Well-known psycho-analyst replies to a question about the problem of death...

posted by pipp3355 1 decade 7 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 3,015 views • 4:30

A panel moderated by Guy Kawasaki, in which six founders of some of the net's top community sites talk about how they started, their business model and their complete defiance of the venture capital model.

posted by arvana 1 decade 7 years 11 months 4 weeks ago • 1,602 views

Federal prosecutors and the FBI have significantly overstated the number of terrorism-related investigations and prosecutions they pursue, according to a highly critical report released Tuesday by a Justice... continue reading

posted by mlx 1 decade 7 years 12 months ago • 1,213 views

This is a speech that Richard Dawkins gave at the Amazing Meeting in 2005 sponsored by the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF), covering a range of topics on everything from the perinormal and paranormal... continue reading

posted by rembar 1 decade 7 years 12 months ago • 5,171 views

A feature-length documentary film about hip-hop DJing, otherwise known as turntablism. From the South Bronx in the 1970s to San Francisco now, the world's best scratchers, beat-diggers, party-rockers,... continue reading

posted by benjee 1 decade 8 years 2 months 1 week ago • 8,232 views

After assessing today's dwindling oil reserves and skyrocketing use of oil for fuels, plastics and chemicals, this documentary questions the motives for the U.S. wars in the Middle-East and Central Asia... continue reading

posted by Farhad2000 1 decade 7 years 12 months ago • 3,360 views

Distinguished comics writer and magician Alan Moore discusses his views on religion, fundamentalism, and the Roman snake god he has chosen to worship. From a TV show hosted by Stewart Lee.

posted by Spiff 1 decade 7 years 12 months ago • 4,725 views

Barry Schwartz is a sociology professor at Swarthmore College and author of The Paradox of Choice. In this talk, he persuasively explains how and why the abundance of choice in modern society is actually... continue reading

posted by eric3579 1 decade 7 years 12 months ago • 4,994 views • 20:22

This is a documentary on one extraordinary (even by savant standards) person: Daniel Tammet. Daniel exhibits, aside from the amazing intellectual capabilites associated with savantism, self-awareness... continue reading

posted by rembar 1 decade 7 years 12 months ago • 16,477 views • 47:32

In 1977, the award-winning journalist and film-maker, John Pilger, made a documentary called Palestine Is Still The Issue (1977). He told how almost a million Palestinians had been forced off their land... continue reading

posted by gwaan 1 decade 7 years 12 months ago • 3,638 views

This is a propaganda film from the 50s in Russia extolling the brilliance of mother russias children for creating sputnik. I can imagine this video striking fear into the hearts of cold war americans.... continue reading

posted by djsunkid 1 decade 7 years 12 months ago • 1,697 views

An animated scenario about the formation of stars in a cluster, and the evolution of cluster itself. A star that is being formed makes a chain reaction and other stars are born. This is a video response... continue reading

posted by firefly 1 decade 7 years 12 months ago • 2,222 views

A frank and pragmatic view of Iraq given by John Burns of the New York Times. By far the most informative view of the major groups, there leaders, and the goals of these desperate groups.

What really happens in Iraq, without bias or spin, a rare glimpse at the situation without the usual rose colored glasses. Well worth the time.

posted by ren 1 decade 7 years 12 months ago • 1,688 views

My favorite Carlin bit ever, even as I disagree with the second half of his rant. A wonderful retort to the next time you hear someone say that "politicians suck".

posted by theo47 1 decade 8 years ago • 542 views

The Corporation is a 2003 Canadian documentary film and book critical of the modern-day corporation and its behavior towards society. The topics addressed include the Business Plot in 1933 when General... continue reading

posted by Farhad2000 1 decade 8 years ago • 6,380 views

This particular section of Al Gore's movie forced me to seriously question my beliefs about whether global warming is man made or not. The data represented by these two lines is not scientifically conclusive,... continue reading

From YouTube: this is a video that was created by Karl Fisch, and modified by Scott McLeod. There's more information here: http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/

posted by sbchapm 1 decade 8 years ago • 2,589 views