earlier a video was posted of Jim Cramer, host of the show "Mad Money" having a meltdown because the Fed chairman won't bail out his buddies in the financial sector. This is the annotated version that... continue reading
posted by sometimes 1 decade 7 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 1,997 viewsKnowledge
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This is a personal playlist of things I have found to be knowledgeable on the sift. Do realize that this is a personal selection, and as such may conflict with your preconceived ideas.
That is okay.
Bruce Lee's thoughts on Martial Arts
posted by bluecliff 1 decade 7 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 2,143 viewsJared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, a history of human civilization over the last 13,000 years, attempts to explain why Eurasian civilizations, as a whole, have survived and conquered others. Diamond... continue reading
posted by yoghurt 1 decade 7 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 4,241 views • 54:35A short Channel 4 profile piece on Brian Eno, ambient music pioneer. Interviews with David Byrne, Alex Patterson (the Orb), Mixmaster Morris, Bono ect. (starts at 00:35)
posted by yoghurt 1 decade 7 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 2,937 viewsThis is a scene from the movie Shadowlands in which C.S. Lewis (played by Anthony Hopkins) gives a speech on why God allows pain.
posted by gorgonheap 1 decade 7 years 5 months ago • 2,923 viewsShadow Company is a documentary directed by Nick Bicanic and Jason Bourque. It is an introduction to the mercenary and private military company industry, concentrating on the role the industry has been... continue reading
posted by Farhad2000 1 decade 7 years 5 months ago • 2,149 viewsChalmers Johnson comments on the history of U.S. involvement in the Middle East.
posted by Brian Houston (dag) 1 decade 7 years 5 months ago • 7,878 views"The Dada movement was a protest against the barbarism of World War I, the bourgeois interests that Dada adherents believed inspired the war, and what they believed was an oppressive intellectual rigidity... continue reading
posted by bluecliff 1 decade 7 years 5 months 1 week ago • 3,056 viewsBelieving the Unbelievable: The Clash Between Faith and Reason in the Modern World. Sam Harris at the 2007 Aspen Ideas Festival
posted by Grimm 1 decade 7 years 5 months 1 week ago • 2,272 views • 1:09:42Producer: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films - 1946. Measures how a society ranks on a spectrum stretching from democracy to despotism. Explains how societies and nations can be measured by the degree that... continue reading
posted by pipp3355 1 decade 7 years 5 months 1 week ago • 3,914 viewsThis is the preview.. Full length version on pbs Washington's $8 Billion Shadow - Article SAIC More articles by Barlett & Steele ... continue reading
posted by Fedquip 1 decade 7 years 5 months 1 week ago • 2,112 viewsPolitics of fear creating a dangerously divided world: "Powerful governments and armed groups are deliberately fomenting fear to erode human rights and to create an increasingly polarized and dangerous... continue reading
posted by gwaan 1 decade 7 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 3,022 viewsTsar Bomba, nicknamed 'Big Ivan' by its makers, was the largest nuclear bomb ever built. With a yield of 50 megatons, it was 4000 times more powerful then the bomb that devastated Hiroshima. This video... continue reading
posted by gaffa 1 decade 7 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 6,116 viewsIt's pretty commercial like but still shows the very interesting details of how custom LASIK actually works. Optical wavefront aberration correction is definitely what you should be getting if you're having... continue reading
posted by gluonium 1 decade 7 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 1,911 views2006 'Authors at Google' presentation from Dr. Wilson from his book "How to Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion" In the summer of 2005, Paramount Pictures... continue reading
posted by gaffa 1 decade 7 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 1,644 viewsThe ejection seat is a device to escape from the aircraft in the emergency. The passenger is thrown out each seat outside the machine by the rocket motor etc. , and comes down on a parachute when operating. ... continue reading
posted by leeweek 1 decade 7 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 955 viewsErrol Morris's unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer's murder in Dallas. Briefly, a drifter (Randall Adams) ran out of gas in Texas and was picked... continue reading
posted by grspec 1 decade 7 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 4,262 viewsOn the evening of June 2, 2006, southern Ontario came face-to-face with the news that is was the target of home-grown terrorism. Eventually, eighteen Muslim men and youths would stand accused of belonging... continue reading
posted by Farhad2000 1 decade 7 years 5 months 4 weeks ago • 1,314 viewsA fascinating documentary by the BBC looking at the human race's relationship with the Moon, starting with elaborate rock formations to map its movements - through to the Apollo missions which explored... continue reading
posted by benjee 1 decade 7 years 6 months ago • 16,010 views