2012-12-24
Drew Berry Animations of unseeable biology
We have no ways to directly observe molecules and what they do -- Drew Berry wants to change that. In this talk, he shows his scientifically accurate (and entertaining!) animations that help researchers see unseeable processes within our own cells.
2012-12-21
BABY LEMONADE by SYD BARRET
In the sad town
cold iron hands clap
the party of clowns outside
rain falls in gray far away
please, please, Baby Lemonade
In the evening sun going down
when the earth streams in, in the morning
send a cage through the post
make your name like a ghost
please, please, Baby Lemonade
I'm screaming, I met you this way
you're nice to me like ice
in the clock they sent through a washing machine
come around, make it soon, so alone...
please, please, Baby Lemonade
In the sad town
cold iron hands clap
the party of clowns outside
rain falls in gray far away
please, please, Baby Lemonade
In the evening sun going down
when the earth streams in, in the morning
send a cage through the post
make your name like a ghost
please, please, Baby Lemonade
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2012-12-05
2012-11-27
Sherry Turkle - Connected, but alone
As we expect more from technology, do we expect less from each other? Sherry Turkle studies how our devices and online personas are redefining human connection and communication -- and asks us to think deeply about the new kinds of connection we want to have.
2012-11-24
Consciousness - Explored and Explained
Consciousness is a terrible curse. Or so says a character in screenwriter/director Charlie Kaufman’s Being John Malkovich. Part theater of the absurd and part neuroscience fiction, the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s work captures the splintering between what we perceive and what we feel as our brains grapple with multiple layers of reality. Neuroscientist Giulio Tononi, one of the world’s leading sleep researchers, casts new light on the science of the mind, probing where and how consciousness is generated in the brain. Watch this spellbinding conversation between Kaufman, Tononi, and moderator Alan Alda as they explore and explain the art, science, and mystery of consciousness.
Recorded June 2010; Posted March 2011
2012-11-23
Rob Legato - The art of creating awe
Rob Legato - The art of creating awe
Rob Legato creates movie effects so good they (sometimes) trump the real thing.
In this warm and funny talk, he shares his vision for enhancing reality on-screen in movies like Apollo 13, Titanic and Hugo
Pre-Computer Newspaper Publishing Process 'Newspaper Story' 1950
"Steps in the completion of a newspaper story from recording the incident through the taking & finishing of pictures, writing, editing, setting in type, printing the paper & distributing it are depicted. Produced by Encyclopedia Britannica Films, Inc. in collaboration with Kenneth E. Olson, LL.D, Northwestern University."
Public domain film from the Library of Congress Prelinger Archive, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features, editorials, and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6,580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a day...
General-interest newspapers typically publish stories on local and national political events and personalities, crime, business, entertainment, society and sports. Most traditional papers also feature an editorial page...
A wide variety of material has been published in newspapers, including editorial opinions, criticism, persuasion and op-eds; obituaries; entertainment features such as crosswords, sudoku and horoscopes; weather news and forecasts; advice, food and other columns; reviews of radio, movies, television, plays and restaurants; classified ads; display ads, radio and television listings, inserts from local merchants, editorial cartoons, gag cartoons and comic strips...
Stockholm, Sweden 'Venice of the North' 1936 RKO World on Parade
Stockholm, Sweden "Venice of the North" 1936
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 864,324 in the municipality (2010), 1.4 million in the urban area (2010), and around 2.1 million in the 6,519 km2 (2,517.00 sq mi) metropolitan area (2010). As of 2010, the Stockholm metropolitan area is home to approximately 22% of Sweden's population.
Founded no later than c. 1250, possibly as early as 1187, Stockholm has long been one of Sweden's cultural, media, political, and economic centres. Its strategic location on 14 islands on the coast in the south-east of Sweden at the mouth of Lake Mälaren, by the Stockholm archipelago, has been historically important. Stockholm has been nominated by GaWC as a global city, with a ranking of Beta+. In The 2008 Global Cities Index, Stockholm ranked 24th in the world, 10th in Europe, and first in Scandinavia. Stockholm is known for its beauty, its buildings and architecture, its abundant clean and open water, and its many parks. It is sometimes referred to as Venice of the North.
Stockholm is the site of the national Swedish government, the Parliament of Sweden (riksdagen), the Supreme Court of Sweden (Högsta domstolen), and the official residence of the Swedish monarch as well as the prime minister. Since 1980, the monarch has resided at Drottningholm Palace in Ekerö Municipality outside of Stockholm and uses the Stockholm Palace as his workplace and official residence. The government has its seat in Rosenbad and the parliament in the Parliament House...
Light Physics and Headlights 'White Magic' 1940 General Motors
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Public domain film from the Library of Congress Prelinger Archive,
slightly cropped to remove
uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction
applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction,
clipping reduction, and equalization:
...Mechanics
The earliest headlamps were fuelled by acetylene or oil and were introduced in the late 1880s.
Acetylene lamps were popular because the flame was resistant to wind and rain. The first electric headlamps were introduced in 1898 on the Columbia Electric Car from the Electric Vehicle Company
of Hartford, Connecticut, and were optional. Two factors limited the widespread use of electric
headlamps: the short life of filaments in the harsh automotive environment, and the difficulty of
producing dynamos small enough, yet powerful enough to produce sufficient current.
Rube Goldberg 'Something for Nothing' 1940 GM How Gasoline is Converted to Engine Power
"Cartoonist Rube Goldberg creates a little animation to explain how fuel is converted to
power in the modern automobile engine."
Public domain film from the Library of Congress Prelinger Archive, slightly cropped to
remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction
applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping
reduction, and equalization.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg
Reuben Garrett Lucius Goldberg (July 4, 1883 -- December 7, 1970) was an American
cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer and inventor.
He is best known for a series of popular cartoons depicting complex gadgets that perform
simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways. These devices, now known as Rube Goldberg
machines, are similar to those drawn by W. Heath Robinson in the UK and Storm P in
Denmark. Goldberg received many honors in his lifetime, including a Pulitzer Prize for his
political cartooning in 1948 and the Banshees' Silver Lady Award 1959.
Goldberg was a founding member and the first president of the National Cartoonists
Society, and he is the namesake of the Reuben Award, which the organization awards to
the Cartoonist of the Year. He is the inspiration for various international competitions,
known as Rube Goldberg Machine Contests, which challenge participants to make a
complex machine to perform a simple task.
Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense
This demo from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry, was the buzz of TED. It's a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment.
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Pranav Mistry is a PhD student in the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT's Media Lab. Before his studies at MIT, he worked with Microsoft as a UX researcher; he's a graduate of IIT. Mistry is passionate about integrating the digital informational experience with our real-world interactions.
Some previous projects from Mistry's work at MIT includes intelligent sticky notes, Quickies, that can be searched and can send reminders; a pen that draws in 3D; and TaPuMa, a tangible public map that can act as Google of physical world. His research interests also include Gestural and Tangible Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, AI, Machine Vision, Collective Intelligence and Robotics.
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Pattie Maes was the key architect behind what was once called "collaborative filtering" and has become a key to Web 2.0: the immense engine of recommendations -- or "things like this" -- fueled by other users. In the 1990s, Maes' Software Agents program at MIT created Firefly, a technology (and then a startup) that let users choose songs they liked, and find similar songs they'd never heard of, by taking cues from others with similar taste. This brought a sea change in the way we interact with software, with culture and with one another.
Now Maes is working on a similarly boundary-breaking initiative. Her newly founded Fluid Interfaces Group, also part of the MIT Media Lab, aims to rethink the ways in which humans and computers interact, partially by redefining both human and computer. In Maes' world (and really, in all of ours), the computer is no longer a distinct object, but a source of intelligence that's embedded in our environment. By outfitting ourselves with digital accessories, we can continually learn from (and teach) our surroundings. The uses of this tech -- from healthcare to home furnishings, warfare to supermarkets -- are powerful and increasingly real.
Now Maes is working on a similarly boundary-breaking initiative. Her newly founded Fluid Interfaces Group, also part of the MIT Media Lab, aims to rethink the ways in which humans and computers interact, partially by redefining both human and computer. In Maes' world (and really, in all of ours), the computer is no longer a distinct object, but a source of intelligence that's embedded in our environment. By outfitting ourselves with digital accessories, we can continually learn from (and teach) our surroundings. The uses of this tech -- from healthcare to home furnishings, warfare to supermarkets -- are powerful and increasingly real.
"We like to invent new disciplines or look at new problems, and invent bandwagons rather than jump on them."Pattie Maes, Digital Journal
Mr. Burns Endorses Romney | The Simpsons |
An election eve appeal from Montgomery Burns.
Mr. Burns puts Shamus the dog to the test of choosing
between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
Pratshowen 3
PRATSHOWEN Nytt avsnitt av Debatts pratshow.
I dag om hur meningsfull m an egentligen måste vara på twitter.
Var det närvaron på nätet som gjorde att Obama vann valet?
Och hur personliga får poliser och andra officiella människor vara på twitter?
P3:s Morgan Larsson och GT:s Frida Boisen diskuterar snacket om
snackisarna snackisarna med programledare Sara Wennerblom Arén.
http://www.svtplay.se/klipp/556251/pratshowen-3/?tab=undefined&sida=1
2012-11-15
2012-11-14
Messianska villfarelsen
Messianska villfarelsen
vi kallade honom pastorn.
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han var uppfylld av den mycket vanliga
messianska villfarelsen.
att i psykosen erfara
genomskinlig brinnande
sanning.
och behov att förmedla denna.
och han hade ännu inte trillat ur himlen.
men var på god väg.
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fast nu stod han och skrek rakt in
i ett galler framför en avsomnad ventilationen
i rökrummet på M-86.
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patientradion med sina analoga knapprader
levererade två varianter:
dels P1-prat.
dels P3.
och ovanpå dess musik låg
sjukhusets pratkanal.
-
denna gav olika seminarier typ:
'Betablockerare inom geriatrisk thoraxterapi'.
eller:
'Budgetårets flöde inom slso'.
kanske:
'farmakaterapi kombinerat med KBT inom Psykiatri Sydväst'.
blandat med 'morronpasset' eller 'kvart-i-fem ekot'.
-
det är vanligt att 'höra röster' vid psyk.insuf.
att radion la till två ytterligare gjorde
ingenting bättre.
att pasorn ville höra musiken och inte rösterna
var väl begripligt.
'tyst' skrek han 'tyyst'.
varför han trodde dessa kom ur
ventilationen är okänt.
-
vad vi skrattade.
skönt att få vila från hans frälsningsatacker medan
han befallde mörkret i ventilationen
att tiga.
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sedan var det mat.
eller medicin.
i övrigt ingenting.
att åtsagd bädda sängen i sitt tomma rum
utan anledning.
-
lösningen för alla dårar stavas
s t r u k t u r.
men det är nog mer för de vårdande.
hålla ordning på dårarna är viktigt.
men då svaret på bönen om lättnad
från plågan oftast blev
'bädda sängen'
i olika tappningar
slutade åtminstone jag fråga.
-
'dom är på jobbet'
försökte jag förklara för pastorn
men han tyckte de borde vara till
nytta för patienterna.
vid sidan om mat och medicin.
det skulle han frälsa dom till.
men
dom hade redan hört allt.
-
P3-skval mixat med rengöringsrutiner inom
förlossningssjukvården
hörde jag då jag rökte en cigg för mig själv.
-
jag stängde av:
klick klicketi klick.
*******'
2012-11-10
Toni Holgersson - Några droppar regn
Toni Holgersson - Några droppar regn (Fred Neil) Third-Story-Music/BMG Rights Scandinavia
Just a little bit of rain i svensk översättning av Toni Holgersson.
Från skivan Sentimentalsjukhuset, Amigo 2012, en del av Cosmos Music Group.
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.
60-Second Adventures in Thought (combined)
Free learning from The Open Universityhttp://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/history-the-
A look at 6 different 'Adventures in Thought' (this is a combination of all 6 parts of the
series into one video)
(all parts - combined)
Playlist link - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL73A886F2DD959FF1
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