1st collector for John Pilger: The War You Don’t See
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The War You Don’t See is a worthwhile documentary by journalist John Pilger about how the media portray and to some extent are complicit in propagating wars. Continue reading →
1st collector for Cory Doctorow on Kids And The Impact Of Technology
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Canadian blogger, journalist, and science fiction author talks about growing up with technology and the impact of technology on today's youth.
TEDxObserver - Cory Doctorow
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A Skinner box that trains you to under-value your privacy: how do we make kids care about online privacy?
IFS fractal
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1st collector for Mandelbox and Flying Lights
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Animation was rendered using Mandelbulber 0.991
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Harvard course: Justice (Political philosophy)
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If you have around eleven hours to spare, you might enjoy the course from Harvard on justice within the framework of political philosophy. Continue reading →
The Morality of Murder | Harvard Philosophy Lec...
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Lecture Description
Part 1 - The Moral Side of Murder: If you had to choose between (1) killing one person to save the lives of five others and (2) doing nothing, even though you knew that five people would die right before your eyes if you did nothing—what would you do? What would be the right thing to do? That’s the hypothetical scenario Professor Michael Sandel uses to launch his course on moral reasoning.
Part 2 - The Case for Cannibalism: Sandel introduces the principles of utilitarian philosopher, J
American Philosopher The Film
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Who dares think a nation? What is the status of philosophy in a nation founded by philosophers? What are the risks of practicing philosophy in America? Does America have a "native" philosophy? Eight short films about philosophy in America and American philosophy by Phillip McReynolds.
1st collector for NCSE: Controversies, scientific and otherwise
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What is a scientific controversy? And what isn't? (Think evolution vs. creationism.) NCSE Programs and Policy director Josh Rosenau explores the topic. Where: University of West Virginia. When: 4/5/2011
First Orbit
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A real time recreation of Yuri Gagarin's pioneering first orbit, shot entirely in space from on board the International Space Station. The film combines this new footage with Gagarin's original mission audio and a new musical score by composer Philip Sheppard. For more information visit http://www.firstorbit.org/
1st collector for Zoologger: The only primate that eats its dinne...
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20306-zoologger-the-only-primate-that-eats-its-dinner-twice.html
1st collector for PLANETARY PULL
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Rotating potato or insight into the planet’s deepest secrets? This new map of the Earth’s gravity field, gathered by the European GOCE satellite, shows how, in regions such as Iceland and Indonesia, the planet's internal structure creates large gravitational deviations (yellow and red) from the average.
Credit: ESA/HPF/DLR
1st collector for Хронос / Chronos
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1st collector for Punk In England
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This brand new remastered and extended edition DVD includes live performances and interviews with The Jam, Ian Dury, The Adverts, Madness, The Clash, Secret Affair, The Specials and many more... Following on from the award winning Punk n London comes the post-punk apocalypse that is Punk in England. The second part of Wolfgang Bulds trilogy records the punk phenomena moving from London to the suburbs as the creative energy of punk inspired kids to experiment with new-wave, ska, mod and the rude boy music. T
1st collector for TEDxConcordia - Gad Saad - The consuming instinct
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Marketing prof Gad Saad discusses the biological and evolutionary roots of our consuming instinct.
1st collector for Authors@Google: Douglas Rushkoff
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Douglass Rushkoff spoke to Googlers in Mountain View on November 10, 2010 about his book Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age.
About Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age:
"The debate over whether the Net is good or bad for us fills the airwaves and the blogosphere. But for all the heat of claim and counter-claim, the argument is essentially beside the point: It's here; it's everywhere. The real question is, do we direct technology, or do we let ourselves be directed
1st collector for Authors@Google: Salman Khan
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Salman Khan spoke to Googlers in Mountain View, California on March 15, 2011 about Khan Academy: A World Class Education to Anyone, Anywhere.
Salman Khan is the founder and faculty of Khan Academy http://www.khanacademy.org/ a not-for-profit educational organization. With the stated mission "of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere", the Academy supplies a free online collection of over 2,000 videos on mathematics, history, finance, physics, chemistry, astronomy, and economics.
In late 20
RSA Animate - The Internet in Society: Empoweri...
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Does the internet actually inhibit, not encourage democracy? In this new RSA Animate, Evgeny Morozov presents an alternative take on 'cyber-utopianism' - the seductive idea that the internet plays a largely empancipatory role in global politics.
Exposing some idealistic myths about freedom and technology (during Iran's 'twitter revolution' fewer than 20,000 Twitter users actually took part), Evgeny argues for some realism about the actual uses and abuses of the internet.
1st collector for Psywar Trailer
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Full documentary @ http://www.openfilm.com/videos/psywar
1st collector for Björk - Biophilia - Solar System - "Science Pro...
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Björk - Biophilia - Solar System - "Science Project" - With Michel Gondry - (HD - 720p) - Note: It's Here At Last! The New Instrumental Music From Björk's Upcomeing New 7th Studio Album - "Biophilia" - Never Before Released Complete Launch Version Of The Interactive Book By IPAD! It's A Stunning Specially-Composed Launch Track From Björk, It's The Instrumental Music From Björk's Upcomeing New 7th Studio Album Which Is Expected To Be Released Late Spring/Early Summer, 2011, It's Her New Instrumental Song "Bi
1st collector for Psywar Video - Openfilm
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his film explores the evolution of propaganda and public relations in the United States, with an emphasis on the elitist theory of democracy and the relationship between war, propaganda and class.
Includes original interviews with a number of dissident scholars including Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, Peter Phillips (Project Censored), John Stauber (PR Watch), Christopher Simpson (The Science of Coercion) and others.
A deep, richly illustrated study of the nature and history of propaganda, fe
1st collector for Meet Our Scientist: Briana Pobiner, Dietary Det...
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Meet Briana Pobiner -- human origins researcher and educator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
Briana tells what it's like to be a human evolution expert, why it matters, and how she got here. Digging up early human and animal remains from the field in Africa, performing examination and publishing research about her findings, then enticing and educating the public about the implications are all in a week's work for Dr. Pobiner.
Cornel West on Philosophy and the Funk of Disap...
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A distinguished panel addresses this question on the occasion of the publication of Professor James Miller’s new book, Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche.
Panelists include Simon Critchley, professor of philosophy at The New School for Social Research and author of The Book of Dead Philosophers; Anthony Gottlieb, author of The Dream of Reason, a three-volume history of philosophy; James Miller, professor of political science and chair of the Committee on Liberal Studies at The New School for Social
1st collector for Arab Voices
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The New America Foundation's Middle East Task Force invites you to join a very timely conversation with Dr. James Zogby, building on themes explored in his new book, Arab Voices: What They Are Saying to Us, and Why it Matters.
The book brings into stark relief the myths, assumptions, and biases that hold us back from understanding the people of the Arab and Muslim worlds. It debuts a brand new, comprehensive poll, bringing numbers to life that allow us to base policy and perception on the real world, rathe
1st collector for BBC - Why Was Cairo Calm?
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It tells the story of Sadat's presidency - and how the American TV networks created a fantasy vision of him as a wise democratic leader who had opened up the Egyptian economy to the free market, and was loved by his people for making peace for Israel.
As the film shows - this was a complete illusion. And that when that image was played back to the Egyptian people they were angered and shocked. And the film makes a strong case that it was that anger that contributed to the decision to assassinate the presid
1st collector for National Geographic explains the biology of hom...
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NatGeo explains how one's sexual orientation is determined during embryonic development. They look at how it is possible for one identical twin to be gay and the other to be straight. They address a new branch of Genetics called, Epigenetics. This area of Genetics explores and explains how one's DNA sequence is NOT the only factor in one's phenotypic (actual) outcome. This episode explains how both twins could have the gene for a disorder, yet only one twin actually has the disorder. The same science explai
1st collector for Cracking The Ice on Europa - Alyssa Rhoden (SET...
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Europa's surface records a complex history of geologic activity including fracture systems driven by tidal stress, which varies daily as Europa executes its eccentric orbit. Obliquity, physical libration, and non-synchronous rotation would also contribute to the pattern of tidal stress on Europa. Hence, we can use observed fracture systems to constrain these rotational parameters. Using cycloids and strike-slip faults, Dr. Rhoden has been able to probe Europa's rotation state and uncover the first geologic
1st collector for Malcolm X
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On February 21, 1965 Malcolm X was assassinated by three members of the Newark chapter of the Nation of Islam led by Elijah Muhammed.
The New York Post published this eye witness account by reporter Thomas Skinner on February 22, 1965: http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/malcolm_x_assassinated_on_this_date_in_1965/
1st collector for BBC Horizon (2011) - The Secret World of Pain
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Horizon reveals the latest research into one of the most mysterious and common human experiences - pain.
Breakthroughs have come from studying a remarkable woman in London who has felt no pain at all in her life, a man in the US who cut off his own arm to survive, and three generations of an Italian family who don't feel extremes of temperature.
We witness a new treatment that involves a pioneering computer game 'snow world' that contains the power to banish pain.
And we find how powerfully our moods and
1st collector for BBC Horizon (2011) - What is One Degree?
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Comedian Ben Miller returns to his roots as a physicist to try to answer a deceptively simple question: what is one degree of temperature?
His quest takes him to the frontiers of current science as he meets researchers working on the hottest and coldest temperatures in the universe, and to a lab where he experiences some of the strangest effects of quantum physics - a place where super-cooled liquids simply pass through solid glass. Plus, Ben installs his very own Met office weather station at home.
Ben's
1st collector for BBC Horizon (2010) - What Happened Before the B...
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They are the biggest questions that science can possibly ask: where did everything in our universe come from? How did it all begin? For nearly a hundred years, we thought we had the answer: a big bang some 14 billion years ago.
But now some scientists believe that was not really the beginning. Our universe may have had a life before this violent moment of creation.
Horizon takes the ultimate trip into the unknown, to explore a dizzying world of cosmic bounces, rips and multiple universes, and finds out wh
1st collector for BBC Horizon (2010) Is Seeing Believing?
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Horizon explores the strange and wonderful world of illusions - and reveals the tricks they play on our senses and why they fool us.
We show how easy it is to trick your sense of taste by changing the colours of food and drink, explain how what you see can change what you hear, and see just how unreliable our sense of colour can be.
But all this trickery has a serious purpose. It's helping scientists to create a new understanding of how our senses work - not as individual senses, but connected together.
BBC Horizon (2011) - What is Reality?
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There is a strange and mysterious world that surrounds us, a world largely hidden from our senses. The quest to explain the true nature of reality is one of the great scientific detective stories.
It starts with Jacobo Konisberg talking about the discovery of the Top quark at Fermilab. Frank Wilceck then featured to explain some particle physics theory at his country shack using bits of fruit. Anton Zeilinger showed us the double slit experiment and then Seth Lloyd showed us the worlds most powerful quantu
The Strange Powers of the Placebo Effect
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A look at the many strange effects of placebos.
Created by:
Daniel Keogh - http://www.twitter.com/ProfessorFunk
Luke Harris - http://www.lukeharrisgraphics.com
Sources:
Ben Goldacre's book 'Bad Science' has an excellent chapter on placebos
http://www.badscience.net/
The Wikipedia page on Placebos is pretty excellent too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo
Radiohead - Lotus Flower
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Video for 'Lotus Flower' from The King of Limbs
Produced and Directed by Garth Jennings
Choreographed by Wayne McGregor
Director of Photography- Nick Wood
Editor- Leila Sarraf
http://www.thekingoflimbs.com | http://www.radiohead.com
1st collector for Provost Lecture - Carl Zimmer: Darwin, From Bir...
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In celebration of Charles Darwin's birthday, Professor Zimmer discussed the work of one of Darwin's great followers, the late Stony Brook University biologist and faculty emeritus George Williams, who died in September 2010. The internationally renowned Williams demonstrated how natural selection could help make sense of every stage in the lives of all living things, including humankind — from birth through childhood to adulthood and finally old age and death. As a result of these seminal ideas, an importan
1st collector for TEDxCaltech - Michelle Feynman and Christopher ...
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Michelle Feynman is the daughter of Richard Feynman. A graduate of Art Center College of Design, Michelle is a freelance photographer and spends most of her days taking pictures. She is perhaps best known as the editor of, "Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman," a collection of letters to and from her father.The book includes an introduction by Michelle in which she describes what it was like to grow up as the daughter of one of the world's best-known phys
1st collector for Cognitive Science C102 - Lecture 2
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Scientific Approaches to Consciousness
RSA: Steven Pinker – Language as a Window into ...
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Steven Pinker shows us how the mind turns the finite building blocks of language into infinite meanings Continue reading →
1st collector for Berkeley - Cognitive Science C102 - Lecture 1
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Scientific Approaches to Consciousness
James Randi's Challenge to Homeopathy Manufactu...
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To expose a scam industry that endangers and rips off millions of consumers a year, world-renowned conjuror, escape artist, and skeptic James Randi has put one million dollars on the line.
http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/jref-news/1208-feb5video.html
1st collector for Clapping music - Steve Reich
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Lee Marvin and Angela Dickinson perform Steve Reich's minimal piece 'Clapping Music'. Idea, George Manak, Editing Peter van der Ham. 2005
1st collector for Conversations with History: Behavioral Economics
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Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Professor Richard H.
Thaler for a discussion of behavioral economics. Professor Thaler discusses theory in economics, how observed human behavior points to anomalies that contradict what theory predicts will happen, and the implications of behavioral economics for public policy including its contribution to understanding the 2008 economic collapse and to shaping future regulation.
The State of Wikipedia
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The State of Wikipedia not only explores the rich history and inner-workings of the web-based encyclopedia, but it's also a celebration of its 10th anniversary. With more than 17 million articles in over 270 languages, Wikipedia has undoubtedly become one of the most visited and relied upon sites on the web today.
The fourth video in our the "State of" series, JESS3 is proud to release The State of Wikipedia as our first video of 2011. And, as if it weren't good enough, the video features none other than
1st collector for EteRNA
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EteRNA is Flash-based folding game, like Fold It, that enlists users to fold RNA for optimized versions, which can then tested in the lab. Continue reading →
Evolution: How We Know it Happened & Why it Mat...
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A Skeptic video on YouTube with Dr. Donald Prothero: The hottest cultural controversy of 2005 was the Intelligent Design challenge to the theory of evolution, being played out in classrooms and courtrooms across America.
Evolution: How We Know it Happened & Why it Mat...
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THE HOTTEST CULTURAL CONTROVERSY OF 2005 was the Intelligent Design challenge to the theory of evolution, being played out in classrooms and courtrooms across America. The crux of the argument made by proponents of Intelligent Design is that the theory of evolution is in serious trouble. They claim that the evidence for evolution is weak, the gaps in the theory are huge, and that these flaws should be taught to students. In this brilliant synthesis of scientific data and theory, Occidental College geologist
1st collector for Three Views of Carl Sagan
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In this Skeptics Distinguished Lecture Series talk at Caltech from 1999, three science biographers take an illuminating look back over the life and legacy of one of the 20th Century's most celebrated astronomers.
First, Michael Shermer analyzes Carl Sagans career to test common claims (such as the idea that Sagans popularizing interfered with his scientific research). Shermer reveals the true nature of the so-called Sagan Effect.
Then, William Poundstone (author of Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos) provi
World's Smallest Periodic Table
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We etch a tiny periodic table onto a hair belonging to chemistry Professor Martyn Poliakoff. See more at http://www.periodicvideos.com/
1st collector for New Doritos Super Bowl Commercial is Causing a ...
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An entry in the Doritos and Pepsi MAX "Crash the Super Bowl" contest is already creating quite an uproar. The advertisement is titled "Feed Your Flock" and shows a priest praying to God and asking Him how he can keep parishioners from leaving the church.
The commercial shows a priest praying when he receives a divine message telling him to replace the Holy Communion wafers with Doritos.
The wine that represents the blood of Christ is replaced with Pepsi MAX. The commercial ends with a line of parishion
1st collector for Berkeley: History 5 - 28: The Past in the Present
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European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present
1st collector for History 5 - 27: Remaking Europe East and West: ...
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European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present
Gary Numan – Cars
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“Cars” is a 1979 pop music song by UK artist Gary Numan, and was released as a single from the album The Pleasure Principle. It reached the top of the charts in several countries, and today is considered a new … Continue reading →
Gary Numan – Cars
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“Cars” is a 1979 pop music song by UK artist Gary Numan, and was released as a single from the album The Pleasure Principle. It reached the top of the charts in several countries, and today is considered a new … Continue reading →
Authors@Google: Leonard Mlodinow
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Professor Leonard Mlodinow visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book, "The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives". This event took place on May 22, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. For more information about Prof. Mlodinow, please visit http://www.its.caltech.edu/~len/
In The Drunkard's Walk, acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us how randomness, change, and probability reveal a tremendous amount about our daily lives, and how we misunderstand
1st collector for PIXELS OLD SCHOOL
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Amazing Pixels Video for Old School Geeks!
1st collector for The Darwin Debate
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Melvyn Bragg and a panel of scientists debate what Charles Darwin's theory of evolution tells us about ourselves and human society. Filmed in at the Linnean Society - the world's oldest biological society - in Piccadilly, London.
Panel:
Steven Pinker, professor of psychology at MIT
Meredith Small, Cornell professor of anthropology
Steve Jones, biologist and a professor of genetics and head of the biology department at University College London
Sir Jonathan Miller, theatre and opera director, neurologist, a
