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Chomsky on BioLinguistics @ UCD

category national | miscellaneous | opinion/analysis author Saturday January 21, 2006 23:34author by BPauthor email BlackPope at operamail dot com Report this post to the editors

Audiolink to Lectures - Dublin, 17th + 20th Jan 2006

Good quality audio (MP3) of two recent speeches by Noam Chomsky at University College Dublin:

1. Democracy Promotion: Reflections on Intellectuals and the State

2. Biolinguistic Explorations: Design, Development, Evolution

For all who really wanted to be there but couldn't make it, here it is --

Tue 17 Jan 2006 @ 7pm, O'Reilly Hall, UCD
"Democracy Promotion: Reflections on Intellectuals and the State" - 65min

Q + A - 39min


Fri 20 Jan 2006 @ 4.30pm, O’Reilly Hall, UCD
"Biolinguistic Explorations: Design, Development, Evolution" - 62min

Q + A - 19min

Describing the content of these lectures is a superfluous task well beyond me - so just go straight to following LINK for all four MP3 files - these can be streamed or downloaded in full for offline use --
http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=16147


It is believed that the linguistics lecture will not be made available publicly from the UCD website at any stage.

This relatively jargon-free introductory lecture (highly recommended) will be particularly interesting for those unfamiliar with Chomsky's scientific work.

These recordings are original by the author, NOT from the UCD video webcasts, and are of superior quality.

All UCD video streams ( fairly low quality in .WMV format ) are available here:
http://www.ucd.ie/news/jan06/011306_chomsky.htm


Schalom, BP

author by .publication date Sat Jan 21, 2006 23:46author address author phone Report this post to the editors

It's called FlashGet - an ingenious little prog that can quintuple download speeds:

http://www.amazesoft.com/download.htm

author by RobbieSpublication date Sun Jan 22, 2006 13:35author address author phone Report this post to the editors

worthy endeavour, but after an hour of trying, I've thrown in the towel on this one. First thing I did was to download the flash guardk, but it doesn't seem to have worked, and I'm on broadband.

the UCD lecture on Democracy and intellectuals has had 55 hits so far (maybe this unsuccessful attempt has made it 56).

Any chance you could post them on www.radio.indymedia.org BP? for all its glitches, it's very accessible when it's workin'.

author by BPpublication date Mon Jan 23, 2006 19:48author address author phone Report this post to the editors

but I've spent a total of 5 hours bustin' my banana on the IndyRadio server, both before and after resorting to radio4all, but can safely say that there is absolutely NO WAY it is taking this stuff being upped.

So I recommend u forget Flash and just let it trickle down direct overnight - I know its excruciating - try weeping, that'll take your mind off it, etc.!

Or just crack a 100TB/s server and donate it to both the above outfits. Cheers.

author by BPpublication date Wed Jan 25, 2006 14:37author address author phone Report this post to the editors

just follow this link:
... http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=16208

Chomsky Public Lectures @ UCD, Dublin 19 Jan 2006

Stark, Dreadful, Inescapable: The Question of Survival -- 61min, 20MB

Speech by Prof. Noam Chomsky

Summary: 61min excellent quality audio of Chomsky's thoughts on Future Prospects in the light of current NPT-breakdown, battlefield mini-nukes and the haste of "great leaders" towards armageddon.

27min Q+A session follows


Production + edit by BP, this recording is an MP3 re-encoding made from the live UCD video webcast, found here:

http://www.heanet.ie/services/multimedia/videostreaming/ucd/chomsky/chomsky_20060119_video.asx

CopyLeft 2006 - No Rights or Restrictions attach

author by BPpublication date Wed Jan 25, 2006 14:52author address author phone Report this post to the editors

MP3's for The Amnesty Lecture 2006 by Noam Chomsky are available here (in 5 sections, about 5MB each):

http://www.newstalk106.ie/podcasts/library/nc1.mp3
http://www.newstalk106.ie/podcasts/library/nc2.mp3
http://www.newstalk106.ie/podcasts/library/nc3.mp3
http://www.newstalk106.ie/podcasts/library/nc4.mp3
http://www.newstalk106.ie/podcasts/library/nc5.mp3

and Amnesty has kindly made a transcript of the whole speech - found here:
http://www.amnesty.ie/user/content/download/3898/20352/file/chomsky%20lecture%2006.pdf

Then you get the Eamonn Dunphy interview here (listen at your own peril):
http://www.newstalk106.ie/podcasts/library/nced.mp3


With this much material available, I want you all to think of this as Year 0 in terms of your own personal Chomsky Overdose.

Shalom,
BP

 
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