The Euro Crisis (Economist Podcast)

The latest on the Euro crisis and the decision for limited debt mutualisation and the beginnings of a banking Union as well as the ECB alllowing for unlimited debt purchases.

The euro crisis

America's Continuing Role in the Middle East (Economist Podcast)

A podcast looking at the need for America to continue to exert an influence in the Middle East.

America and the Middle East

Stream Efterklang's New Album 'Piramida'

Last year I saw Peter Broderick in concert which was in a word amazing. Before the concert though they showed the film for Efterklang's 'An Island' which was brilliant.

Now you can stream their new album here. If you like music tinged with ambience, if you like the music of the north, then you may well like this.

Freakonomics podcast on media bias

Podcast on media bias in the us papers

http://www.freakonomics.com/2012/02/16/how-biased-is-your-media/

Top 50 films (sight and sound poll)

Hundreds of critics give their top film choices to put together a top50 films of all time. From the look of the list most of them don't make it past the sixties.

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news/50-greatest-films-all-time

Helen Gurley Brown - Role of an individual in the sexual revolution

Albert Mohler gives his take on the role of an individual within the cultural shift brought about in the sexual revolution in the person of cosmopolitan writer Helen Gurley Brown.

http://m.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/08/why-the-sexual-revolution-needed-a-sexual-revolutionary/261492/

6 sentences to tell a good story (illustration help)

A post with some advice on God sermon illustrations.

http://pastoralized.com/2011/05/18/3-types-of-effective-sermon-illustrations-and-how-to-use-them/