http://thisishell.net

By Chuck Mertz in Website of the Week with 0 comment

http://prometheusradio.org A Low power radio communiy website dedicated to “freeing the airwaves from corporate control”

READ MORE

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Dahr Jamail, Greg Palast

investigative journalist Greg Palast (http://www.gregpalast.com) returned to This is Hell to discuss his most recent writing on the California wildfires and the new revelations in what was once called Rathergate. Dahr Jamail, author of "Beyond The Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq," (Haymarket). Read Dahr’s most recent writing at http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com. [...]

READ MORE

By Chuck Mertz in Website of the Week with 0 comment

http://ted.com Home to the TED (Technology, Entertainmentand Design) conferences. Tons of great videos of past conferencespeakers, including some of my favorite nerd weirdos, like this year’sStephen Pinker, Theo Jansen, and Hod Lipson and his self-aware robots.

READ MORE

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Cynthia Stokes Brown, Dan 'The Auto Man', David Morse, Joshua Holland, Mike Dvorak, Paul Cruickshank

Paul Cruickshank is a fellow at New York University’s Law School’s Center on Law and Security (http://www.lawandsecurity.org/).Paul will discuss the article he co-wrote with another past guest, Peter Bergen, entitled, "Al Qaeda: Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Bush administration propaganda notwithstanding, Al Qaeda was not a factor in Iraq before the U.S. invasion. But it is now—and [...]

READ MORE

By Chuck Mertz in Website of the Week with 0 comment

http://bethe.cornell.edu/ QuickTimes of quantum physics lecturesdelivered in 1999 by Hans Bethe, the legendary physicist who broughtRichard Feynman from Los Alamos to Cornell.

READ MORE

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Jeff Dorchen, Laura Carlsen

live from Mexico City, Laura Carlsen is the director of the Americas Policy Program at the International Relations Center. Laura has been working as an analyst and writer in Mexico for over two decades. Her recent writing at the time of this interview included the articles, "Plan Mexico and the Billion Dollar Drug Deal," [...]

READ MORE

By Chuck Mertz in Website of the Week with 0 comment

http://ldraw.org/ “LDraw™ is an open standard for LEGO CAD programs that allow the user to create virtual LEGO models and scenes.” That’s insane.

READ MORE

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Charles C. Mann, Jeff Dorchen

Charles C. Mann (http://www.charlesmann.org), author of "1491: New Revelations of the America Before Columbus" (Vintage) And Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth.

READ MORE