Via The Science Network: “Richard Dawkins, J. Craig Venter, Nobel laureates Sidney Altman and Leland Hartwell, Chris McKay, Paul Davies, Lawrence Krauss, and The Science Network’s Roger Bingham discuss the origins of life, the possibility of finding life elsewhere, and the latest development in synthetic biology.” If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage … Continue reading Panel Discussion: “What is Life?”
Buckley interviews Mailer for his show Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. Buckley and Mailer debate/discuss Mailer’s role in cultural life, politics, and other topics. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks. For this video, you’ll need to follow the links (via YouTube) to the following videos in … Continue reading Mailer, Norman, and William F. Buckley Jr. Interview. (1968)
Baldwin and Buckley debate at the Cambridge Union in 1965. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPz7kTnEWKE” Continue reading Baldwin, James and William F. Buckley Jr. Debate: “Has the American Dream been achieved at the price of the American Negro?”
Muhammad Ali performs “Stand By Me,” from his spoken word album “I am the Greatest”(1963). Read more about the album here. The album was released less than a year before Ali’s conversion to Islam, and was released under the name Cassius Clay. Audio with still photograph. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” … Continue reading Ali, Muhammad, “Stand By Me”
Ali appears on William F. Buckley Jr.’s program Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. speaking about Ali’s role in American culture, his refusal to fight in the Vietnam war, his Islamic faith, and the relationship between Black and White America. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXB0029YKFQ” Continue reading Ali, Muhammad and William F. Buckley Jr., “Muhammad Ali and the Negro Movement”
Amiri Baraka reads “Black Art.” This performance was released on the album “Sonny’s Time Now,” featuring jazz performers Sonny Murray, Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Henry Grimes, and Louis Worrell. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh2P-tlEH_w” Continue reading Baraka, Amiri, “Black Art” (1967)
Adrienne Rich reading “What Kinds of Times Are These” at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks:“https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRQapdNY-F4″ Continue reading Rich, Adrienne, “What Kinds of Times Are These”
Adrienne Rich reads her 1983 poem “North American Time” in Madison WI in 1997. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi_N3UPAD5E” Continue reading Rich, Adrienne, “North American Time”
Audio recording of Edna St. Vincent Millay reading “Love is Not All” If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvgDAOG8W6c” Continue reading Millay, Edna St. Vincent, “Love is Not All”
Audio recording of Edna St. Vincent Millay reading “Recuerdo” If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYQkEkB_fhk” Continue reading Millay, Edna St. Vincent, “Recuerdo”
