Aids PSA Topsy from Human Music & Sound Design on Vimeo.
Very touching video.
The song is Human by Leah Siegel
Archive for the ‘Random Tidbits’ Category
Women with AIDS gets filmed for 90 days – undergoes dramatic changes
Posted 30 Aug 2010 — by admin
Category Random Tidbits
Category Random Tidbits
Crises of Capitalism
Posted 27 Aug 2010 — by admin
Category Random Tidbits
Category Random Tidbits
In this RSA Animate, renowned academic David Harvey asks if it is time to look beyond capitalism towards a new social order that would allow us to live within a system that really could be responsible, just, and humane?
Check the authors website as well: http://davidharvey.org/
Random Tidbits: I, Psychopath
Posted 02 Aug 2010 — by admin
Category Documentary, Random Tidbits
Category Documentary, Random Tidbits
Psychopaths… we usually only know them from Hollywood movies. We never expect them to enter our real life. But, the psychopath is closer than you think. Experts believe their number to be as high as one in a hundred. Most of them function incognito in high-powered professions…all the way to the very top.
The question everybody is asking about the person in this documentary may sound as follows: “Is he really a psychopath, or is he just faking it?” An interesting back and forth between the documentary filmers, the medical staff and the psychopath ensues.
Very interesting. Have a look at the video after the break.
Random Tidbits: “Do you live in the past?” – The Secret Powers of Time
Posted 05 Jul 2010 — by admin
Category Random Tidbits
Category Random Tidbits
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.
How big is the Universe?
Posted 31 May 2010 — by admin
Category Random Tidbits
Category Random Tidbits
I think nobody can really fathom how insanely huge the universe is.
From the Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy
“Space,” it says, “is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space, listen…”
Now take a minute and look through these pictures.
Same shit, different oil
Posted 28 May 2010 — by admin
Category Random Tidbits, Watch this!
Category Random Tidbits, Watch this!
Seems like the whole BP oil spill fiasco is one huge dejavu. In August 1979 one huge oil leak appeared in the gulf of mexico. They used the exact same methods engineers use to this day to stop the oil from leaking.
Of course they failed in the exact same way.
It’s quite gut-wrenching to see how nobody learned from this experience. Somebody may even draw the conclusion that they do this on purpose to raise the oil price.
An opinion on the economic propaganda machine and peak oil
Posted 28 May 2010 — by admin
Category Random Tidbits, Watch this!
Category Random Tidbits, Watch this!
I personally don’t use youtube for serious discussion on topics like peak oil, economics or politics.
Until I found one very interesting person called lorax2013.
Not only does he provide videos regularly, they are actually quite interesting. He uses his short 10~min clips to educate people by stating his opinion. No diagrams, no pictures, just talk.
I really liked his last video on “economic propaganda”. So check it out.
More interesting videos after the break.
The Thirst or Knowledge – Like Getting Your Next Opium Fix
Posted 27 May 2010 — by admin
Category Random Tidbits
Category Random Tidbits
Neuroscientists have proposed a simple explanation for the pleasure of grasping a new concept: The brain is getting its fix.
“While you’re trying to understand a difficult theorem, it’s not fun,” said Biederman, professor of neuroscience in the USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
“But once you get it, you just feel fabulous.”
The brain’s craving for a fix motivates humans to maximize the rate at which they absorb knowledge, he said.
“I think we’re exquisitely tuned to this as if we’re junkies, second by second.”
This is what this site is all about. Addiction. The thirst for knowledge
What would someone on death row say as his last statement? This.
Posted 24 May 2010 — by admin
Category Random Tidbits
Category Random Tidbits
Some of them are insanely hard to read but its worth it.