Giant Squid Dissection - highlights
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d83nSFEoz2A&NR=1

reminds me of the movie independence day

edit: btw, when he talks about the colossal, this is what he means http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09UD7b8lSCo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBdfc...ayer_embedded#

this is a lecture series from Harvard called Justice. im on the first lecture but it seems like a really great introduction to moral and political philosophy.

got it from TED's Best of the Web, basically highlighting great videos from the internet that weren't featured on TED

http://blog.ted.com/2009/12/new_tedcom_feat.php

watched all of these, pretty awesome

I'll be uploading my TTC video series on Quantum Mechanics to my rapidshare account if anyone is interested pm me and I'll send you linkage.

Quantum Mechanics: The Physics of the Microscopic World
Course No. 1240 (24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)

Taught by Benjamin Schumacher
Kenyon College
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin

Course Lecture Titles
1. The Quantum Enigma
2. The View from 1900
3. Two Revolutionaries—Planck and Einstein
4. Particles of Light, Waves of Matter
5. Standing Waves and Stable Atoms
6. Uncertainty
7. Complementarity and the Great Debate
8. Paradoxes of Interference
9. States, Amplitudes, and Probabilities
10. Particles That Spin
11. Quantum Twins
12. The Gregarious Particles
13. Antisymmetric and Antisocial
14. The Most Important Minus Sign in the World
15. Entanglement
16. Bell and Beyond
17. All the Myriad Ways
18. Much Ado about Nothing
19. Quantum Cloning
20. Quantum Cryptography
21. Bits, Qubits, and Ebits
22. Quantum Computers
23. Many Worlds or One?
24. The Great Smoky Dragon

This is such an awesome thread. So long to my free time for the next couple weeks.

BBC's The Secret Life of Chaos

Probably one of the most interesting things I've ever seen.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_lis...4F2AE1160FF884

I really enjoyed this video:

V.S. Ramachandran (the guy who cured phantom limb syndrome): Neurology and the Passion for Art

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NzShMiqKgQ

"Why is it that great works of art seem to have a universal appeal, transcending cultural and geographic boundaries? V.S. Ramachandran, director of UCSD's Center for Brain and Cognition has studied how the brain perceives works of art and thinks he may know the answer to this intriguing question."

At the 46 min mark in this video I'm pretty sure I found an uber fail. How they are doing the cups with food in them and the chick points to the one with food andthe dog goes to that one... umm, the dog can smell that **** form a mile away he knew it was there before you pointed lol

I'm by no measure a fan of david blaine. But his recent TEDMED video on TED was pretty damn sweet (no magic or anything).

I def give him more respect than I did before.

he talks about the methods he tried when trrying to break the record for holding ur breath underwater...and eventually tells you how he did it and what it was like.

Darwin's Darkest Hour
http://video.pbs.org/video/1286437550/

Same story but this is like a movie. Put together very well.

Link:

http://www.ted.com/talks/david_blain...or_17_min.html

More Sapolsky, via ted this time, on the uniqueness of humans: here. Last minute and a half were a motto, perhaps, to live by.

http://www.youtube.com/user/StanfordUniversity

Search for sapolsky, more lectures from stanford, all really great.

Nerdstock:9 lessons and carols for the Godless

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y02qf...x=0&playnext=1

Recorded around Xmas last year at the Hammersmith Apollo. A sort of scientific celebration of science and the universe.
Full line up:
Robin Ince, Richard Dawkins, Brian Cox, Mark Steel, Richard Herring, Shappi Khorsandi, Ben Goldacre, Simon Singh, Barry Cryer and Ronnie Golden, Robyn Hitchcock, Jim Bob and Baba Brinkman.

You can still watch it on iPlayer if your in the UK.

Those requesting the lecture series I posted above:

I should have it recovered by weeks end. My external hard drive crashed and I've been trying to recover all the data on it for the past week. I've been successful in recovering the video series so I just need to re-upload. I'll pm those who requested.

Jonah Lehrer How We Decide

Just started it, on decision making...

waking life (movie)

everyone should watch this, really it is just amazing

obv you missed the edit portion of the blog in which he covers himself. So all's good.

what??

Very interesting science here. I went to look up more from him only to find that Dr. Lange committed suicide a month ago. Sad.

IYO

and plz make a new thread or include smp videos in your post imo.

sorry for pointing out that a brilliant scientist died recently

tool

Daniel Tammet - The Boy With The Incredible Brain

~50 mins total

Crazy stuff:

"Mark Roth: Suspended Animation is within our grasp (TED TALK)"

http://www.ted.com/talks/mark_roth_s...animation.html