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Here's one of my favorites from fora.tv...

http://fora.tv/2008/02/04/Nassim_Nic...Crazier_Future
A lecture by Nassim Taleb, the author of The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness. On the topics of randomness, unseen evidence, philosophy, prediction. You'll love it, trust me.

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03-29-2010 , 12:29 AM

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Crazy stuff. Standford's Autonomous Car:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Stanford.../0/u2UaYIHiiOA

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03-30-2010 , 04:22 PM

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Enjoyed it, would like some discussion on it.

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04-02-2010 , 01:32 PM

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBpetDxIEMU

Authors@Google: Steven Pinker

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04-02-2010 , 02:27 PM

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBpetDxIEMU

Authors@Google: Steven Pinker

Edit: This video is NSFW if you dislike "bad words"

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04-02-2010 , 08:32 PM

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Obv this is where they come from:

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

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04-06-2010 , 07:56 PM

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Carl Sagan's Last interview Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBkaP7EY5Us

:tear:

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04-09-2010 , 08:47 PM

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Wubbo Ockels on Time and Gravity

http://www.tedxamsterdam.nl/2009/vid...e-and-gravity/

Very interesting if you liked the talks about illusions by our own mind.

I thought this was complete garbage, but thats just me.

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04-09-2010 , 09:16 PM

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I run this thread

'Stress, Neurodegeneration and Individual Differences' by Robert Sapolsky
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...7554618436978#

He won an award as well
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuzcsaDtRXk

first video is v good tho

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04-25-2010 , 12:17 AM

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Anthony Atala on growing organs. TED talk. Sorry if it's been posted but this is awesome

http://www.wimp.com/growingorgans/

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04-26-2010 , 05:31 PM

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NOVA: Lord of the Ants

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKbj3ZDmvdU

Anyone read his book?

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04-28-2010 , 12:15 AM

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Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Machine - How It Works

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaDRu9sV_zs

this is a must-see.

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04-28-2010 , 03:10 AM

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to go along with the above post, haha never seen this before

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM

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04-29-2010 , 01:25 PM

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr8sV...eature=related

Richard Freyman, lots of interesting videos, this one on thinking.

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04-29-2010 , 02:52 PM

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LIked this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU8PI...eature=related

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04-29-2010 , 06:46 PM

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http://research.microsoft.com/apps/t...uva/index.html

feynman all the way

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05-01-2010 , 12:34 AM

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Playlist of LHC News from a while back to more recent:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_lis...rt_field=added

(not in order i guess)

Last edited by Ryanb9; 05-01-2010 at 12:54 AM.

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05-03-2010 , 03:49 AM

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My overall favorite that has been posted here twice already:

Hubble Deep Field: The Most Important Image Ever Taken

A video that demonstrates, in laymen's terms, how big the universe really is.

i just opened this thread for the first time and recall the story of the first time in 1995 when the HT looked at that blank region of space for 10days. it was a famous astronomer who took his allocated hubble time and decided to use all 10 days of it for a 'useless' endeavor. he was mocked of course ... except until the image came back.

now the announcer says the 2003 version is "the most important image humanity has ever taken"...pretty big swing in sentiment there.

Barron

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05-12-2010 , 04:32 PM

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ok so if you havent seen this classic, do it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTwvkGjsNEY

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05-14-2010 , 05:38 PM

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ok so if you havent seen this classic, do it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTwvkGjsNEY

Thanks for posting this.

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05-24-2010 , 04:13 PM

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ok so if you havent seen this classic, do it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTwvkGjsNEY

This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Lucia Games Office LLC.

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05-30-2010 , 02:57 AM

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yep, youtube is taking them down

found another working one: http://www.fugly.com/videos/4467/pow...ten-video.html

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06-08-2010 , 11:50 AM

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Nice thread, i havent seen this posted on the thread.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCsmz3d4lJ8
Relative size of the planets.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULlR_pkHjUQ
The elegant universe