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YouTubePallas cat checks out camera
Still the greatest moment in all the internet. Otocolobus manul FTW.
YouTubeThe Search For Meaning on Rick and Morty
Dan Harmon muses the philosophy guiding Rick and Morty's multiverse.
YouTubeA Conversation on the Economy with Joe Stiglitz and Paul Krugman
What do you get when you put two of the most well known and most widely cited economists in the world, both Nobel laureates, on stage together? A healthy dose of economic reality.
YouTubeOn compassion and cups of tea
Lama Tsering Everest on TEDxSaoPaulo. Lama Tsering talks about the development of compassion and the application of Buddhist philosophy in daily life.
YouTubeUnderstanding Jimi Hendrix
We all know that he's regarded as one of the best guitarists of all time, but where did he come from? And how did he achieve this status? That's what we're looking into in this video.
YouTubeUnlikely results
Scientists like to think of science as self-correcting. To an alarming degree, it is not.
YouTubeJigme Khyentse Rinpoche on Vegetarianism
Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche is the third son of Kangyur Rinpoche, the 16th Karmapa as the incarnation of…
YouTubeDo Cell Phones Cause Cancer?
Remember the last time you used your phone and it left a nice warm spot on your face? - Is that causing cancer?
YouTubeAlak Zenkar Rinpoche Conference of translators (2008)
Light of Berotsana Conference of Translators 2008. Sunday Morning Presentation with Alak Zenkar Rinpoche
YouTubeWatch 62 Years of Global Warming in 13 Seconds
From our friends at NASA comes this amazing 13-second animation that depicts how temperatures around the globe have warmed since 1950. You'll note an acceleration of the temperature trend in the late 1970s as greenhouse gas emissions from energy production increased worldwide and clean air laws reduced emissions of pollutants that had a cooling effect on the climate, and thus were masking some of the global warming signal.
YouTubeNew Tech Start-Up Bubble
When he lost his job at Newsweek, Lyons - who had long reported on Silicon Valley companies - accepted an offer from HubSpot, a red-hot Boston startup, as a "marketing fellow". Watch the talk to learn what happened next.
YouTubeBarry Lyndon: Use of the Mitchell BNC Camera and Zeiss Lenses
Interviewees reminisce on how Stanley Kubrick acquired the Mitchell BNC cameras and used them, in conjunction with NASA Zeiss lenses, to film Barry Lyndon ...
YouTubeWe're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads (TED)
We're building an artificial intelligence-powered dystopia, one click at a time, says technosociologist Zeynep Tufecki. In an eye-opening talk, she details how the same algorithms companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon use to get you to click on ads are also used to organize your access to political and social information. And the machines aren't even the real threat. What we need to understand is how the powerful might use AI to control us -- and what we can do in response.
YouTubeJesus Christ Superstar
Carl Anderson performing "Superstar" on the movie Jesus Christ Superstar made in the 70´s. I can tell for sure this is the BEST performance i´ve ever seen of JCS ever. Carl Anderson (Judas) and Ted Neeley (Jesus Christ) are just GREAT.
YouTubeWhat Makes John Bonham Such a Good Drummer?
This is fantastic! Beautifully explained and displayed. I never could get my head around Black Dog. Fool in the rain always makes me want to play, and simultaneously quit the drums forever.
YouTubeBach, "Little" Fugue in G minor
Bach, "Little" Fugue in G minor, BWV 578, performed on organ by Stephen Malinowski, with an animated graphical score.
YouTube21 Times Mel Brooks' Films Were Pure Genius
There's a reason Mel Brooks has won an EGOT. Welcome to Next of Ken, and in this episode, we're counting down 21 Times Mel Brooks' Films Were Pure Genius.
YouTubeCalligraphy of Chögyam Trungpa
Calligraphy of Chögyam Trungpa from the “Discovering Elegance” video, 1980.
YouTubeHow Technicolor changed movies
What was "glorious Technicolor?" It was a groundbreaking technology — but it was more than that, too.
YouTubeJoseph Stiglitz: Smith's Invisible Hand a Myth?
Most widespread magical thinking in history: that if everyone act according to rational self-benefit everyone would be led to prosperity by an invisible hand.
YouTubeHilbert's 15th Problem: Schubert Calculus
In the late 1800s, a mathematician, Hermann Schubert, computed all sorts of wild enumerative geometry problems, like the number of twisted cubics tangent to 12 quadrics -- which is apparently 5,819,539,783,680. And maybe that exact number doesn’t seem particularly important -- but the fact that Schubert was able to figure it out it is pretty amazing.
YouTubeWhy You Can't Win an Internet Argument
One of the internet's favorite pastimes is arguing, but very few of those arguments ever actually go anywhere. One of the internet's favorite pastimes is arguing, but very few of those arguments ever actually go anywhere. It can be frustrating to watch, but scientists have some ideas on why things play out the way they do.
YouTubeThe Future of Buddhism: Challenges and Opportunities in Modern Society
In March 2018, Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche gave teachings to the Rigpa Sangha in Berlin, London and Paris. These teachings are wonderful in any context, explain the Vajrayana practice of guru yoga in depth, and deal directly with the subject at hand.
YouTubePadmasambhava's Pureland Fire Puja
On this episode you can see scenes from the Fire Puja, a traditional Tibetan Buddhist ceremony performed on the third day of Padmasambhava's Pureland Consecration. Chagdud Gonpa Khadro Ling, Brasil, 2008.
YouTubeComputer Color is Broken
Now it's going to bother me forever every time I see “lazy” blending. MinutePhysics always finds a way to make me care about such arbitrary things.
YouTubeJunior Wells “Cryin' Shame”
Junior Wells performing Cryin' Shame, with Buddy Guy, guitar, and David Myers, bass, from the movie Chicago Blues, in 1970.
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