The Secrets of Quantum Physics - Einstein's Nightmare
"No reasonable definition of reality could be expected to permit quantum mechanics" --Albert Einstein
View ArticleTelling Stories - The Manipulative Power of Stories
From YT: An encouragement to be aware of the manipulative power of stories. -- Studies mentioned: Green, M.C. and Brock, T. (2000) The role of transportation in the persuasiveness of public narratives....
View ArticlePhotography Made Difficult: W. Eugene Smith
“Photography Made Difficult” is a 1989 documentary about the career of renowned photojournalist William Eugene Smith, a man who helped to pioneer the concept of the photo essay. The film concludes with...
View ArticleGore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
appearances by Gore Vidal, Tim Robbins, Sting, David Mamet, Christopher Hitchens, Dick Cavett, Norman Mailer, Mikhail Gorbachev, Tom Ford, Stephen Fry, Burr Steers, William F. Buckley ......
View ArticleArctic Mission with David Shukman - BBC News
YouTube description: The Arctic is changing -- and could even be entering "a new era" according to a team of scientists, who've spent the winter on a boat deliberately wedged into the Arctic ice pack....
View ArticleGorgeous portraits of the world's vanishing people
YouTube Description: When Jimmy Nelson traveled to Siberia to photograph the Chukchi people, elders told him: "You cannot photograph us. You have to wait, you have to wait until you get to know us, you...
View ArticleThe Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved
" you in a minute, knock you in the head and take every goddam cent you have." I thanked him and fitted a Marlboro into my cigarette holder. "Say," he said, "you look like you might be in the horse...
View ArticleSean Carroll: Particles, Fields and The Future of Physics
Sean Carroll of CalTech speaks at the 2013 Fermilab Users Meeting. Audio starts at 19 sec, lecture starts at 2:00.
View ArticleBig Think Interview With Peter Ward
An interview with the biologist and paleontologist at the University of Washington in Seattle. Ward is dedicated to public education, good on him.
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