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Una creación de http://www.symphonyofscience.com
Subtitulado para BioTay.
Incluye imagenes de Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Neil deGrasse Tyson y Bill...
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Una creación de http://www.symphonyofscience.com
Subtitulado para BioTay.
Incluye imagenes de Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Neil deGrasse Tyson y Bill Nye.
Autor originarl: john@symphonyofscience.com
Letra traducida:
Todos estamos conectados
Unos a otros
Biológicamente
a la Tierra
Químicamente
al resto del Universo, atómicamente
Pienso que la imaginación de la Naturaleza
es muchísimo mayor que la del hombre
ella nunca nos dejará
relajarnos
Vivimos en un universo medio
dondo todas las cosas cambian
pero según patrones
reglas
o, como las llamamos... leyes de la Naturaleza
Soy este tío, depié en un planeta
realmente solo soy una mota de polvo
Pensad en todo esto
Pensad en el enorme vacío del espacio
Billones y billones de estrellas
Billones y billones de motas de polvo
La belleza de lo vivo no esta en los átomos que hay dentro
Sino en la forma en que esos átomos se ordenan
El Cosmos está también en nuestro interior
Estamos hechos de materia de estrella
Somos la forma en la que...
el Cosmos se conoce a sí mismo
a través de los mares del espacio
las estrellas son otros soles
ya hemos hecho este camino antes
y queda mucho por aprender
Todos estamos conectados
Unos a otros
Biológicamente
a la Tierra
Químicamente
al resto del Universo, atómicamente
Creo que es emocionante y estimulante
descrubrir que vivimos en el Universo
que permite la evolución de máquinas moleculares
tan complejas y sutiles como nosotros
Sé que las moléculas de mi cuerpo
las encontramos en los fenómenos del Cosmos
esto me da ganas de coger a la gente en la calle
y decirles... ¡¿LO HAS OIDO?!
Ahí esta ese tremendo lío
como la luz que rebota por toda la habitación
y una cosa lleva a la otra
y todo eso está de verdad ahí
te paras y piensas en ello
acerca de la complejidad
y te reconforta
y está todo de verdad ahí
La inconcebible
Naturaleza
De la Naturaleza
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El funeral que toda persona de bien desearía.
Funeral de Graham Chapman, miembro de los Monty Python, con el impagable discurso de John Cleese y la ...
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El funeral que toda persona de bien desearía.
Funeral de Graham Chapman, miembro de los Monty Python, con el impagable discurso de John Cleese y la canción "Always look on the bright side of life" http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=HFSAffL...
Resto del discurso de Cleese (en inglés): You see, the trouble is, I can't. If he were here with me now I would probably have the courage, because he always emboldened me. But the truth is, I lack his balls, his splendid defiance. And so I'll have to content myself instead with saying 'Betty Mardsen...'
But bolder and less inhibited spirits than me follow today. Jones and Idle, Gilliam and Palin. Heaven knows what the next hour will bring in Graham's name. Trousers dropping, blasphemers on pogo sticks, spectacular displays of high-speed farting, synchronised incest. One of the four is planning to stuff a dead ocelot and a 1922 Remington typewriter up his own arse to the sound of the second movement of Elgar's cello concerto. And that's in the first half.
Because you see, Gray would have wanted it this way. Really. Anything for him but mindless good taste. And that's what I'll always remember about him—apart, of course, from his Olympian extravagance. He was the prince of bad taste. He loved to shock. In fact, Gray, more than anyone I knew, embodied and symbolised all that was most offensive and juvenile in Monty Python. And his delight in shocking people led him on to greater and greater feats. I like to think of him as the pioneering beacon that beat the path along which fainter spirits could follow.
Some memories. I remember writing the undertaker speech with him, and him suggesting the punch line, 'All right, we'll eat her, but if you feel bad about it afterwards, we'll dig a grave and you can throw up into it.' I remember discovering in 1969, when we wrote every day at the flat where Connie Booth and I lived, that he'd recently discovered the game of printing four-letter words on neat little squares of paper, and then quietly placing them at strategic points around our flat, forcing Connie and me into frantic last minute paper chases whenever we were expecting important guests.
I remember him at BBC parties crawling around on all fours, rubbing himself affectionately against the legs of gray-suited executives, and delicately nibbling the more appetizing female calves. Mrs. Eric Morecambe remembers that too.
I remember his being invited to speak at the Oxford union, and entering the chamber dressed as a carrot—a full length orange tapering costume with a large, bright green sprig as a hat—-and then, when his turn came to speak, refusing to do so. He just stood there, literally speechless, for twenty minutes, smiling beatifically. The only time in world history that a totally silent man has succeeded in inciting a riot.
I remember Graham receiving a Sun newspaper TV award from Reggie Maudling. Who else! And taking the trophy falling to the ground and crawling all the way back to his table, screaming loudly, as loudly as he could. And if you remember Gray, that was very loud indeed.
It is magnificent, isn't it? You see, the thing about shock... is not that it upsets some people, I think; I think that it gives others a momentary joy of liberation, as we realised in that instant that the social rules that constrict our lives so terribly are not actually very important.
Well, Gray can't do that for us anymore. He's gone. He is an ex-Chapman. All we have of him now is our memories. But it will be some time before they fade.
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(3 weeks ago)
This is a Halloween video trick I did for my Nature of Math class at Biola University, October 28, 2009. It was another experiment in video editing...
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This is a Halloween video trick I did for my Nature of Math class at Biola University, October 28, 2009. It was another experiment in video editing and mixing video with live action.
UPDATE: NOV 1, 2009
Thanks for all the compliments. I appreciate it. All this attention was quite a surprise - I mainly posted the video for the students who weren't in class that day, and so my students could pass it on to a few friends. After the first version started getting a bunch of hits, I wished I had spent a little time cleaning up the audio, so I posted "Version 2," which is pretty much the same, but my voice turned up a bit.
I've read a bunch of comments, and I have a few general responses:
Math: No, I wasn't actually trying to teach anything with the video - it was just for fun. This was the last 5 minutes of a 75 minute class - I actually taught real math for the first 70 minutes. And yes, I love teaching this class, and I try to keep it lively by doing little fun things like this once in a while.
Software/Camera: I used Pinnacle Studio Ultimate, version 12.1 - the "picture-in-picture" feature for the special effects. I filmed it with a simple Panasonic PV-GS35 MiniDV camcorder.
Idea/Time: I did this last semester as an April Fool's joke. New class, new year, I decided to try it again, with a few more twists. It took me about 45 minutes to film the video, maybe 2 hours to edit and refine it, then I practiced the interaction with the video a couple times.
Class: This was filmed with a video camera on a tripod in the back of class, with about 80 people in class that day. Those are real people, not a laugh track. The class is called "Nature of Math," and is a general education class for non-math people. We do some basic math and study the history and philosophy of math. Yes, that's Edwin Abbott's "Flatland" I mention - students have to read it for the class.
Biola (biola.edu) is a private Christian university located in a Los Angeles suburb. I don't place much significance in Halloween, but I don't mind trivializing the day, and making it just about candy and costumes. The disclaimer at the end of version 2 is an imitation of the disclaimer Michael Jackson put at the beginning of his "Thriller" video. (BTW, Biola grad Judith Hill sang the last song at his funeral. Yeah, Biola!)
So thanks again for all your generous comments. I'm glad you enjoyed the video. I hope it inspires you to go out and do creative, fun things of your own.
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In the movie Stranger Than Fiction the taxman (Ferrell) won over the girl by playing an old punk song called Whole Wide World. Great scene by Will...
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In the movie Stranger Than Fiction the taxman (Ferrell) won over the girl by playing an old punk song called Whole Wide World. Great scene by Will, and good movie.
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This is the Pink Floyd song Wish You Were Here from same titled album, with images and lyrics added.
Update: I'm so amazed that this video has bee...
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This is the Pink Floyd song Wish You Were Here from same titled album, with images and lyrics added.
Update: I'm so amazed that this video has been viewed over one million times! It was hastily thrown together and I would replace it with a version I could be prouder of, except that it might cause errors for those who have used the embedded code.
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