Update to the About Page

The text for the About Page has been updated and the following items added:

Teachers Worth Learning From

• David Barsamian


• Amy Goodman


• Chris Hedges


• Mumia Abu-Jamal

Articles and Documents Worth Noting

• Money Unlimited: How Chief Justice John Roberts orchestrated the Citizens United decision, by Jeffrey Toobin


• Jury Nullification and the Rule of Law


• STEM Compression: A Brief Introduction


• The U.S. ‘War on Drugs’ and Honduras’ Miskito people


• Gödel and the limits of logic


• How Competition Is Killing Higher Education


• Dismembering the War on Drugs


• Democracy and Education: On Andrew Delbanco


• The bleak future of the Irish university


• Compassionate Investigational New Drug program


• The Caging of Americ: Why do we lock up so many people?


• Obama's War on Pot: In a shocking about-face, the administration has launched a government-wide crackdown on medical marijuana


• Drugs and the Meaning of Life


• How Companies Learn Your Secrets


• Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde on the Copyright Mafia


• The Powell Memo: “Confidential Memorandum: Attack of American Free Enterprise System”


• On advertising: Banksy vs. Gossage


• “ Afraid of Your Child's Math Textbook? You Should Be.


• What Isn’t for Sale? Market thinking so permeates our lives that we barely notice it anymore. A leading philosopher sums up the hidden costs of a price-tag society.


• The Case Against Grades


• Improving community health and safety in Canada through evidence-based policies on illegal drugs


• Digital divide


• Black Holes: Paradox Regained


• Uncompromising Photos Expose Juvenile Detention in America


• Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist

Documentaries Worth Watching

• Inside Job


• Children Full of Life


• Second Nature (Sector 9) Full Film


• Steal This Film


• Kings of the Ring: Four Legends of Heavyweight Boxing


• CATASTROIKA with English subtitles.


• Horizon: Richard Feynman - No Ordinary Genius (full version)


• Enron - The Smartest Guys in the Room


• Legacy: The Origins of Civilization


• Gotye - Making Making Mirrors - a short documentary


• Good Copy Bad Copy


• Poker: Amarillo Slim - Anything to win!


• Napoleon


• Poker: One of a Kind: The Rise and Fall of Stu Ungar (Youtube)


• Lifting the Veil


• Everything Is a Remix


• Free the Network (Motherboard)


• "I Am Fishead" Are Corporate Leaders Egotistical Psychopaths ?


• Witness : To the Last Drop (Part 1) , (Part 2)


• 1959 - Donald Duck - Donald in Mathmagic Land


• Bobby Fischer Against the World


• The Trap


• Why Are Thin People Not Fat


• Genghis Blues [Full and Untouched]


• The Quest for Tannu Tuva (Richard Feynman)


• The Yes Men Fix the World

Lectures and Interviews of Interest

• Peter Joseph - The Big Question (economy)


• Eben Moglen: Why Freedom of Thought Requires Free Media and Why Free Media Require Free Technology


• "Inside Job" Director Charles Ferguson: Wall Street Has Turned the U.S. into a "Predatory Nation" (Part 1), Where Are the Criminal Prosecutions for Financial Crisis? (Part 2)


• Glenn Greenwald Speaking about the consititution, Civil Liberties, and The War on Terror


• Exclusive: National Security Agency Whistleblower William Binney on Growing State Surveillance


• More Secrets on Growing State Surveillance: Exclusive with NSA Whistleblower, Targeted Hacker


• John Smart on Singularity 1 on 1: Accelerating Change Isn't Slowing Down


• Lawrence Krauss - The Future of Life in the Universe - Singularity Summit Australia 2011


• E.F. Schumacher on Appropriate Technology - 1977


• COMING HOME: E.F. Schumacher & the Reinvention of the Local Economy


• The Power of Networks: Knowledge in an age of infinite interconnectedness (RSA version)


• The true cost of oil: Garth Lenz @ TEDxVictoria


• "So Rich, So Poor": Peter Edelman on Ending U.S. Poverty & Why He Left Clinton Admin over Welfare Law


• Chris Hedges "Brace Yourself! The American Empire Is Over & The Descent Is Going To Be Horrifying!"


• Eben Moglen - From the birth of printing to industrial culture; the root of copyright


• The World Tomorrow with Julian Assange


• Noam Chomsky: "Free Markets?" (1997)


• Why Linux Sucks, Why Linux Does Not Suck


• Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies


• Sut Jhally: The Occupation of the American Mind 1


• Highlights of Calculus


• Guardian Activate Summit: The Look of Future Innovation


• Dissecting Stuxnet


• Richard Stallman in Zagreb, Croatia, April 23, 2012


• P. Sainath - Globalizing Inequality SPECIAL EDITION! - Feb. 25, 2005.


• The Patent Pollution Problem: Its Causes, Effects and Solutions


• Michael Hudson: Debt: The Politics and Economics of Restructuring 2/4


• Tariq Ali - Obama, Pakistan and the US empire


• Douglas Crockford: Principles of Security


• Michael Moran: The Reckoning: Debt, Democracy, and the Future of American Power, Authors at Google


• Jason Scott: The Atomic Level of Porn


• Richard Stallman on Copyright vs.Community in the Age of Computer Networks at the Seminar Digitizing Ideas, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana


• Howard Zinn - Myth Of The Good Wars (Three 'Holy' Wars)


• Communities in Conversation: Noam Chomsky


• Susan Savage-Rumbaugh: Apes that write, start fires and play Pac-Man


• Ha-Joon Chang: Economics Upside Down


• What's the economy for, Anyway?


• Pirate Television: John de Graaf and David Batker - What's the Economy for Anyway?


• Max talks to economist, Saifedean Ammous


• Solve for X: Neal Stephenson on getting big stuff done


• Glenn Greenwald and Noam Chomsky


• Noam Chomsky, Education For Whom and For What?


• William Li: Can we eat to starve cancer?


• Conrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers


• Peter Diamandis: Abundance is our future


• Bryan Stevenson: We need to talk about an injustice


• Mind-Body Interactions


• Tommy Douglas: Keeper of the Flame


• Douglas Rushkoff - Open Source Democracy


• Thomas Barnett: The Pentagon's new map for war and peace (scary)


• Jürgen Schmidhuber - When creative machines overtake man


• Rob Reid: The $8 billion iPod (Copyright Math)


• 'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009


• Noam Chomsky on the State-Corporate Complex: A Threat to Freedom and Survival


• Exposed: Inside the NSA’s Largest and Most Expansive Secret Domestic Spy Center in Bluffdale, Utah


• Creating Innovators: a lecture by Tony Wagner


• Economist Ha-Joon Chang on Currency Wars, the G20 and Why "There's No Such Thing As a Free Market"


• Anil Ananthaswamy: What it takes to do extreme astrophysics , and Authors@Google: Anil Ananthaswamy


• Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our decisions?

Music Worth Listening To

• Munir Bashir


• DJ Okawari


• Trentemøller


• Random Rab


• Thievery Corporation


• Dream Theater


• Origami Sound


• Flying Lotus


• Ratatat


• Animals as Leaders

Live Electronic Music to Attend

• Thievery Corporation

Animation to Blow Your Mind

• Dead Space: Downfall, and Dead Space: Aftermath


• FLCL


• The Legend of Korra

Art and Design Worth Viewing

• Eleanor Davis


• Doctor Rotciv


• Pod Collective


• Jacek Yerka


• OLLY MOSS


• Mario Martinez (aka MARS-1)


• Meredith Dittmar


• Jim Denevan


• Synaptic Stimuli


• Modern Math

News and Blogs Worth Scanning

• Galtung Johan


• Felix Salmon


• Glenn Greenwald

Movies Worth The Time

• Bulworth


• Cargo


• Chronicle


• Get the Gringo


• Harrison Bergeron


• The Avengers


• The Hudsucker Proxy


• The Muppets


• Thor

Resources and Tools

• Math Guy


• Noobroom (copy and paste url into address bar)


• wikiAudio


• erowid


• shroomery


• Cannabis Strain Explorer


• What are some "Must Have" Apps/Programs that every computer guru should have?


• Common Bird Songs


• The Pirate Bay


• 4chan torrenting FAQ

Sound Bites

• Bet Against The American Dream


• Meshnet


• Paul Robeson Students call for May 1st HS Student WALKOUT


• 9/11: A Conspiracy Theory


• Rob Reid: The $8 billion iPod (Copyright Math)


• Generation Wise (Montreal Protests)