Nazgul Can Remember It For You, Wholesale

What the now viral Wolfdog can teach us all.

A. Bloomberg on the making of a Chinese spy.

B. Pedagogical Grammar insights: Stephen Fry on grammar Nazis; then Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s National Apology to the Stolen Generations; and then President-Elect Barack Obama’s acceptance/victory speech on 4th November 2008.

C. PBS documentaries Sun Ra: Do The Impossible; Bombshell on the fallout from the United States bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II; and PBS Frontline on the recent Venezuela crisis. VPN subscription may be needed for viewing from some countries.

D. How the Cold War’s end saved the Siberian tiger.

E. Today’s MIT OCW free course is on Writing Science Fiction, created by Shariann Lewitt.

F. Nazgul the Wolfdog who crashed the Winter Olympics deserves a medal and to be in the closing ceremony. He teaches us to embrace antifragility and to be ‘risk on’ when excellent risk-reward outcomes exist. Or the opportunity for cute viral internet videos.