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Headline Tag: Science Rating: Good Hits: 8230 Comments: 0 Video Tour: International Space Station Video Tour: International Space Station In her final days as Commander of the International Space Station, Sunita Williams of NASA recorded an extensive tour of the orbital laboratory and downlinked the video on Nov. 18, just hours before she, cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency departed in their Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft for a landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan. The tour includes scenes of each of the station's modules and research facilities with a running narrative by Williams of the work that has taken place and which is ongoing aboard the orbital outpost. User: spam_vigilante Dec 15, 2012 9:20 AM
Headline Tag: Pop Culture Rating: Good Hits: 6032 Comments: 0 Tootsie Roll Pop Commercial 1969 Tootsie Roll Pop Commercial 1969 In 1969, Tootsie Roll Industries aired its famous animated television commercial featuring a boy asking various animals how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop. The commercial was produced by Murakami-Wolf, and animated by Vincent Davis. A shortened version of this commercial still airs on television today, making it one of the longest running commercials of all time While the original commercial is 60 seconds long, an edited 30-second version and 15 second version of this commercial are the ones that have aired innumerable times over the years. According to the official Tootsie Roll website, over 50,000 children have written in since the launching of the commercial in 1970, claiming they know how many licks it takes. Their responses have ranged from 100 to 5,800. Three independent research studies have been carried out to determine the answer. Engineering students at Purdue University devised a "licking machine" that showed an average of 364 licks are needed to get to the center. Using 20 human volunteers, the figure was 252. A doctoral student at the University of Michigan created another licking machine and came up with an average of 411 licks. After the commercial, Mr. Owl became the mascot for Tootsie Roll Pops, appearing in marketing campaigns and on the packaging. Mar 6, 2013 2:48 PM
Headline Tag: Politics Rating: Amazing Hits: 4423 Comments: 0 Dawkins: Sex, Death & the Meaning of Life, Sin Dawkins: Sex, Death & the Meaning of Life, Sin If there is no God watching us, why be good? Richard Dawkins examines sin. He asks whether the old religious rules about what is right and wrong are helpful and explores what science can tell us about how to be good. Dawkins journeys from riot-torn inner city London to America's Bible Belt, building a powerful argument that religion's absolutist moral codes fuel lies and guilt. He finds the most extreme example in a Paris plastic surgery clinic that specialises in making Muslim brides appear to be virgins once again. But what can science and reason tell us about morality? Through encounters with lemurs, tango dancers, the gay rights campaigner Matthew Parris and the scientist Steven Pinker, Dawkins investigates the deeper roots of moral behaviour in our evolutionary past. He explores the rituals that surround mating and the science of disgust and taboo. Drawing on crime data and insights from neuroscience, he argues that our evolved senses of reason and empathy appear to be making us more and more moral, even as religious observance declines. Ideas about the soul and the afterlife, of sin and God's purpose have shaped human thinking for thousands of years. Religious rituals remain embedded in the major events of our lives. In this thought-provoking series, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins asks what happens if we leave religion behind. He explores what reason and science might offer to inspire and guide our lives in religion's place. Can science bring understanding in the face of death, help us tell right from wrong, or reveal the meaning of life? Series 1 Episode 1 15 October 2012 User: spam_vigilante Jan 24, 2013 9:25 AM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Good Hits: 3612 Comments: 9 Lonely Island: Ras Trent Lonely Island: Ras Trent A reggae song about the plight of being a white, upperclass, Ivy League Rasta. Originally aired: October 25, 2008 Track produced by Sly and Robbie Sep 25, 2012 2:50 PM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Good Hits: 3156 Comments: 1 BBC: Beautiful Equations BBC: Beautiful Equations Artist and writer Matt Collings takes the plunge into an alien world of equations. He asks top scientists to help him understand five of the most famous equations in science, talks to Stephen Hawking about his equation for black holes and comes face to face with a particle of anti-matter. Along the way he discovers why Newton was right about those falling apples and how to make sense of E=mc2. As he gets to grips with these equations he wonders whether the concept of artistic beauty has any relevance to the world of physics. User: Pantufas Mar 10, 2013 4:08 AM
Headline Tag: Science Rating: Good Hits: 3095 Comments: 0 What's The Most Dangerous Place on Earth? What's The Most Dangerous Place on Earth? Subscribe to Vsauce. It's FREE! http://bit.ly/POIaN7 Music by Jake Chudnow: http://www.youtube.com/jakechudnow Vsauce2: http://www.youtube.com/Vsauce2 Vsauce3: http://www.youtube.com/Vsauce3 Falling into lava video: http://youtu.be/kq7DDk8eLs8 Flowing lava video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAymSMrOlOQ What death by lava would actually be like: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/12/the-right-and-wrong-way-to-die-when-you-fall-into-lava/ Where you can find a lava lake: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava_lake How percentage of people are still alive? http://what-if.xkcd.com/27/ Hypothermia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothermia Mariana Trench: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_trench AMAZING xkcd chart showing depths to scale (click for larger pic): http://xkcd.com/1040/ Influenza: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza Black Death: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death Malaria total fatalities: http://www.aaas.org/international/africa/malaria/gwadz.html Global Peace Index: http://www.visionofhumanity.org/gpi-data/ Cabot Cove murder rate: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2191990/Murder-capital-world-Quiet-seaside-town-Cabot-Cove-named-dangerous-place-Earth.html Most dangerous cities by murder rate: http://www.businessinsider.com/most-dangerous-cities-in-the-world-2012-10?op=1 Dirtiest cities: http://www.popsci.com/environment/gallery/2008-06/worlds-dirtiest-cities Lake Karachay: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2215023/Is-polluted-place-Earth-The-Russian-lake-hour-beach-kill-you.html Chernobyl as haven for wildlife: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/04/ff_chernobyl/all/ User: runarounddead Jan 21, 2013 12:57 PM
Headline Tag: Michigan Rating: Amazing Hits: 2932 Comments: 1 2012: A Year on My Lid in Highland Park MI 2012: A Year on My Lid in Highland Park MI This video is to show people what it is like to fight fires, and what firefighters across the nation do every day. The more people who realize, the better it will be for our profession. I put together a bunch of clips from some of the better helmet cam footage I got this year while fighting fires in Highland Park. I had to replace several lens's and a couple mounts throughout the year, so the camera was not always on my helmet. All the clips are from my own camera, and they are all real fires. No training fires. The music is not minem it is obviously Eminems- till I collapse. I was just trying to make it a bit more interesting then just a bunch of clips. I understand some people might not appreciate the music, but hey its my video. We love doing our job in Highland Park. And we do it often. Our aggressive attack might seem odd to some since most of these are "vacant" homes. But we are here to put fires out and the best way to do that is from the inside. Stay safe brothers...stay low Check out www.firevideo.net these guys hooked me up and I will be using their camera from now on. User: spam_vigilante Jan 16, 2013 3:57 AM
Headline Tag: Humor Rating: Good Hits: 2927 Comments: 3 Lizard Soldiers of the Third Reich Lizard Soldiers of the Third Reich American GIs are being decimated by Nazi dinosaurs all over the Western front. Danger 5 heads to Belgium to investigate and has a series of close shaves with a trigger-happy Triceratops and a perverted Nazi Pterodactyl. Claire discovers that the dinosaurs have all been implanted with a mysterious type of crystal, native to Antarctica and Danger 5 embark on a journey to the South Pole. Antarctica proves to be a lost plateau of prehistoric wonder where Danger 5 encounter the bizarre Dr Josef Mengele and his sinister volcano base filled with Nazi dinosaur minions. wiki c&p;) Danger 5 is an Australian action comedy television series on SBS One which premiered on 27 February 2012. The pulp magazine-inspired series was created by Dario Russo and David Ashby. The show is set in a bizarre 1960s interpretation of World War II and follows a group of five international spies on a mission to kill Adolf Hitler and thwart his plans of world domination. After the success of the web series Italian Spiderman created by Alrugo Entertainment (Russo, Ashby, Tait Wilson, Will Spartalis and Boris Repasky), Australian broadcaster SBS became interested in turning the project into a interstitial television show. Due to ownership and copyright issues within the production team, the project fell through. Nonetheless, SBS were still interested in Russo and Ashby and in 2009 offered a development deal for a new show. Russo and Ashby submitted three concepts that, regardless what was chosen, they would be happy to make. Danger 5 was the chosen concept, the most ambitious and dense of the three. /wiki c&p;) User: reacharoundher Jul 30, 2012 6:43 PM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 2843 Comments: 6 Chris Rock: Message for White Voters Chris Rock: Message for White Voters Jimmy Kimmel Live - Chris Rock - Message for White Voters Nov 3, 2012 5:04 PM
Headline Tag: Celebrities Rating: Amazing Hits: 2836 Comments: 0 Carl Perkins and Friends: Blue Suede Shoes: A Rockabilly Session, 1985 Carl Perkins and Friends: Blue Suede Shoes: A Rockabilly Session, 1985 Blue Suede Shoes: A Rockabilly Session was a concert that was held on 21 October 1985 in London, England, and featured rock n' roll pioneer Carl Perkins and his house band, along with friends as guest stars, including Eric Clapton, former Beatles George Harrison and Ringo Starr, as well as Dave Edmunds who acted as musical director for the show. Most of the repertoire performed in the concert consisted of Perkins' classic rockabilly songs from the 1950s. The concert special was originally broadcast on Cinemax in 1986 with introductory comments by Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, and Jerry Lee Lewis. The concert is a memorable highlight of Perkins' later career and has been highly praised by fans for the spirited performances delivered by Perkins and his famous guests. User: TheNextDylan Apr 26, 2013 8:30 AM
Headline Tag: How To Rating: Amazing Hits: 2695 Comments: 0 Ted Talks: Allan Savory: How to Green the world's Deserts and Reverse Climate Change Ted Talks: Allan Savory: How to Green the world's Deserts and Reverse Climate Change "Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert," begins Allan Savory in this quietly powerful talk. And terrifyingly, it's happening to about two-thirds of the world's grasslands, accelerating climate change and causing traditional grazing societies to descend into social chaos. Savory has devoted his life to stopping it. He now believes -- and his work so far shows -- that a surprising factor can protect grasslands and even reclaim degraded land that was once desert. Mar 4, 2013 1:01 PM
Headline Tag: Barack Obama Rating: Good Hits: 2682 Comments: 0 Neil deGrasse Tyson: Sputnik Moment Neil deGrasse Tyson: Sputnik Moment In Space Chronicles, Neil deGrasse Tyson describes how the Soviet Union was a catalyst for the U.S. space program, and China might be considered a similar catalyst today (http://goo.gl/fzGtH). Transcript-- When the president, President Obama, mentioned the Sputnik moment, seeing that we are losing a competitive edge to the Chinese and others, said, "This is a new Sputnik moment" and then he gave a list of things we should do, which included like higher speed Internet and light rail. I'm thinking, no, no. Energy independence, that's not a Sputnik moment. We should have those things anyway. Sputnik moments, you reserve those for grand visions that take your mind, body and soul to places that no one had previously dreamed. Sputnik moments are occasions where you invent tomorrow. I'm not old enough to remember 1957 but there's certainly plenty of people among us who do. And when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik that was a Sputnik moment. This was our sworn enemy, the communists. And we had our own state of self-assessment that we were technologically proficient, you know, we won the war. Our manufacturing was back in place and here's this country that we were telling the whole world that we were better than they were in every way that mattered and, bam, out comes a satellite. Our response was we created NASA; first we went berserk then we created NASA a year later. We redoubled our efforts in science and technology and engineering. And that would shape the identity of the United States from the end of the 1950s through the 1970s. The Sputnicity of that moment I think comes from the fact, whether or not the public knew this, the military folks knew it, that Sputnik was a hollowed out intercontinental ballistic missile shell. They took out the warhead and put in a radio transmitter that went beep, beep. The military folks knew that if they could put a radio transmitter in a ballistic missile shell and fly it over our heads that they have the new higher ground. So in that case the Sputnik moment was a military one. And it was clear that technology and science would be what would enable nations to take the lead and the high ground. Right now we're, we in America, we're sort of slowing down, or maybe everyone else is just speeding up but the effect is we've lost our edge. We've lost our leadership position. When President Obama said, "In a Sputnik moment, in fact we will rejuvenate the space program." The space program in fact is not dead it's just kind of smoldering back there. One of them is we'll be back to Mars in the 2030s, 2030's, maybe as early as the late 2020's. Who's gonna be president? On what budget? So that's a nice thing to listen to in a speech because he's thinking about the future but that's not a future that's actually within reach that anyone can act upon. I don't like Sputnik moments. I'd rather have been the leader all along. Why do we have to be shocked into being motivated to lead? Why don't we just lead all the time? And maybe that's just unrealistic, maybe that's just not human nature. Maybe we have to feel threatened in order to act. So yes Sputnik moments work, and if we can't lead all the time, let it be a Sputnik moment that kick starts our heart back beating again. But I can't help but be a little disappointed that we haven't stayed there. That we're going to have to play catch-up if we're gonna catch up at all. Directed / Produced by Jonathan Fowler & Elizabeth Rodd User: Curtius May 2, 2013 5:22 AM
Headline Tag: Humor Rating: Amazing Hits: 2638 Comments: 6 Sarah Silverman's Dirty Smartphone Hack Sarah Silverman's Dirty Smartphone Hack Sarah's iPhone "craft" will be on everyone's lips today. User: spam_vigilante Nov 9, 2012 2:54 AM
Headline Tag: Short Films Rating: Amazing Hits: 2627 Comments: 4 Louis CK: Apologize Louis CK: Apologize Funny and heartwarming. User: SilenTom Aug 9, 2012 1:59 PM
Headline Tag: Humor Rating: Good Hits: 2555 Comments: 4 Rifftrax: Birdemic Sample Rifftrax: Birdemic Sample http://www.rifftrax.com/rifftrax/birdemic Birdemic: Shock and Terror is the story of a software salesman who founds his own solar energy company after cashing in his stock options. Where it differs from the countless other Hollywood tales of software salesmen who found their own solar energy companies after cashing in stock options is that occasionally birds attack and kill people. Strong emphasis on occasionally, mind you. For while a less assured director might insist "I paid 12 dollars for these bird animations, and they're gonna be on-screen for every frame dammit!", Birdemic director James Nguyen instead chooses to focus on his characters. They eat meals, go to pumpkin festivals, hang out with their families, have themselves a party and every now and then make millions, buy Ferraris and date Victoria's Secret cover models. You know, typical stuff. The comic atmosphere is undercut, however, by the serious message Nguyen wants to impart onto the audience: the dangers of global warming. Trust us when we say that the only way that this sensitive issue could be handled more deftly is by anyone, anywhere, using any means. Birdemic: Shock and Terror is what you'd get if the Ice Cream Bunny starred in The Happening as directed by Tommy Wiseau. Mike, Kevin and Bill invite you to join them for this must-see RiffTrax. And do yourself a favor and experience it on Blu-Ray! http://www.rifftrax.com/rifftrax/birdemic User: TheNextDylan Jan 7, 2013 8:55 AM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 2492 Comments: 0 Bill Maher's Epic Response to Donald Trump Bill Maher's Epic Response to Donald Trump Trump suing Maher for ridiculous reason. Maher responds User: sonicjohnson Feb 9, 2013 3:28 AM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 2433 Comments: 1 Gilda Radner Commencement Speech: Columbia School of Journalism, 1979 Gilda Radner Commencement Speech: Columbia School of Journalism, 1979 In 1979, Gilda Radner threw a summer-long party at Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre. Share the fun as Gilda's Saturday Night Live alter-egos take on new comedy material not even the Not Ready for Prime Time Players were quite ready for. Among the many highlights: Emily Litella substituting for a Bedford-Stuyvesant teacher who's been the unfortunate victim of a "stubbing". Lisa Hoopner whining through "The Way We Were". Roseanne Roseannadanna grossing out grads at the Columbia School of Journalism. And joining in for even more hip happiness are several of Gilda's SNL cohorts. Paul Schaffer (Late Night with David Letterman) plays straight man and plays up a musical storm. Father Guido Sarducci (Don Novello), rock critic and gossip columnist for the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano, reveals the astonishing "Kennedy/Lincoln Coincidenza" and poses a new model for higher education: the five-minute university. User: spam_vigilante May 9, 2013 10:59 AM
Headline Tag: Politics Rating: Amazing Hits: 2417 Comments: 1 Africa for Norway Africa for Norway You too can donate your radiator and spread some warmth! Imagine if every person in Africa saw the "Africa for Norway" video and this was the only information they ever got about Norway. What would they think about Norway? If we say Africa, what do you think about? Hunger, poverty, crime or AIDS? No wonder, because in fundraising campaigns and media that's mainly what you hear about. The pictures we usually see in fundraisers are of poor African children. Hunger and poverty is ugly, and it calls for action. But while these images can engage people in the short term, we are concerned that many people simply give up because it seems like nothing is getting better. Africa should not just be something that people either give to, or give up on. The truth is that there are many positive developments in African countries, and we want these to become known. We need to change the simplistic explanations of problems in Africa. We need to educate ourselves on the complex issues and get more focus on how western countries have a negative impact on Africa's development. If we want to address the problems the world is facing we need to do it based on knowledge and respect. The video is made by The Norwegian Students' and Academics' International Assistance Fund (www.saih.no). With the cooperation of Operation Day's Work (www.od.no). With funding from The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) and The Norwegian Children and Youth Council (LNU). Music by Wathiq Hoosain. Lyrics by Bretton Woods (www.developingcountry.org). Video by Ikind Productions (www.ikindmedia.com) User: spam_vigilante Nov 22, 2012 1:19 AM
Headline Tag: Politics Rating: Good Hits: 2332 Comments: 1 Corporate Cash Threatens the Environment Corporate Cash Threatens the Environment If there's one issue that hasn't been talked about enough in this election, it's the environment. Yet the difference between the parties is stark: Republicans, bankrolled by polluters like the Koch Brothers, want to cut the EPA and rollback or weaken vital environmental protections like the Clean Air and Clean Water Act, laws that ensure millions of Americans can breath our air and drink our water safely. Mitt Romney calls the EPA "a tool in the hands of the President to crush the private enterprise system," and has vowed to block needed protections on things like fracking and carbon emissions. Interviews include Rep. Raul Grijalva (AZ-7); Jason Kowalski, Policy Director at 350.org; David Doniger from the Natural Resources Defense Council and former director of climate change policy at the EPA; and Joe Mendelson, director of global warming policy at the National Wildlife Federation, who share the history, purpose, and success of our environmental laws, and push back on the Republican lie that environmental protections are bad for the economy. User: spam_vigilante Apr 16, 2013 11:48 PM
Headline Tag: Cinema Rating: Good Hits: 2317 Comments: 5 Greatest Worst Movie Death Scene Ever: Kareteci kiz, 1973 Greatest Worst Movie Death Scene Ever: Kareteci kiz, 1973 From the Turkish, martial-arts exploitation film, Kareteci kiz, or "Karate Girl. Circa 1973. Sep 27, 2012 2:30 PM
Headline Tag: Politics Rating: Good Hits: 2180 Comments: 1 Where US Politics Came From: Crash Course Where US Politics Came From: Crash Course In the beginning, soon after the US constitution was adopted, politics were pretty non-existent. George Washington was elected president with no opposition, everything was new and exciting, and everyone just got along. For several months. Then the contentious debate about the nature of the United States began, and it continues to this day. Washington and his lackey/handler Alexander Hamilton pursued an elitist program of federalism. They attempted to strengthen the central government, create a strong nation-state, and leave less of the governance to the states, They wanted to create debt, encourage manufacturing, and really modernize the new nation. The opposition, creatively known as the anti-federalists, wanted to build some kind of agrarian pseudo-paradise where every (white) man could have his own farm, and live a free, self-reliant life. The founding father who epitomized this view was Thomas Jefferson. By the time Adams became president, the anti-federalists had gotten the memo about how alienating a name like anti-federalist can be. It's so much more appealing to voters if your party is for something rather than being defined by what you're against, you know? In any case, Jefferson and his acolytes changed their name to the Democratic-Republican Party, which covered a lot of bases, and proceeded to protest nearly everything Adams did. Lest you think this week is all boring politics,you'll be thrilled to hear this episode has a Whiskey Rebellion, a Quasi-War, anti-French sentiment, some controversial treaties, and something called the XYZ Affair, which sounds very exciting. User: loqi Apr 4, 2013 5:35 PM
 
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