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Vril What is Vril - Is it true that an early science finction book called The Coming Race - published in 1871, led to the rise of Nazi Germany?  At a time when people had not heard of Science Fiction and believed that what they were reading was true a cult was fashioned - on whose membership included Hitler and the boys.More
Second Life Video 20000 computers creates Second Life . 250,000 a day, space is 10x size as San Francisco. 100,000,000 user created objects.

Why build a virtual world? Philip Rosedale talks about the virtual society he founded, Second Life, and its underpinnings in human creativity. It's a place so different that anything could happen.

How things in nature tend to sync - video
Steven Strogatz

more video

Mathematician Steven Strogatz shows how flocks of creatures (like birds, fireflies and fish) manage to synchronize and act as a unit -- when no one's giving orders. The powerful tendency extends into the realm of objects, too.

Millenium Bridge - http://www.arup.com/MillenniumBridge/indepth/video.html
SeedMagazine - Seed Salon  
TED  
FORA.TV http://fora.tv/2008/11/12/Allan_Chapman_History_Science_and_Religion

Professor Allan Chapman examines the duty of historians to bring the true history of scientific achievement to the public.

By emphasizing the "grand amateurs" of the nineteenth century, Chapman debunks long-standing myths and assumptions about western scientific tradition.

Ron Eglash: African fractals, in buildings and braids - TED.com

 		 FRACTALS - Ron Eglash is an ethno-mathematician: he studies the way math and cultures intersect. He has shown that many aspects of African design -- in architecture, art, even hair braiding -- are based…

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ron_eglash_on_african_fractals.html
http://www.rpi.edu/~eglash/eglash.dir/afractal/afarch.htm

http://www.ccd.rpi.edu/Eglash/csdt/african/CORNROW_CURVES/cornrow_homepage.html

http://stsh-4961.wiki.hss.rpi.edu/index.php?title=Main_Page

This fern is classic, and many algae are good examples, as are lungs. I've looked at clouds from both sides now.

Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world

 Mycologist Paul Stamets lists 6 ways the mycelium fungus can help save the universe: cleaning polluted soil, making insecticides, treating smallpox and even flu ... Read more.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_can_save_the_world.html

 

Al Gore: New thinking on the climate crisis

March 08		 Al Gore presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists recently predicted. He challenges us to act.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/al_gore_s_new_thinking_on_the_climate_crisis.html
THE GOD MOVIE http://www.thegodmovie.com/canada/trailer.php
Inside the financial meltdown  
A beautiful new theory of everything Physicist Garrett Lisi has proposed a new "theory of everything" -- a grand unified theory that explains all the elementary particles, as well as gravity. Full bio and more links Quantum Physics
Father Coyne Links Age of Stars to Beginning of Life
 13.7 year universe
Dadi Gulzar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cuccnqfu_c

Arthur Benjamin

 http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/arthur_benjamin_does_mathemagic.html

In a lively show, mathemagician Arthur Benjamin races a team of calculators to figure out 3-digit squares, solves another massive mental equation and guesses a few birthdays. How does he do it? He’ll tell you.

Course - Joy of Mathematics @ www.teach12.com
Kieth Barry http://itricks.com/news/?cat=23 See Steve Strogatz on Synch
Hans Rosling

TED - Hans Rosling: New insights on poverty and life around the world
Tim Berners-Lee

TED - Tim Berners-Lee: The next Web of open, linked data
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html
David Pogue

TED - David Pogue: Cool new things you can do with your mobile phone
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/david_pogue_on_cool_phone_tricks.html
Mind boggling New Science

Juan Enriquez

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/juan_enriquez_shares_mindboggling_new_science.html

TED - Juan Enriquez thinks and writes about the profound changes that genomics and other life sciences will cause in business, technology, politics and society. Full bio and more links

 
CAnadian 2 fingered Pianist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FSnalrPYpc
Secretes of the Federal Reserve http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm
Fiat Money Video 1  --> Video 2
WADE DAVIS
Ethnobiology		 Video 1 --> Video 2
Magnetic Fields http://www.redefinegod.com/video/the-mystery-of-magnetic-fields

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9NohlfWfQw

 
Dr. Stanley Krippner Dr. Stanley Krippner's Vision for Humanity and Earth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DBo2Aa-aVA

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Carl Sagan On God and Gods

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Black Holes Black Hole Montage - NASA Galaxy Big Bang - PHJ

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Esref Armagan The artist with no eyes, Esref Armagan

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Akiane - Indigo Child

 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiwjjCeylCY

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The Secret
Law Of Attraction 		BOB PROCTOR & Friends to Law of Attraction - FULL 24 minutes - more

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OPRAH  - Paradigm Shift

The Quantum Apocalypse
of The Holographic
Universe

 		  

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Culture Is Your Operating System

 Taken from the show "Light of the 3rd Millenium". Pictures are from among various artists like Alex Grey, Mark Henson and google. :) Music is Murcof.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c8an2XZ3MU

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Chimpanzee Memory Test
(National Geographic)

 What really sets us apart from our cousins? Our wonderful memory? No, not that, either. This video illustrates that our ape cousins far exceed us in short term memory recall skills. A chimp is ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJAH4ZJBiN8

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also - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMHiOCD-0aI&feature=related
Did You Know This video is about the exponencial growth of available information in our society and what might happen in the future. UPDATE: The video is a 2008 remastered version of the original 2006 present...

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NPR - IS YOUR BRAIN ON GOD? http://www.npr.org/news/specials/2009/brain/
Karen Armstrong's

History of God

 http://www.tedprize.org/karen-armstrong/a-history-of-god-the-movie/ - or
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=44085221

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-5878946240709214865&ei=8VROSuLvH42CqQKrgrniCA&q=a+history+of+god+video&hl=en

<a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=44085221">A History of God</a><br/><object width="425px" height="360px" ><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/><param name="movie" value="http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/embed.aspx/m=44085221,t=1,mt=video"/><embed src="http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/embed.aspx/m=44085221,t=1,mt=video" width="425" height="360" allowFullScreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"></embed></object>

also Philosophers TV
http://intellectualz.wordpress.com/
A History Of The Devil. http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=44638893

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ7pSQCE22I&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fbinauralbeatsformeditation.com%2Fblog%2Fcategory%2Fmeditation-videos%2F&feature=player_embedded

 
Jill Bolte Taylor

Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight

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http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html

VS Ramachandran

VS Ramachandran on your mind

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Hazel McCallion http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=1548

88 year old mayor of Mississauga.
Is This Your Brain On God? NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO - Is This Your Brain On God?

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=110997741&ps=cprs
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a bizarre illusion can make you feel like a rubber hand is your own.