Tag Archives: Video

A Crash Course in World History

Give John Green 40 weeks and he will give you a playful and highly visual crash course in world history. The series starts with The Agricultural Revolution and the Indus Valley Civilization. New video installments will be released throughout the … Continue reading

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The Love Competition at Stanford

This is your brain on love. Can one person experience love more deeply than another? That’s what The Stanford Center for Cognitive and Neurobiological Imaging and filmmaker Brent Hoff set out to understand when they hosted the 1st Annual Love … Continue reading

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Elmore Leonard on Writing

Elmore Leonard penned the colorful, clever and very exciting thrillers ‘Mr Majestyk’, ‘Stick’, ‘Cat Chaser’, ’52 Pick up’ In this 2006 video Elmore Leonard talks about his career to date and gives insight into his writing methods. Elmore Leonard explains … Continue reading

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Sneak Peak Greatest Toy in the Universe!

From reddit: People like this guy really put a smile on my face… I love seeing people so much in love with what they do. This guy is a complete and total bad-ass. Seriously. (He’s also nearly constantly manic too, … Continue reading

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Three Passions of Bertrand Russell

“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life,” wrote Bertrand Russell in the prologue to his autobiography: “the longing for love, the search for knowledge, an unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.” This short video is a … Continue reading

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One of the Biggest Risks is Being Too Cautious…

To eat bacon sandwiches or not to eat bacon sandwiches? That’s the question that David Spiegelhalter, “Professor Risk” at Cambridge University, tackles in this short video examining stats, life, and whether we should err on the side of caution … … Continue reading

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Solve for X: Nicholas Negroponte on learning by themselves

Solve for X is a forum to encourage and amplify technology-based moonshot thinking and teamwork. http://www.wesolveforx.com http://goo.gl/T3qQo Can emerging technologies empower children to learn to read on their own? What if it was possible for a device to be smart … Continue reading

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Singing An Order at a Sonic’s Drive Thru

This is wonderful. The world needs more of this. More about the singer.

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OK Go – Needing/Getting

OK Go set up over 1000 instruments over two miles of desert outside Los Angeles. A Chevy Sonic was outfitted with retractable pneumatic arms designed to play the instruments, and the band recorded this version of Needing/Getting, singing as they … Continue reading

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Anniversary Gift to Lisa

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