A standing ovation talk fresh from TED2009.
posted by cybrbeast
1 decade 5 years 9 months 1 week ago • 1,711 views
Discuss!
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These are all Sifts which I think should be discussed, not just watched. Sometimes the comment thread is more important than the video.
1 decade 5 years 9 months 1 week ago • 1,711 views
(12min) Chiune Sugihara, Japanese Vice-Consul in Lithuania during WWII (then under soviet control), disobeyed his government and issued hundreds of visas to Jews desperate to escape the advancing Nazis,... continue reading
posted by MINK 1 decade 6 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 1,646 views
The first Lithuanian soldier killed in Afghanistan. Arunas Jarmalavicius was shot when protestors attacked the Lithuanian camp. Lithuanian Defence Ministry Yahoo News... continue reading
posted by MINK 1 decade 6 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 2,322 views
This is dedicated to xxovercastxx.
posted by kronosposeidon
1 decade 6 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 4,628 views
CNBC's Jim Cramer Calls For Investigation of Fed. Claims the Fed is responsible for every boom/bust since its creation.
posted by Constitutional_Patriot 1 decade 6 years 10 months ago • 1,497 views
A drunk driver who killed a man gets recorded while discussing her crime with a friend. Tape is played in court.... Looks like she'll be doing her drunk driving in the statesville prison from now on. ... continue reading
posted by moodonia
1 decade 6 years 10 months ago • 2,928 views
Watch this, and be prepared for a frustrating level of ignorance about Mass Effect, and videogames in general. This is actually painful to watch.
posted by Sarzy
1 decade 6 years 10 months ago • 11,692 views
from the uploader: Video by James Ball Reno Gazette-Journal/RGJ.com ( http://news.rgj.com/ ) Barack Obama dicusses Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton with the Reno Gazette-Journal editorial board, January... continue reading
posted by my15minutes 1 decade 6 years 10 months ago • 1,769 views
Using brain images of people listening to short symphonies by an obscure 18th-century composer, a research team from the Stanford University School of Medicine has showed that music engages the areas of... continue reading
posted by oxdottir 1 decade 6 years 10 months 1 week ago • 2,935 views
Against gun control laws. part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnAEvqI6V9E part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS0hKNuS8zU
posted by eric3579
1 decade 6 years 10 months 1 week ago • 12,304 views • 28:00
'In the last in the series Professor Jim Al-Khalili explores how studying the atom forced us to rethink the nature of reality itself. He discovers that there might be parallel universes in which different... continue reading
posted by 8727 1 decade 6 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 7,356 views • 58:48
I'm surprised this hasn't been posted sooner on the 'Sift. Anyway, his answer is quite disappointing. This guy is supposed to be a doctor.
posted by 9547 1 decade 6 years 11 months ago • 5,451 views
This is why Halo 3 MP is such a nightmare to play. From Youtube: This is what happens when gay Masterchiefs don't abide by "Don't ask Don't tell". Watch what ensues when I use a gamertag that's proud... continue reading
posted by Hive13 1 decade 6 years 12 months ago • 6,890 views
When anyone lectures me on global warming I like to ask them "Do you eat meat?". This is a great environmentalist short film called "Cow Live Earth" by Johan Renck.
posted by MINK 1 decade 7 years ago • 2,537 views
There's other Jeff Dunham on the Sift but this one rules. The puppet is amazing. NSFW mainly for bad taste, but it's well done.
posted by MINK 1 decade 7 years ago • 17,173 views
BBC 4 documentary about a politically connected cult, presented as a microcosm of the New Russia. Very interesting "liberal biased anti putin propaganda" or whatever you want to call it. From the poster: ... continue reading
posted by MINK 1 decade 7 years 1 week ago • 3,857 views
In this clip, Vanilla Ice is asked some difficult question by Arsenio Hall... you can see him sweat, get uncomfortable and nervous but he pulls through it because of his sparkling silver and mint green... continue reading
posted by doogle 1 decade 7 years 4 weeks ago • 5,453 views
Ehren Watada (born 1978) is a First Lieutenant of the United States Army who in June 2006 publicly refused to deploy to Iraq for his unit's assigned rotation to Operation Iraqi Freedom. Watada said... continue reading
posted by persephone 1 decade 7 years 3 weeks ago • 2,043 views
(10/28/07 AP) — The White House scolded the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Friday for staging a phony news conference about assistance to victims of wildfires in southern California. The agency... continue reading
posted by mlx 1 decade 7 years 3 weeks ago • 3,615 views
An audience member starts shouting at Bill Maher and his panel.
posted by MycroftHomlz 1 decade 7 years 1 month ago • 5,713 views