December 2010
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WatchWatch
Oliver Laric
Dec 31st
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Chances With Wolves
Chances With Wolves
Dec 29th
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Drawing Beats
Eclectic Method
Dec 29th
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Endless Loop of High Divers
Dec 29th
Dec 28th
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Flight Patterns: the intricate choregoraphy of the...
GE Aviation designs engines, flight paths, and advanced aircraft systems. To share the intricate choreography of flying in all its glory, they captured all the take-offs and landings that happen over the course of one day and combined them into one short film. Paths of Flight
Dec 28th
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Asteroid Discoveries From 1980-2010
  This is a view of the solar system showing the locations of all the asteroids starting in 1980, as asteroids are discovered they are added to the map and highlighted white so you can pick out the new ones. As the video moves into the mid 1990’s we see much higher discovery rates as automated sky scanning systems come online. Most of the surveys are imaging the sky directly opposite...
Dec 28th
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The Making of a Skateboard
Rekiem
Dec 28th
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Bill Gates on "Cell Phone Science"
  “But what I find even more impressive is how researchers are examining ways to put cell phones to use to improve health in developing countries. This week, the foundation announced grants of $100,000 each to eight scientists who are pioneering the use of cell phones to improve health care in communities where resources are limited. The grants are part of Grand Challenges Explorations, a...
Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Trippy Illusion Created with 400 Candles
Dec 24th
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Remote Plane Takes Tour of New York
Dec 24th
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Ken Robinson: Changing education paradigms
In this talk from RSA Animate, Sir Ken Robinson lays out the link between 3 troubling trends: rising drop-out rates, schools’ dwindling stake in the arts, and ADHD. 
Dec 24th
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Fake Subtitles
People take incomprehensible, or foreign bits of video, and add fake subtitles based on what the words sound like in English.
Dec 18th
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Natalie Beridze - "What About Things Like Bullets"
Dec 18th
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WikiRebels - The Documentary
 Sweden’s public service television, SVT, is releasing this one-hour documentary chronicling the history of WikiLeaks. From summer 2010 until now, Swedish Television has been following the secretive media network WikiLeaks and its enigmatic Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange.
Dec 18th
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Interview with Glen E. Friedman
Fuck You All, is an international traveling collection of photographs that span the prolific and influential career of artist, Glen E. Friedman. Now in its 13th year, this exhibition makes its way to San Francisco for the first time, bringing with it the work that presented some of the world’s most significant photographic contributions to the punk and hip hop subcultures and not only...
Dec 17th
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Scenarios for the Future of Technology and...
  The graphic above is from a report commissioned by The Rockefeller Foundation from GBN to examine the impact of technology on international development. via psfk.
Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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UN Secretary General at Pulse Camp
via Global Pulse New York, 3 December 2010 – By his own admission, it was the first time that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has made the keynote speech (video below) at a gathering of open source software technologists. The event marked the end of Global Pulse’s three-day Pulse Camp workshop and the opening of the second Random Hacks of Kindness Hackathon. Mr. Ban observed that the...
Dec 11th
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Iceberg Graffiti
 
Dec 10th
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Dec 9th
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From Sketch to Icon
Video of ink on paper sketches showing the development of drawings for the Women series of works by Ryan McGinness.
Dec 9th
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Dec 9th
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You Are Not A Gadget - Jaron Lanier
Jaron Lanier delivers a call to arms against digital collectivism and proposes more productive ways technology might interact with our culture.
Dec 8th
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Lykke Li - Get Some
Dec 7th
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The Health & Wealth of 200 Countries, Over 200...
 Hans Rosling’s famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport’s commentator’s style to reveal the story of the world’s past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has never done before - using augmented reality animation. In this spectacular section of ‘The Joy of Stats’ he tells the story of the world in...
Dec 7th