An introductory short video on magnetic levitation.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Sunday, September 23, 2007
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".
"If you live your life the right way, the dreams will come at the end of it".
Saturday, September 22, 2007
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.
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.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Minuscule - The Dragonflies
Extremely creative animation on private lives of few insects.
Minuscule - The Dragonflys - Celebrity bloopers here
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
How To Shower - Men Vs Women - Watch a funny movie here
Monday, September 17, 2007
Imagining the Tenth Dimension
This animation illustrates the concepts presented in chapter one of the book "Imagining the Tenth Dimension" by Rob Bryanton.
Friday, September 14, 2007
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.
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.
Sunday, September 9, 2007
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.
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
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.
'Holy Smokes' Hurricane Dean from Space
Hurricane Dean as seen from the International Space Station.
Monday, September 3, 2007
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.
Saturday, September 1, 2007
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.
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