earlier a video was posted of Jim Cramer, host of the show "Mad Money" having a meltdown because the Fed chairman won't bail out his buddies in the financial sector. This is the annotated version that... continue reading

posted by sometimes 1 decade 7 years 3 months 1 week ago • 1,997 views

Bruce Lee's thoughts on Martial Arts

posted by bluecliff 1 decade 7 years 3 months 1 week ago • 2,143 views

Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, a history of human civilization over the last 13,000 years, attempts to explain why Eurasian civilizations, as a whole, have survived and conquered others. Diamond... continue reading

posted by yoghurt 1 decade 7 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 4,241 views • 54:35

A short Channel 4 profile piece on Brian Eno, ambient music pioneer. Interviews with David Byrne, Alex Patterson (the Orb), Mixmaster Morris, Bono ect. (starts at 00:35)

posted by yoghurt 1 decade 7 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 2,937 views

This is a scene from the movie Shadowlands in which C.S. Lewis (played by Anthony Hopkins) gives a speech on why God allows pain.

posted by gorgonheap 1 decade 7 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 2,923 views

Shadow Company is a documentary directed by Nick Bicanic and Jason Bourque. It is an introduction to the mercenary and private military company industry, concentrating on the role the industry has been... continue reading

posted by Farhad2000 1 decade 7 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 2,149 views

Chalmers Johnson comments on the history of U.S. involvement in the Middle East.

posted by Brian Houston (dag) 1 decade 7 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 7,878 views

"The Dada movement was a protest against the barbarism of World War I, the bourgeois interests that Dada adherents believed inspired the war, and what they believed was an oppressive intellectual rigidity... continue reading

posted by bluecliff 1 decade 7 years 4 months ago • 3,056 views

Believing the Unbelievable: The Clash Between Faith and Reason in the Modern World. Sam Harris at the 2007 Aspen Ideas Festival

posted by Grimm 1 decade 7 years 4 months ago • 2,272 views • 1:09:42

Producer: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films - 1946. Measures how a society ranks on a spectrum stretching from democracy to despotism. Explains how societies and nations can be measured by the degree that... continue reading

posted by pipp3355 1 decade 7 years 4 months ago • 3,914 views

This is the preview.. Full length version on pbs Washington's $8 Billion Shadow - Article SAIC More articles by Barlett & Steele ... continue reading

posted by Fedquip 1 decade 7 years 4 months ago • 2,112 views

Politics of fear creating a dangerously divided world: "Powerful governments and armed groups are deliberately fomenting fear to erode human rights and to create an increasingly polarized and dangerous... continue reading

posted by gwaan 1 decade 7 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 3,022 views

Tsar Bomba, nicknamed 'Big Ivan' by its makers, was the largest nuclear bomb ever built. With a yield of 50 megatons, it was 4000 times more powerful then the bomb that devastated Hiroshima. This video... continue reading

posted by gaffa 1 decade 7 years 4 months 1 week ago • 6,116 views

It's pretty commercial like but still shows the very interesting details of how custom LASIK actually works. Optical wavefront aberration correction is definitely what you should be getting if you're having... continue reading

posted by gluonium 1 decade 7 years 4 months 1 week ago • 1,911 views

2006 'Authors at Google' presentation from Dr. Wilson from his book "How to Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion" In the summer of 2005, Paramount Pictures... continue reading

posted by gaffa 1 decade 7 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 1,644 views

The ejection seat is a device to escape from the aircraft in the emergency. The passenger is thrown out each seat outside the machine by the rocket motor etc. , and comes down on a parachute when operating. ... continue reading

posted by leeweek 1 decade 7 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 955 views

Errol Morris's unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer's murder in Dallas. Briefly, a drifter (Randall Adams) ran out of gas in Texas and was picked... continue reading

posted by grspec 1 decade 7 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 4,262 views

On the evening of June 2, 2006, southern Ontario came face-to-face with the news that is was the target of home-grown terrorism. Eventually, eighteen Muslim men and youths would stand accused of belonging... continue reading

posted by Farhad2000 1 decade 7 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 1,314 views

A fascinating documentary by the BBC looking at the human race's relationship with the Moon, starting with elaborate rock formations to map its movements - through to the Apollo missions which explored... continue reading

posted by benjee 1 decade 7 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 16,008 views