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Do schools kill creativity?: Sir Ken Robinson (TED) |
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Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invi...
Date: 2011-12-12 01:19:39
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Stanford Prison Experiment (Documentary) |
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A study of the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard. The experiment was conducted from August 14th to 20th[1], 1971 by a team of researchers led by Psychology professor Philip Zimbardo at Stanford University. It was funded by a grant from the U.S. Office of Naval Research[2] ...
Date: 2011-07-15 04:59:18
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Sam Harris on The Illusion of Free Will - 3/3 |
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An excerpt from The Moral Landscape http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/the-moral-landscape/ "The illusion of free will is itself an illusion " also see ...
Date: 2011-07-07 03:57:57
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John Lloyd inventories the invisible |
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Nature's mysteries meet tack-sharp wit in this hilarious, 10-minute mix of quips and fun lessons, as comedian, writer and TV man John Lloyd plucks at the substance of several things not seen.
Date: 2011-07-11 03:48:38
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René Descartes - Cogito Ergo Sum |
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French philosopher René Descartes (1596-1650) proposed "the cogito" as demonstrating the most fundamental epistemological principle upon which all knowledge ...
Date: 2011-07-13 05:00:41
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Pro Infirmis: Get closer... |
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Pro Infirmis conducts an experiment: there are only a few people who don`t have empathy with disabled people. Nevertheless, the passenger seat in the public bus next to Fabian often stays empty. Handicapped people are a regular part of our society.
Date: 2011-10-23 21:54:03
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RSA Animate - The Secret Powers of Time |
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Professor Philip Zimbardo conveys how our individual perspectives of time affect our work, health and well-being. Time influences who we are as a person, how we view relationships and how we act in the world.
Date: 2011-10-09 23:48:53
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Philosophy and the Matrix - Descartes |
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Descartes' Cogito ergo sum compared to philosophy in the Matrix trilogy, rationalism, perception of the world, systematic
Date: 2011-07-14 03:47:35
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The Riddle of Epicurus |
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Is God Omnipotent and Omnibenevolent? Either God wants to abolish evil (natural disasters, diseases, suffering, famine etc), and cannot; or he can, but does not want to. ... If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. ... If, as they say, God can abolis...
Date: 2011-07-21 12:21:18
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Government Interference |
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Milton Friedman discusses fallacies, defects in logic, history of tyranny, subtle arguments, power, corruption, and the path to dictatorial government.
Date: 2011-07-12 12:23:47
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Free to Choose - vol 01, 1980 |
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Friedman explains how markets and voluntary exchange organize activity and enable people to improve their lives. He also explains the price system...
Date: 2011-07-19 03:50:37
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Documentary: Complexity - Secret Life of Chaos - BBC 2010 |
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Chaos theory has a bad name, conjuring up images of unpredictable weather, economic crashes and science gone wrong. But there is a fascinating and hidden side to Chaos, one that scientists are only now beginning to understand. It turns out that chaos theory answers a question that mankind has asked
Date: 2011-08-30 03:51:34
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Alan Watts - Man is a Hoax (Part 1) |
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Philosopher Alan Watts states that we condition our children to a defective sense of identity that educates them to live for the future and not now…
Date: 2011-07-19 12:24:21
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When Humans Disappear |
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Imagine if one minute from now, every single person on Earth disappeared. All 6.6 billion of us. What would happen to the world without humans? How long would it be before our nuclear power plants erupted, skyscrapers crumbled and satellites dropped from the sky? What would become of the household p...
Date: 2011-07-06 17:02:09
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The Philosopher's Stone |
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"The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people." Ron Paul.
Date: 2011-07-15 12:23:15
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Evolution, Culture and Truth |
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In this Tufts University video, Daniel C. Dennett, philosophy professor and co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University, offers a unique perspective on the role of philosophy in the cognitive and behavioral sciences. Dennett is known for his research on the mind and conscious...
Date: 2011-07-25 01:15:22
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