Discoveries XLV

Every Tuesday I offer three (or so) contributions to the web that I found interesting. I hope you, too, find them inspiring. Enjoy!

This week (04/07/2009):

A fiery introduction by pianist Newton Zago playing ‘Frevo’ by Egberto Gismonti:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFrDvhPwDps

Neil de Grasse Tyson is not only the head of the Hayden Planetarium at the  American Museum of Natural History but also very entertaing. In the ‘Pluto Files’ he talks about strange struggles of that planet – or is it a star? – and that we don’t know nearly anything about 96% of the universe anyway.
Take some time for this:
http://fora.tv/2009/02/04/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson_The_Pluto_Files#chapter_00

‘The Masquerade’ is played from some eclectic mix of great Jazz musicians, Niels Landgren, Pat Metheney,
the late Esbjörn Svenson and Michale Brecker and others (in 2 parts):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wfJMgItA_w&feature=PlayList&p=7B7B3EEF10E82DE5&index=2

 

 

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