Sunday, November 08, 2009
Brock String Training Video - Vision Therapy
Complete vision therapy training video for Brock String.
World's largest Pencil
In the last few years Guinness Record holder Ashrita Furman has always surprised us with a special present for his teacher Sri Chinmoy's birthday on August 27th. In 2007 he wanted to break the record of building the world's largest pencil, and he did it with the help of an international group of gifted and brave friends. It is over 76 feet long, weighs 18,000 pounds, represents the volume of 1,900,000 regular pencils and contains 4,500 pounds of graphite. Watch the building and celebration of this unusual record-breaking birthday present in Queens, New York.
Robert Lang folds way-new origami
Robert Lang is a pioneer of the newest kind of origami -- using math and engineering principles to fold mind-blowingly intricate designs that are beautiful and, sometimes, very useful.
Lennart Green does close-up card magic
Like your uncle at a family party, the rumpled Swedish doctor Lennart Green says, "Pick a card, any card." But what he does with those cards is pure magic -- flabbergasting, lightning-fast, how-does-he-do-it? magic.
Jon Stewart Does Glenn Beck
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Few people who watch Jon Stewart watch Glenn Beck, so few in the audience even knew he was doing a spot-on parody of Beck and his show. Outrageously great. This ran this past Thursday.
Don Norman on 3 ways design makes you happy
In this talk from 2003, design critic Don Norman turns his incisive eye toward beauty, fun, pleasure and emotion, as he looks at design that makes people happy. He names the three emotional cues that a well-designed product must hit to succeed
Lang-8 Introduction
Lang-8 is a social networking site for language exchange and international communication. At Lang-8, you can write in the language you are learning, have them corrected by users whose native language is the one you are studying, and then help other people that are learning your native language.
Lang-8 makes language learning fun thanks to the social aspect! Make friends and learn about their lives while learning and practicing a new language. Lang-8 makes it easy to learn, and you'll always want to come back to practice!
http://lang-8.com
“Horrible Things” Slink Back Into Zynga
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/07/horrible-things-slink-back-into-zynga/
The Crisis of Credit Visualized
The goal of giving form to a complex situation like the credit crisis is to quickly supply the essence of the situation to those unfamiliar and uninitiated. This project was completed as part of my thesis work in the Media Design Program, a graduate studio at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. For more on my broader thesis work exploring the use of new media to make sense of a increasingly complex world, visit my website at http://jonathanjarvis.com/ or email me at: jonathan.jarvis@gmail.com
Rethinking Streets in Paris
" Back in July I made a video about Paris' public bicycle system, Velib. Its success must in part be credited to the provisions made for safe cycling and the understood "street code," where users are responsible for others whose vehicles are lighter than their own. This video explores traffic calming amenities Paris has installed. For example, in several areas of Paris curbs have been removed and bikes, pedestrians, buses and taxis coexist at low speeds. On wider roads bikes share the BRT lanes with buses and taxis. Counter-flow bike lanes expand the bike network. Raised crosswalks and neckdowns slow traffic and make pedestrians more visible at intersections. Watch for more. "
The Story of Our Earth Made Easy
Is the Earth really 6,500 years old? And was there a global flood 4,000 years ago? The only way to find out is to look at the clues from the past. This video explains the evidence geologists use that shows slow uplift, erosion and sedimentation over billions of years.
The Origin of Life Made Easy
This is the third in a series of videos about the scientific evidence for our origins video, without the need for deities or the supernatural. This video answers two commonly held fundamentalist misconceptions: That scientists believe life popped out of nowhere, and that life cannot come from non-living chemicals. It explains the most commonly accepted hypothesis about the origin of life on Earth. The video simply shows the various steps to forming primitive cells and challenges fundamentalists to show which one is impossible, and why.
History_of_Our_Universe_Made_Easy_(Part_рез & 2)
The story of how humans learned that our universe is far larger and much older than bronze-age myths led us to believe. This video shows the evidence for the the scale of our universe.
The second in the series of videos explaining our natural, not supernatural, origins. This video showing how our universe, solar system and planet Earth formed through natural and predictable processes. (Music: Rodrigo's 'Concierto de Aranjuez' adagio -- soloist Kaori Muraji)
Itay Talgam: Lead like the great conductors
An orchestra conductor faces the ultimate leadership challenge: creating perfect harmony without saying a word. In this charming talk, Itay Talgam demonstrates the unique styles of six great 20th-century conductors, illustrating crucial lessons for all leaders
Philip Zimbardo: How ordinary people become monsters ... or heroes
Warning : Graphic unseen photos from the Abu Ghraib trials.
Philip Zimbardo: How ordinary people become monsters ... or heroes
Philip Zimbardo knows how easy it is for nice people to turn bad. In this talk, he shares insights and graphic unseen photos from the Abu Ghraib trials. Then he talks about the flip side: how easy it is to become a hero, and how we can rise to the challenge.
Philip Zimbardo: How ordinary people become monsters ... or heroes
Philip Zimbardo knows how easy it is for nice people to turn bad. In this talk, he shares insights and graphic unseen photos from the Abu Ghraib trials. Then he talks about the flip side: how easy it is to become a hero, and how we can rise to the challenge.
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