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11:00:31 01/31/12
Wood Wonders from J.B. Blunk
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Irwin Weiner ASID - The epitome of 1960s counterculture artists, J.B. Blunk is now revered for his sculptural forms in wood. We wanted to feature this silent video overview of Blunk and his work to underscore his talent and vision. He wasn't just expressing himself or rebelling against an established art culture; he let the wood do the talking. Go to the J.B. Blunk website for more information.
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11:00:31 01/31/12
Wood Wonders from J.B. Blunk
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Irwin Weiner ASID - The epitome of 1960s counterculture artists, J.B. Blunk is now revered for his sculptural forms in wood. We wanted to feature this silent video overview of Blunk and his work to underscore his talent and vision. He wasn't just expressing himself or rebelling against an established art culture; he let the wood do the talking. Go to the J.B. Blunk website for more information.
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Source: Angeliska: The J.B. Blunk Residency (http://www.angeliska.com/2010/10/the-j-b-blunk-residency/)
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20:29:36 01/30/12
From Ptolemy to Pilgrimage: Images of Late Antiquity in Geography, Travel & Cartography
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A survey of Greek and Latin geographical tradition during Late Antiquity (c. 200-600 CE), when various genres of travel narrative rose to prominence. Scott Johnson links this mode of writing to the transition from a pagan/Greco-Roman world to a Christian one as new ways of explaining the known world mixed the classical inheritance with biblical and early Christian history. This mixture was to influence directly the new institution of Christian pilgrimage, while setting a foundation of religious practice for Byzantium, Islam and the western Middle Ages. Speaker Biography: Scott Johnson received his doctorate in classics from the University of Oxford in 2005. He is a postdoctoral teaching Fellow in Byzantine Greek at Georgetown University and Dumbarton Oaks. He has been a junior fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows (2004-07), a fellow in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks (2009-10), and a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress (2010-11). His current research project, "All the World's Knowledge: Geographical Thought in Late Antiquity and Byzantium," is designed to form the basis of his next book. For transcript, captions, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5241.
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15:36:00 01/17/12
Alain de Botton: Atheism 2.0
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Alain de Botton: Atheism 2.0
www.ted.com What aspects of religion should atheists (respectfully) adopt? Alain de Botton suggests a "religion for atheists" -- call it Atheism 2.0 -- that incorporates religious forms and traditions to satisfy our human need for connection, ritual and transcendence.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http If you have questions or comments about this or other TED videos, please go to support.ted.com From: TEDtalksDirector Views: 89234 3887 ratings Time: 19:21 More in People & Blogs
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15:36:00 01/17/12
Alain de Botton: Atheism 2.0
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Alain de Botton: Atheism 2.0
www.ted.com What aspects of religion should atheists (respectfully) adopt? Alain de Botton suggests a "religion for atheists" -- call it Atheism 2.0 -- that incorporates religious forms and traditions to satisfy our human need for connection, ritual and transcendence.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http If you have questions or comments about this or other TED videos, please go to support.ted.com From: TEDtalksDirector Views: 89234 3887 ratings Time: 19:21 More in People & Blogs
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15:36:00 01/17/12
Alain de Botton: Atheism 2.0
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Alain de Botton: Atheism 2.0
www.ted.com What aspects of religion should atheists (respectfully) adopt? Alain de Botton suggests a "religion for atheists" -- call it Atheism 2.0 -- that incorporates religious forms and traditions to satisfy our human need for connection, ritual and transcendence.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http If you have questions or comments about this or other TED videos, please go to support.ted.com From: TEDtalksDirector Views: 89234 3887 ratings Time: 19:21 More in People & Blogs
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23:00:00 01/15/12
Technology and the Human Body - Bionics
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TEDxSF - Berkeley Bionics - Merging Technology and the Human Body More than anything else, Eythor Bender is a team builder. You want to be on his team. And that's good news for bionics, a nascent industry that Eythor has championed and grown, taking bionic prosthetics from unconventional approaches to sustainable, approved products that merge man and machine, and enhance individuals' participation in their community. Today and as CEO of Berkeley Bionics -- developer and maker of wearable robots - Eythor is leading his company's charge to boost everyone's potential through personal bionics. This year, Berkeley Bionics is introducing two new exoskeletons to the market that augment mobility, strength and endurance: eLEGS powers wheelchair users up to get them standing and walking again; and HULCTM (Human Universal Load Carrier) enables users to carry up to 200 lbs. for hours and over all terrains, while reducing the likelihood of back-injuries. Eythor is a native of Iceland, with a Masters in Business and Economics from Germany, where he began his career with Hewlett Packard in medical diagnostics and computer imaging. He went on to join Nordic-European Ossur, which pioneered the field of commercial bionics. Eythor led Ossur's Americas division, taking it from a start-up to a world leader in the field of wearable, non-invasive technologies designed for amputees, injury prevention, rehabilitation and pain relief. He lives in San Francisco and most recently spoke at TED2011 in Long Beach, California. event video by: repertoireproductions.com Background information Bionics (also known as biomimicry, biomimetics, bio-inspiration, biognosis, and close to bionical creativity engineering) is the application of biological methods and systems found in nature to the study and design of engineering systems and modern technology. The word bionic was coined by Jack E. Steele in 1958, possibly originating from the technical term bion (pronounced bee-on) (from Ancient Greek: βίοĎ), meaning 'unit of life' and the suffix -ic, meaning 'like' or 'in the manner of', hence 'like life'. Some dictionaries, however, explain the word as being formed as a portmanteau from biology + electronics. It was popularized by the 1970s television series The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman, which were influenced by Steele's work, and feature humans given superhuman powers by electromechanical implants. The transfer of technology between lifeforms and manufactures is, according to proponents of bionic technology, desirable because evolutionary pressure typically forces living organisms, including fauna and flora, to become highly optimized and efficient. A classical example is the development of dirt- and water-repellent paint (coating) from the observation that the surface of the lotus flower plant is practically unsticky for anything (the lotus effect). The term "biomimetic" is preferred when reference is made to chemical reactions. In that domain, biomimetic chemistry refers to reactions that, in nature, involve biological macromolecules (for example, enzymes or nucleic acids) whose chemistry can be replicated using much smaller molecules in vitro. Examples of bionics in engineering include the hulls of boats imitating the thick skin of dolphins; sonar, radar, and medical ultrasound imaging imitating the echolocation of bats. In the field of computer science, the study of bionics has produced artificial neurons, artificial neural networks, and swarm intelligence. Evolutionary computation was also motivated by bionics ideas but it took the idea further by simulating evolution in silico and producing well-optimized solutions that had never appeared in nature. It is estimated by Julian Vincent, professor of biomimetics at the University of Bath's department of mechanical engineering (Biomimetics group), that "at present there is only a 12% overlap between biology and technology in terms of the mechanisms used". (Source Wikipedia)
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21:00:20 01/14/12
H2K (2000): Hardware and Electronics Q&A Panel
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Saturday, July 15, 2000: 4:00 pm (Second Stage): Do you have questions about basic electronics, embedded systems, secure hardware design, smart cards, hardware tokens, or wireless and radio technologies? Having a problem reverse engineering your latest flea market find? Are you sick and tired of hearing about software-only related security problems? Not to worry! Stop by the Hardware and Electronics Q%A Panel to explore a different form of hacking and interface directly with fellow electronics enthusiasts. The panel will be an open discussion and will attempt to field and answer any related questions. Three hardware hackers - Kingpin, Brian Oblivion, and Javaman - will be on hand. Special guests may appear.
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23:00:00 01/11/12
Visual and Auditory Learning
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TEDxManhattanBeach - Melanie West - Visual and Auditory Learning - How To Teach It Talk title: Visual and auditory learning -- how to teach it When Melanie studied chemistry as a sophomore in college, she faced a problem in understanding. Although she read words in her textbook over and over, no meaning seemed to come through to her. She felt an inability to learn from that textbook - she was unable to form pictures of the information in her mind. Years later as an educational psychologist Melanie recognized a similar pattern in students having trouble learning. Children are taught to read, write and memorize, but these activities are separate from learning. Rote memorization can have a crippling effect on the developing brain for children who are "picture thinkers." The same children can experience astonishing improvements in academic performance when given the opportunity to "see learning." Melanie West is an educational psychologist and the author of The Right Side of Learning. She specializes in designing techniques that stimulate both sides of the brain, to keep children in emotional and neurological balance while learning. She firmly believes that in a world of left-brain curricula, some of the most intelligent and creative thinkers are underachieving and misunderstood. Melanie's mission is to show parents and teachers alike that there is no such thing as an average student. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like
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23:00:00 01/11/12
Accurate dimensional measurement from SmartScope
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19:41:00 01/07/12
euromaxx highlights
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Leben und Kultur in EuropaIn dieser Ausgabe: Filme in Superzeitlupe: The Slow Mo Guys Zwei Briten drehen verrückte Filme in Superzeitlupe und sind damit zu Internetstars geworden: Innerhalb von nur einem Jahr wurden die Videos von Gavin Free und Dan Gruchy rund 50 Millionen mal angeklickt. Da werden Melonen gesprengt, Fußbälle zerknautschen Gesichter und riesige Wasserballons werden zum Platzen gebracht. „The Slow Mo Guys“ wollen mit ihren Zeitlupenaufnahmen zeigen, wie die Welt mithilfe des schnellen Kamera-Auges aussieht. Für ihren aktuellen Film haben sie mit Feuerwerkskörpern gespielt und das Ergebnis mit 2.500 Bildern pro Sekunde aufgezeichnet. Eisige Andacht: die Schneekirche in Bayern Sie ist 26 Meter lang und sechs Meter hoch: die Kirche aus Schnee in Mitterfirmiansreut im Bayerischen Wald. Das einzige Eis-Gotteshaus der Welt bietet annähernd zweihundert Menschen Platz und lockte bislang achttausend Besucher in die kleine Gemeinde. Die Schneekirche soll noch zwei Monate stehenbleiben und den Menschen im Ort die Möglichkeit zur Andacht bieten. 1911 gab es in Mitterfirmiansreut schon einmal eine Kirche aus Schnee. Ihr Bild ging als Postkarte um die Welt. Design für Scheine: zehn Jahre Euro Die Euroscheine und -münzen feiern ihr zehnjähriges Jubiläum. Gestaltet wurde das Papiergeld einst von dem österreichischen Geldnoten-Designer Robert Kalina. Für die sieben Scheine waren „Zeitalter und Stile Europas“ als Thema vorgegeben. Mit zäher Geduld suchte Kalina „europäische Symbole“, wälzte Kataloge, Architekturbände und Lexika. Viele Technikvorgaben musste er beachten: Tiefdruckverfahren, Spezialfarben, Wasserzeichen oder Sicherheitsstreifen. Dabei wählte Kalina frische kräftige Farben, um eine „Aufbruchstimmung“ zu signalisieren. Wir haben uns von Robert Kalina zeigen lassen, wie die Noten entstanden sind. Geschmolzene Röhren: Die Möbel des Briten Tom Price Der britische Designer Tom Price formt Möbel aus ungewöhnlichen Materialien wie geschmolzenen Plastikröhren oder Schiffstauen. Mit dem künstlichen Material ahmt er Motive aus der Natur nach, setzt auf organische Muster. Daneben beeinflusst auch das Zufallsprinzip die Form seiner Ojekte. Eine seiner Installationen heißt „Kirschbäume“, hier wurden Bäume aus Plastikröhren geformt. Die Arbeiten des Briten waren bereits im Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco zu sehen. Wir haben Tom Price bei der Arbeit in seinem Londoner Studio zugeschaut. Gesprühte Bilder: Der Künstler Christian Awe Christian Awes Bilder spiegeln sein Leben wider: Der Berliner sprüht viele seiner Werke auf Leinwand– schließlich war er jahrelang als Graffiti-Sprayer auf den Straßen der Hauptstadt unterwegs. Als ehemaliger deutscher Meister im Streetball bevorzugt er außerdem Abbildungen von Sportlern. Um seine Bilder reißen sich heute die Kunstsammler: Der ehemalige Meisterschüler von Daniel Richter verkauft einzelne Werke für bis zu 50.000 Euro. In seinem Loft-Atelier in Lichtenberg entstehen die großformatigen Bilder. euromaxx hat Christian Awe in seinem Studio besucht.
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22:57:20 01/03/12
Knoxville architecture firms merge
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Knoxville architecture firms merge
Community Tectonics and Cockrill Planning and Design merge to form Red Chair Architecture on Jan. 3, 2012 in Knoxville. From: knoxnews Views: 24 0 ratings Time: 02:07 More in News & Politics
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23:00:00 01/01/12
Multiphase Thermoelectric Converter - Turning Waste Heat into Usable Electric Power
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The Multiphase Thermoelectric Converter is a direct thermal-to-electrical energy conversion system designed in order to harvest most of the waste heat energy efficiently into electricity, reducing weight and size of space heat radiators, making fusion-powered space propulsion more energy-efficient than ever. The Multiphase Thermoelectric Converter consists of two opposing twisting electromagnetic forces, forming two contra-aligned electrodynamic vortices, for axially and radially compressing a hot ionized gas F=q(v Ă B) forcing it to expand longitudinally transferring electrodynamically F=i(L Ă B) Îľ=(Bâv sinθ) its energy to a multiphase electrical system to be effectively harvested by diode rectifiers. Wherein, the phase rotation keeps hot plasma centered far from electromagnetic coils, which allow to induce high pressure and withstand very high temperatures for virtually getting closer to the maximum efficiency Ρ=1-(TC/TH), e.g. TC=300K, TH=30000K, Ρ%=99%. Together with the Aneutronic Reactor and Electrodynamic Thrusters, it is to form the most perfect triad for providing a high degree of cleanliness and efficiency for deep space propulsion, with practically no thermal and radioactive waste.
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23:00:00 12/18/11
David Logan on tribal leadership
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www.ted.com At TEDxUSC, business professor David Logan talks about the five kinds of tribes that humans naturally form -- in schools, workplaces, even the driver's license bureau. By understanding our shared tribal tendencies, we can help lead each other to become better individuals.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com
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07:53:23 12/16/11
Haresh Lalvani: Mass Customization of Emergent Designs / Moss Gallery / Design Miami 2011
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“Form is Process”. “Mass Customization”. “Infinite Infinities”. “Number is All”. “The Moral Justification for Modernist Standardization… is no more”. “Professor Lalvani is continuing to explore the fundamental principles of geometry where Fuller left off”. This is what Design Miami visitors could read on the walls of the booth of the design gallery Moss from New [...]
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15:29:52 12/12/11
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron - VGA 2011: WORLD PREMIERE Debut Trailer (EN+DE)
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Transformers: Fall of Cybertron - VGA 2011: WORLD PREMIERE Debut Trailer (EN+DE)
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron The Autobots fight for their lives in the last moments of the Transformer homeworld. See the beginning of the end in this trailer for Fall of Cybertron from Spike's 2011 Video Game Awards! Embark on an adrenaline-fueled journey through a wide range of missions and massive environments designed around each character's unique abilities. With the stakes higher than ever before, you play as a variety of Transformers, including Grimlock's nearly indestructible T-Rex form and the legendary Combaticons forming into the colossal Bruticus. Fight through both sides of the Transformers' most epic battles leading to their legendary exodus from their homeworld. ---GERMAN--- Der cineastische Ank%uumlndigungs-Trailer bef%oumlrdert Fans mitten in die Story und zeigt die bombastischen Auseinandersetzungen von Megatron und den DECEPTICONS gegen Optimus Prime und den AUTOBOTS. Roboter gegen Roboter im Kampf um das reine %Uumlberleben. ABOUT THIS GAME ************************ Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, in the works at High Moon Studios and set to be available in fall 2012, for PS3 and Xbox 360. The game takes fans through the final, darkest hours of the civil war between the AUTOBOTS and DECEPTICONS as they fight for control of their dying planet, ultimately leading to their storied exodus from home. ---GERMAN--- In Transformers: Untergang von Cybertron k%oumlnnen Spieler endlich die epischen Schlachten erleben, die die Geschichte der AUTOBOTS und DECEPTICONS pr%aumlgten ... From: XboxViewTV Views: 4554 106 ratings Time: 01:55 More in Gaming
