Eric Sanderson pictures New York's natural history

[Siglojunior]

Thanks for the gratefulness that we founded New York... Greetz from the Netherlands

[keetongeer]

This posted video, “40 Years in 3 Minutes” takes a look at some NYC moments in history while synched to The Beatles’ GET BACK and GLASS ONION. Also includes some 8mm film antics from 1971. Enjoy.

[1RadicalOne]

So this is the origin of that National Geographic feature.

[rosscardwell]

wow

[mooseoftoose]

fantastic work.

[whatevtube]

Well done, a true visualization of the network of nature.

[tinosnit]

It was a brilliant presentation until he started talking about green energy crap.

[325982668]

fuck i hate how degraded the images on these videos are. i have no idea what i'm looking at here at 15:25

[ChaosmanOne]

I think they were purposely "blurred" in some instances...perhaps to control copyright infringement issues?

[PageofPentacles]

Lol. I'm sure he's getting laid on a regular basis. If he wasn't then after that speech he would certainly have a few offers. There's something attractive about a brilliant mind.

[mmedefarge]

In Japan there is a subset of people whom the Japanese always looked down upon. Despite being in the same public school system as the rest of the population, they scored lower on tests. Some of the same subset of people moved to the U.S.. A study was done to compare their test scores in comparison to other Japanese & their scores were now the same. Without the constant atmosphere of prejudice & discrimination, since Americans were unaware of any differences, they reached full potential

[ArgueExplain]

How did they reach full potential in American schools?

[mmedefarge]

The "full potential" was poor wording on my part not the testers; I should have said that they had reached parity with their Japanese counterparts.

[rileyo629]

I tend to find that racist people generally are the way they are so that they can feel superior to other people without having to go through all of the trouble of actually accomplishing something.

[AngeloWillems]

interesting

[Regicide1990]

The word "racist" is so politically charged that it has long been striped of meaning. Therefore I find it very unhelpful to label others as such. I believe name calling and stereotyping are no way to right wrongs.

[tubehax]

and can you blame the logic, getting something for nothing is just as good as it gets.

[sparrow111260]

This is absolutely magnificent.

Brilliant. Truly.

[sugarkang]

recently, the presentation pictures have all been pixelated. what gives?

[vraciudude]

this is super depresing

[mmedefarge]

There already exists a map of the natural topography of all Manhattan called the Viele map of 1865. It also included all the changes to the land made since Europeans first set foot on Manhattan island. It is still used by builders today. Also, lower Manhattan was primarily used as a summer hunting ground for the Leni Lenape. There permanent settlement was up in Inwood, where there are many protective caves.

[wolffenhaus]

no more cars in NYC.  No more.

[princeofexcess]

yay bringing science and pseudoscience together and then pretending you are doing real science.

[AtheistdotEDU]

No one is pretending to do science, barbarian. This talk stands at the crux of human geography, ecology, and technolgy (art). Try broadening your mind.

[princeofexcess]

when you have design combining with science its more of an art then science. What i mean by that is reproducing results of how it use to be is very misleading. People dont trust science because they think this is how its done and that scientists claim that this is exactly how it was or looked like. Im allergic to things like that. When i see metal reconstructions of dinosaurs jaw and they try to find out how hard it bites. It makes me sick! Also i found this ted talk really boring on top of that

[Atoyota]

All for it here, although some form of mass transit for both people and product needs to be a part of this.

There are a lot of systems that need to work in concert with natural ones, but the sentiment is on target.

[Blomvik]

Interesting stuff.

And nice new intro!

[wreckerpecker]

Yikes

[jathgnos]

Neat stuff, I just can't imagine people riding around on bicycles in 400 years.

[Lazerjo2000]

bikes will probably always be around

for those that like to get outside they are too dear to our hearts

in all likliness the shape of bikes might change

[MiranUT]

Let me help you imagine: I work in Tokyo. I ride my bicycle (or jump on a bus if it's raining) to the train station. I park my bike in an efficient, city-sponsored underground garage right next to the station. It costs 100 yen (90 cents) a day and is free on Sundays and holidays. On my days off, it's not unusually for me to ride my bicycle 30 or 40 minutes to my desired destination. A favorite route is along a river bike path. I've never owned a car. It's possible - and fun.

[hughtub]

Your population is not diverse though, so you don't have the robbery, vandalism and high crime rate that the USA has in big cities.

[Regicide1990]

Canadian population is one of the most diverse populations in the world, yet its crime rate is pretty low.

[hughtub]

Ok, I meant racially non-diverse. Canada is only about 16% non-white. In the USA at least, the highest crime rate directly correlates with a high African-American population, to the point that, annually, the most dangerous cities are always ones with a very high AA population. The least criminal cities have a very high Caucasian/Asian population.

[oxygenownz]

Sure but this is only because the education and the integration of black people is so bad, it's the same here in sweden.

[hughtub]

No, it's not. The average score for blacks in the USA from households with income b/w $80,000-$100k is actually LESS than that of whites from households below $10,000. If you want to read a radical theory of human evolution, read Erectus Walks Amongst Us free online.

[Regicide1990]

However, if you research further, you will discover that the gap between white students' average and that of blacks' is decreasing rapidly over the past decade, and that there is no conclusive evidence of a link between intelligence and gene to date. Therefore, I will urge you to think of the issue as a social one, not a racial/biological one.

[hughtub]

No, the opposite is true. Search google for "The Widening Racial Scoring Gap on the SAT College Admissions Test". There are several genes that have been found to link with higher IQ, this makes sense because humans evolved and our IQ is largely hard wired into our brains like any other species on earth.

[Regicide1990]

I have looked up the artical you provided, and it seem to support me.

"A major reason for the SAT racial gap appears to be the fact that black students who take the SAT have not followed the same academic track as white students" This indicates that the phenomenon is one of cultural nature. The article then goes further to explain the widening scoring gap by examining unfair treatments to black students in the education system and its effects, which is a social perspective.

[hughtub]

And why don't they follow the same academic track? Certainly black kids from rich households would, but don't because their intellectual ability isn't usually as high to put them on that track. Unfair treatments? Blacks are actually getting MORE money spent on them per capita than whites in education. Washington DC spends over $10k per student/year and has the lowest test scores. It's a complete inversion of rational resource usage. That's Marx's anti-nature "from each according to his means..."

[Regicide1990]

Perhaps the unfair treatments are not visible systemic discriminations, but deep rooted stereotypes and racial identitie?

[MiranUT]

hughtub,

1. Japan as a homogeneous society is a stereotype that is not true, especially in the urban areas.

2. Just because there are more minorities in prison doesn't mean they commit more crimes. The drug war is a "great" social engineering tool. Is it it a coincidence that it was "declared" by Nixon just as minorities gained civil rights?

3. Intellectual ability and potential are two different things. DC dollars haven't help the urban drop out rate. Shitty schools don't improve SAT scores.

[MiranUT]

PS (hughtub)

Your ideas about evolution seem to totally dimiss the myriad environmental factors that determine survival. You cannot plan for unforeseen environmental changes (such as bacteria) with "non-random" mating. You're just as likely to breed offspring that are vulnerable.

Random breeding is much more likely to enable a species to continue because of the variety it produces.

[Regicide1990]

More over, a study done by the university of Edinburgh, called "Genetic foundations of human intelligence" (available online) found that "there is still almost no replicated evidence concerning the individual genes, which have variants that contribute to intelligence differences"

[janissary211]

@Regicide1990 Canada has a extremely low pop.

[1RadicalOne]

No, not that low. And at any rate, that is irrelevant. The per capita crime is one of the lowest in the world.

[TheFelixxRevolution]

@janissary211 Diversity has nothing to do with the amount of anything its about how different each thing is

[clearmenser]

Great deep data, seems ripe for ecotourists to come and immerse themselves in an ancient environment.

[Greig1424]

that was pretty cool

[crn40]

his head is so shiny

[adamredwine]

It's great to know that there are people out there doing this sort of work. Wonderful speech.

[flyhead2]

Very interesting, but there was a certain irony in Sanderson talking about paying greater heed to nature from a perspective of building new cities. We have more than enough cities, and people, already. It takes a true urbanite to make such an impossible posit.

[MiranUT]

I didn't hear "build new cities". It sounded more like rebuild existing cities. Cities are constantly being rebuilt. They could be much more efficient and ecological with a little long-term vision.

[flyhead2]

He did allude to new cities (building in the future, or something similar), but it is a tacit fact, in as much as it is infinately more practical and economiclly viable to build anew.

[mmedefarge]

Not so. Suburban sprawl is the most wasteful of human configurations. Cities are far more energy efficient than suburbs or exurbs but suburbs are more the culprit because of their large populations. Large populations of people heating individual homes for a only a few people & traveling everywhere using individual transportation leave a much bigger carbon footprint. They don't have to live in mega-cities but small, more dense communities of people would save much more energy.

[flyhead2]

You have just widened the debate a good deal but do make a valid point about energy wastage. There is much that we could debate on but this forum is poorly suited for the ranging discussion that would ensue. Large conurbations and rural exodii raise a slew of other problems and socio-economic issues

As for the carbon footprint debate, I believe that this is a political mirage. The very real environmental degradation is sadly overlooked at the expense of this fictional bogeyman.

[mmedefarge]

Where I live, all new high risers have to be green buildings. The entire skins of these buildings are solar collectors, they treat their own waste & reuse water for cooling & heating. These buildings are giant solar collectors which put all unused energy collected back into the electric grid. Using a panoply of renewable energy sources, wind, solar, algae, hydrogen fuels could virtually eliminate the impact of the internal combustion engine & greatly lessen the need for polluting energy plants

[flyhead2]

I do not doubt for a second that technical improvements can and must be made.

I am asserting that the root problem is our current political structure with it's insustainable economic model, demanding constant growth in order to appear healthy. Inabilty of societies to self-regulate population growth due to poverty and arcane superstitions is another problem.

Improved technical solutions alone are simply plasters on a gaping, infected wound.

[sikes1379]

What a fucking waste of time... yes things need to work together to function/grow. there you go i just saved you 17 minutes. No need to thank me...The fucking things i do for people geez

[YOUGOTLOLLED]

kool

[TwentyTwelveee]

amazing