) • Instagram reel

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Your Cat Might Be Fluent in Hieroglyphs

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How did we pull this off 30,000+ years ago? #science #stem #history

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It Started Killing All the Bees in Australia.. Just Watch The Results After 1 Year. It’s Massive!

Posted on June 30, 2025 by agogo22

In June 2022, something tiny arrived in Australia and began systematically attacking the continent’s bee populations. For over a century, Australia had remained the last safe haven on Earth, completely untouched by the world’s most devastating bee killer. Their strict biosecurity had protected millions of colonies while other nations watched helplessly as their bees died. But that perfect protection finally cracked. What followed was the largest agricultural emergency response in the country’s history—a desperate, multi-million dollar battle against an enemy barely visible to the naked eye. After one full year, the results were absolutely massive. But they weren’t what anyone expected, and they changed everything scientists thought they knew about continental protection.

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