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Web movies

Here are a few of my favorite webcasts, online movies, and youtube movies.

Carl Sagan - Cosmos

• Carl Sagan, “We are one planet”.
• Carl Sagan Speaks.
• Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot.
• Carl Sagan on evolution.
• Carl Sagan explains the fluidity of galaxies.
• Carl Sagan 4th Dimension Explanation.
• Carl Segan on the pre-socratic philosophers (part 1).
• Carl Sagan on the pre-socratic philosophers (part 2).

TED links

Here is a (rather long) list of talks held at TED that I found worthwile. Talks with an asterix have in front of them I found especially good.

• * Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight
• * Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
• * Evelyn Glennie: How to listen to music with your whole body
• * Craig Venter: A voyage of DNA, genes and the sea
• Neil Gershenfeld: The beckoning promise of personal fabrication
• * Ray Kurzweil: How technology’s accelerating power will transform us
• Dan Dennett: Ants, terrorism, and the awesome power of memes
• Dan Dennett: Can we know our own minds?
• Michael Shermer: Why people believe strange things
• * Richard Dawkins: An atheist’s call to arms
• * Juan Enriquez: Decoding the future with genomics
• Juan Enriquez: Why can’t we grow new energy?
• * Erin McKean: Redefining the dictionary
• Burt Rutan: Entrepreneurs are the future of space flight
• Al Gore: 15 ways to avert a climate crisis
• * Bill Clinton: Let’s build a health care system in Rwanda
• * Thomas Barnett: The Pentagon’s new map for war and peace
• Bjorn Lomborg: Our priorities for saving the world
• * Richard St. John: Secrets of success in 8 words, 3 minutes
• Jeff Hawkins: Brain science is about to fundamentally change computing
• * Tony Robbins: Why we do what we do, and how we can do it better
• Dan Gilbert: Why are we happy? Why aren’t we happy?
• * David Kelley: The future of design is human-centered
• Saul Griffith: Hardware solutions to everyday problems
• Bob Thurman: Becoming Buddha — on the Web
• David Kelley: The future of design is human-centered
• * Peter Gabriel: Fighting injustice with a videocamera
• Malcolm Gladwell: What we can learn from spaghetti sauce
• James Howard Kunstler: The tragedy of suburbia
• Robert Wright: How cooperation (eventually) trumps conflict
• Sir Martin Rees: Earth in its final century?
• Wade Davis: Cultures at the far edge of the world
• David Deutsch: What is our place in the cosmos?
• * Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty and truth in physics
• Amory Lovins: We must win the oil endgame
• * Philippe Starck: Why design?
• Daniel Goleman: Why aren’t we all Good Samaritans?
• Larry Brilliant: The case for informed optimism
• Vilayanur Ramachandran: A journey to the center of your mind

Physics and math

• BBC - Dangerous Knowledge. (This is a docu about the Foundations of mathematics, with mathematician Gregory Chaitin speaking, its about: Continuum hypothesis, Thermodynamics, Entropy, Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, Halting problem , Computability theory, Oracle machine)
• David Deutsch - Video Lectures on Quantum Computing (Universal Turing Machine, Quantum interference, Quantum information, Observable, Qubit)
• Paul Budnik - Mathematical Infinity and Human Destiny

Computers and programming

• Faith, Evolution, and Programming Languages
• How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters
• C++ Stylistics
• New Features in the Next C++ Standard
• Concepts: Extending C++ Templates
• Threads: C++ Threads, Getting C++ Threads Right, IA Memory Ordering
• GCC: Current Topics and Future Directions
• Reverse engineering techniques to find security bugs
• Graphics: Graphics Processors, Graphics APIs, and Computation on GPUs, Multi-Texture Mapping Using the GPU
• High End Computing and Scientific Visualization at NASA’s Columbia supercomputer.

Religion, atheism, etc

This section is not ment to hurt or insult anyone, the video’s range from satirical to inspirational.

• Ajahn Brahm: Dharma talk on loneliness (by BuddhistSocietyWA). and Dalai Lama - The Four Noble Truths (part 1, 2, 3, 4.)
• Steven Pinker - The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. Good talk, skip to the 3rd speaker.
• MeaningOfLife.tv Robert Wright interviews people, this is a slate site
• Richard Alpert - the mystical effects of LSD
• Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion (part 1), (part 2).
• Richard Dawkins and Alister McGrath
• Kissing Hank’s Ass (transcript)
• religion: Robbie Williams
• The Four Horsemen
• A Nation down the Drain ( Jesus Camp ) part 1