Archive for the 'Philosophy' Category
The Fruits of Dystopia – Sea Movies
• August, 2012The Fruits of Dystopia – Sea Movies from www.KORDUROY.tv on Vimeo. "The Fruits of Dystopia" is a short film about having fun in a less than perfect world. Cyrus Sutton explores an escape from modern trappings through excerpts from class dystopian novels "1984," A Brave New World," and Fahrenheit 451."
Fight For Your Right… To Party!!! RIP MCA!
• May, 2012Dedicated to MCA… One who absolutely is part of some great memories and seeds of thought The Guardian article:: Rapper Adam Yauch, a third of the trailblazing hip-hop act the Beastie Boys, has died aged 47. Yauch, who performed as MCA, had been in treatment for cancer since 2009 after discovering a tumor in his parotid gland. The band’s management posted a lengthy statement on the Beastie Boys website: It is with great sadness that we confirm that musician, rapper, activist and director Adam “MCA”…
Derren Brown Investigates
• February, 2012The Man Who Contacts The Dead::
Dr. Michio Kaku: “The World in 2030”
• May, 2011“The World in 2030: How Science will Affect Computers, Medicine, Jobs, Our Lifestyles and the Wealth of our Nations” Wednesday, October 28, 2009 Dr. Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist and the Henry Semat Professor at the City College of New York and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he has taught for more than 30 years. He is a graduate of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and earned his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Kaku…
RiP! A Remix Manifesto
• April, 2011Zeitgeist – Moving Forward
• February, 2011This Zeitgeist movie does touch various strings concerning the current and past problems of our societies. Therefore it should kick-start most people into thinking and reflecting on the situation… Whether too extreme or not, we can’t ignore the essence. It’s been time for REAL change for quite some time now…
Nature By Numbers
• October, 2010Nature by Numbers from Cristóbal Vila on Vimeo. Amazing video, speaks for itself, enjoy and check out more of this work here =>> eterea
Is Alcohol Worse than Ecstasy – BBC Horizon
• September, 2010Is Alcohol Worse than Ecstasy? <<Editors notE>> A BBC Horizon documentary film that compares effects of various drugs. They take twenty of UK’s most dangerous drugs and put them in a nice list going from “not so bad” to “worst drug u can find”. The list they have come up with looks like this: 20 Cathinone (Khat) 19 Amyl nitrite (Poppers) 18 MDMA/ Ecstasy 17 GHB 16 Anabolic steroid 15 Methylphenidate (e.g. Ritalin) 14 LSD/ Acid 13 4-MTA 12 Solvents 11 THC (Cannabis) 10 Buprenophine…
“Richard Dawkins” on our bizarre universe
• August, 2010Queerer Than We Suppose: The Strangeness Of Science Richard Dawkins is Oxford University’s “Professor for the Public Understanding of Science.” Author of the landmark 1976 book, The Selfish Gene, he’s a brilliant (and trenchant) evangelist for Darwin’s ideas. In this talk, titled, “Queerer Than We Suppose: The strangeness of science,” he suggests that the true nature of the universe eludes us, because the human mind evolved only to understand the “middle-sized” world we can observe. (Recorded July 2005 in Oxford, UK. Duration: 22:42) – More…
Physicist Discovers How to Teleport Energy
• February, 2010Physicist Discovers How to Teleport Energy First, they teleported photons, then atoms and ions. Now one physicist has worked out how to do it with energy, a technique that has profound implications for the future of physics. In 1993, Charlie Bennett at IBM’s Watson Research Center in New York State and a few pals showed how to transmit quantum information from one point in space to another without traversing the intervening space. The technique relies on the strange quantum phenomenon called entanglement, in which two…
Man must “prepare” to meet alien life forms
• February, 2010Man must “prepare” to meet alien life forms St Andrews University scientist tells conference that man now has more chance than ever of discovering life on other planets. Man has more chance than ever of discovering life on other planets – and mankind needs to prepare itself for meeting alien life forms for the first time, a Scots scientist is to tell a conference on Monday. The conference – The Detection of Extra-Terrestrial Life and the Consequences for Science and Society – is taking place…
The Boy With The Incredible Brain
• January, 2010The Boy With The Incredible Brain This is the breathtaking story of Daniel Tammet. A twenty-something with extraordinary mental abilities, Daniel is one of the world’s few “savants” (autism with a peculiar side-effect). He can do calculations to 100 decimal places in his head, and learn a language in a week. This documentary follows Daniel as he travels to America to meet the scientists who are convinced he may hold the key to unlocking similar abilities in everyone. He also meets the world’s most famous…
War Veteran Speech
• December, 2009American War Veteran Speech .::. <<video>> <<Editors notE>> An amazing war veteran speech containing so much truth and honesty, it would be a crime and very unpatriotic not to listen to message brought by this soldier. Protecting the people against criminals foreign as well as domestic. Hopefully in this way I can add to the spreading of this speech since it is worthwhile to take his words in consideration. May more troopers come forth with the same ideas instead of putting it away in the…