December 2011
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November 2011
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WatchEli Pariser: Beware online “filter bubbles”
For those who don’t know: Google, Facebook, etc filter out information from your searches and feeds…
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October 2011
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September 2011
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“Nobody is born a specialist. Every child is born with comprehensive interests,...”
– R. Buckminster Fuller (Critical Path, 1981)
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“The way the power structure keeps the wit and cunning of the intelligentsia —...”
– R. Buckminster Fuller
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May 2011
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WatchInventing women’s insecurities (Colbert report)
Research by Dove (Unilever) shows that 93% of women find their armpits unattractive…
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"One Killer Killing Another": Activist Allan Nairn... →
“… We have to stop these people, these powerful people like Obama, like Bush, like those who run the Pentagon, and who think it’s OK to take civilian life. And it doesn’t seem that they can be stopped by normal, routine politics, because under the American system, as in most other systems, people don’t even know this is happening. People know the face of bin Laden. They know the...
April 2011
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Watch5 exercises de kikô avec Kenji Tokitsu
Five basic exercises designed for health purposes and/or as basis for martial arts
March 2011
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WatchRe-thinking medicine & cancer
In this TEDTalk presentation, David Agus points out the necessity to radically change the traditional treatment of cancer by abandoning the failing reductionist approach.
Finally, science is making the shift towards a more holistic / systematic view on health and disease.
(Nederlandstalige & other subtitles are available in the video menu)
January 2011
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Bush Admin Officials Advised Retaliation Against... →
Companies like Monsanto are perfectly embedded in the US government. It is outrageous the way they could permanently f*** up ecosystems & public health safety - there are no long term & large scale studies on the effects of genetic engineering, it is a total jump in the dark.
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WatchArianna Huffington: How to succeed? Get more sleep
A short TEDWomen talk (4 min) on the benefits of a good night’s sleep. Ladies with a sharp & humorist side, gotta love ‘em!
December 2010
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Watch“Human Resources” - Scott Noble (2010)
A heavy but fascinating documentary on some of the prevailing social control mechanisms of modern society, also showing some of the most disturbing psychological experiments in our history.
[via skilluminati ]
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November 2010
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WatchSome politicians claim rich & poor do not exist
(Colbert Report - The Word: “Nothingness”)
October 2010
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Can neuromarketing research increase sales? →
I guess most of us hardly realize to which extent marketeers, psychologists and other scientists are doing their very best to influence your mind, to alter your reality. “Neuromarketing” is here and as long as society is asleep, it is here to stay, and you can be sure of it that it will get stronger. In the critical documentary “The Corporation” they show some of these...
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August 2010
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James Dyson Award: design something that solves a... →
… fascinating to learn how designers tackle issues such as desalinating and sterilizing water, medical problems, mobility, etc.
[via dr. Weil & New Scientist ]
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WatchSupernatural #1: Extrasensory perception
Scientists are starting to reveal the powerful communication & orientation tools of animals AND plants(!), amazing and wonderful to observe. And once again it is absolutely clear that there is only one global ecosystem that gets severely strained by one dominant but ignorant species…
[link to fullscreen here] [thanks to the BBC and David Demets ...
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WatchNet neutrality could be in danger
Big US corporations Google and Verizon are making plans that could be the end of net neutrality. This means they could restrict the availability of certain internet content, either by blocking or slowing down the speed. Dangerous evolution if you ask me…
July 2010
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WatchOlbermann’s Special Comment on the Sherrod case and the power of the media
USDA official Shirley Sherrod was falsely accused of racism by a right wing blogger on basis of a few sentences from a speech she gave, and by means of a televised witch hunt and no further investigation of her full speech, she was fired. She has already been reinstated, but the damage is done.
A rant of 12 minutes...
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WatchThat poor old oil industry…
“BP and its co-conspirators are also gaining from previously unreported tax benefits. It’s allowed to write-off the rent it paid for Transocean, the company that owned the Deepwater Horizon, in order to lease the oil rig. That saves BP hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Transocean, meanwhile, having fled first to the Cayman Islands and then to...
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June 2010
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WatchBP vs. Iraqi defense minister (from MSNBC Countdown with Keith Olbermann)
May 2010
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WatchTEDTalk Derek Sivers: Weird, or just different?