Fun Videos

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The first music video from the International Space Station: Space Oddity

A revised version of David Bowie's Space Oddity, recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station.

Go Canada!

• Chris Hadfield
• asc-csa.gc.ca

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Heads up!

The Big Live Comedy Show kicks off YouTube's Comedy Week tonight at 8PM.

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The Backwater Gospel [[HD) DISTURBINGLY AWESOME Animated movie. Feat.in Sketchozine.com Vol.8

Nice graphics and audio. Go full screen.

Making of The Backwater Gospel

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Total duration 48 minutes: An inherently important link repair:

Attachment 20132Archimedes' Secret [[BBC Documentary)

This is the story of a book that could have changed the history of the World. To the untrained eye, it is nothing more than a small and unassuming Byzantine prayer book, yet it sold at Christies for over $2m. For faintly visible beneath the prayers on its pages are other, unique, writings - words that have been lost for nearly two thousand years.

The text is the only record of work by one of the world's greatest minds - the ancient Greek, Archimedes - a mathematical genius centuries ahead of his time. Hidden for a millennium in a middle eastern library, it has been written over, broken up, painted on, cut up and re-glued. But in the nick of time scientists have saved the precious, fragile document, and for the first time it is revealing just how revolutionary Archimedes' ideas were. If it had been available to scholars during the Renaissance, we might have reached the Moon over a hundred years ago.

The trail begins in the tenth century, when a scribe made a unique copy of the most important mathematics that Archimedes ever developed. For 200 years the document survived, but the mathematics in it was so complex that no one paid it any attention. So when one day a monk was looking for some new parchment - an expensive commodity at the time - to write a new prayer book, the answer seemed obvious. He used the Archimedes manuscript. He washed the Greek text off the pages, cut them in half, rebound them, and turned the Archimedes manuscript into an everyday prayer book. As he piously wrote out his prayers, he had no idea of the genius he was obliterating.

Several hundred years later, the Renaissance was under way. Scientists were beginning to grapple with new concepts, working out how mathematics could be used to explain the World around them. Little did they know that many of the problems they were just encountering Archimedes had already solved more than a thousand years before. So, tragically, they had to do that research all over again, setting back the development of science and technology immeasurably.

Then in 1906, in Constantinople, the document mysteriously turned up in a monastic library. An opportunistic scholar called Johan Ludwig Heiberg identified the text as Archimedes' writings. Although the Greek text was very faint, Heiberg was able to decipher some of it. What he found astonished him, and made the front page of the New York Times. He revealed that Archimedes' manuscript contained something called 'The Method', which showed not only Archimedes' final proofs, but for the first time revealed the process of how he went about making his discoveries.

• Archimedes Palimpsest

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Internet Archive by Deepspeed Media

Archive is a documentary focused on the future of long-term digital storage, the history of the Internet and attempts to preserve its contents on a massive scale.

Part one features Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and his colleagues Robert Miller, director of books, and Alexis Rossi, director of web collections. On a mission to create universal access to all knowledge, the Internet Archive's staff have built the world's largest online library, offering 10 petabytes of archived websites, books, movies, music, and television broadcasts.

The video includes a tour of the Internet Archive's headquarters in San Francisco, the book scanning center, and the book storage facilities in Richmond, California.

• Archive.org

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Neglected Ducks Get Their First Swim

For the first time in their lives two dozen recently rescued ducks get their first taste of life in a pond. They had been living for years with a hoarder who had them in pens without adequate access to water or proper nutrition.

Read the full story at Rescue: Over 130 Neglected Birds from Hoarding Case.

• WoodstockSanctuary.org

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And please, cut open your six-pack rings before discarding. These things:

Since the late 1970s, six pack rings have been cited as a particularly dangerous form of marine litter. Marine wildlife have been found entangled in the rings and unable to free themselves, sometimes strangling to death. The instruction to cut apart the rings before disposal has been a popular one from environmentalists, promoted as a simple way that consumers can help alleviate the problem.

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The Corporation

THE CORPORATION is a Canadian documentary film written by Joel Bakan, and directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott. The documentary examines the modern-day corporation, considering its legal status as a class of person and evaluating its behavior toward society and the world at large as a psychiatrist might evaluate an ordinary person. This is explored through specific examples. Bakan wrote the book, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, during the filming of the documentary.

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How Hackers Changed the World - BBC documentary 2013

A lot of backstory loose ends about the Anonymous phenomenon all tied up in one video.

• 4chan
• AnonNews.org
• Anonymous | Code of Conduct
• WikiLeaks.org

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Top 10 BEST VINES Supercut Compilation - Funniest Vine Videos

Vine is a mobile app that enables its users to create and post video clips. Video clips created with Vine have a maximum length of 7 seconds and can be shared or embedded on social networking services such as Twitter - which acquired the app in October 2012—and Facebook. Though Vine was initially available only for iOS devices, Twitter is working on bringing the app to other platforms. Vine for Android was released on June 3, 2013 and has been available on iPhone since its release.

This is reminiscent of the extremely rapidfire stillsequences used in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In to frustrate their NBC censors.

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Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay | Playing For Change

Hello everyone. Today our heroes and soul brothers, Roger Ridley and Grandpa Elliott, return for a new song around the world, "Sitting on the dock of the bay," featured on our new PFC 2 album. I once asked Roger why with such a powerful voice like his he was singing on the streets, he replied, "I am in the joy business, I come out here to be with the people." Roger and Grandpa have brought so much joy to the life of millions and today we are blessed to see them reunited again. We all shine on and Roger's light is as bright as the sun!!

• Stand By Me - International Version
• PlayingForChange.org
• PlayingForChange.com

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Tears of Steel - Sci Fi Short Film

Tears of Steel is a short film made in Amsterdam, The Netherlands by the Blender Institute, well known for realizing the open source short animation movies "Big Buck Bunny" [[2008) and "Sintel" [[2010). As usual these films get financing by crowd-funding in online communities of 3D artists and animators.

For "Tears of Steel" the funding target was to explore a complete open source pipeline for producing a high quality visual effect film, with as theme "Science Fiction in Amsterdam".

Producer Ton Roosendaal invited young Seattle talent Ian Hubert to come working in Amsterdam for 7 months to write and direct the film -- assisted in Blender Institute's studio by an international team of 3d and vfx artists, and with a Dutch film crew and Dutch actors.

The film's premise is about a group of warriors and scientists, who gather at the "Oude Kerk" in Amsterdam to stage a crucial event from the past, in a desperate attempt to rescue the world from destructive robots.

The film itself -- as well as original footage and all the studio files -- will be released as free and open content; the Creative Commons Attribution license.

• TearsOfSteel.org

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This video is not at all fun but shows perspectives rarely seen elsewhere.

Total duration 45 minutes:

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Drugs In Detroit, Mi 2012 National Geographic

There were a total of 411 murders in the city last year [[2012) when 25 justifiable homicides are added, including three police shootings. In 2011 there were 386 homicides was also up over 2010's total of 308.

With a homicide rate among the highest in the nation, Detroit residents are more likely to be killed now than nearly 40 years ago when the city was known as the Murder Capital, according to earlier unofficial data.

Mayor Dave Bing and interim Police Chief Chester Logan announced the city's official 2012 crime statistics Thursday morning during a press conference at City Hall.

"We've just lost respect for each other, we've lost respect for life," Bing said. "And in some kind of way, all of us have to get back involved in this to give back to this next generation."

Homicides increased about 10 percent in 2012, pushing the murder rate to 53 per 100,000 residents. That's the highest among the nation's top 20 most populous cities and had Detroit neck-and-neck with New Orleans for the worst rate among cities with more than 200,000 residents.

Murders have declined nationwide for years, but by Thanksgiving, Detroit homicides in 2012 had surpassed the 344 tally for 2011.

With a dwindling population, that's the highest murder rate since the crack cocaine epidemic of the late 1980s, when it was about 60 per 100,000 residents. The rate is worse than 1974, when the city had a record 714 murders, or 51 per 100,000 residents.

Detroit public safety officials specifically noted the prevalence of gun violence still in city streets. Police reported that guns were involved in 333 of the 386 criminal homicides.

In addition, police also reported 1,263 non-fatal shootings in 2012, a rise over 1,244 in 2011.

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I dare you to not laugh.

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Best VINES of August 2013 Compilation! [[112 VINES)

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$1,000,000 Unsolved Mathematical Problems for K-12

The above are candidate problems. Teachers and mathematicians are gathering in November 2013 to select the final set of thirteen unsolved problems. Details: http://www.mathpickle.com/K-12/November_Conference.html. When: November 15-17 2013 Where: Banff International Research Station

The conference will also discuss whether the $1,000,000 rewards are a good or bad idea. People have strong opinions on the topic. Some see no other practical way of getting these beautiful problems the exposure they need to inspire students worldwide. However, there are problems:

1) The joy of learning for its own sake may be compromised if the ulterior motive of a cash reward gets into the classroom.

2) The Clay Mathematics Institute released the seven $1,000,000 Millenium problems in 2000. Their purpose is to inspire mathematicians and the problems are tough to understand for non-mathematicians. Here is the problem... Nick Woodhouse says that the Clay Mathematics Institute gets about six wrong solutions every day! We need a different mechanism for dealing with "solutions" so we are not inundated.

3) The system that is set up must also try to minimize legal challenges. Again, the Clay Mathematics Institute has had its fair share of bad experiences here.

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For those coming to the November 2013 conference... If you are able, think of some unsolved problems that may be understood by a typical classroom of students. The educators at the conference will help place these into the curriculum and develop them so every child experiences both moments of success and moments of struggle. We need to deliver a sense of accomplishment for all children as they come to understand and work on the unsolved problem.

For example, one potential grade 4 problem is the Collatz [[3N+1) conjecture. This unsolved conjecture can be paired with the [[3N-1) conjecture which is consistently solved by all grade 4 classrooms: Grade 4 $1,000,000 Unsolved Problem

Here are other potential unsolved problems:

Kindergarten: Packing Squares [[Erdős and Graham, 1975)
Grade 1: No-Three-in-a-Line [[Henry Dudeney, 1917)
Grade 2: Sum-Free Partitions [[Issai Schur, 1916)
Grade 3: Graceful Tree Conjecture [[Ringel, Kotzig & Rosa, 1967)
Grade 4: Collatz Conjecture [[Lothar Collatz, 1937)
Grade 5: Play Perudo Perfectly [[Atahualpa & Pizarro, 1530s)
Grade 6: RSA Cipher [[Rivest, Shamir & Aldeman, 1978)
Grade 7: Egyptian Fraction problem ???
Grade 8: Problem using the Pythagorean Theorem ???
Grade 9: Exponents problem or Three-Body-Problem [[D'Alembert & Clairaut, 1747) ???
Grade 10: Inscribed Square Jordan Curve [[Otto Toeplitz 1911)
Grade 11: Solutions to x^2 + y^2 + z^2 = 3xyz [[Markoff, 1879) ???
Grade 12: ??? [[The Sudoku problem on the video above has been solved.)

Here is a tentative list of criteria that you might consider in thinking about suitable unsolved problems: http://www.mathpickle.com/K-12/Criteria.html

Imagine the furor if any one child solved one of these. Of course that's very unlikely but there's the side benefit of sparking their interest in other similar problems.

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This isn't from a video, it's from and old movie that I really love. I was looking at stills from it today and came across this, startling resemblance to a current event figure, I think.

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This video is not at all fun but shows perspectives rarely seen elsewhere.

Total duration 45 minutes:

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Drugs In Detroit, Mi 2012 National Geographic

The Nat Geo crew hired me to take them through the city and introduce them to some of the people on here like One Eyed "Jackie" and her sons. You can catch me at 00:12 sitting on the steps of that house which is also the house they use in Low Winter Sun as the blind pig. I turned them on to a few of the other players. The dude I didnt turn them on to was the violent talking asshole DD. I wanted to smack him. I have no idea where they found that POS but he was dramatic so they put him in. The crew ware super cool from London and still stay in touch with Becky Prosser. They even gave me a credit.

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Mechanical gears in jumping insects

Previously believed to be only man-made, a natural example of a functioning gear mechanism has been discovered in a common insect - the plant-hopper Issus - showing that evolution developed interlocking cogs long before we did.

Professor Malcolm Burrows talks about finding the bugs that led to the science, and working with artists Elizabeth Hobbs and Emily Tracy and members of the community in the London borough of Hackney to produce the film 'Waterfolk'.

• Functioning ‘mechanical gears’ seen in nature for the first time
• Water Folk
• Unique insect has working gears in its legs

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Drive Thru Skeleton Driver Prank

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Johnny T's NYC Tourist Tips

Planning a trip to NYC? Listen to Johnny T and you'll have a great time.

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Banksy Art Sale

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"MEDIEVAL LAND FUN-TIME WORLD" EXTENDED TRAILER — A Bad Lip Reading of Game of Thrones

Theme park manager Eddie Stark has one week to whip his lackluster group of employees into shape before the park's grand opening.

• "MEDIEVAL LAND FUN-TIME WORLD" OUTTAKES AND EXTENDED SCENES

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BBC - The Code - The Wisdom of the Crowd

BBC's prof. Marcus du Sautoy explains how a group of people know more than one individual. Amazing stuff! The explanation is not hard to understand, but still it is hard to believe.

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Too often in this world, brave sacrifice is misinterpreted as weakness and cowardly indifference is misinterpreted as strength. We need to flip that back to rightside up.

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RESTORING FAITH IN HUMANITY 2013

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GoPro's video revolution

A little, wearable camera is putting its owners in their own movies, doing everything from walking down the street to jumping out of an airplane. Anderson Cooper reports on GoPro, the world's best-selling camera that's revolutionizing the world of video.

• GoPro