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Description Overview of modern scientific cosmology, including discussion of stars, the Milky Way galaxy, black holes, dark matter, the big bang, and evidence for our current understanding of the universe. Great content and the professor is very good at giving real-world analogies which are easy to comprehend. The problem is that the mic must be attached to the podium and when he walks away you can barely hear what he is saying. Would be much better if they would simply attach a mic to the prof so the audio would be consistent. http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/physics-20b-introduction-to/id429669354

Physics 20b: Introduction to Cosmology - Spring 2010 - Download free content from UC Irvine on iTunes

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Michio Kaku | Professor of Theoretical Physics, CUNY | Big Think - StumbleUpon

Recently, a group of Google and Microsoft billionaires, film maker James Cameron, directors of the X-Prize Foundation (Peter Diamandis), founder of the commercial space tourism company Space Adventures (Eric Anderson), former astronauts, etc. have banded together to propose a new, game-changing ... Read More
http://www.skepdic.com/tilogic.html

logic and perception - topical index -The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com

Our complete set of ccnp security guides you to pass your real Testking MCP Certification training along Testking 642-832 exams products. We also provide Testking ccsa certification study guide and Pass4sure 642-642 exam training questions material. Dawes, Robyn M. Everyday Irrationality: How Pseudo-Scientists, Lunatics, and the Rest of Us Systematically Fail to Think Rationally (Westview Press 2003).
The Invisible Web refers to the part of the WWW that’s not indexed by the search engines. Most of us think that that search powerhouses like Google and Bing are like the Great Oracle”¦they see everything. Unfortunately, they can’t because they aren’t divine at all; they are just web spiders who index pages by following one hyperlink after the other. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-search-engines-explore-deep-invisible-web/

10 Search Engines to Explore the Invisible Web

http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Philosophy/axioms/axioms/axioms.html

axioms

Contents Axioms is a work that explores the true nature of human knowledge, in particular the fundamental nature of deductive and inductive reasoning. It begins by embracing Hume's Skepticism and Descartes' one ``certain'' thing, and then looking for a way out of the solipsistic hell this leaves one in in terms of ``certain'' knowledge.
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Marijuana Strain Effects - Leafly

The need for discretion at the work place is pretty important for many Leafly users. We've made it easy to turn images on and off whenever you want.

GIANT List of Interesting Documentaries « bluehoney.org

I don’t take credit for making this amazing list, a fellow member of a forum that I frequent posted this today. Many of these are links to a Part 1 of many videos in a series. It should be easy to find links on your own to the remainder of those videos.Over time, these links may become dead. For that I apologize; I will not be updating this list. As of 2/19/2011, these links worked. If they do not work for you today, do a search for the video; it will surely be online somewhere. http://bluehoney.org/2011/02/19/giant-list-of-interesting-documentaries/
Lecture Description Professor Kagan discusses the two main positions with regard to the question, "What is a person?" On the one hand, there is the dualist view, according to which a person is a body and a soul. On the other hand, the physicalist view argues that a person is just a body. The body, however, has a certain set of abilities and is capable of a large range of activities.

The Nature of Persons: Dualism vs. Physicalism | Yale Philosophy Lecture

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http://inoveryourhead.net/the-complete-guide-to-not-giving-a-fuck/

The Complete Guide to Not Giving a Fuck

Ok, I have a confession to make. I have spent almost my whole life– 31 years– caring far too much about offending people, worrying if I’m cool enough for them, or asking myself if they are judging me. I can’t take it anymore.
Whole Brain Emulation: A Roadmap Sandberg, A. and Bostrom, N. (2008). Technical Report #2008-3, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University Minimum energy requirements of information transfer and computing .

Living in a Computer Simulation

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highDEAS

Okay so my dad smokes weed but he like super limits my stash. So I made a deal with him because he also follows the site, He says that I'm just another post nobody will look at and if I get 420 votes he'll give me an ounce a week + hash. Now if you were in my shoes you'd want me to vote you up.
Update: yo, sorry for slowing down the updates, going to pick up soon, had too much college stuff to do... also i was busy reading MSPA adventures becuz excrement hit the rotating cooling device for like the 1000000th time and its just too goddamn interesting

Nigga clearly high

Plato realizes that the general run of humankind can think, and speak, etc., without (so far as they acknowledge) any awareness of his realm of Forms. The allegory of the cave is supposed to explain this. In the allegory, Plato likens people untutored in the Theory of Forms to prisoners chained in a cave, unable to turn their heads. All they can see is the wall of the cave. Behind them burns a fire. Between the fire and the prisoners there is a parapet, along which puppeteers can walk.

Allegory of the Cave