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It’s been a constant lament that YouTube offers its users scant little intellectual content. And that content is itself hard to find. Just visit YouTube’s so-called Education Section, and you’ll be hard-pressed to find anything actually educational. But the good news is that we’re seeing some recent signs of intelligent life at YouTube. The video [...]
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The Nature Conservancy asked its staff and leading environment bloggers how you can make “personal, science-based choices to help save the planet.” Here are their 14 suggestions. Subscribe to Our Feed
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This video was apparently developed with scenes taken from the BBC series Walking with Monsters. (But don’t completely quote me on that.) For more smart videos, see our YouTube Playlist.
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On a related note, also see Learn the Art of Photography: The Nikon Way
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Is morality a sixth sense that’s in all of us, and is it perhaps a product of our biological evolution? Writing recently in The New York Times Magazine, Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker suggests that morality may well be hardwired. And he points to fascinating new research that backs up this belief. Pinker’s article covers [...]
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You need to give it a minute: via The Daily Dish
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Over the past year, we’ve seen a steady supply of new travel podcasts coming online. Some are produced by the publishers of major travel guides; others by passionate individual travelers. Many are in video, some even in HD. These podcasts will generally help you travel much more knowledgeably. And, in most cases, they’ll say something [...]
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Funny but partly instructive…. via Valleywag
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[NOTE: Be sure to see our updated page: 70 Intelligent YouTube Video Collections] Since October, universities have been getting busy and setting up shop on YouTube, enough so that it seemed worth putting together a collection of what’s out there. As you’ll see, universities aren’t always using YouTube to distribute educational content to the outer [...]
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This looks like it’s the real deal — Yoko Ono’s tribute to John Lennon on YouTube. Among the video clips housed in the collection, you’ll find footage that recaptures the “bed-ins” that John and Yoko famously staged in Montreal and Amsterdam in 1969 to protest the Vietnam War. As Lennon puts it, there’s no better [...]
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