The Bechdel Test is a simple way to gauge the active presence of female characters in Hollywood films and just how well rounded and complete those roles are. It was created by Allison Bechdel in her comic... continue reading

posted by Trancecoach 1 decade 4 years 6 months 1 week ago • 7,380 views

Original source Follow-up

posted by flavioribeiro 1 decade 4 years 6 months 1 week ago • 5,670 views

(ca. 3 mins) As part of a study, a bunch of people showed up at various mental hospitals pretending to be hearing things. After admittance to the wards, the people announced they were fine. Problem was,... continue reading

posted by calvados 1 decade 4 years 6 months 1 week ago • 1,062 views

A wonderful animation of the lecture "Evolution of empathy" by Jeremy Rifkin. via Nerdcore

posted by dingens 1 decade 4 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 7,426 views

I'm not sure which is worse. The bunch saying "We can deny entry to anyone whose opinion we don't agree with", or the bunch saying "See? We're not racist. We also deny entry to Jews!"... Facepalm.

posted by demon_ix 1 decade 4 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 2,729 views

An interesting and well researched talk on conformity and the effects of repetition and social pressure to create a false majority, based on psychosocial and neurological experiments. "Conformity [...]... continue reading

posted by hpqp 1 decade 4 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 1,067 views • 9:58

Empire or Humanity? What the Classroom Didn't Teach Me about the American Empire by Howard Zinn Narrated by Viggo Mortensen Art by Mike Konopacki Video editing by Eric Wold To read more from Howard... continue reading

posted by siftbot 1 decade 6 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 12,783 views

ca. 2 mins. Along with the delta-winged Vulcan, the Valiant and Victor (the "V Bombers") were the backbone of Britain's nuclear deterrent for many years during the Cold War.

posted by calvados 1 decade 4 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 2,698 views • 2:13

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptome http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks http://cryptome.org/ http://wikileaks.org/

posted by NordlichReiter 1 decade 4 years 8 months ago • 1,667 views • 8:35

Dan Fanelli will keep you safe. Safe from stereotypes.

posted by Hybrid 1 decade 4 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 6,745 views

"We don't hate anybody." Sure you don't! I know someone who is voting them in today, be interesting to see how desperate things have gotten in this country and how many votes they're going to get. Actually,... continue reading

posted by alien_concept 1 decade 4 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 1,488 views

2/23/2010

posted by NetRunner 1 decade 4 years 7 months 1 week ago • 1,336 views

4/2/2010

posted by NetRunner 1 decade 4 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 3,175 views

What an enlightened cartoon for its time. I think the times have receded somewhat from this view.

posted by longde 1 decade 4 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 985 views

One of the largest scale and most expensive pranks in human history was kept secret for 50 years. The perpetrators were a team of artists in the U.S. Army, and the victim was Hitler. And what they did... continue reading

posted by EDD 1 decade 4 years 8 months ago • 5,172 views

Frum: "Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox."

posted by oohahh 1 decade 4 years 8 months 1 week ago • 4,548 views