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Lesche: Ancient Greece, New IdeasHerodotus and the PresocraticsScarlett Kingsley joins me in the Lesche to discuss Herodotus' place in the intellectual milieu of the fifth century, the subject of her book Herodotus and the Presocratics: Inquiry and Intellectual Culture in the Fifth Century BCE.If you enjoy this episode, you might also like Episode 11 on The Sophists, with Josh Billings and Christopher Moore.Ancient textsHerodotus, Histories (especially the meeting between Solon and Croesus at 1.30-33, and the Constitutional Debate set in Persia at 3.80-82)Aristophanes, CloudsEuripides, PhoenissaeThucydides, History of the Peloponnesian WarHippias, Synagoge (non-extant)Dissoi logoiScattered references to...2025-04-161h 00
BX1 - Ça s'est passé hier à BruxellesÇa s’est passé hier à Bruxelles avec Alexia Diels – 13/11/2024Alexia Diels vous fait revivre sa sortie culturelle de la veille. Elle s'est rendue au Théâtre des Martyrs pour assister à "L'Abattoir de Verre", une pièce de John Maxwell Coetzee, mise en scène par Jean-Baptiste Delcourt.2024-11-1300 min
Free Flight FanaticEpisode 20 - Team Effort; A Conversation with Sandy MillerEpisode 20 is here! John talks AMA guidance, new products and the The fabulous 1974 Book titled "Flying Scale Models of WWII". John does an out of box review of the modernized and laser cut kit of Hal Cover's Focke-Wulf TA-152, now produced by Dave Diels of Diels' Engineering. We also have a very special interview in this episode, Mrs. Sandy Miller. Who is Sandy Miller? Well you will just have to listen to Episode 20 to find out! New Products: 96" WS Satellite Super D, $209.00 The Satellite Super D is based on the Satellite 1300, originally designed b...2021-06-301h 42
Free Flight FanaticEpisode 8 - Conversation with Bill HannanJohn "sits down" with one of the greats; historian, writer, author and model designer Bill Hannan. Where do we begin? You'll just have to listen! We also cover new products, the reopening of the Guillow's Factory, status of John's Sopwith Camel project, and 3 three new kits to go in his stash. The Diels Engineering P-47 kit contest give away will go through the end of July. Listen to the end of this podcast for hints to the questions. Bill Hannan's autobiography: https://www.modelaircraft.org/sites/default/files/files/HannanWilliamCBill.pdf P...2020-06-261h 20
Free Flight FanaticEpisode 7 - Diels Engineering: Scale Rubber Free Flight KitsDon’t forget to email John your answer to the trivia question! Email is: freeflyingfanatic@gmail.com John sits down with Dave Diels, purveyor of fine scale rubber powered free flight kits. His repertoire of kits includes rarely modeled Japanese subjects. We talk old school modeling, the trials and tribulations of kit manufacturing, CAD, Corsairs and Thunderbolts. Not to mention Jack Benny and alligators. Enjoy! https://www.dielsengineeringinc.com/ https://www.facebook.com/thegreatesthobbyshop/ Jack goes Into the vault (1961) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgqj6PW0pR8 N...2020-05-311h 42
The Numinous PodcastTNP82- The Eclipse The Gleaners And Ruben And IThis is a gentle little episode. It's just a recording of me and my husband, Ruben, musing about appropriate rituals for the upcoming solar eclipse. The conversation meanders to ecological costs, the workers and the strangers, capitalism, extinction, co-parenting, the meaning of "shadow work", fine art in Paris, and how gleaning points to a way of living together that we each really value.
In the end, we do sort of come up with some ritual observances to mark the eclipse.
Things we mention:
John O'Donohue's Grace Before Meals
Daniel Quinn's essay, "...2017-08-2133 min