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Anti Terrorism Class

2008-12-02T20:31:26Z

Counter Terrorism Training to Citizens

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David Duchovny--Sex Addict

2008-10-30T09:37:39Z

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Re: Bachelors Of Science - Anytime She Goes Away

2008-10-29T15:30:46Z

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Authors@Google: Greg Bear

2008-10-14T17:04:12Z

Greg Bear visits Google's Kirkland, WA office to discuss his book "City at the end of Time." This event took place on August 12, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series.

In his triumphant return to large-scale SF, Nebula and Hugo--winner Bear (Quantico) links three young drifters in present-day Seattle with an unimaginably distant future. When the drifters answer an odd newspaper advertisement, they soon find themselves caught up in a war between mysterious and powerful forces. Two not-quite-humans, creations of a million-year experiment, have discovered that their ancient fortress/city, perhaps the last refuge of intelligence in a dying universe, is about to fall before the onslaught of chaos. They have been chosen by beings evolved far beyond mere matter to undertake a dangerous mission to preserve the universe's last vestiges of consciousness. Somehow the two groups engage in telepathic communication despite the eons that separate them. Something of an homage to William Hope Hodgson's classic The Night Land, this complex, difficult and beautifully written tale will appeal to sophisticated readers who prefer thorny conundrums to fast-paced action.

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Neal Stephenson - "We Are All Geeks Now."

2008-10-28T15:31:33Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Bestselling author Neal Stephenson discusses the popularity of science-fiction as a genre, arguing that "we are all geeks now."

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Neal Stephenson delivered a talk entitled The Fork: Science Fiction versus Mundane Culture at Gresham College.

Four professors discuss the origins of science fiction, its overlap with other genres and its developments over more than a century.

Neal Stephenson is the best-selling author of such novels as Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon, and The Baroque Cycle. He is best know for writing science fiction (in the postcyberpunk genre) and his interests often lead him into investigations of society, mathematics, cryptology, currency and the history of science.

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Neal Stephenson on Sci-Fi / Fantasy Actors

2008-10-28T15:31:11Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Bestselling author Neal Stephenson theorizes on why "niche" science-fiction / fantasy actors like Lucy Lawless, Hugo Weaving and Leonard Nimoy so often end up cast in these types of roles.

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Neal Stephenson delivered a talk entitled The Fork: Science Fiction versus Mundane Culture at Gresham College.

Four professors discuss the origins of science fiction, its overlap with other genres and its developments over more than a century.

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Authors@Google: Matt Ruff

2008-10-28T09:30:06Z

Author Matt Ruff visits Google's headquarters in Mountain View, CA, to discuss his book "Bad Monkeys". This event took place on September 19, 2007, as a part of the Authors@Google series. For more information about Matt Ruff please visit www.bymattruff.com

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President Carter 1st US TV address 2Feb1977 Energy Policy

2008-12-02T20:50:18Z

Some Excerpts Below
Tomorrow will be two weeks since I became President. I have spent a lot of time deciding how I can be a good President. This talk, which the broadcast networks have agreed to bring to you, is one of several steps that I will take to keep in close touch with the people of our country, and to let you know informally about our plans for the coming months.
One of our most urgent projects is to develop a national energy policy. As I pointed out during the campaign, the United States is the only major industrial country without a comprehensive, long-range energy policy. Our program will emphasize conservation. The amount of energy being wasted which could be saved is greater than the total energy that we are importing from foreign countries. We will also stress development of our rich coal reserves in an environmentally sound way; we will emphasize research on solar energy and other renewable energy sources; and we will maintain strict safeguards on necessary atomic energy production. We must face the fact that the energy shortage is permanent. There is no way we can solve it quickly. But if we all cooperate and make modest sacrifices, if we learn to live thriftily and remember the importance of helping our neighbors, then we can find ways to adjust and to make our society more efficient and our own lives more enjoyable and productive. Utility companies must promote conservation and not consumption. Oil and natural gas companies must be honest with all of us about their reserves and profits. We will find out the difference between real shortages and artificial ones. We will ask private companies to sacrifice, just as private citizens must do. Our Nation was built on the principle of work and not welfare; productivity and not stagnation. But I took office a couple of weeks ago in the middle of the worst economic slowdown of the last 40 years. More than 7 1/2 million people who want to work cannot find it according to the latest statistics. Because of high unemployment and idle factories the average American family like yours has been losing $1,800 a year in income, and many billions of dollars have been added to the Federal deficit. Also, inflation hurts us all. In every part of the country, whether we have a job or whether we are looking for a job, we must race just to keep up with the constant rise in prices. Inflation has hit us hardest, not in luxuries, but in the essentials—food, energy, health, housing. You see it every time you go shopping. The top priority in our job training programs will go to young veterans of the Vietnam war. Unemployment is much higher among veterans than among others of the same age who did not serve in the military. I hope that putting many thousands of veterans back to work will be one more step toward binding up the wounds of the war years and toward helping those who have helped our country in the past. I have also made commitments about our Nation's foreign policy. As Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, I am determined to have a strong, lean, efficient fighting force. Our policy should be based on close cooperation with our allies and worldwide respect for human rights, a reduction in world armaments, and it must always reflect our own moral values. I want our Nation's actions to make you proud. I would like to tell you now about one of the things that I have already learned in my brief time in office. I have learned that there are many things that a President cannot do. There is no energy policy that we can develop that would do more good than voluntary conservation. There is no economic policy that will do as much as shared faith in hard work, efficiency, and in the future of our system.

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What in the World?

2008-12-02T20:18:20Z

It was a dark cold night at THE RISING when I saw the blinking lights. I turned on the camera and started filming.

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Alien Impeachment - Far away sometime before the 2006 US midterm elections ...

2008-10-17T15:30:49Z

Aliens cross the universe and advise earthlings on how to save the world. They're just in time for the 2006 midterm elections. Political SciFi. **** From ProgressivePodcast.org

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Author reading: "The Shoals of Time" by P. Orin Zack

2008-12-02T20:29:39Z

In 2001, Homeland Security was given the task of eliminating the threat of terrorism. It was granted broad powers, autonomy, and told to do whatever it took to accomplish its objective. To succeed, the department will eventually have to be given the authority to act globally as well.

What if an agency like this became the centerpiece of a global peace effort, and that in turn created the need for a global government with the power to maintain the peace provided by that agency? What if it was so successful that peace was enforced for over a century? Now imagine your world and its people faced with the threat of extinction, and the one thing preventing you from doing something about it was that very same agency. What would you do?

"The Shoals of Time" is about such a world. Except that after the conflict between peacekeeper and revolutionary was reduced to a game of cat and mouse between their leaders, the cheese escaped into the past...

In 2291, psychically-trained Healer Gillian Thomas is gathering herbs in the hills above Los Angeles when she's unceremoniously escorted back to town by a pair of brusque MedCenter Security workers. Her former bond-partner, a government peacekeeper, had been injured, and one of her escorts suspects that Phil ought to have been treated at the holistic Kubler-Ross Hospice Center where Gillian worked, rather than at the tech-heavy East-Side MedCenter.

Engaging her escort in an illicit investigation, she visits the crime scene, and discovers that there was more to the story than she'd been told. But while mulling over the evidence with some medicinal tea, she inexplicably passes out. When she regains consciousness, she finds she has a serious problem: she can't move, can't open her eyes, can't even call for help, and nobody responds to her psychic pleas for help. Having no alternative, she decides to go out-of-body to look for answers.

Intent on finding whoever was responsible for causing the situation, she sets out on a dangerous journey, knowing full well that not everyone who had made the attempt returned alive.

"...an engrossing saga of love, betrayal, disaster, and repercussions ... highly recommended ... an enjoyable, complex, interwoven narrative..." --- Midwest Book Review

"...a big novel that's richer, more intricate, and has more going on than most of the science fiction novels on the shelves these days... " --- Writer's Digest

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Author reading: "Deadly Attractor" by P. Orin Zack

2008-12-02T20:29:39Z

If a global peacekeeping agency had temporal intelligence tech, how would pre-emptive ops be carried out? What would they look like? Angela Pascoe may have found out. She's a psychic Healer from Australia, and she's noticed a rash of unusual -- and sometimes impossible -- accidents among patients referred to a MedCenter for treatment. Accidents like the one she had after nosing around for clues. But when she attempted to follow a promising lead, someone anonymously trashed her reputation, got her fired, and sent the police after her. And now she's afraid she'll have another accident -- a fatal one.

The jury in a medical collusion trial might seem an unlikely group to expose a major government scandal, but in the courtrooms of the paranormal science fiction thriller, "Deadly Attractor", jurors not only render verdicts, they also interrogate witnesses, and they can hire psychics like Healer Frank Sanroya to help.

Frank just wanted a paying sideline, but Angela had other ideas, and when she pushed her tormentor into the open and confronted him, she learned the dark secret at the heart of a century of successful global government.

'Deadly Attractor' takes place 28 years before the events described in 'The Shoals of Time'.

NOTE: This video was the original version of the opening chapter.

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Author reading: "Burnout Fever" by P. Orin Zack

2008-12-02T20:29:39Z

Everyone gets job burnout at one time or another, but what if you didn't recover from it? What if nobody did?

Freelance writer Melanie Stroub was happily trashing webevangelist Wilfred McQuarry's weekly rant about angels when she got it, and ended up fixated on angels. It was like that for everyone: whatever you were doing when you got Burnout Fever was carved into your soul. Following a free-ranging conversation was no longer possible, and everything had to be translated back to your fixation. For some, it made little difference; for others, it spelled disaster.

Barry Lieber knew all about it. He'd watched helplessly while Melanie succumbed one morning over breakfast, and it drove him into joining a grassroots effort to find a cure. His activist friend Derek had good contacts in D.C., even in Congress. But there were others who looked at Burnout Fever as an opportunity, and when McQuarry incited a religious war over the victims, it stopped being just a health issue.

Nobody was safe. Every promising lead turned sour. The righteous, the wealthy, and the powerful all sought shelter from the madness, from the logic-defying pattern of contagion that stymied even the Centers for Disease Control. It defied explanation, but without a cure, the Earth would vanish like a bad dream. And time was running out.

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Authors@Google: Charles Stross

2008-10-19T15:29:41Z

Charles Stross visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book, "Halting State." This event took place on October 12, 2007 as part of the Authors@Google series.

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Neil Gaiman - "Instructions"

2008-10-15T03:31:17Z

Complete program at: fora.tv

Acclaimed science-fiction author Neil Gaiman reads his poem, "Instructions."

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An Evening's Entertainment with Neil Gaiman celebrating "Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders."

In this dazzling new collection of more than twenty-five pieces of short fiction including a novella featuring the hero of his masterpiece "American Gods," Neil Gaiman charts the terrain between life and death, perception and reality, darkness and light. Guaranteed to dazzle the senses, haunt the imagination, and touch the heart, "Fragile Things" is a gift of wonder from one of the most unique literary artists of our time. Neil Gaiman is the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of the novels "American Gods," "Neverwhere," "Stardust," "Coraline," and "Anansi Boys;" "The Sandman" series of graphic novels; and "Smoke and Mirrors," a collection of short fiction - Cody's Books

Gaiman is also the coauthor of the novel "Good Omens" with Terry Pratchett. Among the many awards he has won are the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus, and Bram Stoker awards.

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Headzup: Michael Chertoff and the New Anti-Terror Task Force

2008-10-16T21:29:38Z

Michael Chertoff and the Department of Homeland Security proudly announce their new Anti Terrorism Task Force. Read about it here- www.usatoday.com Download daily Catch and Release Comedy™ political cartoons to your mobile phone or iPod at www.headzup.tv

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Allied Radio - Face of the Earth (mostly Hubble telescope pics)

2008-12-02T20:27:42Z

A montage of Astronomy pics, with a couple of Sci-fi pics thrown in, set to Allied Radio song "Face of the Earth". Many of these are from the Hubble telescope.

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