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Πέμπτη 3 Ιανουαρίου 2013

The One Percent

English: William H. Gates Sr., visits the Naz Foundation's care centre for HIV Positive children, The Naz Foundation (India) Trust (NI) is a New Delhi based NGO working on HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health since 1994. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This 80-minute documentary focuses on the growing "wealth gap" in America, as seen through the eyes of filmmaker Jamie Johnson, a 27-year-old heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune. Johnson, who cut his film teeth at NYU and made the Emmy®-nominated 2003 HBO documentary Born Rich, here sets his sights on exploring the political, moral and emotional rationale that enables a tiny percentage of Americans - the one percent - to control nearly half the wealth of the entire United States. The film Includes interviews with Nicole Buffett, Bill Gates Sr., Adnan Khashoggi, Milton Friedman, Robert Reich, Ralph Nader and other luminaries.

http://www.theonepercentdocumentary.com/

Τετάρτη 2 Ιανουαρίου 2013

Faster Than The Speed Of Light

English: Marcus du Sautoy in Levico Terme Italiano: Marcus du Sautoy a Levico Terme per un convegno (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

In September 2011, an international group of scientists has made an astonishing claim -- they have detected particles that seemed to travel faster than the speed of light.
It was a claim that contradicted more than a hundred years of scientific orthodoxy.
Suddenly there was talk of all kinds of bizarre concepts, from time travel to parallel universes. So what is going on? Has Einstein's famous theory of relativity finally met its match? Will we one day be able to travel into the past or even into another universe?
In this film, Professor Marcus du Sautoy explores one of the most dramatic scientific announcements for a generation. In clear, simple language he tells the story of the science we thought we knew, how it is being challenged, and why it matters.

George Carlin - It's Bad For Ya (2008) Greek Subtitles

Cover of It's Bad for Ya

HBO ΕΝΤΕRΤΑΙΝΜΕΝΤ(C)
Ο George Carlin (1937-2008) υπηρξε ο σπουδαιοτερος κωμικος της γενιας του κ ισως ολων των εποχων, εδω μας παρουσιαζει το κυκνειο ασμα του σε ηλικια 70(!) ετων παρακαλω δινει ρεσιταλ με την διαυγεια της σκεψης του, την κοινωνικη του κριτικη, τις παρατηρησεις του και βεβαιως το παντα πετυχημενο χιουμορ του, για οσους δεν τον ξερουν, το συγκεκριμενο Live ειναι μια πρωτης ταξης ευκαιρια να μπειτε στον κοσμο αυτου του σπουδαιου κ τεραστιου πνευματος/ανθρωπου/κωμικου που με την καριερα του κ το εργο του αποτελει προτυπο κ σημειο αναφορας για καθε κωμικο ανα τον κοσμο.

τα 14(!) HBO special events ειναι τα εξης:

On Location: George Carlin at USC 1977
George Carlin: Again! 1978
Carlin at Carnegie 1982
Carlin on Campus 1984
Playin' with Your Head 1986
What Am I Doing in New Jersey? 1988
Doin' It Again 1990
Jammin' in New York 1992
Back in Town 1996
George Carlin: 40 Years of Comedy 1997
You Are All Diseased 1999
Complaints and Grievances 2001
Life Is Worth Losing 2005
It's Bad For Ya 2008

Karen Thompson Walker: What fear can teach us

TED (conference) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Imagine you're a shipwrecked sailor adrift in the enormous Pacific. You can choose one of three directions and save yourself and your shipmates -- but each choice comes with a fearful consequence too. How do you choose? In telling the story of the whaleship Essex, novelist Karen Thompson Walker shows how fear propels imagination, as it forces us to imagine the possible futures and how to cope with them.

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George Carlin brain droppings

Cover of George Carlin

One of the best presentations George Carlin made about political speech.

Arithmetic calculation tricks

Here are some mental tricks for manipulating arithmetical problems.

Quantum Wave Propagation Visualised

Note: This is not an animation but a simulation.

A lab video showing Quantum Wave Propagation in the Higgs field of subatomic particles.
A Photon is accelerated into supercooled space and moves through a slit, near 2 slits, and past 2 slits... the effect is the same.
When a wave slows down and returns to fill the Higgs field more evenly it is called Quantum Collapse or Wave Collapse.
The maths that describes this effect is called The Schrodinger Equation. Schrodinger did not own a cat.

Τρίτη 1 Ιανουαρίου 2013

NOVA | The Fabric of the Cosmos: What Is Space

The fully assembled Deep Space 1 probe (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Space. It separates you from me, one galaxy from the next, and atoms from each other. It is everywhere in the universe. But to most of us, space is nothing, an empty void. Well, it turns out space is not what it seems.