An introduction to the philosophy of Seneca. Full episode from a series based on "The Consolations of Philosophy" by Alain De Botton.

posted by wazant 1 decade 7 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 2,797 views • 24:15

An introduction to the philosophy of Epicurus. Full episode from a series based on "The Consolations of Philosophy" by Alain De Botton.

posted by wazant 1 decade 7 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 3,719 views • 24:00

An introduction to the philosophy of Socrates. Full episode from a series based on "The Consolations of Philosophy" by Alain De Botton.

posted by wazant 1 decade 7 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 3,797 views • 24:13

Charlie Rose discusses theoretical physics with Harvard professor Lisa Randall. A great trip through space, time, the nature of gravity and quantum mechanics among other things. Her recent book is "Warped... continue reading

posted by drattus 1 decade 7 years 8 months 1 week ago • 6,088 views

Lisa Randal discusses dimensions beyond Minkowski space. She is one of the most cited physicists alive.

posted by gluonium 1 decade 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 3,665 views

I thought this might be timely as rumors are flying everywhere that D-zero at the Tevatron has discovered a 5 sigma statistically significant resonance at 180 GeV of a multi bottom quark decay of the Higgs... continue reading

posted by gluonium 1 decade 7 years 9 months 4 weeks ago • 4,270 views

part 2 is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYRQpcJVQx8 (not embeddable)

posted by firefly 1 decade 8 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 2,193 views

A video giving a tour of the LHC (underground accelerator) at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the world's largest particle physics centre. It sits... continue reading

posted by michie 1 decade 7 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 4,134 views • 5:42

The War on Democracy is a documentary film directed by Christopher Martin and John Pilger. Focusing on the political state of Latin America, the film is a rebuke of both the United States' intervention... continue reading

posted by Farhad2000 1 decade 7 years 7 months 1 week ago • 3,822 views

Winner of the Cannes 2006 online competition, is a short history of the nuclear age as told by a child. Nuclear war is the deadliest video game ever. It's not game over yet.

posted by Constitutional_Patriot 1 decade 7 years 7 months 1 week ago • 3,570 views

youtube- Re-Connections - James Burke 25th anniversary celebration of James Burke's ground-breaking "Connections" and "The Day The Universe Changed" series.

posted by Fedquip 1 decade 7 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 5,715 views

Documentary on the 1994 Rwanda Genocide. Hutu extremists were all but unopposed and ran amok all over the country, butchering eight hundred thousand Tutsis and Hutu moderates over a three-month period.... continue reading

posted by calvados 1 decade 7 years 6 months 1 week ago • 5,801 views

Fast-paced musical documentary that visualizes the words of Arundhati Roy, specifically her famous "Come September" speech. If there is one thing you will watch tonight, make this sift it, you will not... continue reading

posted by Farhad2000 1 decade 8 years 1 month ago • 3,665 views

20 years ago Bill Moyers exposed the secret government of the USA. Wanna know how Iraq happened and what's going on with Iran, our Constitution, Foreign Policy and Democracy? Watch this documentary! ... continue reading

posted by Constitutional_Patriot 1 decade 7 years 6 months 1 week ago • 4,291 views • 1:24:56

An introduction to the philosophy of Montaigne. Full episode from a series based on "The Consolations of Philosophy" by Alain De Botton. Here, De Botton focuses on Montaigne's efforts to encourage people... continue reading

posted by wazant 1 decade 7 years 7 months ago • 2,509 views • 24:11

BBC Three presents Body Image: Series Three 'My Penis And Everyone Else's' by Lawrence Barraclough (*Approx 56 min long) Part 2: http://www.guba.com/watch/3000101861

posted by legacy0100 1 decade 7 years 6 months ago • 24,269 views

A staggering look into the most strange and isolated country in the world. Amazing.

posted by Doc_M 1 decade 7 years 6 months ago • 22,487 views • 47:30

NOVA presents a documentary on DARPA's Grand Challenge. Competitors must build completely autonimous vehicles to traverse a challenging, twisty, desert road. This stuff is fantastic.

posted by Doc_M 1 decade 7 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 642 views

A look at the history and recent happenings in the Evolution vs. Intelligent Design debate. It's not anti-religion, it's pro-science. Look for a lizard live birth in the second part at 4:40.

posted by Fjnbk 1 decade 7 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 1,072 views