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Bill Nye's Nirvana Parody: Air Pressure

2008-12-02T20:30:35Z

From one of my favorite TV shows as a kid, Bill Nye the Science Guy featured weekly parodies of popular songs, rewritten to be about science topics.

This is "Air Pressure," a parody of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana.

This video and other Bill Nye the Science Guy music videos can be found at www.youtube.com

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Gregory Petsko: The coming neurological epidemic

2008-12-02T20:46:45Z

www.ted.com Biochemist Gregory Petsko makes a convincing argument that, in the next 50 years, we'll see an epidemic of neurological diseases, such as Alzheimer's, as the world population ages. His solution: more research into the brain and its functions.

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How the Moon was Created - Jennifer Heldmann

2008-12-02T20:56:25Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

NASA scientist Jennifer Heldmann describes the most popular theory of how the Earth's moon was formed.

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Let's talk about the moon.

In my opinion it's the best celestial body to observe - it's big enough to see in captivating detail without a telescope and it doesn't thank you for your wonderment by burning out your eyeballs. And while it may lack the kaleidoscopic coloring, dynamic vitality, and exotic mystery of some of the other local orbs, our moon is the old friend we wouldn't want to lose.

Tonight we'll learn all about our trusty sidekick — the theories on its formation, predictions about its future, its internal structure, its geological past and present, and the many ways in which it affects the earth.

We'll discover how the moon impacts our climate, how it got locked in a synchronous rotation with the earth, how tides work, and why some scientists suggest that without the moon life on earth may never have developed - Ask a Scientist

Dr. Jennifer Heldmann has worked closely with the Astrobiology Academy at NASA Ames Research Center for the past five years to conduct research regarding the habitability of other planets. Heldmann also worked at NASA Ames under the direction of Dr. Chris McKay on a variety of projects including extreme physical conditions supporting life in Antarctica, collecting experimental data regarding the soil chemistry of martian simulant soils, and conducting field work in the Mars analog environment of the Canadian High Arctic to study cold perennial springs flowing in polar desert conditions. Heldmann has also participated in simulated Mars missions by living in Mars habitat modules and is very excited for the promising future of Mars exploration. Heldmann is now working at the NASA Ames Research Center as a National Research Council Post-doctoral fellow during this very exciting time of solar system exploration.

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Bill Joy: What I'm worried about, what I'm excited about

2008-12-02T20:46:45Z

www.ted.com Technologist and futurist Bill Joy talks about several big worries for humanity -- and several big hopes in the fields of health, education and future tech.

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Meet the Bloggers with Marion Nestle

2008-12-02T21:29:04Z

New episode every Friday @ meetthebloggers.org

What we eat is making us sick! Guest Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition and food studies at New York University and author of What to Eat discusses this subject along with Eating Liberally/Huffington Post blogger Kerry Trueman and filmmaker Catherine Gund.

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Lebanon geneticists trace link to Phoenicians - 22 Nov 08

2008-11-26T04:56:18Z

In a far reaching project, genetic research is bridging the gap between an ancient seafaring people and their modern day descendents across the Mediterranean.

DNA from the Phoenicians is being found all over the region, especially in Lebanon. Nayla Khoury reports.

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George Smoot: The design of the universe

2008-12-02T20:46:45Z

www.ted.com At Serious Play 2008, astrophysicist George Smoot shows stunning new images from deep-space surveys, and prods us to ponder how the cosmos -- with its giant webs of dark matter and mysterious gaping voids -- got built this way.

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Cosmos - The Cosmic Ocean

2008-12-02T20:57:17Z

Cosmos by Carl Sagan

The Cosmic Ocean - A Personal Voyage

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Take the World from Another Point of View - Richard Feynman 1 of 4

2008-12-02T20:57:18Z

Richard Feynman - Take The World From Another Point of View

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Take the World from Another Point of View - Richard Feynman 2 of 4

2008-12-02T20:57:17Z

Richard Feynman - Take The World From Another Point of View

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Take the World from Another Point of View - Richard Feynman 3 of 4

2008-12-02T20:57:17Z

Richard Feynman - Take The World From Another Point of View

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Take the World from Another Point of View - Richard Feynman 4 of 4

2008-12-02T20:57:17Z

Richard Feynman - Take The World From Another Point of View

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The Fourth Dimension Explained - Carl Sagan

2008-12-02T20:57:17Z

Carl Sagan explains the fourth dimension in layman's terms. A great bit of food for thought.

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Charlie Rose - Heart Disease

2008-12-02T20:56:18Z

In a conversation, Lori Mosca and Antonio Gotto talk about heart disease prevention.

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The Green Collar Economy - Van Jones of the Center for ...

2008-12-02T20:49:52Z

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/energy

In "The Green Collar Economy", Center for American Progress Senior Fellow, acclaimed activist and political advisor Van Jones delivers a real solution that both rescues our economy and saves the environment. The economy is built on and powered almost exclusively by oil, natural gas, and coal—all fast-diminishing nonrenewable resources. As supplies disappear, the price of energy climbs and nearly everything becomes more expensive. With costs and unemployment soaring, the economy stalls. Not only that, when we burn these fuels, the greenhouse gases they create overheat the atmosphere. As the headlines make clear, total climate chaos looms over us. The bottom line: we cannot continue with business as usual. We cannot drill and burn our way out of these dual dilemmas.

Instead, Van Jones illustrates how we can invent and invest our way out of the pollution-based grey economy and into the healthy new green economy. Built by a broad coalition deeply rooted in the lives and struggles of ordinary people, this path has the practical benefit of both cutting energy prices and generating enough work to pull the U.S. economy out of its present death spiral.

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Dialogues with David: Us vs Them

2008-12-02T20:40:03Z

Dr F David Peat and Jena Axelrod
on Us vs Them

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Dialogues with David: Can we blame science?

2008-12-02T20:40:03Z

Dr F David Peat and Jena Axelrod
Are we closed minded because of science?

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Dinesh D'Souza: Speech - CPAC 02/09/2008

2008-11-17T14:48:11Z

Dinesh DSouza
Speech CPAC
Washington D.C. 02/09/2008

TRANSCRIPT:
DINESH DSOUZA: Lets shift gears and talk now about morality. And I want to address head on a very common argument, often shared by conservatives, that religion is the source of the crimes of history. Now as in the past, its religion thats to blame. Like a lot of bogus arguments, it does contain a molecule of truth. What is the molecule of truth? The molecule of truth is that the Islamic radicals do what they do in the name of religion. Listen to the Bin Laden videos, were doing this in the name of Allah. God commanded us to do this. But there is no equivalent today on the Christian side. Theres no Christian Al-Qaeda, theres no Christian Hamas, or Hezbollah. Theres no Christian state, now, run along the lines of Iran. []

Do you see whats going on here? A specious attempt to create a moral analogy that really doesnt exist. But I go further, and ask you this question, why are the Israelis and the Palestinians fighting? Are they actually fighting about religion? Or the Israelis go, we think Moses was the greater profit. The Palestinians go, we think it was Muhammad. Thats not what theyre fighting about. Theyre actually fighting about land. In Kashmir, theyre fighting over a territory. Even in Northern Ireland, theyre not fighting over the Eucharist, or transubstantiation, theyre fighting over which group of guys gets to rule that country. []

Now I want to look very briefly at history because I consider myself a reasonably educated guy, and if you were to come to me in three years and say, Dinesh, how many people were killed in the Salem Witch Trials? I would say, you know, I dont know exactly, but you know its clearly an important episode in American history we all read Arthur Millers play, the Crucible in college. I dont know, hundreds, maybe thousands? Ok, Dinesh, how many people were killed in the Inquisition? Well, that was a little bit of a biggie, it lasted for 350 years, it was particularly notorious for Spanish inquisition. I dont know, hundreds of thousands, maybe millions? Well, theres now a big scholarship on all of this. And if you go and look at it, read for example Henry Kamens multi-volume study of the inquisition, hes considered the leading authority on the subject. You will find out that the Spanish inquisition, over a period of 350 years, killed fewer than 2,000 people. Now, Im not a math major but by my count, thats about six guys a year. Does this qualify as a world historical crime?

What about the Salem Witch Trials? [] You see, number of people killed in the Salem Witch Trials was precisely 18. 18! Well, I agree thats 18 too many, or 2018 too many, but come on, while the atheists are crying crocodile tears over the crimes of religion committed 200, 500, or in the case of the crusades, 1,000 years ago, crimes that quite frankly, are not repeatable today. Were not exactly going to have the Crusades in Fresno. So these are the myths of historical times. And yet, while the atheists are inconsolable about all these great offenses, they ignore, they downplay, they rationalize, they try to cover up the vastly greater crimes of atheist regimes committed, not in some ancient past, but in our own lifetime, in living memory, and theyre still going on.

People say, you know, youre clearly talking about Mao in China, and the Nazi regime in Germany, and Stalin, and so on. Well ok, the big three, if you want to focus on them, yeah its true. Very interestingly, in the narrow space of five decades, these three regimes were able to exterminate something in the order of 100 million people. But this is only the tip of the iceberg, were not even talking about a junior league atheist like Pol Pot. He doesnt even make the top tier. He kills about 2 million in about three years. And then we have to add Chauchesku, and Virposka, Kim Jong Il, Fidel Castro, the list goes on. My point is, there is an ocean of blood and a mountain of bodies.

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Mike Huckabee: Speech 12/20/08

2008-11-17T14:48:11Z

Mike Huckabee
Speech
Manchester, IA 12/20/08

TRANSCRIPT:
MIKE HUCKABEE: In fact, Im sometimes reminded, you know, aerodynamic engineers once figured out that because of the circumference of the bumblebee and the wingspan that its aerodynamically impossible for the bumblebee to fly. But the bumblebee being aware, being unaware rather, of these scientific facts goes ahead and flies anyway. Our campaign is a whole lot like that.

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Dialogues with David: The Observer and the Observed

2008-12-02T20:40:04Z

Dr. F David Peat and Dolt Jena Axelrod

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Dialogues with David: Wave Particle Duality

2008-12-02T20:40:04Z

Dr F David Peat and Jena Axelrod: On the study of light, a little bit on language and total confusion

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Dialogues with David: the Heisenberg uncertainty principle

2008-12-02T20:40:04Z

Dr David Peat disturbs Jena Axelrod
Different questions yield different answers?

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Dialogues with David: Computer came from the loom?

2008-12-02T20:40:04Z

Dr F David Peat tells Dolt Jena Axelrod about how the loom started it all. What?!

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Dialogues with David: The Clock and how time is screwed up

2008-12-02T20:40:04Z

Dr F David Peat and Jena Axelrod on how the clock has messed things up for all of us. Working late, time is money.

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Dialogues with David: Self organizing systems

2008-12-02T20:40:03Z

Dr F David Peat explains for the Dope Jena Axelrod... who brings it back to Jon and Kate + 8

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