2012-10-26
Science Made Simple
Sometimes science can be horribly complicated and while some bandy words about without question; others scratch their heads and wonder what on earth they are talking about! Science Made Simple is a series of 15 animated interstitials produced for TVNZ 7, a New Zealand TV station, aimed at demystifying and defining commonly used, but little understood, scientific and technological jargon. The series focuses on the defiition of the sort of words viewers may read in the newspaper, but don't always understand.
Here are three of the interstitials – simply but cleverly animated. So, have you ever wondered what quantum physics is? You can familiarize yourself with terms such as superposition, Schrödinger’s cat, the many worlds theory and then move on to genetics. There you can find out about genetic modification – how transferring a gene from one organism to another can transfer characteristics. Finally you will get to learn about the superconductor – and how it can conduct electricity without losing electricity.
2012-10-24
Barry Schwartz: The paradox of choice
Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz's estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied.
2012-10-23
Dan Gilbert: Why are we happy? Why aren't we happy?
Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that well be miserable if we dont get what we want. Our "psychological immune system" lets us feel truly happy even when things dont go as planned.
Michael Shermer: The pattern behind self-deception
Michael Shermer says the human tendency to believe strange things -- from alien abductions to dowsing rods -- boils down to two of the brain's most basic, hard-wired survival skills. He explains what they are, and how they get us into trouble.
2012-10-19
MANY THINGS WITHOUT GEOGRAPHY - HA HA
Old Sovjet Abandoned Stem Engine Slideshow: JimB’s trip to 9 cities Singapore, Weimar, Borås, Uddevalla, Pitea, Pyongyang, Land's End, New York Mills and South Park Village was created with TripAdvisor TripWow!
Strangestockholm Slideshow
Strangestockholm Slideshow: JimB’s trip to Stockholm was created with TripAdvisor TripWow!
2012-10-18
AD LUCEM
AD LUCEM from Ghislain Avrillon on Vimeo.
AD LUCEM - © BobbyProd - 2012
A film by Ghislain Avrillon
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Official website : http://adlucem.fr/
Director's website : http://mocworld.blogspot.fr/
Facebook Page : http://www.facebook.com/adlucemanimation
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CREDITS :
Director : Ghislain Avrillon
Production : David Alric & Xavier Steenman [BobbyProd]
Sound design & Music : Quentin Andréoulis - Arnaud Laprêt
Animation & Character Design : Nicolas de Gorter - Romain Parizel - Ghislain Avrillon
Concept Art - Storyboard - Background - Animation Clean & Color - FX - Compositing : Ghislain Avrillon
Thanks for watching !
Speed Painting 02
Terra Incognita
final stuff : http://mocworld.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.html#100795184354273250
Working Length : 2 hours.
Music : Uniform Motion.
Galileo
A young inventor, trapped in his home in the clouds, is determined to create a contraption which will enable him to fly. He may not succeed but in the end he has, perhaps, something much more precious.
City Rising
This is a collection of timelapses created by Tom Ryaboi. You would be forgiven for
thinking that he had been doing this for quite some time but he only started doing this a
year ago. With City Rising he wanted to bring others up to his perspective, and from here, show them the city as they have never seen it before — where the boundary between earth and sky is unclear and the placid beauty of the city lays spread out below, quietly humming along.
City Rising takes the viewer straight through rush hour traffic to the highest urban peaks and the clouds above it all, all in under four minutes. It is some of the most astonishing footage that you will see this year.
http://www.kuriositas.com/2012/10/cityrising.html
2012-10-06
One year in 120 seconds
The whole of 2009 in a special "video timelapse". If you want to know how it was made you find the whole story here:
one-year-in-90-seconds/
2012-09-23
Christopher Hitchens Where do christians think they get their morals from?
Christopher Hitchens Where do christians think they get their morals from?
If christians are only good for fear of god then they have no morals.
2012-09-20
The True Core Of The Jesus Myth - Christopher Hitchens - FreedomFest 1
Dinesh D'Souza and Christopher Hitchens go at it again at the 2008 Freedom Fest as the
"Main Event".
FreedomFest is an annual festival where "free minds meet" to celebrate "great books,
great ideas, and great thinkers" in an open-minded society. It is independent, non-partisan,
and not affiliated with any organization or think tank.
Founded and produced by Mark Skousen, since 2002, FreedomFest invites the "best and the
brightest" from around the world to talk, strategize, socialize, and celebrate liberty.
FreedomFest is open to all and is purely egalitarian, where speakers, attendees, and
exhibitors are treated as equals.
http://www.freedomfest.com/
Christopher Hitchens (born 1949) is an author, journalist and literary critic. Currently living
in Washington, D.C., he has been a columnist at Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, World Affairs,
The Nation, Slate, Free Inquiry, and a variety of other media outlets. Hitchens is also a
political observer, whose books — the latest being "God Is Not Great: How Religion
Poisons Everything" — have made him a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits.
In 2009 Hitchens was listed by Forbes magazine as one of the "25 most influential liberals in
U.S. media." The same article noted, though, that he would "likely be aghast to find
himself on this list" and that he "styles himself a radical", not a liberal.
http://www.hitchensweb.com/
Why The Virgin Birth Is Important For Christians - Christopher Hitchens - FreedomFest 2
Dinesh D'Souza and Christopher Hitchens go at it again at the 2008 Freedom Fest as the "Main Event".
FreedomFest is an annual festival where "free minds meet" to celebrate "great books, great ideas, and great thinkers" in an open-minded society. It is independent, non-partisan, and not affiliated with any organization or think tank.
Founded and produced by Mark Skousen, since 2002, FreedomFest invites the "best and the brightest" from around the world to talk, strategize, socialize, and celebrate liberty. FreedomFest is open to all and is purely egalitarian, where speakers, attendees, and exhibitors are treated as equals.
http://www.freedomfest.com/
Christopher Hitchens (born 1949) is an author, journalist and literary critic. Currently living in Washington, D.C., he has been a columnist at Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Slate, Free Inquiry, and a variety of other media outlets. Hitchens is also a political observer, whose books — the latest being "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything" — have made him a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits.
In 2009 Hitchens was listed by Forbes magazine as one of the "25 most influential liberals in U.S. media." The same article noted, though, that he would "likely be aghast to find himself on this list" and that he "styles himself a radical", not a liberal.
http://www.hitchensweb.com/
2012-09-19
Internal Dread - Don't kill the fly
Don't kill the fly from Internal Dread & the Reggaeterians album "Aum Revolution". Recorded by Baby Arrogant in Kathmandu, Nepal 2003.
Hans Rosling: Religions and babies
Hans Rosling had a question: Do some religions have a higher birth rate than others -- and how does this affect global population growth? Speaking at the TEDxSummit in Doha, Qatar, he graphs data over time and across religions. With his trademark humor and sharp insight, Hans reaches a surprising conclusion on world fertility rates.
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