What do we know about the relationship between climate change and the formation of tropical storms and hurricanes? Vox.com has produced a short overview and summary of recent research results. As you might expect, there is a relationship, and Vox.com does a great job of visually presenting the findings. [Read more…]
Hurricane | Video Worth Watching
Viewing images out of Southeast Texas has left us speechless and dazed. For those who are able, here are some choices if you want to donate in support of relief efforts for Hurricane Harvey: [Read more…]
Real Fake News – Operetta vs. Trump (Gilbert and Sullivan Edition) | Video Worth Watching
Time once again for a culture break, this time a two-fer. Here’s not only a taste of musical heritage (Light Opera), but some history also tossed in the mix! It is the Very Model of a Modern Roman Empire Fall! [Read more…]
Blast From the Past: Susan B. Anthony Grave Draws a Crowd on Election Day | Video Worth Watching
Today marks the 46th anniversary of Women’s Equality Day, an event commemorating the ratification of the 19th amendment, prohibiting the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex. A resolution to designate this day in honor of the adoption of that amendment, was introduced by New York Congresswoman Bella Abzug and was eventually passed as H.J. Res. 52 on August 16, 1973.
In that spirit, here’s a brief clip recording a spontaneous expression of gratitude to one of the early pioneers of the Woman Suffrage movement, Susan B. Anthony. Last Election Day (Nov. 8, 2016) by 10:30 a.m., easily 1,000 people, a large majority of them women and girls, made the pilgrimage to her grave at this 196-acre Victorian cemetery. Hundreds more stood patiently in line, enduring an hour’s wait for the chance to approach Anthony’s stone. [Read more…]
Still Think Those Confederate Monuments Are All About Heritage? | Video Worth Watching
Still think those Confederate monuments are all about heritage and history? Here’s a Vox video by Carlos Waters that uses a timeline to show the relationship of spurts of monument erections and historical events. There’s definitely a pattern here … [Read more…]
San Diego Housing Crisis Facing a ‘Perfect Storm’ | Video Worth Watching
I’ve always thought it was perfectly appropriate to respond to the current affordable housing shortage in the way we respond to a natural disaster. It certainly is a disaster, but one that’s human-made rather than “natural”.
Extending the metaphor, just as weather forecasts provide us an opportunity to prepare for severe conditions, the current housing market forecast is giving us an opportunity to mitigate the effects of a brewing “Perfect Storm”. As KPBS News notes: San Diego is in the midst of its worst housing crisis in recent memory, with low vacancy rates, rising rents and a growing number of people living on the streets. As bad as things are… they’re likely to get worse. Thousands of homes set aside for low-income people are set to become market rate, meaning struggling renters could see their housing costs skyrocket. KPBS metro reporter Andrew Bowen says experts are calling it a perfect storm. [Read more…]
White Supremacy – Our Culture and Heritage? | Video Worth Watching
Last night in Trump’s campaign rally speech (now think about that for a second—a campaign rally in the eighth month of his term; the event was paid for with campaign funds. And you think Christmas merchandise on shelves in September is premature!) we heard the code words “culture” and “heritage”. These are normally venerable words, now being pressed into service for ignoble purposes. When used to lament the loss of Confederate monuments, the culture and heritage being referenced is White Supremacy and slavery.
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Dick Gregory, In Memoriam | Video Worth Watching
A pioneer comedian Dick Gregory (October 12, 1932 – August 19, 2017) passed away Saturday at the age of 84. An ardent civil rights activist as well as anti-war political activist, Gregory will be missed.
Democracy Now! has posted a video feature “Dick Gregory In His Own Words: Remembering the Pioneering Comedian and Civil Rights Activist” culled from appearances on the program. During the 2002 interview Amy Goodman thanks him for helping to get Democracy Now! on the air nationally, in his capacity as a new member of the Pacifica National board.
Here’s a video clip that’s featured in a Digby Hullabaloo post by Denis Hartley that is taken from a 2014 appearance on the Arsenio Hall show. In it, Dick tells his version of how he broke the color barrier of late night TV during an appearance on the Tonight Starring Jack Parr show.
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Solar Eclipse Day in San Diego! | Video Worth Watching
Unless you have recently arrived on planet earth it has been impossible to miss the months long build up to the solar eclipse which will trace a path across the United States from sea to shining sea. While San Diego is outside of the path of the total eclipse, we’ll still experience a 60% eclipse here.
Our partial eclipse begins around 9am, when the moon touches the sun’s edge. The maximum eclipse is around 10:20 am and it’s all over around 11:46 am. [Read more…]
Music for a Transit of Mercury | Video Worth Watching
A propos of the solar eclipse coming tomorrow, here’s a video set to music of another relatively rare solar phenomenon: a transit of Mercury. About 13 times per century Mercury passes between the earth and the sun. That small black dot you see moving across the face of the sun in this video is the planet Mercury. The most recent occurrence of a transit was a little over a year ago on May 9th, 2016, from 4:12 am – 11:42 am PDT. The orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory obtained an uninterrupted vista, recording it not only in optical light but also in bands of ultraviolet light. Featured here is a composite movie of the crossing set to music.
Credit for this video goes to: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Genna Duberstein; the images are from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO. Credit for the music: Encompass by Mark Petrie. [Read more…]
Time to Take Five | Video Worth Watching
Has this been a crazy week or what?!? Ready for a little break? I think it’s time to Take Five …
Paul Desmond (alto sax), Joe Morello (drums), Eugene Wright (bass) and Dave Brubeck (piano) – Live in Belgium 1964 [Read more…]
Learning To Hate – the Brown Eyes / Blue Eyes Exercise | Video Worth Watching
A recent tweet from Barack Obama’s Twitter account featured a quote from Nelson Mandela: “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion … People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love … For love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” It now holds the record for the most “Liked” tweet of all time with 2.723 million times as of Tuesday evening (8/15/17).
For insight into how one might learn how to hate, here is a video that features highlights of the PBS documentary “A Class Divided” which describes an exercise conducted by Jane Elliott in 1968 after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. [Read more…]
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