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posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years ago • 774 views • 2:40Videos (67) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
This is so wrong
posted by Gratefulmom 8 years ago • 947 views • 4:34YouTube description: Machine translation's a useful tool, don't get me wrong. But if you actually try to use it for regular conversation, it'll fall down really quickly. Why? What makes it so difficult? ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 3 weeks ago • 559 views • 5:05Fox Business News brought out a guest to bash Bernie Sanders for being a socialist. Little did they know, it was about to go HORRIBLY wrong for them. Instead of bashing Bernie Sanders, he explained what... continue reading
posted by newtboy 8 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 814 views • 6:11Myth or no, it's MY favorite meal of the day! YouTube: Lately, I've become a target for people who like to tell me that "I'm doing nutrition" wrong. Evidently, some people don't agree with my plea,... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 665 views • 6:12YouTube: Disenchanted with the out-of-date curriculum of traditional college, Jeremy Rossmann dropped out of MIT. Within a few years, he and co-founder Ashu Desai, started The Make School, a college replacement... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 493 views • 4:02I don't think I can wait an hour. YouTube: Have you been doing it wrong?
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 11 months 1 week ago • 933 views • 2:04I know the presenter isn't very hip (or TED), but what he has to say about color should cause your brain to explode and then unexplode because everything makes sense.
posted by Magicpants 8 years 12 months ago • 940 views • 16:08"A short Humanist animation about morality" - YT
posted by messenger 9 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 959 views • 3:09Greed is good. War is inevitable. Whether in political theory or popular culture, human nature is often portrayed as selfish and power hungry. UC Berkeley psychologist Dacher Keltner challenges this notion... continue reading
posted by enoch 9 years 4 months ago • 2,027 views • 4:37You'll try not to of course - but you will, unwittingly. At least there is comfort in knowing one isn't alone.
posted by Trancecoach 9 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 132 views • 4:01How to eat in the proper, authentic way...
posted by Zawash 9 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 466 views • 2:11An explanation of which sword types actually existed and which ones are made up.
posted by Magicpants 9 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 704 views • 12:27For nearly all of human history, most people were very, very poor. But something happened after 1800. Average wages began to rise. For example, in the past 200 years, the average wage in the United States... continue reading
posted by Trancecoach 9 years 11 months 4 weeks ago • 999 views • 3:19Quite possibly TMI
posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 3 months 1 week ago • 147 views • 1:41Four for five ... how gullible am I? ... er, 80% by gum! You Tube: There are a bunch of facts surrounding the holiday season you probably believe to be true, but totally aren't! Anthony rights a few... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 4 months ago • 820 views • 3:14Someone said it with a hard "g" sound the other day and it sounded so wrong to me.
posted by nock 1 decade 4 months 3 weeks ago • 634 views • 1:40"To be a great artist, one must be ready to fail," is just some of the advice offered up by performance artist, Marina Abramović in this recent interview. This idea of failure echoes Samuel Beckett... continue reading
posted by Trancecoach 1 decade 6 months ago • 456 views • 8:46Who knew?
posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 7 months 1 week ago • 2,110 views • 1:49