Matt Ridley on the evolution of prosperity
http://c-spanvideo.org/program/id/226280

1996 News Carl Sagan's death
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCVdWkNHTaA

Into the universe with Stephen Hawking-Theory of Everything

http://wiki.rational-skepticism.org/...ideoCollection

have fun

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IMO

excavated ant colony.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyBf3GcGX64

a must-see imo

Darwins Beetle
http://www.wimp.com/darwinsbeetle/

Up is down
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbg...969_shortfilms

John Conway: "Free Will and Determinism in Science and Philosophy"
http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/fl...ree_will.shtml

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The evolution of life, on a wall.
"A wall-painted animation created by the street artist Blu tries to illustrate the history of the universe since the big bang, with a particular focus on the evolution of life on Earth."

thats awesome

A+, ty for posting

Homeopathic doctors. (parody)
http://www.wimp.com/homeopathicdoctors/

Through The Wormhole: Is there A Creator pt 1/5 (Morgan Freeman Documentary: 9/6/2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUW61C_0uow

Iv only seen the second half of the above posted documentary in full, seemed alright. Here's a list of all of the episodes in the series if your interested, let me know if they are any good / which ones are worth a view.

Is There a Creator?
The Riddle of Black Holes
Is Time Travel Possible?
What Happened Before the Beginning?
How Did We Get Here?
Are We Alone?
What Are We Made Of?
Beyond the Darkness


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thanks for the link. watching now

I'm guessing this is in here already but I'm not sure:

Kim Peek "The Real Rain Man"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0lVd...ext=1&index=19

Newest richarddawkins.net video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

please do not comment on this video as it will spoil it for others,

Video about vacuum trains that I thought was pretty fascinating:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03kVU2FYl6U

crossposted in the technologies that will change the world thread.

subscribing

sone cool stuff, TYTY

Camera attached to rocket booster, fast forward to 1:50

http://www.wimp.com/rocketbooster/

Not sure if this has been posted: lots of great Nova programs you can watch online are here.

Also, everyone should be watching Wonders of the Solar System, an incredible series that's airing right now on the Science Channel. It's hosted by Brian Cox, and the first few episodes have been incredibly good. I believe it was originally a BBC series. I don't know if it's posted online anywhere, but it's airing on Wednesday nights in the U.S.

bleh, lame?

Pretty much a smp video jackpot for computer people:

http://www.butterscotch.com/show/Lab-Rats

I've been having a very strong craving for science in recent months and it's a craving I've never really had before in my life.

I was never in to school, always just slacked off and did nothing in class, waiting to go home. After failing my freshmen year and being moved to an alternative school my second freshmen year I put forth a bit more effort cause I connected with some of the teachers but still slacked off. Got my GED after a couple years there.

After school I was regularly interested in learning new things but only casually in science I guess ... I think I'm sort of having a bit of a mid life crisis or something. ... or maybe just a blip of one? I'm 28.

I was reading a chapter from the poker blueprint on part time poker and one of the things said really kind of struck me and I've been mulling over for a month or so I think.

It's a chapter on knowing when to move up in limits, and it talks about how you should be really aggressive when you're young to try to reach the higher stakes, and how you shouldn't get complacent and be content to grind out mediocre profits at lower stakes. And it says this



This is pretty ****ing scary to me imo. I don't want to get old and complacent. I don't want to lose the yearning, the desire to learn new things. So I think I think I'm going to dive into stuff and try to expand my mind imo.

I really don't want to get old



... so a bit tl;dr


I just started watching Carl Sagan's cosmos. Really really good so far. Definitely fills the intellectual craving I've been having. I think that craving not only comes from where I'm at in my life right now, but also from ****ing television. There's just so much god damn ****ing crap on tv. I can't ****ing stand it. So you think you can dance. Are you smarter than a fifth grader. balkjd pajkd;asfkljasd;fkljasd f

wtf is all this god damn bull****? It's making me ****ing dumb and god damn apathetic for ****'s sake. There's got to be more to life than this god damn ****ing crap.


so tl;dr, getting into Sagan, gonna check out some other vids ITT, and I think I'm even going to ponder going to college for some kind of science courses or something.