Tim Minchin's Speech & Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters
YouTube Description: Tim Minchin, the former UWA arts student described as "sublimely talented, witty, smart and unabashedly offensive" in a musical career that has taken the world by storm, is awarded...
View ArticleThe elegant gentleman's guide to knife fighting
(youtube) The Elegant Gentleman's guide to Knife Fighting is an Australian sketch show- they came to me and said "you love Terry Gilliam, right?" Yes. Yes I do. I made them a bunch of animated bumpers,...
View ArticleHow Africans see White Culture
Story line: A team of the All African Television network, wanders into the darkest regions of the Eastern Alps. They observe the habits and rituals of the natives and make not one, but two ethnological...
View ArticlePaul J. Steinhardt -- Inflationary cosmology on trial [2011]
Vanderbilt University Seyfert Lecture featuring Dr. Paul J. Steinhardt, the Albert Einstein Professor in Science and director of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science at Princeton University....
View ArticleIran's Nuclear Programme and International Law
Some of the legal arguments related to Iran's nuclear program summarised by law professor and non-proliferation treaty expert Dan Joyner.
View Articlethe ultimate electro disco mashup-no really-its the ultimate
22 different artist used in this ultimate electro disco mashup. dj john type aka dj turntablist
View ArticleA video about cybersecurity that you should really watch
Cybersecurity as Realpolitik by Dan Geer presented at Black Hat USA 2014. --- Dan Geer's Black Hat 2014 talk Cybersecurity as Realpolitik (also available as text) is thoughtful, smart, vital, and cuts...
View ArticleHead to Head -- Is the US a force for good in the world?
Mehdi Hasan talks with Thomas Friedman (mostly) on US foreign policy ...
View ArticleAuthors@Google: Nick Bostrom on Superintelligence
What happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent...
View Article"What is life?", public lecture by prof. Jeremy England, MIT
MIT physicist Jeremy England claims that life may not be so mysterious after all, despite the fact it is apparently derived from non-living matter. In a new paper, England explains how simple physical...
View ArticleSean Carroll: a compilation of thoughts on death & afterlife
Sean Carroll explains that death is final and why that is so.
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