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Symphony of Science - Ode to the Brain

submitted by Skeeve

1 decade 3 years 8 months ago

"Ode to the Brain" is the ninth episode in the Symphony of Science music video series. Through the powerful words of scientists Carl Sagan, Robert Winston, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Jill Bolte Taylor, Bill Nye, and Oliver Sachs, it covers different aspects the brain including its evolution, neuron networks, folding, and more. The material sampled for this video comes from Carl Sagan's Cosmos, Jill Bolte Taylor's TED Talk, Vilayanur Ramachandran's TED Talk, Bill Nye's Brain episode, BBC's "The Human Body", Oliver Sachs' TED Talk, Discovery Channel's "Human Body: Pushing the Limits", and more.

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*promote the brain!

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011 10:53am PDT - promote requested by Zifnab.

Somehow I missed *brain, probably because I'm losing mine...

Adding video to channels (Brain) - requested by Zifnab.

curiously, the brain autotunes itself.

*quality sift

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by LarsaruS.

bmacs27 says...

>> ^Trancecoach:

curiously, the brain autotunes itself.

In soviet Russia, autotune brains you!

*promote

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011 6:56pm PDT - promote requested by kasinator.

Fun. If you haven't already watched some of the talks that are in this, you should! Jill Bolte-Taylor's, Oliver Sachs's, and Ramachandran's are all great.

polished

Listened to this a whole heap and I conclude it's the best since A glorious Dawn. And then it explodes into this enormous collage!

*promote again!

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Thursday, March 24th, 2011 12:12pm PDT - promote requested by arvana.

*quality

This video has already declared quality - ignoring quality request by arvana.

Capgras Delusion - The Illusion of Doubles has been added as a related post - related requested by deathcow on that post.

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