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Coming to a theatre near you. If only …
P.S. You can download Jane Austen’s novels for free. Find them in our collection of Free Audio Books, which Makeuseof.com was kind enough to feature earlier today.
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File under comedy. It’s slightly cheeky, at times little crass, but how often do the comedy and philosophy worlds collide? I mean, really?
S. Peter Davis also has three minute takes on Descartes, Hume, Aristotle, Locke, Galileo, Pythagoras, and Aquinas.
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Today, we’re revisiting a classic Monty Python skit. The scene is the 1972 Munich Olympics. The event is a football/soccer match, pitting German philosophers against Greek philosophers. On the one side, the Germans — Hegel, Nietzsche, Kant, Marx and, um, Franz Beckenbauer. On the other side, Archimedes, Socrates, Plato and the rest of the gang. The referee? Confucius. On May 9, this match was recreated by The Philosophy Shop, a group dedicated to promoting philosophy among primary schoolchildren. The Telegraph gives you more details.
Meanwhile, on a more serious note, you can download free philosophy courses in audio & video. Just visit our post, Download 90 Free Philosophy Courses and Start Living the Examined Life, to get started…
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On the lighter side…
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Conan O’Brien’s Silicon Valley tour winds up at Google as part of his “Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour.” In this setting, you can really see his comic/improvisational talents come alive (more so than on late night TV). Give it a watch and tell me if you don’t get a good laugh…
Filmed in 1986, Meetin’ WA is a short (26 minute) film that not many have seen. What you get is Godard, one of the driving forces behind La Nouvelle Vague, in conversation with Woody Allen. The trademark Godard approach to film, the expected dose of Woody Allen neuroses — they’re all there. You’ll find this gem and 340+ other films (including many classics) listed in our collection of Free Movies Online.
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You have probably all seen them — the countless parodies of the now famous scene from the 2004 German film, Downfall, which records the last days of Hitler and the Third Reich. Earlier this week, the fun started coming to an end when Constantin Film, holder of the movie’s copyright, asked YouTube to remove the clips for reasons enumerated here. But almost as quickly as YouTube took them down, new ones started to pop up. Above, we have one parody showing Hitler responding violently to the takedown request. And, then, taking an entirely different stance, we see him being the mastermind behind the controversial purging of videos. The meme lives on … for now. Thanks to @wesalwan for the tip here.
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