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1 day ago
James Hansen: Why I must speak out about climate change
http://www.ted.com Top climate scientist James Hansen tells the story of his involvement in the science of and debate over global climate change. I...
TEDtalksDirector • 17,241 views
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1 week ago
Fenriz on Norwegian Personality
"i think that says it all"
Autumla0 • 30,010 views
RakshasaCat
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@PLAYFASTORSLUDGE Or maybe you do not understand. It has nothing to do with being, or not being, friendly.
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2 weeks ago
Eve online - The beauty of the universe
Sometimes it pays to pause for a momment and soak in the beauty of the universe. CCP has put so much time into it that sometimes saddens me that pe...
SupGeneral • 11,553 views
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Started watching the video and after a while the music started... Everything fitted so perfectly, relaxing.
Then the video ended, and the music kept flowing. Turns out I had EVE in the background.
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2 weeks ago
What are years... and the galactic supermassive black hole!
It's leap year time... so what are years, anyway? And what do they have to do with the supermassive black hole in the core of the milky way?
Mr. G...
minutephysics • 339,689 views
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3 weeks ago
Why the Programming Language C Is Obsolete
C should have been integrated as a subset of C++, says Stroustrup.
bigthink • 37,676 views
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3 weeks ago
IAMA - Penn and Teller Answer reddit.com's Top 10 Questions
Penn & Teller answer the top questions from reddit.com. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAm....
reddit • 90,037 views
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The best punk of Bullshit was when they put Maddox on the show, and took him seriously when he dissed old people as smelly and disgusting.
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3 weeks ago
Penn and Teller Bullshit - College Part 2 of 2
Penn and Teller explain why college is pure BULLSHIT!!!!
antman2063 • 14,116 views
RakshasaCat
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I spent 10 years in university; learned comp.sci, learned Japanese, and now work in Tokyo. Going to university was never a way to get a career, it was an excuse to do what I love; learn stuff I was interested in.
And since I'm from Scandinavia, rather than the land of the free to be enslaved, my...
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1 month ago
Penn & Teller Bullshit - Second Hand Smoke & Baby Bullshit Part 3
To anyone interested on some extra money from freelance work, go to https://www.odesk.com/refer...
Nicoaraeradu • 42,285 views
RakshasaCat
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@jb111082 What if you don't want to raise a needy, attention seeking me me me me kid?
There's more to parenthood than acting as a servant.
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1 month ago
Penn & Teller Bullshit - Second Hand Smoke & Baby Bullshit Part 1
To anyone interested on some extra money from freelance work, go to https://www.odesk.com/refer...
Nicoaraeradu • 67,243 views
RakshasaCat
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@Eleuthero5 If 40 smokers in a garage light up... how long until you got 41 dead people?
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1 month ago
Alan Watts on conforming to society
Why do we feel like we don't fit in? Is it a bad thing? Why do we have a harder time the less we conform? Alan Watts talks about societies insecuri...
BrewedStrange • 84,124 views
RakshasaCat
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@AurynThePaladin Something can only be meaningless if there exists something that has meaning. And what in this universe has meaning?
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1 month ago
Economist Debate: Should renewable energy be subsidised?
Is subsidising renewable energy a good way to wean the world off fossil fuels? Watch highlights from The Economist Debate.
EconomistMagazine • 1,248 views
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I never understood how a number such as 48% vs. 52% could declare one side or the other as having won?
Surely that is well within the margin of split in half... Also, is not the real solution to include all the externalities in the price? (Might require some subsidies to oil in that case to brin...
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1 month ago
森の木琴
sakura4250 • 8,145,299 views
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"Found this beautiful/pretty scenery/video on Docomo's website."
And yeah, this reminds me a lot of the Norwegian forests...
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1 month ago
South Africa under apartheid
Music kept me alive
Jurgen Schadeberg arrived in South Africa as a teenager in 1950. Shocked by the effects of apartheid, he began to photograph th...
EconomistMagazine • 3,144 views
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2 months ago
A visit to the new Fanfest venue
CCP Tyr, the high priest of partying, invited CCP Guard and the video crew on a tour of Harpa, the new fanfest venue, where he revealed details abo...
CCPGAMES • 21,773 views
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I got a europlug looking for a mate, and he has been found~
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2 months ago
Total Ignorance: Where's Libya, Iraq or Iran? NYC doesn't care!
The men and women hoping to become the next President of the U.S. appear to spend as much time demonstrating their ignorance of the world, as they ...
RussiaToday • 105,410 views
RakshasaCat
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Having heard how even veteran BBC reporters mangle Norwegian names, it is hard to fault anyone on the street who fails to pronounce that name.
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2 months ago
Fad Diets: What Really Works for Weight Loss
Explore the concept of healthy eating scientifically and shed light on the molecular basis of energy balance. On this edition, UCSF nutritionist An...
UCtelevision • 22,654 views
RakshasaCat
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@qocweb It is what happens when uneducated people listen to an academic lecture, the lack of soundbites and use of precise language leads to confusion.
E.g. her statement about fats being easier to convert suddenly becomes 'fats are bad', when instead it was part of her showing how the early low...
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2 months ago
Penn and Teller: Gun Control BS, Part 3
PatriotPost • 12,108 views
RakshasaCat
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Wait, what kind of logic is that?
The reason why those places were made 'gun free zones' is the (perceived) higher risk of gun violence in those places, so to claim the laws are useless based on the occurrence of gun violence in spite of the laws makes no sense.
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3 months ago
囲碁部
クラスの好きな女の子が囲碁部に入ることを聞いた春野一。
学校の友達には誰一人として言っていなかったが、幼い頃から父親
や親戚と囲碁を打っていた。 片思いの女の子との思いがけない共通点に春野一は興奮し、舞い上
がり、それを運命的なものと考え、宇宙が膨張するように妄想はふ くらんだ。 思春...
streamwork • 9,625 views
RakshasaCat
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@kynabeat 英語に翻訳したから。
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4 months ago
Stephen Fry's Mormon Encounter
A Mormon tour guide did not appreciate his sly questions.
bigthink • 175,264 views
RakshasaCat
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@eqsmooth What if _you_ are the alcoholic, slightly deviant uncle?
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4 months ago
Hitchens: the purpose of life (!)
Q&A part V of the Hitchens vs. Turek debate at VCU, VA. Full debate: http://www.vimeo.com/1904911
and (annotated)
Melvin6566842 • 108,848 views
RakshasaCat
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@o0WithAllYourMind0o What makes you think there is any morality of meaning of life, except that which we make for ourselves?
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4 months ago
Noam Chomsky and the imploding mice
Noam Chomsky gives a rather enlightening anectdote about genetics in response to a question from the audience.
assaultivebear • 14,430 views
RakshasaCat
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@matchbox555 What about exploding lemmings? Nature has very bad animal rights credentials.
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4 months ago
Strangeness Minus Three Excerpt (Part 1)
Horizon 1964. Richard Feynman describes the discovery of the omega baryon. Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watc...
bendykst • 6,883 views
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Sadly, we're still gathering information with the new leap of scientific understanding still stuck in a mollass... One issue is that gathering information now much relies on huge particle accelerators, projects requiring huge resources, cutting-edge technology and long time to get up-and-running.
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4 months ago
Paraglider and Tornado jet, near miss!!!
An RAF Tornado flying low in West Wales on June 21st 2009 comes too close for comfort to a Paraglider and passes within 40 metres.
MrVixpix • 29,692 views
RakshasaCat
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Where is the near miss? I only see a near hit.
Damn I hate false advertisement in youtube video titles.
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4 months ago
Amy Cappellazzo on hiring creatives
Amy Cappellazzo of Christie's International discusses her strategies for hiring creative employees in this video from The Economist's Human Potenti...
EconomistMagazine • 376 views
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4 months ago
AMERICA VS THE WORLD
Thumbs up if you live in the USA, thumbs down if you dont! This is a test for an upcoming SC2 UNIT BATTLE TOURNAMENT.
HuskyStarcraft • 469,708 views
RakshasaCat
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Fuck America.
Love, Japan.
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5 months ago
Chomsky on HARDtalk, Nov. 09 (1/3)
Noam Chomsky interviewed on the BBC program HARDtalk, during his tour of the United Kingdom in Nov. 2009.
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Chomskyan • 35,783 views
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@TheSorrow1O1 It's definitely edited, there's no way Chomsky would ever not go into the details on why the interviewer was mistaken.
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5 months ago
Family Guy Bullfrog On Vacation
Bullfrogs go on holiday:)
MarcusJeffHardyFan2 • 479,675 views
RakshasaCat
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Offense is taken, not given, and there are many people in this world that are greedy assholes that just take and take and take.
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5 months ago
Marathons | David Mitchell's Soapbox
David Mitchell's Soapbox Series 1 & 2 DVD available now @ http://amzn.to/soapboxdvd
David Mitchell's Soapbox and more @ http://www.youtube.com/Cha...
davidmitchellsoapbox • 70,495 views
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So... Where can I PayPal money for sponsoring Mitchell's felatio sessions?
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5 months ago
Atheist Calls Religious People 'Idiots' On British Debate Show
A religious debate where an atheist debates with religious people on the subject on whether heaven exists. The atheist shocks everyone when she cal...
Sandmania09 • 249,156 views
RakshasaCat
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So that religious guy was saying that there's a place some where, in an astral plane or something, where the number represented by my bank account has that same number of little furry monies running around on rivers of honey?
And every time a government does a round of QE, billions upon billions...
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5 months ago
Young Man | David Mitchell's Soapbox
David Mitchell's Soapbox Series 1 & 2 DVD available now @ http://amzn.to/soapboxdvd
David Mitchell's Soapbox and more @ http://www.youtube.com/Cha...
davidmitchellsoapbox • 72,208 views
RakshasaCat
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Fuck normal tennis, I want to win moon-tennis.
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5 months ago
Niall Ferguson: The 6 killer apps of prosperity
http://www.ted.com Over the past few centuries, Western cultures have been very good at creating general prosperity for themselves. Historian Niall...
TEDtalksDirector • 66,757 views
RakshasaCat
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Are you guys at TED trying to turn us all deaf?... That outro volume was horribly loud.
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5 months ago
Adding Past Infinity (WARNING: Math Ahead)
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minutephysics • 571,649 views
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@michaelhays92 That is not really showing where he goes wrong, rather you just showed that his answer can't be the right one.
He takes (2 - 1)(1 + 2 + ...) and separates them into two infinite series, 2*(1 + 2 +...) and -(1 + 2 +...). That is in no way an issue, where he does however fail is whe...
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5 months ago
Bill Maher lays waste to Global Warming deniers
Bill Maher rips Global Warming deniers a new one.
Please comment and subscribe!
kubush • 53,248 views
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@Doddann So when I inform you that the maximum estimated volcanic CO2 emission per year flux between 0.2-1% of human emissions, you're going to say 'sorry, I was wrong'?
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5 months ago
Crazy low level flying of Dutch F16's in Norway!
323 TACTESS sqn. flying in Norway.
I did not create this movie, but uploaded it because it is so nice!
DreamOnVTS • 100,239 views
RakshasaCat
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@viperdriver82 There was no low-level flying in that video, however the norwegian F16 pilots do some crazy flying that beats the french (who only seem to do low-level flying in flat terrain).
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5 months ago
Burden of Proof | David Mitchell's Soapbox
David Mitchell's Soapbox Series 1 & 2 DVD available now @ http://amzn.to/soapboxdvd
David Mitchell's Soapbox and more @ http://www.youtube.com/Cha...
davidmitchellsoapbox • 107,461 views
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@idedesign If there was, according to available evidence and established scientific guidelines on how to measure uncertainty in data, a 50% chance of significant CC and 50% chance of there being a god... Then yes, taking the appropriate measures regarding both would be prudent.
However everythin...
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5 months ago
Misha Glenny: Hire the hackers!
http://www.ted.com Despite multibillion-dollar investments in cybersecurity, one of its root problems has been largely ignored: who are the people ...
TEDtalksDirector • 46,836 views
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6 months ago
Hitchens flips off Maher's morons
Christopher Hitchens twice flips off Bill Maher's moronic audience. Something we'd all like to do.
manfriend • 614,016 views
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While Hitchens makes a lot of good points, you just can gloss over the fact that Bush was doing exactly the same thing; spouting rhetoric aimed at appealing to the extreme religious fanatics in their respective countries.
Talking about an Axis of Evil is no more or less a threat than talking abo...
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6 months ago
Joan Halifax: Compassion and the true meaning of empathy
http://www.ted.com Buddhist roshi Joan Halifax works with people at the last stage of life (in hospice and on death row). She shares what she's lea...
TEDtalksDirector • 38,362 views
RakshasaCat
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Why is it that even in such an avenue as TEDtalks, female speakers seem to have so little of interest to say?
It doesn't feel right that seeing an interesting TEDtalks from a woman should be a surprising, and rare, event. It has been shown in studies that men tend to have more extreme cases, bot...
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6 months ago
New episode at PATV! - "Western & Japanese RPGs (part 2)"
http://penny-arcade.com/pat...
This week, we continue discussing (and defining) Western RPGs and JRPGs, this ti...
ExtraCreditz • 4,758 views
We all live and die, and we will continue to live and die, so stop worrying.
The coming changes are going to be very interesting to observe.