Arthur Benjamin: Lightning calculation and other "Mathemagic"

In a lively show, "mathemagician" Arthur Benjamin races a team of calculators to figure out 3-digit squares in his head, performs a massive mental calculation, and guesses a few birth days. How does he do it? He'll be happy to tell you.

"Weird Al" Yankovic - White & Nerdy

They see me mowin' my front lawn
I know they're all thinkin' I'm so
White and nerdy

Think I'm just too white and nerdy
Think I'm just too white and nerdy
Can't you see I'm white and nerdy
Look at me I'm white and nerdy

I wanna roll with the gangstas
But so far they all think I'm too
White and nerdy

Think I'm just too white and nerdy
Think I'm just too white and nerdy
I'm just too white and nerdy
Really, really white and nerdy

First in my class here at MIT
Got skills, I'm a champion at D&D
M.C. Escher, that's my favorite M.C.
Keep you're 40, I'll just have an Earl Grey tea
My rims never spin, to the contrary
You'll find that they're quite stationary
All of my action figures are cherry
Stephen Hawking's in my library

My MySpace page is all totally pimped out
Got people beggin' for my top eight spaces
Yo, I know pi to a thousand places
Ain't got no grills but I still wear braces
I order all of my sandwiches with mayonnaise
I'm a wiz at Minesweeper, I could play for days
Once you've see my sweet moves, you're gonna stay amazed
My fingers movin' so fast I'll set the place ablaze

There's no killer app I haven't run (run)
At Pascal, well I'm number one (one)
Do vector calculus just for fun
I ain't got a gat, but I got a soldering gun (what?)
Happy Days is my favorite theme song
I could sure kick your butt in a game of ping pong
I'll ace any trivia quiz you bring on
I'm fluent in JavaScript as well as Klingon(in part)

They see me roll on my Segway
I know in my heart they think I'm
White and nerdy

Think I'm just too white and nerdy
Think I'm just too white and nerdy
Can't you see I'm white and nerdy
Look at me I'm white and nerdy

I'd like to roll with the gangstas
Although it's apparent I'm too
White and nerdy

Think I'm just too white and nerdy
Think I'm just too white and nerdy
I'm just too white and nerdy
How'd I get so white and nerdy

I been browsin', inspectin' X-Men comics
You know I collect 'em
The pens in my pocket, I must protect them
My ergonomic keyboard never leaves me bored
Shoppin' online for deals on some writable media
I edit Wikipedia
I memorized Holy Grail really well
I can recite it right now and have you R-O-T-F-L-O-L

I got a business doing websites (websites)
When my friends need a code, who do they call?
I do HTML for 'em all
Even made a homepage for my dog (yo)
I got myself a fanny pack
They were havin' a sale down at The Gap
Spend my nights with a role of bubble wrap
Pop, pop - hope no one sees me get freaky

I'm nerdy in the extreme
Im Whiter than sour cream
I was in A/V club and glee club
And even the chess team
Only question I ever thought was hard was
"Do I like Kirk or do I like Picard?"
Spend every weekend at the Renaissance Fair
Got my name on my underwear

They see me strollin', they laughin'
And rollin' their eyes cause I'm so
White and nerdy

Just because I'm white and nerdy
Just because I'm white and nerdy
All because I'm white and nerdy
Holy cow, I'm white and nerdy

I wanna bowl with the gangstas
But oh well, it's obvious I'm
White and nerdy

Think I'm just too white and nerdy
Think I'm just too white and nerdy
I'm just too white and nerdy
Look at me I'm white and nerdy

Pi Day

Pi Day: The day – March 14 – on which the constant π is celebrated.

Is it not quite nerdish?

'Growing Up in the Universe' - Richard Dawkins

Oxford professor Richard Dawkins presents a series of lectures on life, the universe, and our place in it. With brilliance and clarity, Dawkins unravels an educational gem that will mesmerize young and old alike. Illuminating demonstrations, wildlife, virtual reality, and special guests (including Douglas Adams) all combine to make this collection a timeless classic. See more at http://richarddawkins.net/growingupintheuniverse.


Episode 1/5: Waking Up in the Universe




Episode 2/5: Designed and Designoid Objects




Episode 3/5: Climbing Mount Improbable




Episode 4/5: The Ultraviolet Garden




Episode 5: The Genesis of Purpose

Richard Dawkins Reading "The God Delusion" at RMWC in Lynchburg, VA

Richard Dawkins reads excerpts from "The God Delusion" and answers questions at Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia on October 23, 2006.

The Mona Lisa - Why so Appealing?

A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking

This video is all about Stephen Hawking's ideas from his book titled the same and about his life.

Supersymmetry, Extra Dimensions and the Origin of Mass

Google Tech Talks June 18, 2007.

"Supersymmetry, Extra Dimensions and the Origin of Mass: Exploring the Nature of the ... all » Universe Using PetaScale Data Analysis"

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), scheduled to begin operation in Summer 2008, will collide protons at energies not accessible since the time of the early Universe. The study of the reactions produced at the LHC has the potential to revolutionize our understanding of the most fundamental forces in nature. The ATLAS experiment, currently being installed at the LHC, is designed to detect collisions at the LHC, to collect the relevant data and to provide a unified framework for the reconstruction and analysis of these data. This talk will review the goals of the ATLAS program and will describe the software and computing challenges associated analyzing these data. Among the relevant issues are the need to develop and maintain a unified analysis framework for use by more than 1000 scientists and the need for distributed access to large (petabyte) scale data samples, including a significant metadata component.

Jonathan Miller's Brief History of Disbelief

Part - 1/3




Part - 2/3




Part - 3/3

Walking Billboard !

Is it not true?


(Source: http://www.transmogrifier.org/ch-img/ch920827.gif)

DINOSAUR PLANET

Awesome animation.

Scuba Diving in Thailand and Burma

Highlights from a scuba diving liveaboard safari to Burma (Myanmar) and the Similan Islands with Santana Diving of Phuket, Thailand; features a fantastic range of marine life including manta rays and whale sharks. Fabulously beautiful.

Photoshops

Another fine piece of cartoon from xkcd.






















(Source: http://www.xkcd.com/331/)

Animusic - Pipe Dream

Awesome animation, music.

Linkin Park - What I've Done

In this farewell
There's no blood
There's no alibi
Cause I've drawn regret
From the truth
Of a thousand lies

So let mercy come
And wash away

What I've done
I'll face myself
To cross out what I've become
Erase myself
And let go of what I've done

Put to rest
What you thought of me
While I clean this slate
With the hands
Of uncertainty

So let mercy come
And wash away

What I've done
I'll face myself
To cross out what I've become
Erase myself
And let go of what I've done

For what I've done

I'll start again
And whatever pain may come
Today this ends
I'm forgiving what I've done

I'll face myself
To cross out what I've become
Erase myself
And let go of what I've done

What I've done

Forgiving what I've done

Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving talk, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals.

The Most Simple, Concise, Complete Global Warming Argument

The Miniature Earth

If the world's population were reduced to 100, it would look something like this...

Magnetic levitation - how does it work

An introductory short video on magnetic levitation.

Did You Know ?

Thought-provoking questions.

Delivery

Fantastic futuristic animation.

Bill Hicks's Legendary One Night Stand (1990)

Hello angry Christians - Pat Condell

Hilarious!

Rapidly Dying 47-Year-Old Professor Gives Exuberant ‘Last Lecture’

Carnegie Mellon University professor Dr. Randy Pausch gave his final lecture after learning he has only a few months to live due to pancreatic cancer.



"If you live your life the right way, the dreams will come at the end of it".

The Moon - BBC documentary

Richard Dawkins - The Virus Of Faith

A BBC documentary.

Dangerous Knowledge

In this one-off documentary, David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians - Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, ... all » Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing - whose genius has profoundly affected us, but which tragically drove them insane and eventually led to them all committing suicide.

The film begins with Georg Cantor, the great mathematician whose work proved to be the foundation for much of the 20th-century mathematics. He believed he was God's messenger and was eventually driven insane trying to prove his theories of infinity. Ludwig Boltzmann's struggle to prove the existence of atoms and probability eventually drove him to suicide. Kurt Gödel, the introverted confidant of Einstein, proved that there would always be problems which were outside human logic. His life ended in a sanatorium where he starved himself to death.

Finally, Alan Turing, the great Bletchley Park code breaker, father of computer science and homosexual, died trying to prove that some things are fundamentally unprovable.

The film also talks to the latest in the line of thinkers who have continued to pursue the question of whether there are things that mathematics and the human mind cannot know. They include Greg Chaitin, mathematician at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center, New York, and Roger Penrose.

Dangerous Knowledge tackles some of the profound questions about the true nature of reality that mathematical thinkers are still trying to answer today.

Minuscule - The Dragonflies

Extremely creative animation on private lives of few insects.


Minuscule - The Dragonflys - Celebrity bloopers here

How To Shower - Men Vs Women

The truth about men and women's shower habits, hilarious one.


How To Shower - Men Vs Women - Watch a funny movie here

Imagining the Tenth Dimension

This animation illustrates the concepts presented in chapter one of the book "Imagining the Tenth Dimension" by Rob Bryanton.

Six Months in the Space Station

A Google Tech Talk by Daniel W. Bursch (Captain, USN, Ret.)\NASA Astronaut (former) NASA.

ABSTRACT - A special space station tour for Googlers by NASA astronaut Daniel W. Bursch detailing his more than six months long stay on the International Space Station. In addition of illustrating the stay with many unpublished pictures of both the station and Earth, Dan will take us through the nooks and crannies of living and working in weightlessness. He will also talk about the psychological challenges of living with two other people in the same "can", a theme that will no doubt affect profoundly any human mission to Mars. Carl Walz and Dan Bursch set the US record for the longest single spaceflight in 2002, when they flew for 196 days, this record was just broken this year by US astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria.

Nanowires and Nanocrystals for Nanotechnology

A Google Tech Talk by Yi Cui, assistant professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Stanford University.

Gregory Colbert: Gorgeous video from "Ashes and Snow"

In a rare public appearance, photographer Gregory Colbert talks about the creation of his exhibit "Ashes and Snow." Colbert's work, which he calls "a 21st-century bestiary," captures the poetic beauty in our relationship to the animal kingdom. Colbert shows an 8-minute film, from the exhibit, of his epic swim with whales off the coast of the Azores.

Richard Dawkins: An atheist's call to arms

The session was titled "The Design of Life," and the TED audience was probably expecting remarks about evolution's role in our history from biologist Richard Dawkins. Instead, he launched into a full-on appeal for atheists to make public their beliefs and to aggressively fight the incursion of religion into politics and education.

Ze Frank: What's so funny about the Web?

Performer, web-toymaker and philosopher-comic Ze Frank offers his signature blend of comedy, technology and social theory, with hilarious takes on Google, video games, and haiku, to name but a few. All the while, he makes brilliant use of the screen to twist the meaning of his spoken words.

The Code Linux

A documentary movie about Linux.

'Holy Smokes' Hurricane Dean from Space

Hurricane Dean as seen from the International Space Station.

2001 : The Making of a Myth

A documentary about Stanley Kubrick's 2001 : A Space Odyssey featuring James Cameron.

The Blind Watchmaker - Richard Dawkins

Produced in 1987 by Jeremy Taylor and Richard Dawkins for BBC's HORIZON series. It was based on his It was based on his book of the same name, and won the Sci-Tech Award for Best Science Documentary of the year.

Free Hugs Campaign

Sometimes, a hug is all what we need. Free hugs is a real life controversial story of Juan Mann, A man whos sole mission was to reach out and hug a stranger to brighten up their lives.

Dance Monkeys Dance

What we are by Ernest Cline

Al Gore: 15 ways to avert a climate crisis

Al Gore spells out 15 ways we can address climate change, from buying a hybrid car to inventing a hotter brand name for global warming.

Rabbit in your Headlights - Unkle

I'm a rabbit in your headlights
Scared of the spotlight
You don't come to visit
I'm stuck on this bed
Thin rubber gloves
She laughs when she's crying
She cries when she's laughing
Fat bloody fingers are sucking your soul away

I'm a rabbit in your headlights
Christian suburbanite
Washed down the toilet
Money to burn
Fat bloody fingers are sucking your soul away

If you're frightened of dying and then you hold on
You'll see devils tearing your life away
But, if you've made your peace
Then the devils are really angels
Freeing you from the Earth... from the Earth

White worms on the underground
Caught between stations
Butter fingers
I'm losing my patience
I'm a rabbit in your headlights
Christian suburbanite
You got money to burn
Fat bloody fingers are sucking your soul away... away... away..

Better Than Me - Hinder

I think you can do much better than me
After all the lies that I made you believe
Guilt kicks in and I start to see
The edge of the bed
Where your nightgown used to be
I told myself I won't miss you
But I remember
What it feels like beside you
I really miss your hair in my face
And the way your innocence tastes
And I think you should know this
You deserve much better than me

While looking through your old box of notes
I found those pictures I took
That you were looking for
If there's one memory I don't want to lose
That time at the mall
You and me in the dressing room
I told myself I won't miss you
But I remember
What it feels like beside you
I really miss your hair in my face
And the way your innocence tastes
And I think you should know this
You deserve much better than me

The bed I'm lying in is getting colder
Wish I never would've said it's over
And I can't pretend... I won't think about you when I'm older
Cause we never really had our closure
This can't be the end
I really miss your hair in my face
And the way your innocence tastes
And I think you should know this
You deserve much better than me
I really miss your hair in my face
And the way your innocence tastes
And I think you should know this
You deserve much better than me
(And I think you should know this)
(You deserve much better than me)

The Hubble Deep Field: The Most Important Image Ever Taken

In 2003, the Hubble Space Telescope took the image of a millenium, an image that shows our place in the universe. Anyone who understands what this image represents, is forever changed by it.

...some stars and planets in scale

Kiwi !

James Nachtwey: TED Prize wish: Share a vital story with the world

Accepting his 2007 TED Prize, photojournalist James Nachtwey talks about his decades as a war photographer.

Frans Lanting: A lyrical view of life on Earth

In this stunning slideshow, nature photographer Frans Lanting presents The LIFE Project, a collection that tells the story of our planet, from its eruptive beginnings to its present diversity.

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005

Pilobolus: A performance merging dance and biology

Pilobolus dance company members Otis Cook and Jennifer Macavinta perform the sensuous duet "Symbiosis." Does it trace the birth of a human relationship, or the co-evolution of a pair of symbiotic species?