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Alex Randall talking about the Freedom Technology on the Voice of America

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September 17, 2013

Alex Randall on Voice of America – from Russia and Ukraine – download

This is a live report – from Moscow. Alex had just been to visit ANI – the Agency for News and Information – a tiny news enterprise, the first free media business in the new Commonwealth of Independent States. The Soviet Union had ended and the giant TASS news agency was still delivering the “official” news to millions of people in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the nations that were part of the Soviet Empire. ANI was tiny – a handful of people, operating with dial-up 300 baud modems, cassette recorders and they were facing down TASS – armed only with news and information that did not have the government’s official imprint. ANI was the first breath of freedom of information in the former Soviet Union. “This is Alex Randall reporting on the freedom technologies on the Voice of America.”

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R. Buckminister Fuller – A Talk over Lunch

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September 16, 2013

Buckminster Fuller – Talk over Lunch – November 20 -1975 – Download



Margaret Mead answered my question about creativity by saying, “You need to talk to Bucky.”
“But I don’t know him…” I responded.
“Just call him and tell him you want to have lunch. Ask his secretary to send ‘one-of-everything’ in his reprint room, read it all, and read all of his books before you go… Just tell him I said so.”
This was how Margaret organized my education… Call up a wizard, ask for an appointment, then read all their stuff, then have lunch, or stay for a week or camp out at their office. This recording is my conversation lunch with Bucky – November 20, 1975.
“How do you feel when you find out that someone else is developing one of your ideas?”
“Intense relief!” he answered.

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Margaret Mead discussing Social Structures

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September 6, 2013

Margaret Mead – Social Structures – Download

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Margaret Mead talking about Field Research

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Margaret Mead – President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science – Download

It is 1976, Margaret Mead is President of American Association for the Advancement of Science. She took the occasion of her keynote address to talk about field research and what Anthropologists do in their research. February 20, 1976.

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Alex Randall talking about the Freedom Technology

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September 5, 2013

Alex Randall talking about Freedom Technology – Download

The Berlin wall had just been pulled down. The Soviet Union had collapsed. The absence of totalitarianism does not automatically give rise to democracy. How can Americans stimulate the formation of democratic institutions in these countries where freedom of thought had been so restricted, where every typewriter and copy machine was state property? Send them computers! We created the East west Foundation to solicit donations of used computer hardware from Americans, refurbish them, consolidate whole systems and distribute them to organizations that would help build a Civil Society. This is Alex Randall as Keynote speaker at the COMDEX computer trade show in 1991.

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Alex Randall musing on Sapiential Circles

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September 4, 2013

Alex Randall Musing on Sapiential Circles – Download

Where do novel ideas come from? How do the move through society? What is the Diffusion of Innovation?What role does the second person hearing a novel idea play? How can this process be stimulated and enhanced?

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Alex4 reading aloud – The Walrus and the Carpenter

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September 1, 2013

Alexander Randall 4th reading aloud – The Walrus and the Carpenter – Download

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Alex4 Reading from Tennyson’s Ulysses

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Alexander Randall 4th – Reading – Ulysses – download

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Ocean Waves Ambience

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Ocean Waves on the Rocks – Download

Ambience. It is all about the sound of nature. This is an hour of the ocean waves crashing on the rocks at Beavertail Rhode Island. Recorded in 1972

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Cow Bell Orchestra

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Cow Bell Orchestra – Swiss Alps 1973 – MP3

Spring of 1973… Just finished recording the interview with Albert Hofmann… Driving through the Swiss Alps. In a valley with no cars, nor houses, nor any signs of the outside world, there are hundreds of cows… each cow has a bell around its neck and each bell is a different size, as they move, the bells ring. Is it a symphony, or cacophony? Is it chaos or is there a melody? This is an hour of the cow bell symphony…. Very relaxing.

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Alex4 reading Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky

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AR4 Reading the Jabberwocky – Download

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Alex4 reading Lewis Carroll’s Hunting of the Snark

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AR-4-Reading – Complete Hunting of the SNARK – Download

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Alex4 Reading Shel Silverstein’s Trash Out

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AR-4-Reading – Shel Silverstein Trash Out – Download

Alex4 loved to read to children. He read to Edie and I when we were young and he read to all of our kids. This is one of his favorite poems.

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