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How to speak monkey: The language of cotton-top tamarins - Anne Savage. Cotton-top tamarins are unique in that scientists have spent considerable time studying this critically endangered primate in captive conditions and in the wild.

How to speak monkey: The language of cotton-top tamarins - Anne Savage

We know more about cotton-top tamarins than just about any callitrichid (marmosets and tamarins). You can read the scientific paper and listen to the calls to learn the meaning of 38 distinct vocalizations. 25 Best Sites for Free Educational Videos. RefSeek's guide to the 25 best online resources for finding free educational videos.

25 Best Sites for Free Educational Videos

With the exception of BrainPOP and Cosmeo, all listed sites offer their extensive video libraries for free and without registration. Academic Earth Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars. academicearth.org Big Think Video interviews with 600+ thought leaders in a range of fields. Videos, articles, and tips to help you succeed, from the world's leading experts. Adam Curtis Films » Thought Maybe. Forks Over Knives. Never met anyone like you - Current obsession: child beauty pageant documentaries. Lately I've gotten fascinated with various documentaries on child beauty pageants; I'm always captivated by trainwrecks, and the more bad parenting and strange little children they have, the more captivated I am.

never met anyone like you - Current obsession: child beauty pageant documentaries

(I'm sure you could put your kid in some sort of pageant and be a decent parent, but the ones in these aren't.) So, here are my summary/reviews of the various documentaries, along with links to where you can watch them for free online. Living Dolls: The Making of a Child Beauty QueenThis is far and away my favorite. Five-year-old Swan Brooner's mother Robin spends countless hours and thousands of dollars getting her ready for pageants, taking on three jobs in order to make it all financially possible.

Lindsay Marie. Food Matters. College Conspiracy. Food That Kills. Thomas Edison was right about the importance of diet but wrong with his prediction about the future of doctors and medicine.

Food That Kills

We are living in the age of Edision’s future doctor and the last thing many of them seem to do is interest his patient in the care of the human frame and diet. The average meat eating American will consume 15 cows, 24 hogs, 900 chickens, 12 sheep and 1,000 pounds of birds/fish in their lifetime which is a tremendous amount of animal flesh to be consumed by the human body. The effect of such a diet is high blood pressure, clogged arteries, high cholesterol and heart attacks. Hear Dr. Michael Klaper explain how the North American diet is causing heart attacks at a massive rate and what can be done to greatly reduce your chance of a heart attack in the following documentary Food That Kills.

Food That Kills, 7.7 out of 10 based on 54 ratings Report: Food That Kills Processing your request, Please wait.... Related Documentaries. Guns in America. Underage and Over the Limit. WellCast. Justice with Michael Sandel - Online Harvard Course Exploring Justice, Equality, Democracy, and Citizenship. How Wolves Change Rivers Is The Perfect Explanation Of Ecology. Planet Money Makes A T-Shirt. Why A T-Shirt?

Planet Money Makes A T-Shirt

We wanted to see the hidden world behind clothes sold in this country, so we decided to make a T-shirt. We wanted to make an ordinary shirt like the vast majority of the shirts sold in this country — not organic cotton, not hand-sewn in the United States. To figure out how many shirts to make, and to raise money to pay for them, we turned to Kickstarter. Our goal was to sell 2,000 shirts. In the end, we sold 25,000. (Thanks again to everyone who ordered a shirt. Why A Squirrel? The design on the shirt, a squirrel hoisting a martini glass, is a visual pun: a reference to the phrase “animal spirits” made famous by the economist John Maynard Keynes. As Planet Money’s David Kestenbaum put it recently: “Keynes’ idea was that there’s more to the markets than just numbers; there are people and emotions making decisions. Help Wanted. No Smokers Need Apply: A New Marketplace Podcast. Kai RYSSDAL: Time now for a little Freakonomics Radio.

Help Wanted. No Smokers Need Apply: A New Marketplace Podcast

It’s that moment every couple of weeks we talk to Stephen Dubner, the co-author of the books and blog of the same name. Free Audiobooks and eBooks - Librophile. Guns Reduce Crime. For The Motion Stephen Halbrook Represents the NRA in suits against the DC and Chicago handgun bans Halbrook's most recent book is The Founders' Second Amendment.

Guns Reduce Crime

He filed a brief on behalf of over 300 members of Congress in the Supreme Court case of DC v. Heller, and won three Supreme Court cases on firearm issues. Open Yale Courses. Documentary Den. Biology That Makes Us Tick: Free Stanford Course by Robert Sapolsky. TED: Ideas worth spreading. Course Catalog.

The Language Learner’s NOT To Do List. To do lists seem like a good idea in theory, but they have one major disadvantage: there is an infinite number of potential to do items.

The Language Learner’s NOT To Do List

With this in mind, Timothy Ferriss, best-selling author of The 4-Hour Workweek (and a speaker of 6 languages), recommends “not to do lists” instead. Since they isolate a finite set of behaviors that are getting between you and your goals, they are far more effective than traditional to do lists. This tool applies perfectly to language learning, where most learners waste a lot of time on ineffective methods and bad materials.

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