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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Unbelieveable!! Whole gecko rapidly eaten by ants!


Unbelieveable!! Whole gecko rapidly eaten by ants!
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Unbelievable these tiny little devils. Whatever we forget on the kitchen table, these guys take it. Now we tried it with a dead gecko we found in garden and an observation camera.

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Berkeley: History - Lecture 25: The Failure of Politics


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European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present

Berkeley: History - Lecture 24: The Russian Revolution


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European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present

Berkeley: History - Lecture 23: The Great War: Its Causes, Course


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European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present

Berkeley: History - Lecture 22: European Imperialism at its Zenith


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European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present

Berkeley: History - Lecture 21: Politics, Culture, and Society


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European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present

Berkeley: History - Lecture 20: Making and Reforming Nation States


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Berkeley: History - Lecture 19: Science, Medicine and Religion


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European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Bert Haanstra - Glas (1958)


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Glass (Dutch: Glas) is a 1958 Dutch short documentary film by director and producer Bert Haanstra. The film won the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject in 1959. The entire film is about the glass bottle industry

Bert Haanstra - The Zoo (1961)


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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

BBC: Five minutes with Richard Dawkins


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Celebrities and news-makers get grilled in exactly five minutes by Matthew Stadlen in a series for the BBC News website.

This week, evolutionary biologist, atheist and author Richard Dawkins talks about death, being good and the point of life.

Ska Cubano - piel canela


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The Vandals - "Hang Myself From The Tree" and "A Gun For Christmas"


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Friday, November 19, 2010

Riz Khan - Are we living in the end times?


Riz Khan - Are we living in the end times?
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Is the world ignoring the signs of the so-called "end times"? Renowned philosopher and critic, Slavoj Zizek, explains what he thinks is causing the downhill slide, and points to the faltering economy, global warming and deteriorating ethnic relations as evidence.

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

The Tenth Parallel: The Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam


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Award-winning investigative journalist Eliza Griswold discusses one of the richest, though often contentious, ideological battlegrounds in current world culture--the meeting of Christianity and Islam across Africa and Asia--as described in her book, The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam.

The tenth parallel--the line of latitude seven hundred miles north of the equator--is a geographical and ideological front line where Christianity and Islam collide. More than ha

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Authors@Google: Jeff Goodell


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Right now, a group of scientists is working on ways to minimize the catastrophic impact of global warming. But they're not designing hybrids or fuel cells or wind turbines. They're trying to lower the temperature of the entire planet - and fast. That takes imagination, inventiveness and the implementation of ideas that seem like plots ripped from zany Sci-Fi movies. It may sound outrageous, but these forward-thinking few are building huge contraptions that suck CO2 from the air, machines that brighten cloud

Silestone -- 'Above Everything Else'


Silestone -- 'Above Everything Else'
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Catty Biomechanics


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Nicholas Wade, in the New York Times, reports on a cool study in Science on how cats drink, and more specifically how they use their tongue to do so: Writing in the Thursday issue of Science, the four engineers report that the cat’s lapping method depends on its instinctive ability to calculate the point at [...]

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Mark Vonnegut: Just Like Someone without Mental Illness


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Mark Vonnegut talks about his new memoir Just Like Someone without Mental Illness Only More So, a follow-up to the acclaimed The Eden Express.

Here is Mark’s childhood spent as the son of a struggling writer in a house that eventually held seven children after his aunt and uncle died and left four orphans. And here is the world after Mark was released from a mental hospital to find his family forever altered. At the late age of twenty-eight—and after nineteen rejections—Mark was accepted to Harvard Medical

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Martin Luther King, "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam"


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Speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. against the Vietnam War. Audio.

This speech was released by Black Forum records, a subsidiary of Motown, and went on to win a Grammy in 1970 for the Best Spoken Word Recording.

Excerpts of a Sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church on April 30, 1967.

The Science Network: The Great Debate


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On November 6th, 2010 a panel of renowned scientists, philosophers, and public intellectuals gathered to discuss what impact evolutionary theory and advances in neuroscience might have on traditional concepts of morality. If human morality is an evolutionary adaptation and if neuroscientists can identify specific brain circuitry governing moral judgment, can scientists determine what is, in fact, right and wrong?

The Science Network: The Great Debate Panel


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A lively panel discussion between Steven Pinker, Sam Harris, Patricia Churchland, Lawrence Krauss, Simon Blackburn, Peter Singer. If human morality is an evolutionary adaptation and if neuroscientists can identify specific brain circuitry governing moral judgment, can scientists determine what is, in fact, right and wrong?

See the opening talks by the participants @ http://thesciencenetwork.org/programs/the-great-debate

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Githead - Take Off


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Music: By Githead Album: Landing

Video Filmed and Directed by Malka Spigel and Ben Newman
Edited by: Ben Newman

Thursday, November 4, 2010

NASA - Evolution of the Universe


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Astrophyscists and astonomers will use the James Webb Space Telescope to unravel mysteries about the evolution of the Universe. The Webb telscope will help observe how the first stars gathered into the first galaxies, and those first galaxies collided and merged into larger galaxies and evolved into the Universe we see today.

NASA - Galaxy Evolution


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Astrophysicists and astronomers will use the James Webb Space Telescope to see further than Hubble to witness the origin and development of galaxies.

NASA - Colliding Galaxies


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NASA - Planetary Evolution


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A fully produced video about planetary evolution and how the Webb Telelscope's ability to see inside dense clouds of gas and dust will help us better understand solar system formation and evolution.

Fado aims for world heritage status


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Portuguese Fado music could soon be officially recognised by UNESCO as part of the world's "intangible cultural heritage."

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Science Saved My Soul


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3D Moving Images Possible With New Hologram Technology


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Traditional holograms are printed much in the same way a poster or a painting are, in that once the image is printed on a surface, it is permanent. But a technological breakthrough at the University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences has brought the possibility of full color, rewritable, holographic displays and televisions one step closer to reality.

RSA: After New Atheism: Where now for the God debate?


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In this RSA Event with the New Humanist Magazine Marilynne Robinson, Roger Scruton, Jonathan Rée and Laurie Taylor ask: should the debate over the role of religion in society take a different tone?