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Friday, October 29, 2010
Berkeley: History 5 - Lecture 18: Revolution and Reform, 1815-1851
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Photographers@Google: Rick Sammon
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Join Rick Sammon for thoughts and musings on lighting, HDR, and his life as a Canon "Painter of Light."
How to capture and control light to make the best digital photographs.
Light is the essence of photography. Follow master photographer Rick Sammon at dawn in Kenya or nighttime in Miami as he demonstrates how to achieve the best composition with the available light, which camera settings are best suited to existing conditions, and how to obtain the best exposures in challenging situations. Sammon shows h
Thursday, October 28, 2010
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Balafon master, Famoro Dioubate performs for congahead.com
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Famoro Dioubate from Guinenea visited the congahead.com studio to perform a tune on the African mallet instrument balafon.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Watch a Mars Rover Under Construction – LIVE! | Universe Today
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http://bit.ly/bdWOC5 If you are tired of the drama of your favorite reality TV show, it might be time to switch things up a bit. The most recent reality show, available ad free on the internet, features a spunky robot and a huge cast of characters. The spunky robot is Curiosity, the name of the Mars Science Laboratory rover. The characters are all wearing white clean room “bunny suits,” so it will be difficult to tell them apart. Surely, if you spend enough time watching you’ll be able to discern who’s who.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
CBC The Fifth Estate: The Denial Machine: Who is keeping the global warming "debate" alive?
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In the past few years, a hurricane has engulfed the debate about global warming. This scientific issue has become a rhetorical firestorm with science pitted against spin and inflammatory words on both sides. This documentary shows how fossil fuel corporations have kept the global warming debate alive long after most scientists believed that global warming was real and had potentially catastrophic consequences. It shows that companies such as Exxon Mobil are working with top public relations firms and using
CBC The Fifth Estate: The Denial Machine
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In the past few years, a hurricane has engulfed the debate about global warming. This scientific issue has become a rhetorical firestorm with science pitted against spin and inflammatory words on both sides. The Denial Machine explores how the arguments supported by oil companies were adopted by policy makers in both Canada and the U.S. and helped form government policy.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
10 Questions for Neil deGrasse Tyson
10 Questions for Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Tyson is the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History and host of NOVA scienceNOW. Here he answers reader questions and talks about the universe and how he'd save the world.
How TED Connects the Idea-Hungry Elite
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Inside the World's MOST EXCLUSIVE (and Most Accessible) CLUB with SPECIAL GUESTS including
Elizabeth Gilbert • Richard Branson • Jamie Oliver • Malcolm Gladwell • Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala • Barry Schwartz • Ken Robinson • Sarah Silverman • Bill Clinton • David Byrne • Bill Gates • Craig VenterJill • Bolte Taylor • Dave Eggers • Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy • Sunitha Krishnan • Tony Robbins • Julia Sweeney • Isabel Allende • E.O. Wilson • and the chief himself, Chris Anderson!
The other day, I got an email from a ne
TED: David Byrne sings "(Nothing But) Flowers"
TED: David Byrne sings "(Nothing But) Flowers"
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David Byrne sings the Talking Heads' 1988 hit, "(Nothing But) Flowers." He's accompanied by Thomas Dolby and string quartet Ethel, who made up the TED2010 house band.
Tariq Ali - What We Can Learn From Terrorists
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http://bit.ly/bBtdov Tariq Ali argues that terrorists have changed the world in ways that serve their own religious, political and ideological aims. They've forced the West to compromise on the very foundations of liberal democracy and wind back hard-won freedoms in the name of security.
Speaking at the recent Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Ali provocatively suggests that the terrorists' actions pale in comparison to the West's retributive "Wars on Terror". In fact he calls these wars "State Terrorism" of wh
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
The Poetry of Science: Richard Dawkins and Neil deGrasse Tyson
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"The Poetry of Science: Discussions of the Beauty of Science."
Two of science's luminaries converse on the beauty of science. Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and host of NOVA and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins will explore the wonders of the Cosmos and of Life, its origins, its inspirations, and why science is not just an option, it is the only reality we possess.
Visual Imagery and The Blind: Oliver Sacks - The Mind's Eye
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Dr. Sacks on how blind people may develop even better visual imagery than the sighted. He talks about his new book, THE MIND'S EYE.
Losing Stereo: Oliver Sacks - The Mind's Eye
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Dr. Sacks on how losing one eye affects stereo vision and depth perception. From his new book, THE MIND'S EYE.
Living in a Half World: Oliver Sacks - The Mind's Eye
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Dr. Sacks talks about the uncanny sense of nothingness to one side after losing his sight in one eye. From his new book, THE MIND'S EYE.
The Mind's Eye: Oliver Sacks - The Mind's Eye
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Dr. Sacks talks about how we visualize internally, and whether imagery is necessary for thought. From his new book, THE MIND'S EYE.
Face Blindness: Oliver Sacks - The Mind's Eye
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Dr. Sacks talks about people (including himself) who have neurological difficulty recognizing faces, and how they adapt and compensate. From his new book, THE MIND'S EYE.
Persistence of Vision: Oliver Sacks - The Mind's Eye
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Dr. Sacks talks about his own eye cancer and the strange visual effects it causes. From his new book, THE MIND'S EYE.
I Heart Stereo: Oliver Sacks - The Mind's Eye
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Dr. Sacks on the joys of stereoscopy and three-dimensional vision. From his new book, THE MIND'S EYE.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Berkeley: History 5 - Lecture 16: The Industrial Revolution
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Jan Švankmajer: Historia naturae
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short animation by famous Czech animator Jan Svankmajer, 1967
TED: Heribert Watzke - The brain in your gut
TED: Heribert Watzke - The brain in your gut
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Did you know you have functioning neurons in your intestines -- about a hundred millions of them? Food scientist Heribert Watzke tells us about the "hidden brain" in our gut and the surprising things it makes us feel.
Monday, October 18, 2010
TED: Jessica Jackley - Poverty, money -- and love
TED: Jessica Jackley - Poverty, money -- and love
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What do you think of people in poverty? Maybe what Jessica Jackley once did: "they" need "our" help, in the form of a few coins in a jar. The co-founder of Kiva.org talks about how her attitude changed -- and how her work with microloans has brought new power to people who live on a few dollars a day.
Saturday, October 16, 2010
The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See (part 1 of 8)
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1.8 million views for an old codger giving a lecture about arithmetic? What's going on? You'll just have to watch to see what's so damn amazing about what he (Albert Bartlett) has to say.
I introduce this video to my students as "Perhaps the most boring video you'll ever see, and definitely the most important." But then again, after watching it most said that if you followed along with what the presenter (a professor emeritus of Physics at Univ of Colorado-Boulder) is saying, it's quite easy to pay attenti
Friday, October 15, 2010
Homemade Spacecraft
Homemade Spacecraft
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RSA: Steven Pinker - The Stuff of Thought: Language as a window into human nature
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For Steven Pinker, the brilliance of the mind lies in the way it uses just two processes to turn the finite building blocks of our language into infinite meanings. The first is metaphor: we take a concrete idea and use it as a stand-in for abstract thoughts. The second is combination: we combine ideas according to rules, like the syntactic rules of language, to create new thoughts out of old ones.
Note - This video contains strong language.
RSA: Sir Ken Robinson - Changing Paradigms
RSA: Sir Ken Robinson - Changing Paradigms
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Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson will ask how do we make change happen in education and how do we make it last?
RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms
RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms
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This animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA's Benjamin Franklin award.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
RSA: Kathryn Schulz - Being Wrong
RSA: Kathryn Schulz - Being Wrong
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Kathryn Schulz visits the RSA to present a tribute to human creativity and the way we generate and revise our beliefs about ourselves and the world.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
TEDx: Mike Pascoe - The Ultimate Gift - Donating your Body to Science
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Mike Pascoe discusses donating your body to science.
TED: Stefano Mancuso - The roots of plant intelligence
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Plants behave in some oddly intelligent ways: fighting predators, maximizing food opportunities ... But can we think of them as actually having a form of intelligence of their own? Italian botanist Stefano Mancuso presents intriguing evidence.
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Chomsky on Humanism II (3/3)
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Chomsky on Humanism II (2/3)
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Chomsky on Humanism II (1/3)
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Friday, October 8, 2010
Consciousness: One of the last great mysteries
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http://bit.ly/c1pDzX Alok Jha introduces a lecture by Christof Koch of the California Institute of Technology on how the brain creates the sensation of consciousness
European Researchers' Night - Physics is Beautiful and Useful
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An overview of medical applications of particle physics, presented by Prof. Ugo Amaldi and Prof. Manjit Dosanjh
European Researchers Night - Astrophysics part 2
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CERN connects to the South Pole to interview members of the IceCube experiment, then connects to NASA for news about the AMS detectors en route for space.
European Researchers Night - Astrophysics part 1
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CERN connects to the Paris Observatory to interview George Smoot, Nobel for Physics 2006, then theoretical physicist Alvaro de Rujula explains the Universe expansion.
CERN roundup of experiments
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Connections to all experiments, after having spent the day hosting teen age students in their control rooms, to leanr the job pf physicist. Steve Goldfarg lauches the "CosmoBet" a worldwide bet on finding dark matter.
Stacey Kramer: The best gift I ever survived
Stacey Kramer: The best gift I ever survived
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Stacey Kramer offers a moving, personal, 3-minute parable that shows how an unwanted experience -- frightening, traumatic, costly -- can turn out to be a priceless gift.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Norman Doidge: Humanity and the Brain
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http://bit.ly/bC3KVa For the launch of the Melbourne Writers Festival 2010, eight authors were asked to reflect on what it means to be human. Best-selling author Norman Doidge explains why knowing where you stand is a prerequisite for being comfortably human. Here he tells the story of Cheryl, a woman who feels like she is constantly falling.
Norman Doidge is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and author. He is on the research faculty at Columbia University's Centre for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. His
Our Plastic Brain: An Update
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http://bit.ly/dgGhDY What is brain plasticity? It's a term that explains how brain functions aren't rigid and set in stone at an early age, but rather are changeable and adaptable. Put simply, an old dog CAN learn new tricks...but they need to apply themselves. It's "use it, or lose it".
In his return to the Brisbane Writers Festival, Norman Doidge gives an update on some of the latest findings relating to brain plasticity. He explains how understanding that the brain can change itself has huge potential f
Norman Doidge On The Brain That Changes Itself
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http://bit.ly/dbov1F The cliche that you can't teach an old dog new tricks may soon be obsolete. The more we learn about the human brain, the more we understand the potential that it has to change, adapt and grow. Traditionally the brain was seen as being like a machine, its neural pathways set in stone from childhood. But new studies have shown that the brain can be trained to recover from strokes or paralysis, lifelong habits can be broken, and aging brains be rejuvenated. Through new experiences and brai
UCTV: Bartók and Mussorgsky
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UC Davis Symphony Orchestra presents Bartók's Violin Concerto (No. 2), featuring violinist Hrabba Atladottir. The program also includes Liadov's "Kikimora" and Mussorgsky's always popular "Pictures from an Exhibition." Music director Christian Baldini conducts. Series: Mondavi Center Presents
Joe Bageant: Redneck America
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http://bit.ly/bQFPaq Joe Bageant is a renowned commentator on the politics of class in the US. His previous novel, "Deer Hunting with Jesus", was turned into a play and an upcoming tv series. His regular online columns have made him a cult hero among political progressives and gonzo-journalism junkies.
Bageant's latest book "Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir" is a coming-of-age story set in post-World War II America in the small white tribes of West Virginia, where a massive social and economic shift from agra
NatGeo: Jane Goodall: A Retrospective
NatGeo: Jane Goodall: A Retrospective
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Jane Goodall has taught the world more about chimpanzees than anyone else in the world. Her dream to study our closest relatives began in 1960 in Gombe Park, Tanzania, and she continues her work to save them today.
Berkeley: History 5 - Lecture 13 - The French Revolution (1789-1792)
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010
TED: Barbara Block - Tagging tuna in the deep ocean
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Tuna are ocean athletes -- fast, far-ranging predators whose habits we're just beginning to understand. Marine biologist Barbara Block fits tuna with tracking tags (complete with transponders) that record unprecedented amounts of data about these gorgeous, threatened fish and the ocean habitats they move through.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Tim Jackson's economic reality check
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As the world faces recession, climate change, inequity and more, Tim Jackson delivers a piercing challenge to established economic principles, explaining how we might stop feeding the crises and start investing in our future.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Friday, October 1, 2010
NatGeo: 5-Foot Penguin Fossil Discovered
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Scientists have unearthed fossilized remains of a five-foot-tall (150-centimeter-tall) penguin in present-day Peru. The 36-million-year-old fossil sheds light on bird evolution, according to National Geographic grantee Julia Clarke.
Michio Kaku speaking about Gliese 581g (Another Earth Like Planet?)
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Michio Kaku speaks with Fox News about the Recent Discovery of an Earth Like Planet in Outer Space! A new member in a family of planets circling a red dwarf star 20 light-years away has just been found. It's called Gliese 581g, and the 'g' may very well stand for Goldilocks. Gliese 581g is the first world discovered beyond Earth that's the right size and location for life
Berkeley: History 5 - Lecture 11 - The Scientific Revolution in Europe
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