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Archive for the ‘Videos’ Category
You Really Have No Idea of the Miracles Going on Inside You
Posted in Videos, tagged cell biology, harvard on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Still More Glorious Dawn Awaits Us
Posted in Videos, tagged carl sagan, stephen hawking on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
Life Can’t Stop Flowering
Posted in Videos, tagged flowers on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Health Means Being Ready to Respond to Life’s Unpredictability
Posted in Videos, tagged brian goodwin, heart on October 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Heart’s Beautiful Chaos
Just Assume That Better Communication Is More Possible Than You Can Imagine
Posted in Videos, tagged communication, orchestra, whales on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Initiating a Conversation
This Is a Perfect Moment
Posted in Videos, tagged moments, radiolab on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How many perfect moments will you have today?
Need Help Realizing How Absurd Paranoia Is?
Posted in Videos, tagged humor, paranoia on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This Onion news story is only a slight exaggeration
What if There Were a Tv Reality Show in Which Contestants Vied to Out-Compassion Each Other?
Posted in Articles & Essays, Videos, tagged charity, homeless, hunger on August 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
5-Year-Old Girl Feeds Nearly 18,000 Hungry San Franciscans; What Can You Do?
Making Ordinary Things Sing and Dance
Posted in Images, Videos, tagged Art, robotics, shopping carts on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Creative use of shopping carts
Some of the “Evidence” That Justifies Paranoia Is Just Plain Wrong
Posted in Videos, tagged steven pinker, violence on July 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Everything you think you know about violence is wrong. Evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker says we’re living in the most peaceful time in the history of the human species.
Just in Case You’re About to Get Too Happy
Posted in Videos, tagged humor on July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Despondex, a Treatment for the Chronically Cheery. A step forward in the battle against exuberance.
The Pronoia of Technology
Posted in Videos, tagged facebook, news, twitter on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How Twitter can make history
While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.
What Will They Think of Next?
Posted in Videos, Web Sites, tagged happiness, television on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A TV show about happiness? How could that be?
One More Way to Kill the Apocalypse
Posted in Videos, tagged mushrooms, ted on June 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Six Ways Mushrooms Can Save the World
Singing Is Good Medicine
Posted in Videos, tagged optimistic voices, singing on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Open That Gate
Not All Pronoiac Teachers Are Human
Posted in Videos, tagged bonobo, happiness on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Happiest Species on the Planet
I Dare You to Complain About the Miracles
Posted in Videos on December 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just because everything’s amazing doesn’t mean that people are happy
“Is the speed of light too slow for you?”
The Global Brain Keeps Growing
Posted in Videos, tagged brewster kahle, digital library, knowledge on December 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Universal access to all knowledge is within our grasp
We’re All Closer to Each Other Than We Realize
Posted in Videos, tagged connection, kevin bacon, six degrees on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The “Six Degrees of Separation” Meme Is Real
Scientific proof that anyone on the planet can be connected to anyone else in just a few steps of association
