This week, The Rising Tide Foundation’s Nicholas Jones was invited to speak on Ethiopian TV’s Oromia Broadcasting Network in order to share his expertise as an African analyst shedding light on the manipulation of media narratives surrounding the events in Ethiopia and Africa more broadly. Nicholas discusses the value of China’s Belt and Road Initiative…
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Statecraft in Modern China: From Sun Yat-sen to the New Silk Road
Many citizens in both the west and east still find themselves trapped under a set of assumptions that presumes Chinese and American cultures arise from two opposing and incompatible worlds of politics, economics and culture. In this Rising Tide Foundation lecture, Dr. Quan Le shatters that belief by introducing the history, philosophy and political economic…
China and the Founding of the United States
It has become too easy for people to presume that no two cultures could be so far removed as the United States from China. However, in this Rising Tide Foundation lecture, Dr. David Wang debunks that popular belief by showcasing the fruits of many years of research into a dimension of American history too often…
Kennedy and the New Frontier
In this Rising Tide Foundation lecture delivered as a sequel to last week’s Franklin Roosevelt’s Republican Grand Design, historian Pascal Chevrier introduces the figure of John F. Kennedy from several valuable frames of reference: His family traditions, his experience in the military during WW2, the geopolitical world in which he lived, his anti-imperial vision and…
Dodecahedral Observatory Update-Mise à jour de l’observatoire dodécaédrique [Patrick Cyr Interview]
In this video featuring french and english subtitles, Patrick Cyr and Matthew Ehret discuss the importance of the golden section in biology, physics, art and astronomy with an update on Patrick’s nearly-completed new observatory inspired by Kepler’s model of the Solar System. Our previous video featuring this exciting project can be found here. Dans cette…
The Golden Section and Astronomy: Observatory Construction Update with Patrick Cyr
How does astronomy relate to an appreciation of life and how do both relate to the golden section? In this short video the Rising Tide Foundation’s Matthew Ehret and classical painter/astronomer Patrick Cyr discuss the driving intention and philosophy behind the construction of a new dodecahedral observatory and the importance of the Golden Section in…
Optical Biophysics, Galaxy Formation and You
Is the universe living or dead? Is living matter just an isolated cased of anti-entropy within an otherwise entropic universe, slowly dying a heat death? Is space empty or saturated with an animating principle? Are the laws of the macro domain truly separate from the atomic domain or are there unifying principles that unite both…
Franklin Roosevelt’s Republican Grand Design
In this Rising Tide Foundation lecture (the first of a two part series), Pascal Chevrier introduces the figure of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt from multiple dimensions: Family history, childhood, his philosophy of statecraft, his entry into politics, battles with polio and his emergence as a world leader who fought a multi level war with powerful…
A City on a Hill: Winthrop’s Grand Design
In this Rising Tide Foundation lecture, Sam Labrier introduces the international geopolitical environment during a time of global upheaval in the early 17th century as platonic humanists in Europe sought more fertile soil far removed from the corruption of the old world wherein a new type of society could be founded upon republican principles of…
WHY Russia Saved the United States: The Forgotten History of a Brotherhood
Why did Russia’s Czar Alexander II deploy the Russian navy to the coasts of the USA during the height of the Civil War in 1863? What dynamic shaped the rise of the great rail building traditions across Russia, the USA, Germany, Japan and France in the 19th century and how did this process shape the…
