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LHC First Physics : First collisions in the LHCb's experiment - March the 30th, 2010

by CERN 15,553 views

Jamie Oliver's TED Award speech

by JamieOliver 815,615 views

Jamie expresses his wish to teach every child about food and fight obesity. You can support his wish here http://www.tedprize.org/jamie-oliver

(This is a re-upload).

Cindy Gallop, IfWeRanTheWorld: Make Love Not Porn

by L2LuxuryLab 6,323 views

L2 Generation Next Forum— May 14, 2010

We Are The World 25 For Haiti - Official Video

by wearetheworld 124,256,652 views

Recorded on February 1st, 2010, in the same studio as the original 25 years earlier (Henson Recording Studios, formerly A&M Recording Studios) "We Are The World 25 For Haiti", in which Quincy Jones and Lionel Richie serve as executive producers and producers, was created in collaboration with executive producers Wyclef Jean, Randy Phillips and Peter Tortorici; producers Humberto Gattica and RedOne; and co-producers Rickey Minor, Mervyn Warren and Patti Austin to benefit the Haitian earthquake relief efforts and the rebuilding of Haiti.

Academy Award-winning writer-director Paul Haggis (Crash, Million Dollar Baby), whose own personal efforts as well as those of Artists for Peace and Justice have already saved countless lives in Haiti, filmed the private recording session to create the accompanying video and behind-the-scenes production, and serves as Film Director and as an Executive Producer with Jones, Richie, Jean, Phillips and Tortorici.

The 25th Anniversary recording features over 80 artists and performers. The recording of We Are The World 25 For Haiti embodied the same enthusiasm, sense of purpose and generosity as the original recording 25 years ago. Every one of the artists who participated, regardless of genre or generation, walked into the room with their hearts and souls completely open to coming together to help the people of Haiti.

MythBusters' Adam Savage on Problem Solving: How I Do It

by ForaTv 153,268 views

Complete video with Q&A at: http://fora.tv/2010/05/22/Adam_Savage_Presents_Problem_Solvi­ng_How_I_Do_It

Best known as co-host of Discovery Channel's MythBusters, Adam Savage also wears hats as an artist, actor, special effects wizard and industrial designer. In this presentation at Maker Faire Bay Area 2010, he outlines his strategies for tackling complex problems.

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This program was recorded in collaboration with Maker Faire Bay Area, on May 22, 2010.

Adam Savage has spent his life gathering skills that allow him to take what's in his brain and make it real. He's built everything from ancient Buddhas to futuristic weapons, from spaceships to dancing vegetables, from fine art sculptures to animated chocolate and just about anything else you can think of.

Since 1993, Adam has concentrated on the special-effects industry, honing his skills through more than 100 television commercials and a dozen feature films, including Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace and Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Galaxy Quest, Terminator 3, A.I. and the Matrix sequels. He's also designed props and sets for Coca-Cola, Hershey's, Lexus and a host of New York and San Francisco theater companies. Not only has he worked and consulted in the research and development division for toy companies and made several short films, but Adam has also acted in several films and commercials -- including a Charmin ad, in which he played Mr. Whipple's stock boy, and a Billy Joel music video, "Second Wind," in which he drowns.

Today, in addition to co-hosting Discovery Channel's MythBusters, Adam teaches advanced model making, most recently in the industrial design department at the San Francisco Academy of Art. Somehow he also finds time to devote to his own art. His sculptures have been showcased in over 40 shows in San Francisco, New York and Charleston, W.Va.

Where Good Ideas Come From - Steven Johnson

by ForaTv 13,373 views

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/10/11/Steven_Johnson_Where_Good_Ideas_Co­me_From

Steven Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From (http://f4a.tv/eyWlqm), discusses a Stanford study that found unusually innovative professionals to have relatively diverse networks of acquaintances. He relates this correlation to the principle of exaptation, a driving force behind much biological and technological evolution.

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Steven Johnson on Where Good Ideas Come From. Recorded in collaboration with Booksmith bookstore, on October 11, 2010.

How and why do world-changing ideas surface? Johnson writes, "The argument of this book is that a series of shared properties and patterns recur again and again in unusually fertile environments. I have distilled them down into seven patterns: the adjacent possible; liquid networks; the slow hunch; serendipity; error; exaptation; and emergent platforms. The more we embrace these patterns -- in our private work habits and hobbies, in our office environments, in the design of new software tools -- the better we will be at tapping our extraordinary capacity for innovative thinking."

Johnson traces these patterns across centuries and disciplines, from the FBI's tragic failure to grasp the importance of information that might have prevented the 9/11 terrorist attacks to Gutenberg's use of wine-press technology to build the world's first printing press with moveable type to the founding of Google on a Net-transforming hunch. But the relevant question, Johnson insists, is not how these guys got to be so clever (or not). Rather, what we need to ask is: What kind of environment fosters remarkable innovation?

With seven critically acclaimed books, the two most recent being New York Times Notable Books, Steven Johnson has demonstrated that he can pinpoint an urgent cultural issue and illuminate it with dazzling cross-disciplinary insights. Whether tweaking conventional wisdom in Everything Bad is Good for You, offering captivating new perspectives on the conflict between science and religion in The Invention of Air, or debunking skepticism about the significance of Twitter in a cover story for Time magazine, Johnson has commanded a prominent perch in the public discourse. Now Johnson bridges natural science, intellectual history, urban sociology, and cutting-edge technology to explore one of our most pressing cultural questions, and to offer persuasive, inspiring, and practical answers that readers can use to propel their lives and careers forward.

Steven Johnson is the founder of a variety of influential websites -- most recently, outside.in -- and writes for Time, Wired, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. With 1.5 million Twitter followers, he is widely regarded as one of the world's most perceptive and thought-provoking thinkers on new media and the evolution of information technology. His previous books are The Invention of Air, The Ghost Map, Everything Bad is Good for You, Mind Wide Open, Emergence, and Interface Culture.

Sanity Song

by schmoyoho 2,951,634 views

At the sight of at least dozens of people flooding onto The National Mall, Jon Stewart, a prominent American rally organizer, launches into a sincere moment of song.

ORIGINAL VIDEO
http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=3638­64&title=jon-stewart-moment-of-sincerity

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2ND CHANNEL
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SHIRTS
www.districtlines.com/Auto-Tune-the-News

CHORDS
Intro: Bbmin - Abmaj - Gbmaj - Fmin - Ebmin - Ab - Bbmin - Ab
Chorus: Db - Ab - Fmin - Gb - Gbmin/Cb - Bbmin - Gb - Db
Verse: Fmin - Gb - Bbmin - Ab x2

LYRICS
Intro:
We hear every damn day about our fragile country.
Every damn day about the brink of catastrophe,
and how it's a shame that we can't work together.
The truth is we do.
We work together to get things done

Chorus:
Every damn day,
every damn day,
we work together every damn day.
There will always be darkness.
Sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel
isn't the promised land.
It's just New Jersey, just, just New Jersey.

Verse:
The press can hold its magnifying glass up to our problems,
bringing them into focus
or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire
And then perhaps host a week of shows
on the sudden flaming ants epidemic.

Chorus:
Every damn day,
every damn day,
we work together every damn day.
There will always be darkness.
Sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel
isn't the promised land
It's just New Jersey, just, just New Jersey.

*The Gregory Brothers love New Jersey with all their hearts.