I've also started a video series providing further information and some reviews for some of the items listed below. Those videos can be found at: My Best of List: Some of My Influences (Q&A).
- Introduction
- Teachers Worth Learning From
- Books Worth Reading
- Comics and Graphic Novels
- Courses and Playlists worth Investing In
- Programs Worth Having
- Documentaries Worth Watching
- Lectures and Interviews of Interest
- Articles and Documents Worth Noting
- Music Worth Listening To
- Live Electronic Music to Attend
- Animation to Blow Your Mind
- Art and Design Worth Viewing
- News and Blogs Worth Scanning
- Movies Worth The Time
- Resources and Tools
- Sound Bites
Introduction
With the advent of the Internet we have seen unfiltered information travel at light-speed across the globe. This global community, functioning as the only true free society, is reshaping our world. Where this interaction and connectivity will lead is yet to be determined, however, the changes are and continue to be unprecedented.
As long as we have open and unbiased access to the Internet chycho.com will remain active, presenting a unique personal perspective and sharing our communal experiences and knowledge, the essence of the Internet.
As for who I am? I believe that our personal perspective is a reflection of our influences; hence, below I have provided some of my influences, both major and minor, from books that I have read, to teachers that I have encountered, to movies and documentaries that I have watched, to music that I have looped, and much more. This list in addition to the animated individual you see before you in the math videos should provide additional insight into my nature.
I hope you enjoy this labor of love.
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Teachers Worth Learning From
For some additional info see: "Some Primary Lessons from Some Amazing Teachers"
- John Taylor Gatto
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Ron Paul
- Dennis Kucinich
- Julian Assange
- Richard Stallman
- Dave Allen
- Bill Hicks
- John Pilger
- erowid
- Carl Sagan
- Wilhelm Reich
- Robert Anton Wilson
- Terence Mckenna
- Cannabis
- Nina Simone
- Nikola Tesla
- Alan Watts
- DM Turner
- Salvia Divinorum
- Fungi
- Howard Zinn
- Noam Chomsky
- Philip Agee
- Benny Hill
- C.S. Lewis
- Isaac Asimov
- Laurel and Hardy
- Charlie Chaplin
- Richard Feynman
- David Barsamian
- Amy Goodman
- Chris Hedges
- Mumia Abu-Jamal
Books Worth Reading
- “Education and the Significance of Life” by Krishnamurti
- "Wilhelm Reich in Hell" by Robert Anton Wilson
- "The Elegant Universe" by Brian Greene
- "Salvinorin: The Psychedelic Essence of Salvia Divinorum" by D.M. Turner
- "Tao of I Ching, Way to Divination" by Tsung Hwa Jou
- "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas R. Hofstadter
- "Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace" by Gore Vidal
- "The Epic of Gilgamesh"
- "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
- "Black Holes and Baby Universes" by Stephen Hawking
- "God's Equation" by Amir D. Aczel
- "Time & The Technosphere" by Arguelles
- "The Teachings of Don Juan" by Carlos Castaneda
- "Dune" by Frank Herbert
- "The Death Gate Cycle" by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
- “The Andromeda Strain” by Michael Crichton
- "The Screwtape Letters" by C.S. Lewis
Comics and Graphic Novels
- DMZ
- “Transmetropolitan” by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson
- "Bone" by Jeff Smith
- “The Walking Dead” by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore
- “Joker” by Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo
- “Preacher” by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
- “Batman: Arkham Asylum” by Grant Morrison and Dave McKean
- Hellblazer
- "Three Shadows" by Cyril Pedrosa
- "Calvin and Hobbes" by Bill Watterson
- "MBQ" by Felipe Smith
- "The Sandman" written by Neil Gaiman
- "Akira" by Katsuhiro Otomo
- "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns" by Frank Miller
- "Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again" by Frank Miller
- "Epicurus the Sage" by William Messner-Loebs and Sam Kieth
- "Marvel 1602" by Neil Gaiman and Andy Kubert
- "Lone Wolf and Cub" by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima
- “Abraxas and the Earthman” by Rick Veitch
- “Ordinary Victories” by Manu Larcenet
- Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol
- “Cerebus” by Dave Sim
- The Savage Sword of Conan
- Lobo: The Last Czarnian
- Unity and Pre-Unity Valiant comics
- “Batman: Year 100” by Paul Pope and José Villarrubia
- Matt Wagner's Grendel
- Sergio Aragones' Groo: “Death and Taxes”
- The Books of Magic (mini-series)
- Tekkon Kinkreet
- Hard Boiled
Courses and Playlists worth Investing In
- The Ultimate History Lesson: A Weekend with John Taylor Gatto
- Robert Anton Wilson Explains Everything; Or Old Bob Exposes His Ignorance (links to torrent on The Pirate Bay).
- Richard Hamming: "Learning to Learn"
- Walter Lewin: MIT 8.02 Electricity and Magnetism, Spring 2002
- Prof. Anant Agarwal: Circuits and Electronics
Programs Worth Having
Documentaries and Investigations Worth Watching
- Marley
- James Steele: America's mystery man in Iraq - video
- Canada's War on Weed
- Resistance in the West Bank
- Piece By Piece : San Francisco Graffiti Documentary
- Five Steps To Tyranny
- The War on Kids: The Definitive Documentary on the Failure of the Public Education System
- HUMAN RESOURCES Social Engineering In The 20th Century HQ FULL
- The Trials of Henry Kissinger
- The Retirement Gamble
- TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard
- Palestine Is Still The Issue
- WHEN WE GROW, This is what we can do (Full Documentary)
- Strain Hunters Morocco French Subtitles
- Rickson Gracie - Choke
- Objectified
- Urbanized
- America's 2nd Revolutionary War
- 911-Conspiracy Finally Solved!: Names, Connections, Motives, 911Matrix of Details Exposed!
- The Wind of Change: The End of Colonialism in Africa
- The scramble for Africa
- The Fourth World War
- Searching for Sugar Man
- Smashing Machine: The Life and Times of Extreme Fighter Mark Kerr
- Louis Theroux: Ultra Zionists
- What if Cannabis Cured Cancer: Full Version
- " IRAN (Persian : ایران ) " A Beautiful Documentary on Iran's culture in 1971 by Claude Lelouch
- John Trudell Documentary
- Breaking The Taboo
- We Are Legion
- Frontline: Money Power & Wall Street
- Surviving Progress
- Blue Gold: World Water Wars
- VICE Guide to Karachi: Pakistan's Most Violent City
- The Plastic Cow
- PBS Frontline - The Spirit of Crazy Horse (1990) - Torrent link on The Pirate Bay.
- Mark Thomas On Coca Cola
- Flying Lotus - Fly First
- Should Grandma Smoke Pot? Final Cut - Legalize Marijuana
- N.W.A. The World's Most Dangerous Group VH1 Rock Docs
- 9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out
- VICE: The Mexican Mormon War (Drug Cartels vs. Mormons)
- VICE: The Rise of Psychedelic Truffles in Amsterdam
- Suspect Nation
- 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
- The Two Escobars
- Graffiti Wars
- The Umbrella Man
- NOVA -The Fabric of the Cosmos: What Is Space?
- The VICE Guide to Liberia
- Weed Wars
- Garbage Warrior
- Michel Thomas, The Language Master
- Gwynne Dyer’s “War”
- The Century of the Self
- RiP: A remix manifesto
- Waiting for Superman
- Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
- WikiRebels
- Collapse
- Detroit Techno - The Creation of Techno Music
- Helvetica
- BBC Horizon (2011) - What is Reality
- Exit Through the Gift Shop
- The Secret Life of Chaos
- Wordplay
- Latcho Drom
- Lord of the Brush
- Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul
- Rock the Bells
- In the Realms of the Unreal
- Maestro
- Revolution OS
- Points in Space
- N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdös
- Genocide of the Armenians
- End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones
- Hoop Dreams
- When We Were Kings
- Earthlings
- Encounters at the End of the World
- The Fog of War
- The Spell of Poincare Conjecture
- Chambre 666
- Dance For Camera
- I.O.U.S.A. - One Nation. Under Debt. In Stress.
- The Betrayed: (Armenian Genocide documentary)
- Encounter Point
- The Miseducation of Pakistan (PDF)
- Waltz with Bashir
- Fermat's Last Theorem
- Died Young, Stayed Pretty
- Dangerous Knowledge
- Global Metal
- Planet B-Boy
- Life after People
- IRAQ: The Cradle of Civilization
- The World According to Monsanto
- Burma: Land of Fear
- Year Zero
- Aerosol Crimes
- Zeitgeist
- The Marcus Mosiah Garvey: "Look for me in the Whirlwind"
- The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear
- Biggie and Tupac
- The Doomsday Code
- Cosmos
- Buena Vista Social Club
- Liquid Crystal Vision
- Sir No Sir!
- LSD - The Beyond Within
- Iraq For Sale
- America: From Freedom to Fascism
- Orwell Rolls in His Grave
- Cover Up
- Style Wars
- Darwin's Nightmare
- The Private Life of Plants
- The Oil Factor
- Beyond Treason
- Plan Colombia
- Loose Change
- Why We Fight
- The Revolution will not be Televised
- Lotz Ghetto
- The Money Masters
- HAARP and Advances in Tesla Technology
- Bus 174
- Tesla: Master of Lightning
- Hemp Revolution
- Freedom Downtime
- Independent Media In A Time Of War
- Malcolm X: Make It Plain
- Grass
- A Brief History of Time
- The Secret
- The Elegant Universe
Lectures, debates, and Interviews of Interest
- Hamming, "Mathematics" (May 18, 1995) (from the playlist Richard Hamming: "Learning to Learn")
- Bradley Manning's Full Statement via Freedom of Press Foundation
- "Dirty Wars" discussion Scahill & Chomsky with Goodman (Part 2)
- NSA Whistleblower on Intelligence
- Mike Ruppert - CIA and Drug Running (1997)
- GRITtv: Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald on the Media's Wars
- Alfie Kohn - The (Alternative) Schools Our Kids Deserve - 2011 MAAP Conference (Part 2)
- Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air with David MacKay
- Forgotten Women of the War on Terror: Author Victoria Brittain on the Wives and Families Left Behind
- Yemeni Activist Farea al-Muslimi Urges U.S. to Stop the Drone War on His Country
- Dahr Jamail Returns to Iraq to Find Rampant Torture and a Failed State Living in "Utter Devastation"
- Right to Heal: Iraqi Civilians Join U.S. Veterans in New Effort to Recover from War’s Devastation
- Allan Savory - Reversing Global Warming while Meeting Human Needs
- Dying Iraq War Veteran Tomas Young Explains Decision to End His Life (Further info: Part 2; Phil Donahue; The Last Letter)
- Cyprus Should Let the Banks Go Bankrupt
- BBC-Guardian Exposé Uses WikiLeaks to Link Iraq Torture Centers to U.S. Col. Steele & Gen. Petraeus
- College Algebra - Lecture 2 - Language of mathematics
- From London to New York to Cyprus, Fraud and Financial "Insanity"
- Gar Alperovitz’s Green Party Keynote: We Are Laying Groundwork for the "Next Great Revolution"
- Abby Martin interviews Richard Grove on Russia Today’s “Breaking the Set” (RT)
- Icelandic Lawmaker Birgitta Jónsdóttir on Challenging Gov’t Secrecy from Twitter to Bradley Manning (Part 2: Birgitta Jónsdóttir on Criminalization of Cyber-Activists, Bradley Manning & Iceland’s Pirate Party)
- Israel's New Generation of Racists
- Youth Will Pay the Price of Austerity
- Testimony, Recordings at Trial Reveal the Racial Biases and Arrest Quotas Behind NYPD’s Stop & Frisk
- The Inevitability of Physical Laws: Why the Higgs Has to Exist | Nima Arkani-Hamed
- Culture in Decline | Episode #4 "War On Nature" by Peter Joseph
- Deb Roy: The birth of a word
- Iraq War Veteran Who Rescued Wounded Children in 2007 Apache Attack Describes Emotional Toll of Witnessing Infamous Killings
- Israeli Journalist Amira Hass Sparks Furor at Home for Defending Palestinian Right to Resist (Part 2)
- Wikileaks Releases Kissinger Cables and Two Decisions in Manning Trial
- Digital Disconnect: Robert McChesney on "How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy"
- US Syria Policy Promotes Endless Civil War
- U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. The full session can be viewed at: Outsourcing Accountability? Examining the Role of Independent Consultants (Note that the coverage begins at approximately 25:25). Fifteen minute segment from the hearing at: Senator Elizabeth Warren: Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection, panel 1 .
- US Syria Policy Promotes Endless Civil War
- "Mother Teresa of Somalia" Hawa Abdi and Daughter Deqo Mohamed on Healing Decades of War, Tragedy
- Arms Manufacturers Influence GCC and US Foreign Policy
- Why did Rwandan War Lord Accused of Crimes in Congo, Give Himself Up to the ICC?
- Venezuela Accuses U.S. of Plotting Coup After Deadly Post-Election Protests
- After Obama Shuns Probe, Bipartisan Panel Finds "Indisputable" Evidence U.S. Tortured Under Bush
- Massive Cheating Scandals Rock School Districts Nationwide
- Genocide Trial of Former Dictator Ríos Montt Suspended After Intervention by Guatemalan President
- Exclusive: Allan Nairn Exposes Role of U.S. and New Guatemalan President in Indigenous Massacres
- Big Commodity Traders Pocketed $250 Billion Profit
- Jeremy Scahill: The Secret Story Behind Obama’s Assassination of Two Americans in Yemen , and The World Is a Battlefield: Jeremy Scahill on "Dirty Wars" and Obama’s Expanding Drone Attacks
- As Obama Shuns Hearing, Yemeni Says U.S. Drone War Terrifying Civilians, Empowering Militants
- VICE on HBO: Congressman Jim McDermott Interview (Episode 3 - Toxic Iraq)
- Palestinian Authority Budget 28% for Security Forces - Funded by US
- Professor Chomsky Interview: Reflections on Education and Creativity
- Bill McKibben's Sermon at The Riverside Church - "God's Taunt"
- Professor Chomsky Interview: Reflections on Education and Creativity
- How Stanley Fischer Advanced Neo-Liberalism in Israel
- "The Terror Courts": An Inside Look at Rough Justice, Torture at Guantánamo Bay
- Torture at Guantánamo: Lt. Col. Stuart Couch on His Refusal to Prosecute Abused Prisoner
- Julian Assange speech that was censored by the Oxford Union
- Immortal Technique On Fire with Alex Jones
- The Problem With Our food and Why it's Killing Us
- Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud
- Banker Admits "We Engineered the Global Financial Crisis", Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
- WikiLeaks Whistleblower Bradley Manning Says He Wanted to Show the Public the "True Costs of War"
- Salt Sugar Fat: NY Times Reporter Michael Moss on How the Food Giants Hooked America on Junk Food
- 5 Years in Jail for Unlocking a Phone? Petition Led by Former GOP Staffer Prompts Probe of New Ban
- Glenn Greenwald on Bradley Manning: Prosecutor Overreach Could Turn All Whistleblowing into Treason
- Bradley Manning Tells Court Public Have the Right to Know About US War Crimes
- White House Denounces Cellphone Unlocking Ban Hours After Petition Backer Appears on Democracy Now!
- Venezuela's Real Division Over Who Benefits from Oil Wealth
- New Funding Group Calls for 100 More WikiLeaks to Offset Unprecedented Gov’t Secrecy
- Hugo Chávez Dead: Transformed Venezuela & Survived U.S.-Backed Coup, Now Leaves Uncertainty Behind
- Operation Condor Trial Tackles Coordinated Campaign by Latin American Dictatorships to Kill Leftists
- EPL Presents Chris Hedges
- The Life and Legacy of Hugo Chavez
- Daniel Ellsberg: In Hearing Bradley Manning Act Out of Conscience, Secret Tape Refutes Media Slander
- Bradley Manning Speaks: In Leaked Court Recording, Army Whistleblower Tells His Story for First Time
- Income Inequality: Evidence and Implications
- As Gitmo Prisoners Revolt, Obama Admin Challenged on Indefinite Detention at OAS Hearing
- What to do about Baltimore Schools
- John Stossel's Illegal Everything (prohibition)
- 2 Years After Invasion to Crush Uprising in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia Helps Fuel Conflict in Syria
- Documentary Exposes US Role in Iraq Sectarian Conflict
- Citizenville with Gavin Newsom -- Revelle Forum
- Arundhati Roy on Iraq War’s 10th: Bush May Be Gone, But "Psychosis" of U.S. Foreign Policy Prevails
- Tariq Ali on the Uses and the Abuses of History on Vimeo
- The New York Times and "Liberal Media" Helped Sell the Iraq War
- "We’ve Lost Our Country": An Iraqi American Looks Back on a Decade of War That’s Devastated a Nation
- Israel's Syria Strategy to Weaken Hezbollah and Profit from Chaos
- Robert Fisk on Syria’s Civil War, Chemical Weapons "Theater" & Obama’s Backing of Israeli Strikes
- Arab League's Peace Initiative Puts Israel in an Embarrassing Position
- Chicago Workers Open New Cooperatively Owned Factory Five Years After Republic Windows Occupation
- The Rehabilitation of Bush/Cheney
- European Governments Take Steps to Label Products of Israeli Colonies and Stephen Hawking Confirms Support of Israel Boycott
- Pollin Responds to Reinhart and Rogoff; Cuts Deepen and Stock Market Soars
- Accumulation Through Crisis: Global Stagflation & the New Wars -- by Jonathan Nitzan
- Authors@Google: David Graeber, DEBT: The First 5,000 Years
- Exclusive: As Gitmo Turns 11, Al Jazeera’s Sami al-Hajj on 6-Year Ordeal of U.S. Detention, Torture (Part 2)
- Roger Waters UN Address - Nov 29, 2012 (text - pdf)
- Devin Fidler - Realigning Human Organization
- J. T. Gatto interviewed by Lennart Mogren, Sweden, March 2003
- Allan Nairn: As U.S. Loses Its Global Economic Edge, Its "One Clear Comparative Advantage is in Killing, and It’s Using It"
- Noam Chomsky: Who Owns the World? Resistance and Ways Forward
- Glenn Greenwald at the CAIR-SFBA 18th Annual Banquet
- Dr. Gabor Maté on the Stress-Disease Connection, Addiction and the Destruction of American Childhood
- Twenty Myths About Unions
- The Other Bradley Manning: Jeremy Hammond Faces Life Term for WikiLeaks and Hacked Stratfor Emails
- Dennis Kucinich on the "Fiscal Cliff": Why Are We Sacrificing American Jobs for Corporate Profits?
- Outgoing Rep. Dennis Kucinich: With 2 Parties Failing U.S., It’s on Us to Build a "Culture of Peace"
- Ed Gavagan: A story about knots and surgeons
- William Noel: Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes
- Kurt Godel: The World's Most Incredible Mind (Part 2, Part 3)
- 2012 Culture and Resistance with Alice Walker, Randy Weston, Walter Mosley, Gore Vidal and More
- Alexander Bard - CPEU2 - Futurica Trilogy
- Paul Nicklen: Tales of ice-bound wonderlands
- Aaron Huey: America's native prisoners of war
- Throwaways: Recruited by Police & Thrown Into Danger, Young Informants Are Drug War’s Latest Victims
- Peter Thiel - Peter describes how our entire civilization is predicated on accelerating technological change
- Gandhi, Non-violence and the Occupy Movement: A conversation with Norman Finkelstein
- "One Killer Killing Another": Journalist and Activist Allan Nairn on Obama’s Targeted Killing of Bin Laden
- Arar speaks about Khadr
- "Failure of Epic Proportions": Treasury Nominee Jack Lew’s Pro-Bank, Austerity, Deregulation Legacy
- Matt Taibbi & William Black on Bailout Secrets & How New Foreclosure Deal Spares Banks from Justice
- John Cleese on Creativity
- Hamming, "Artificial Intelligence III" (April 13, 1995) (see playlists for more)
- "An Incredible Soul": Larry Lessig Remembers Aaron Swartz After Cyberactivist’s Suicide Before Trial; Parents Blame Prosecutor
- F2C2012: Aaron Swartz keynote - "How we stopped SOPA"
- Admin Aids French Bombing of Mali After U.S.-Trained Forces Join Rebels in Uranium-Rich Region
- Tuareg Rebels in Mali Declare Independence: Part of an African Awakening for Self-Determination?
- The End of Space and Time? - Professor Robbert Dijkgraaf
- Dirty Wars: Jeremy Scahill and Rick Rowley’s New Film Exposes Hidden Truths of Covert U.S. Warfare
- Fruitvale: Ryan Coogler’s Debut Film on Bay Area Police Slaying of Oscar Grant the Buzz of Sundance
- The Gatekeepers: In New Film, Ex-Shin Bet Chiefs Denounce Occupation, Compare Israel to Nazi Germany
- Is Egypt on the Brink of Collapse? Sharif Abdel Kouddous Reports from Restive City of Port Said
- Ex-CIA Agent, Whistleblower John Kiriakou Sentenced to Prison While Torturers He Exposed Walk Free
- Whistleblower John Kiriakou: For Embracing Torture, John Brennan a "Terrible Choice to Lead the CIA"
- Obama, Hagel and the Asian Pivot
- #132 Mexican Student Movement Confronts New President
- Parents and Students Demand Nationwide Moratorium on School Closings
- Penn. Judges Get Kickbacks for Placing Youths in Privately Owned Jails
- Belgian MP LAURENT LOUIS stands against war in Mali and exposes the international neo-colonial plot
- Jeremy Scahill: Assassinations of U.S. Citizens Largely Ignored at Brennan CIA Hearing
- Despite Offer of Direct Talks, U.S. Intensifies "Sanctions-Centric" Economic War Against Iran
- Decisive Action Needed to Resolve Food Crisis
- Cannabis Forgetting and the Botany of Desire: Michael Pollan
- Despite Planned Troop Withdrawal, Special Ops & Private Forces Prepare to Continue Afghan War
- Accused WikiLeaks Whistleblower Bradley Manning Testifies He Thought He Would "Die in Custody"
- The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water | Maude Barlow
- Gideon Levy: The Punishment of Gaza – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7
- Hernando de Soto, Naomi Klein, and Joseph Stiglitz on Economic Power
- Amy Goodman-The Silenced Majority
- Climate Change and the GDP-led Growth Model
- Retired Police Captain demolishes the War on Drugs
- David Rohde: Superstorm Sandy Has Exposed New York City’s "Hideous Inequality"
- Michael Klare: The Race for What's Left
- Tavis Smiley, Cornel West on the 2012 Election & Why Calling Obama "Progressive" Ignores His Record
- Gabor Maté - The Power of Addiction and The Addiction of Power
- Marcin Jakubowski - The Open Source Econom
- Juan Cole: Real Petraeus Failure Was Counterinsurgency in Iraq, Afghanistan
- Christians of the Holy Land
- Noam Chomsky on WikiLeaks, Obama’s Targeted Assassinations and Latin America’s Break from the U.S.
- Legendary Author Gore Vidal on the Bush Presidency, History and the "United States of Amnesia"
- "He Says One Thing and Does Another": Ralph Nader Responds to Obama’s State of the Union Address
- Kevin Anderson 'Rhetoric to Reality'
- U.N. Special Rapporteur Calls for Global Protection of Gaza Civilians from U.S.-Backed Israeli Assault
- The Tor Project, protecting online anonimity: Jacob Appelbaum
- Professor Norman Finkelstein & Hamza Tzortzis - What Will Bring Peace to the Middle East?
- Gaza Ceasefire to Be Decided in Cairo, But Will Washington Rein In Israeli Occupation, Blockade?
- Killer Robots: HRW and Nobel Laureate Jody Williams Urge Ban on Modern Warfare’s Next Frontier
- Patricia Burchat: Shedding light on dark matter
- Ray Kurzweil "How to Create a Mind", Authors at Google
- Geoffrey West: The surprising math of cities and corporations
- Arctic Methane: Why The Sea Ice Matters
- Tariq Ali @SOAS4GAZA
- Former GOP Strategist Kevin Phillips on the Roots of American Revolution and Future of U.S. Politics
- Elon Musk - the Future of Energy & Transport
- EXCLUSIVE: Julian Assange on WikiLeaks, Bradley Manning, Cypherpunks, Surveillance State
- U.N. Approval of Palestine as "Non-Member State" Shows Isolation of U.S., Israel Stance on Statehood
- Study: Wealthy Nations’ Fossil Fuel Subsidies 5 Times Greater Than Climate Aid to Countries in Need
- Stone Builders, Mound Builders and the Giants of Ancient America | Jim Vieira
- Culture in Decline | Episode #1 "What Democracy?" by Peter Joseph
- Greg Philo - 'More Bad News from Israel' - SOAS
- "Protest Here is Vigorous": Unrest, Polarization Before Egypt’s Referendum
- Charles Glass on Syria’s Mutual Destruction and the Unconvincing Fears of Assad’s Chemical Weapons
- F-secure's Mikko Hyppönen: Full talk from Wired 2012
- Robert Anton Wilson Explains Everything (links to The Pirate Bay)
- Clay Shirky Ted Talk - Open Source Democracy
- Chris Hedges on the work of Sheldon Wolin, 17 May 2011 (inverted totalitarianism)
- Robert H. Lustig: Sugar: The Bitter Truth
- Joel Cohen: An Introduction to Demography (Malthus Miffed: Are People the Problem?)
- Indistinguishable From Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips
- Richard Heinberg: Peak Oil and the Globe's Limitations
- Heather Brooke: My battle to expose government corruption
- Norman Finkelstein on the Role of BDS & Why Obama Doesn’t Believe His Own Words on Israel-Palestine
- Jacob Appelbaum, Dmitry Kleiner: Resisting the Surveillance State and its network effects
- Alexander Bard - The Internet Revolution
- Journey from the Psychology of Evil to the Psychology of Heroism
- Radio Lab: Profound? Confusing? Abstract or concrete? This hour of Radiolab, we study the nature of numbers.
- Sustainocene: Harvard Leads a New Epoch for Humankind - Harvard Thinks Green 2012
- Noam Chomsky: The Militarization of Science and Space
- Bill Moyers: Matt Taibbi and Chrystia Freeland on the One Percent's Power and Privileges
- Randy E. Barnett: The Harms of Drug Prohibition
- Leonard Susskind: Topics in String Theory
- Julian Assange's The World Tomorrow: Moncef Marzouki (Tunisia)
- The Julian Assange Show: Cypherpunks, Part 1 (Part 2)
- Michael Parenti - The Real Causes of World War II, Part 1 (Part 2 of 2)
- Michael Hudson - What We're Becoming, Part 1 (Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)
- Guns and Butter - "The Way We Were and What We Are Becoming"
- Noam Chomsky- What's the WTO?
- Breaking ’08 Pledge, Leaked Trade Doc Shows Obama Wants to Help Corporations Avoid Regulations
- Shmoocon 2012: Lessons of the Kobayashi Maru: Cheating is Fundamental
- Advertising & the Perfect Storm - Sut Jhally
- Debate: Too Many Kids Go To College
- Is the Higgs Boson there? Why do we care?
- Astra Taylor on the Unschooled Life
- Michael Hudson: What Americans can Learn from Eurocrisis
- Summit MMT - Michael Hudson: Finances vs Economy, Credit vs Money [3/18 ENG]
- Chris Anderson, "The New Industrial Revolution"
- Peter Norvig: The 100,000-student classroom
- "Freeman Dyson 2012" "History of Reduction of Nuclear and Biological Weapons"
- Freeman Dyson on Living Through Four Revolutions
- The Julian Assange Show: Noam Chomsky & Tariq Ali
- Bill McKibben of 350.org on Colorado Wildfires, Debby, Keystone XL and the Failure of Rio+20
- Bernie Sanders: The American People Are Angry
- Rendered, Tortured & Discarded: A Shocking Story of an Innocent Man’s Ordeal in U.S. Prisons Abroad
- RSA Conference 2012 - New Threats to the Internet Infrastructure - Bruce Schneier
- Challenging the Surveillance State
- Rep. John Lewis, Civil Rights Icon, on the Struggle to Win–and Now Protect–Voting Rights in U.S.
- Paul Jay of The Real News: The crisis will deepen, we need real news
- Are Israeli Settlements Legal? Electronic Intifada’s Ali Abunimah vs. Commentary’s Jonathan Tobin
- Noam Chomsky speaking on Colombia 3/11/95
- John Pilger in conversation with Julian Assange
- Jeff Hawkins: How brain science will change computing
- Eben Moglen - Free and Open Software: Paradigm for a New Intellectual Commons
- Pulitzer-Winning Reporting Duo Don Barlett and James Steele on "The Betrayal of the American Dream" (Part 1)
- EXCLUSIVE: "No Way Out"–Freed Hiker Shane Bauer on Solitary Confinement from Iran to United States
- DEFCON 18: Facial Recognition: Facts Fiction and Fcsk Ups
- Embrace the Remix
- Johanna Blakely: Lessons from fashion's free culture
- Aldous Huxley interview-1958 (FULL)
- Mexican Poet, Activist Javier Sicilia Brings Peace Caravan into U.S. to Condemn Deadly Drug War
- Lawyer: Raid on Embassy to Arrest Assange Would Be "Unprecedented" Breach of Diplomatic Immunity
- Daniel Ellsberg: I Congratulate Ecuador for Standing Up to British Empire to Protect Julian Assange
- Bahrain: Shouting in the dark
- Author Michael Lewis discusses The Big Short and the future of finance
- Authors@Google: Ogi Ogas: “A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships”
- Richard Allen Posner – “The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy”
- Steve Keen on BBC HARDtalk
- Chris Hedges: Dems Owe Chicago Public Teachers Support for "Most Important Labor Action in Decades"
- Chris Hedges on 9/11, Touring U.S. Economic Disaster Zones in "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt"
- Chris Hedges - Death of the liberal class
- Islamic Scholar Tariq Ramadan on the Growing Mideast Protests and "Islam & the Arab Awakening"
- Michigan a Key Battleground for Labor Rights with Votes on Emergency Managers, Collective Bargaining
- An anthropological introduction to YouTube
- Clint Werner looks at the science and politics behind the medical marijuana movement (which he has been covering since 1996)
- As Italy Sentences 23 CIA Agents in Rendition Case, Obama Refuses to Prosecute Anyone for Torture and Alfred McCoy: "Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation" (Pt. 2)
- As Anti-Immigrant "Papers" Law Takes Effect, Jeff Biggers on Arizona, the "State Out of the Union" and "Harvest of Empire": New Film Recounts How U.S. Intervention Caused Mass Latin American Migrations
- Study Finds U.S. Drone Strikes in Pakistan Miss Militant Targets and "Terrorize" Civilians
- Stephen Kinzer on the History of BP/British Petroleum and Its Role in the 1953 Iran Coup
- Ben Goldacre: What doctors don't know about the drugs they prescribe
- Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are
- Emeritus Walter Lewin: For the Love of Physics (May 16, 2011)
- As Obama, Romney Hold First Debate, Behind the Secret GOP-Dem Effort to Shut Out Third Parties
- DataGotham 2012 - IAmA: A Startup's First Dataist Panel
- "Earthship Biotecture": Renegade New Mexico Architect’s Radical Approach to Sustainable Living
- White Privilege: Racism, White Denial & The Cost of Inequality
- Newton Medal winner (2010): Edward Witten
- 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?
- Cory Doctorow: The coming war on general computation - The copyright war was just the beginning
- Professor David Nutt delivered the Ninth Annual Monica Fooks Memorial Lecture entitled "How can we get the media to tell the truth about drugs?"
- David Stockman on Crony Capitalism
- Daniel Suarez - Daemon: Bot-Mediated Reality
- Peg Luksik: Who Controls Our Children ? (Public Education Dumb Down Kids)
- Ken Robinson - Changing Paradigms
- Lawrence Lessig: Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It
- Christoph Adami: Finding life we can't imagine
- Gary Flake: is Pivot a turning point for web exploration?
- Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology
- Full Video of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange & Philosopher Slavoj Žižek With Amy Goodman
- Glenn Greenwald "Civil Liberties in the War on Terror"
- Lannan Foundation: Glenn Greenwald discussing WikiLeaks
- Dont Talk to Police
- Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition
- Dean Kamen shares some of his inventions and ideas at TEDMED 2010
- 23 and 1/2 hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our health?
- The Monkey Economy: Freakonomics Radio Live in St. Paul
- “Statistical Modeling of Monetary Policy and its Effects” - Nobel Prize Lectures of Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims
- The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See
- Hunting the Higgs (Vivek Sharma)
- Teaching Math Without Words, A Visual Approach to learning Math from MIND Research Institute
- Noam Chomsky - The Political Economy of the Mass Media
- Jacob Appelbaum, Roger Dingledine: How governments have tried to block Tor
- Chris Hedges "Brace Yourself! The American Empire Is Over & The Descent Is Going To Be Horrifying!"
- The Surprising History of Copyright and What It Means For...
- Advertising & the Perfect Storm - Sut Jhally
- Mikko Hypponen: Fighting viruses, defending the net
- Mikko Hypponen: Three types of online attack
- Defend our freedom to share (or why SOPA is a bad idea)
- Raj Patel: Feeding Ten Billion (How do we feed the world?)
- Population growth explained with IKEA boxes
- College Algebra - Lecture 2 - Language of mathematics
- Derek Sivers: How to start a movement
- Lies, damned lies and statistics (about TEDTalks)
- Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything
- Key Thinkers: Kurt Gödel and the limits of mathematics. Mark Colyvan
- Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
- Terence McKenna - Psychedelic Society
- William McDonough: The wisdom of designing Cradle to Cradle
- An American Perspective on the Catastrophic Occupation of Iraq: Dahr Jamail
- Wade Davis: Cultures at the far edge of the world
- Three Must See Presentations: This is the power of the Internet and why our corporate governments are trying to control it
- Juan Enriquez: Tech evolution will eclipse the financial crisis
- Creating Open Source Government/Defense
- Janine Benyus: 12 sustainable design ideas from nature
- Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world
- Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law
- 'How to Make Teaching Come Alive' by Walter Lewin
- MIT Physics Lecture: Electromagnetism, #31: Rainbows, by Professor Lewin
- The Nature of Reality
- Marcin Jakubowski: Open-sourced blueprints for civilization
- Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our decisions?
- Chris Martenson at InnoTown® 9 - 10 June 2010 (Energy, Peak oil)
Articles, Documents, and Reports Worth Noting
- Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever
- Bush’s Useful Idiots: Tony Judt on the Strange Death of Liberal America
- Toward a Sustainable Agriculture, a curriculum for high school students
- Stephen Hawking joins academic boycott of Israel
- The World's Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society (Infograph) (produced by a US ‘Think-Tank’ “chaired by former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright”, taken with a serious grain of salt, )
- Intellectual Property and the Great “Debate”
- Israeli bombing of Syria and moral relativism
- 83-year-old nun gets 20 year sentence for peaceful nuclear protest
- 6 Brave Govt. Whistleblowers Charged Under the Espionage Act by Obama's Administration
- Jewish defense group settles S.F. spying suit
- Last rhinos in Mozambique killed by poachers and Western black rhino declared extinct
- New Zealand isn’t exactly outlawing software patents—it’s doing something more interesting
- The FBI Is Winning the Fight to Invade Your Online Privacy
- Over the Line - Why are U.S. Border Patrol agents shooting into Mexico and killing innocent civilians?
- Adolf Hitler’s "Mein Kampf" reviewed by George Orwell, 1940 (pdf)
- Revising The Revisionaries: The Texas Board of Ed Loses Power over Textbooks
- The New Great Game (NATO vs. SCO)
- They may be fighting for Syria, not Assad. They may also be winning: Robert Fisk reports from inside Syria
- BBC Attacks the Open Web, GNU/Linux in Danger
- International coalition of Internet freedom organizations urges W3C to reject Encrypted Media Extensions, a proposal to build Digital Restrictions Management into the Web (DRM)
- “MY LAST POST: Final thoughts on Zionism’s success and Arab failure” by Alan Hart
- U.S. gives big, secret push to Internet surveillance
- Iraq: War's legacy of cancer
- Tony Judt's Final Word on Israel
- Credit scores: Stat oil: Lenders are turning to social media to assess borrowers
- Mondragon Corporation (Worker cooperative federation)
- Bedroom tax: why you should march against this heartless, pointless 'reform' (more info: Line of Battle)
- Wikileaks Was Just a Preview: We're Headed for an Even Bigger Showdown Over Secrets
- “The Lost Tools of Learning” by Dorothy Sayers
- The First Church of Pirate Bay
- “THE STUDENT AS NIGGER” Essays and Stories by Jerry Farber
- How Bush won the war in Iraq - really!
- The Next Real Estate Bubble: Farmland
- Less Is More: Rogue Economists Champion Prosperity without Growth
- New Zealand Parliament: The Next Oil Shock?
- Local woman took part in weird 1972 experiment in marijuana use
- Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) 2013 Privacy Report: Who Has Your Back?
- The Fossil Fuel Resistance: As the world burns, a new movement to reverse climate change is emerging - fiercely, loudly and right next door
- Elizabeth Warren’s Foreclosure Settlement Bombshell: Banks Determined the Number of Victims of Their Own Foreclosure Frauds
- Pres Obama Signs Bill Killing Anti-Corruption, Pro-Transparency STOCK Act Provisions
- Gitmo Is Killing Me (Guantánamo)
- The untimely death of a graffiti writer
- The President’s Budget Request, FY 2013
- National Disgrace (Prohibition)
- A Lesson in Karma by Robert Anton Wilson
- Walmart’s Contested Expansion in the Retail Business: Differential Accumulation, Institutional Restructuring and Social Resistance
- Terrorism and the other Religions
- The Keeling Curve
- Teenagers, social media, and terrorism: a threat level hard to assess
- The Program: The National Security Agency's Domestic Spying Program (surveillance)
- U.S. filmmaker repeatedly detained at border
- The Latin American Exception
- Jeremy Hammond on Aaron Swartz & the Criminalization of Digital Dissent
- Time to Face the Truth About Iran
- India's rice revolution
- The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food
- The Empire Lobbies Back: How Big Cable Killed Competition in North Carolina
- Joel Klein of New York to become an Executive for News Corp: Full spectrum dominance of education the goal
- What the Statistics Tell Us about Venezuela in the Chavez Era
- Is Environmental Justice Good for White Folks? (pdf)
- K-12 student database jazzes tech startups, spooks parents
- 15 Benefits of the War on Drugs
- The Math of FOSS Freeloaders: Why Freeloaders are Essential to FOSS Project Success
- Federal Government Reports Marijuana Effective in Combatting Certain Cancers Reports ADSI
- Graham Hancock Refutes TED’s Allegations, Defends Reputation and Open for discussion: Graham Hancock and Rupert Sheldrake from TEDxWhitechapel
- The Lyndon Johnson tapes: Richard Nixon's 'treason'
- Wave of "Ag Gag" Bills Threaten Food Safety and Freedom of the Press
- The Lyndon Johnson tapes: Richard Nixon's 'treason'
- “He Was a Crook” by Hunter Thompson (1994)
- The Internet is a surveillance state
- Steubenville: this is rape culture's Abu Ghraib moment
- In China, Breathing Becomes a Childhood Risk
- The Mystery of John Titor: Hoax or Time Traveler?
- 51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis
- Why Isn't Gatsby in the Public Domain?
- The Rich Have Gained $5.6 Trillion in the 'Recovery,' While the Rest of Us Have Lost $669 Billion
- Why America's 'hacker generation' can thrive as teachers
- ”Differential Accumulation: Toward a New Political Economy of Capital” by Jonathan Nitzan (related article: ”Differential Accumulation” by Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan)
- BOOK: “The Underground History of American Education” by John Taylor Gatto (Essay: The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher)
- Christmas in Prison (Katherine Olejnik and Matt Duran)
- The paranoia of the superrich and superpowerful
- ‘Bug-Splats’
- A Lost Map on the Tramway in Istanbul
- RSC Policy Brief: Three Myths about Copyright Law and Where to Start to Fix it (pdf)
- Interview: Eric Schlosser – History and Impact of Marijuana Law Enforcement
- Interview: Noam Chomsky on Government, Silicon Valley and the Internet
- Folke Bernadotte
- Dreams in Infrared: The Woes of an American Drone Operator
- The Great Corporate Colony: Welcome to Canada Inc., A Subsidiary of the American Empire & Co.
- Counterparties: 2012 — The year of bank fraud
- Is it California's Turn to Legalize Marijuana?
- The network of global corporate control (pdf)
- Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy
- European stocks may face stagflation threat in 2013
- Innovation Shortfall, Low Hanging Fruit, and the Frontiers of Knowledge
- Maher Arar offers to talk to Omar Khadr
- I don’t care about your business model
- Making sense of Mali's armed groups
- How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab
- America Has Hit “Peak Jobs”
- Egypt on the Brink
- Mali and AFRICOM’s Africa Agenda: Target China
- The Greatest Speech by a Western Statesman This Century? (Belgiam MP Laurent Louis)
- “Secrecy and National Security Whistleblowing” by Daniel Ellsberg
- ”Holocaust and Genocide Education in Israel” by Yair Auron
- Let’s Limit the Effect of Software Patents, Since We Can’t Eliminate Them
- Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke
- Ole Roemer and the Speed of Light
- A Giant Statistical Round-Up of the Income Inequality Crisis in 16 Charts
- Higher education in America: Dream or nightmare? (Part 1), Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
- Introduction to UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide by William A. Schabas
- Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Resolution 260 III)
- Folke Bernadotte plus United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194
- Marijuana Legalization Is Not Enough! Envisioning a Post-Prohibition World
- Top Ten Reasons Israel tried to Censor Bob Simon’s Report on Palestinian Christians
- Nate Silver: it's the numbers, stupid
- The Truce On Drugs: What happens now that the war has failed?
- Two Years of Cablegate as Bradley Manning Testifies for the First Time
- QE Backfires as Dividend Quest Usurps Growth: Cutting Research - "Worldwide quantitative easing may be making investors richer rather than encouraging business investment, according to Citigroup Inc."
- 'Father of the internet': Why we must fight for its freedom
- 'The Limits to Growth': A Book That Launched a Movement
- Powell Memorandum: Attack On American Free Enterprise System (originals)
- The Terence McKenna Thing
- Bigger, Better Google Ngrams: Brace Yourself for the Power of Grammar
- Paul Krugman’s Economic Blinders
- Ground-breaking No Tankers motion passed by B.C. local governments
- The Coming Financial Reality
- Tech Bubble: Who Benefited?
- Sanders Releases Explosive Bailout List
- A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, by John Perry Barlow
- How a Grad Student Scooped the Government and Uncovered One of the Biggest Internet Privacy Scandals
- Glenn Greenwald: How America's Surveillance State Breeds Conformity and Fear
- The rotten heart of finance: A scandal over key interest rates is about to go global (more info: BREAKING: Barclays Revealed Libor Scandal Four Years Ago and Behind the Libor Scandal)
- Matt Taibbi: From an Unlikely Source, a Serious Challenge to Wall Street
- What some people call idleness is often the best investment
- Your 119 Billion Google Searches Now a Central Bank Tool
- 60 Years of Prohibition
- "Anti-Occupy" law ends American's right to protest
- Traveling the Silk Road: A measurement analysis of a large anonymous online marketplace
- A Record Decline in Government Jobs: Implications for the Economy and America’s Workforce
- How the Militarized War on Drugs in Latin America Benefits Transnational Corporations and Undermines Democracy
- How India’s favorite TV show uses data to change the world
- A Mutual Fund Master, Too Worried to Rest
- Guest Post: How to Defeat Tyranny
- Forget Bernanke: A Paper At Jackson Hole May Have Changed The Future Of Economics
- The Pirate Bay: 9 years and still bloody runnin!
- Dream turns to nightmare: Investment banking once delivered juicy profits. No longer
- How Big Pharma Hooked America on Legal Heroin
- The Lost Decade of the Middle Class
- 52 Ways to Screw an Artist, by Warner Bros. Records...
- The American Economy during World War II
- Syria, the Story So Far
- Smashing Apples: Shock Doctrine for Public Education – That’s What It’s All About
- The Self-Destruction of the 1 Percent
- "Methods of Policy Accommodation at the Interest-Rate Lower Bound" by Michael Woodford (pdf)
- Mathematics at Google
- 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
- The story of Jonathan Magbie
- General Romeo Dallaire: The General and the Genocide
- “In Praise of Lectures” by T. W. KÄorner, October 31, 2004 [PDF]
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights - United Nations
- “In the Beginning was the Command Line” by Neal Stephenson
- DEA Release Admits Marc Emery Extradition Politically Motivated
- ”Ending the War on Sharing” by Richard Stallman
- Cannabis’ Impact on Health Justifies Its Legalization, Not Its Criminal Prohibition
- “On The Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies” and “The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity” By A. Einstein
- Sir Oliver Lodge FRS: The Mode of Future Existence (1933 Lecture)
- Martin Niemöller’s “First they came…”
- The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin
- The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy
- The HigherEd Bubble
- “Judging Books by Their Covers” by Richard P. Feynman
- Richard Stallman Was Right All Along
- Deep Intellect: Inside the mind of the octopus
- And the most engaging TED talk is…
- “A Mathematician’s Lament” by Paul Lockhart (PDF)
- “A Visual Approach to Calculus Problems” by Tom M. Apostol (PDF)
Music Worth Listening To
- Rodriguez
- Serart
- Barclay James Harvest
- Rebel Diaz
- Munir Bashir
- DJ Okawari
- Trentemøller
- Random Rab
- Thievery Corporation
- Dream Theater
- Origami Sound
- Flying Lotus
- Ratatat
- Animals as Leaders
- Haywyre
- Netsky
- Fat Jon
- Dirk Marwig
- Ott
- Kryptic Minds
- Adham Shaikh
- Gang Starr
- Burial
- Darkest Hour
- Nina Simone
- System Of A Down
- Nujabes
- Dead Prez
- South Park Mexican
- Ben Harper
- Biggie
- Immortal Technique
- Damian Marley
- Shpongle
- John Lee Hooker
- Toots & the Maytals
- Blackalicious
- Oysterhead
- Tomita
- WeFunk Radio
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
- The Dillinger Escape Plan
- Younger Brother
- Death
- Rush
- Jimi Hendrix
- Ash Ra Tempel
- Djivan Gasparian
- Mos Def
- String Cheese Incident
- Black Sabbath
- Led Zeppelin
- Ry Cooder
- Tool
- Noisia
- Carl Craig
- Chinese Man
- Carlo Lio
- Parov Stelar
- Bonobo
- Birdy Nam Nam
- Sepultura
- Liquid Tension Experiment
- Gojira
Live Electronic Music to Attend
- Thievery Corporation
- Noisia
- Bluetech
- Opiuo
- Ott
- Adham Shaikh
- Dirk Marwig
- Thugfucker
- Daega Sound
- Peter Visti
- Alex Smoke
- longwalkshortdock
- Junction SM
- Dirtyphonics
- Carl Craig
- Mike McSuede
- Theo Parrish
- Tj Hooker
- Sander Kleinenberg
Animation to Blow Your Mind
- Cowboy Bebop
- Samurai Jack
- Akira
- Samurai Champloo
- Grave of the Fireflies
- Iron Giant
- Princess Mononoke
- Ghost in the Shell
- Steamboy
- Thief and the Cobbler (Arabian Knight)
- Fantastic Planet
- Titan A.E.
- My Neighbor Totoro
- Howl's Moving Castle
- Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
- The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
- Castle in the Sky
- Spirited Away
- Perfect Blue
- Samurai X: Trust & Betrayal
- Escaflowne
- Star Blazers
- Waltz with Bashir
- The Animatrix
- The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
- Ninja Scroll
- Heavy Metal
- Neon Genesis Evangelion (series), and the movie
- The Maxx
- Duckman
- The Triplets of Belleville
- Blood Reign Curse of the Yoma
- Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040
- Last Exile
- The Adventures of Prince Achmed
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
- The Lord of the Rings
- Dead Leaves
- The Illusionist
- Highschool of the Dead
- Watership Down
- The Boondocks
- The External World
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Fullmetal Alchemist (including ‘Brotherhood’)
- Adventure Time
- Dexter's Laboratory
- Summer Wars
- Thor & Loki: Blood Brothers
- South Park
- Redline
- Dead Space: Downfall, and Dead Space: Aftermath
- FLCL
- The Legend of Korra
- Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (Part 1)
- Outlaw Star
- Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
- ParaNorman
- Starship Troopers: Invasion
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 series)
- Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003 – 2005)
- TRON: Uprising
- Pom Poko (The Raccoon War)
- Whisper of the Heart
- Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Mary and Max
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- Strings
Art, Design, and Dance Worth Viewing
- Michele Tanner
- Daniel Krall
- but does it float
- Sketches-natched
- MSTRFNG
- Raw Art
- Tomasz Alen Kopera
- Nick Baxter
- The Fungineers
- Eleanor Davis
- Doctor Rotciv
- Pod Collective
- Jacek Yerka
- OLLY MOSS
- Mario Martinez (aka MARS-1)
- Meredith Dittmar
- Jim Denevan
- Synaptic Stimuli
- Modern Math
- Dirk Marwig
- Jef Bertels
- 50 Watts (compilation blog)
- Matei Apostolescu
- Banksy
- Zdzislaw Beksinski
- Simon Bisley
- Gerald Brom
- Ernest Haeckel
- MC Escher
- Sacred Geometry
- Salvador Dali
- Kris Kuksi
News and Blogs Worth Scanning
- Democracy Now!
- The Real News Network
- The Bichler & Nitzan Archives
- Matt Taibbi
- Jeremy Scahill
- Tragedy and Hope
- Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
- Tarpley.net
- Calculated Risk
- Zero Hedge
- George Monbiot
- Pambazuka News
- Sharif Abdel Kouddous
- Voltaire Network
- Michael Hudson
- Project Censored
- Washington’s Blog
- Care2
- Current
- Reddit (only certain subReddits)
- Disinfo
- submedia.tv
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- Felix Salmon
- Glenn Greenwald (old blog at Salon)
Movies Worth The Time
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- 2046
- A Prophet
- Akira
- Aguirre: The Wrath of God
- Alien
- Aliens
- American History X
- American Me
- Apocalypto
- Baadasssss!
- Bab'Aziz
- Badlands
- Bang Rajan
- Battle of Algiers
- Ben-Hur
- Bill Hicks: Revelations
- Billy Elliot
- Blade Runner
- Black Swan
- Blood In, Blood Out... Bound by Honor
- Brazil
- Bulworth
- California Split
- Carandiru
- Cargo
- Castle in the Sky
- City of God
- Chaplin
- Children of Heaven
- Chop Shop
- Chronicle
- Chungking Express
- Clockwork Orange
- Cool Hand Luke
- Come and See
- Come Drink With Me
- Compulsion
- Conan the Barbarian
- Cowboy Bebop
- C.R.A.Z.Y.
- Cross of Iron
- Cube
- Dark Blue
- Dark City
- Das Boot
- Dawn of the Dead
- Day the Earth Stood Still
- Days of Heaven
- Dead Man's Shoes
- Deer Hunter
- Doctor Zhivago
- Dog Day Afternoon
- Dolls
- Downfall
- Dredd
- Dr. Strangelove
- El Cid
- Enemy Mine
- eXistenZ
- Exorcist
- Fantastic Planet
- Fat Albert
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Fight Club
- Fireworks
- Full Metal Jacket
- Get the Gringo
- Ghost in the Shell
- Gmar Gavi'a (Cup Final)
- Gozu
- Grave of the Fireflies
- Hard Eight
- Hero
- Howl's Moving Castle
- Hustler
- Ichi the Killer
- In Cold Blood
- Ink
- In This World
- Iron Giant
- Iron Sky
- Kick-Ass
- Kid Stays In the Picture
- La Femme Nikita
- Lady Snowblood
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Let The Right One In
- Limelight
- Local Hero
- Look Both Ways
- Looper
- London to Brighton
- The Lord of the Rings film trilogy
- Man Push Cart
- Mars Attacks!
- Matrix
- Midnight Express
- MirrorMask
- Moneyball
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Moulin Rouge
- My Awkward Sexual Adventure
- My Neighbor Totoro
- Naked Lunch
- Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
- Network
- Nightmare Before Christmas
- No Country for Old Men
- No Man’s Land
- Nothing
- Oldboy
- Once Upon a Time in the West
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Owning Mahowny
- Paths of Glory
- Pi
- Planet of the Apes
- Pontypool
- Possible Worlds
- Power of One
- Primer
- Princess Mononoke
- Professional (Leon)
- Raging Bull
- Rane (The Wounds)
- Requiem for a Dream
- Reservoir Dogs
- Rocky
- Rollerball
- Romeo Is Bleeding
- Runaway Train
- Scarface
- Science of Sleep
- Session 9
- Shaolin Soccer
- Shawshank Redemption
- Shine
- Shogun Assassin
- Silent Running
- Soldier
- Soylent Green
- Spider
- Spirited Away
- Starship Troopers
- Star Trek
- Star Wars: A New Hope (original cut)
- Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (original cut)
- Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (original cut)
- Steamboy
- Strictly Ballroom
- Strings
- Sugar Cane Alley
- Sweet Hereafter
- Syriana
- Taxi Driver
- The Andromeda Strain
- The Avengers
- The Beat That My Heart Skipped
- The Bothersome Man
- The Cabin in the Woods
- The Crazies (1973)
- The Crazies (2010)
- The Day the Earth Caught Fire
- The Fall
- The Fly
- The Fountain
- The Hudsucker Proxy
- The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
- The Man in the White Suit
- The Man with the Iron Fists
- The Master
- The Muppets
- The Proposition
- The Quiet Earth
- The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
- The Thing
- The Wrestler
- There Will Be Blood
- Thief and the Cobbler (Arabian Knight)
- Thin Red Line
- Thirst
- This Is England
- Thor
- Titan A.E.
- To the Left of the Father (Lavoura Arcaica)
- Trainspotting
- Tremors
- Twelve Monkeys
- Underground: The Julian Assange Story
- Unforgiven
- Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
- Universal Soldier: Regeneration
- V for Vendetta
- Watchmen
- Water for Elephants
- Wild Bunch
- Yojimbo (The Bodyguard)
- Zatoichi
- Zero Effect
Resources and Tools
- Toward a Sustainable Agriculture, a curriculum for high school students
- Wikileaks
- The WIKILEAKS Public Library of US Diplomacy (PlusD)
- archive.org
- The Best Browser Extensions that Protect Your Privacy (More: Don't ask your government for your Privacy, take it back)
- Farming: Companion Planting
- Online Clock
- The Keeling Curve (CO2 concentrations)
- The World Top Incomes Database
- Quandl dataset (testing)
- Online Link Scan (testing)
- Jon's Homeschool Resources
- UbuWeb (Sound , Film & Video)
- What is something you think everyone should have installed on their computer or laptop?
- Google Public Data
- Academic Earth
- Digital Bill of Rights 1st Draft
- Education and Spending in America – From a Carton of Milk to College Debt
- Wikipedia
- 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
- Math Guy
- TED talks, ranked by PostRank engagement data
- WolframAlpha
Sound Bites
- INVERTED TOTALITARIANISM
- High School Student Goes Off On Teacher About Education!
- Star Trek: TNG USS-Enterprise D Bridge Background Ambience (LONG)
- Pirates and Emperors - Schoolhouse Rock
- What is the Pirate Organization?
- Is the CIA Involved in Drug Trafficking? "I think George Bush is deep into it" - Ron Paul
- Bill Maher Gets Owned by Glenn Greenwald Over Benghazi and Interventionism - May 10, 2013
- dandelions in permaculture
- Moving Atoms: Making The World's Smallest Movie (The Movie)
- Glenda Jackson launches tirade against Thatcher in tribute debate
- Dramatic footage: Cargo Boeing 747 crashes at Bagram Airfield
- Rep. Brandon Dillon (D-Grand Rapids) Speaks Out Against "Right-to-Work" Legislation
- The Language of Math
- This Is What Happens When A Journalist Forces A Banker To Actually Answer A Question
- This video is unlisted. Only those with the link can see it. Envysion's Powerful Search Capabilities
- Over 100 Arrested Protesting Mass School Closings In Chicago
- Growing Up: Indoor Farm Goes 'Mega' Near Chicago, FlexPlanter, hydroponic lettuce automation
- Public Banking Needed to Stop "Cannibalization" of the Economy
- Krishnamurti - Who am I?
- Motorville by Patrick Jean
- MONTREAL POLICE PEPPER-SPRAY BAY PATRONS AMID PROTEST
- Separate Bus Lines for Palestinians and for Colonists in the West Bank
- Ralph Nader asks if Barack Obama will be an Uncle Tom
- TIE R.I.P
- US use of torture ‘indisputable,’ report says
- The Art of Harvey Kurtzman
- FRONTLINE | Sneak Peek: Inside "Top Secret America" | PBS
- Decimal, Binary, Octal & Hexadecimal
- Fantastic Fungi: The Forbidden Fruit
- Terry Gilliam's Do It Yourself Animation Show
- Elizabeth Warren Grills Ben Bernanke on 'Too Big to Fail'
- Bradley Manning admits to leaking 'the most significant documents of our time'
- RI Teacher Says"I Quit!"
- John Taylor Gatto - The Purpose Of Schooling
- An Illustrated Talk With Maurice Sendak (Drawings by Christoph Niemann)
- $9,000,000,000,000 MISSING From The Federal Reserve SHOCKING FOOTAGE
- Wealth Inequality in America
- How Hemp Threatens the Corporatocracy | Brainwash Update
- Dennis McKenna - We're on Drugs All The Time
- Providence — a short film featuring Bradley Manning's voice
- Tim Minchin - Pope Song
- Copying Is Not Theft - Official Version
- Glenn Greenwald: The Power of Ideas
- JRE: Eddie Huang TED Conference Exposed
- Mutual Interest Hidden Beneath Apple and Samsung Legal Struggle
- U.N. Says Likely Rebels Used Chemical Weapons NOT Syrian Government!
- Chris Hedges: NDAA Lawsuit Update
- Michael Moore Reveals the Truth About Columbine Killings
- Joe Rogan - The American War Machine
- Food MythBusters -- Do we really need industrial agriculture to feed the world?
- Copyright: Forever Less One Day
- How To Clean a Bong
- Platforms for the Future: Lina Nilsson - DIY Lab Instruments
- John Taylor Gatto - State Controlled Consciousness
- Support Dont Punish: Protect Our Youth
- Landmark in quantum computing
- SOULWAX 'MACHINE'
- Sponge Reaggregation
- Exotic Jellyfish
- CAMOVER 2013
- Terence McKenna Exposes the Drug War Con Game!
- Plato's Cave (animated version)
- Olafur Ragnar Grimsson Iceland president 'Let banks go bankrupt'
- The Reward
- To This Day Project - Shane Koyczan
- Why I Hate School But Love Education||Spoken Word
- Colonialism in 10 Minutes: The Scramble For Africa
- ACLU & CCR Lawsuit: American Boy Killed By U.S. Drone Strike
- Judge Rules Against a Bank - Precedent Could Cost Bank of America Billions
- Michael Moore Oscar awards
- Skyfall: Hundreds injured as meteorite wreaks havoc in Russia's Urals
- Pointing Fingers 9/11
- Marilyn vos Savant - Raising Intelligent Children
- Horrible Injustice: HSBC Above Laws, Woman Gets Life Sentence
- Animated walks and runs
- Death of a River - The Colorado River Delta
- Supersonic Flight, Sonic Booms
- Conspiracy Theory Rock By Robert Smigel
- Meghalayas Living Bridge
- People ARE Amazing 2012
- British Jewish Zionist MP Gerald Kaufman says Israel acting like Nazis in Gaza
- Take Action: Add Your Voice to Keep the Internet #freeandopen
- Russian general reveals truth about 9/11
- Dark matter: How does it explain a star's speed? - Don Lincoln
- Possible Internet Take Over By The ITU (UN)
- Hillary Clinton: US Losing Information War to Alternative Media
- Confirmed Government employing Internet Trolls Shills and Agents for Facebook and YouTube
- “GrandMother Moon” by John Trudell
- Dennis Kucinich "Big Brother Getting Fat On Tax Dollars! While We Have Less Freedom!"
- The History of Climate Change Negotiations in 83 seconds
- Mine Kafon | Callum Cooper
- Prison labor booms in US as low-cost inmates bring billions
- Project Space Planes - Launch!
- The day there was no news
- Chasing Ice movie reveals largest iceberg break-up ever filmed.
- Israel and Palestine, an animated introduction.
- Bill Moyers interview of Sheldon Wolin, Part 1 and Part 2
- General Wesley Clark: Wars Were Planned - Seven Countries In Five Years
- Former Supreme Court Justice Souter on The Danger of America's 'Pervasive Civic Ignorance'
- Do numbers EXIST? - Numberphile
- Will Allen: The Urban Farmer
- Tony Benn - 10 min History Lesson for Neoliberals
- Tariq Ali: Why Ecuador?
- Moments In China
- Jeremy Scahill at the Drone Summit
- NASA | SDO's Ultra-high Definition View of 2012 Venus Transit
- The Road to World War 3
- Rowan Atkinson's speech at Reform Section 5 Parliamentary reception
- Brenda Brathwaite - Games for a Change
- Douglas Rushoff: Program or be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age
- Fukushima Radioactive Ocean Impact Map - March 2012 Update
- Firing Alan Greenspan
- The Man Who Knew (Madoff, 60 minutes), and SEC Watchdog Faults Agency On Madoff, and SEC watchdog tearfully defends herself
- 1991 & 2006 David Icke Interview
- Jordan Maxwell: The Real Truth - Government owns YOUR clone-
- Stephen Harper copies John Howard
- Madeleine Albright - 60 Minutes
- Rumsfeld 2.3 Trillion Dollars missing Pentagon 1 DAY before 911
- Don’t Worry, Drive On: Fossil Fools & Fracking Lies
- Growing Reddit - CS253 Unit 7 - Udacity
- A tearful farewell to Radio Canada International listeners
- University sues student who 'studied too fast'
- John Ellis: What is the Higgs boson?
- Malte Spitz: Your phone company is watching
- Cryptocat Adventure! (article: This Cute Chat Site Could Save Your Life and Help Overthrow Your Government)
- Kim Dotcom - Mr President
- Frank Chapter 48: DOOM - KEO
- Michael Hansmeyer: Building unimaginable shapes
- Goldie: How art and music saved my life
- Aldous Huxley: Warning to America (1958)
- US teen invents advanced cancer test using Google
- 'US created forces it spends money fighting against' - Taliban ex-captive
- The Venus Project-Cities
- Did John Bolton Just Admit All These Wars Are For Oil?
- 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)
Hi! I just stumbled across your videos on You Tube as I was trying to answer the question "why do fractions exist?". I have only seen the first five videos so far, but I had to take a couple of minutes to tell you how much I appreciate your passion and dedication. As a child I struggled terribly with math in school and convinced myself (with the help of a terrible math teacher) that I was just no good at math. My self esteem was affected by this and (a different) math teacher later insisted that if I was so good at English I HAD to be a great at math (I decided to prove her wrong unfortunately). Your words rang a bell "math is just another language" and opened up my imagination. Now I am the mom of an eight year old and I DON'T want him to feel the desperation I did when it came to math. Math is the most fascinating and wonderful topics to discuss, read about and continue to learn about because it helps us human beings understand our world. I also have to add that your use of Mos Def in your third video was brilliant! There is one point of debate that I have, however, and it is this: you say that way back at the beginning of humanity´s love affair, if you will, with mathematics people weren't philosophers but mathematicians yet you use your example of sheep herders (the sheep herders who were trying to figure things out). The point is this, before math came into our (humanity´s) conception of reality, we (humanity) had to ask ourselves the important question: why? So, I say, BEFORE people were mathematicians they HAD to be philosophers. Philosophy is where all the sciences AND religion began, people asked WHY and went about answering the question. We still are looking for the answers today, thousands of years later. Cheers Chycho and thank you again!
ReplyDeleteHi Alma,
ReplyDeleteI'm really happy that the terrible experience you had with your teachers didn't permanently turn you off of math. It's such a shame that our education system, all over the world really, has turned math into the most hated subject in school. Such a shame. I hope your 8 year old grows up to love math, and with your guidance I'm sure he will.
As for my comment about philosophers and mathematicians, I wish I hadn't made it, or at least clarified it. I got a little excited at the time and ended up getting carried away. I tend to do that, and every now and then I do get burned for it, which helps to keep me honest in the long run. One thing though, I do believe that we are all born mathematicians. I think it's in our DNA. Of course, this could be said about philosophy as well, that we are all born philosophers. A loop of sorts between mathematics and philosophy helping us, as you pointed out, to answer the question "WHY?".
Hello Chycho. I've been watching your videos and found them enjoyable and informative. I think however on video 12 of series 1 you missed the '7' at the top left that would have canceled out the 7 on the bottom right. I may be wrong, If I'm not then the error is understandable with all the construction going on around you in the Video. Let me know if it was a mistake as I'm currently learning the stuff from the videos and it will help me progress. P.S- I couldn't find a 'contact me' part on your site and so had no choice but to write here. Take care friend.
ReplyDeleteHello Aequus,
DeleteYou're correct, in video #12 i did forget to cancel the 7... oops! If you leave the youtube annotations on, at around the 6 minute mark, a little note shows up correcting the mistake. I also added the correction in the youtube description.
As for contacting me, commenting here or on youtube gets my attention very fast, as does emailing me at "chycho.chycho [at] gmail [dot] com" :)
Hope that helps. Peace,
chycho