THE GREAT GATSBY - Movie Trailer, Photos, Synopsis TED Talks Top 20 Most-Watched Videos TED Talks Top 20 Most-Watched Videos I’m a huge fan of TED talks but then again who isn’t really? So finding out that TED had released a list of their top 20 most watched TED Talks will pretty much wipe out the remainder of my day. TED tabulated data from its top sources including TED.com, YouTube, Hulu, iTunes, and several others to create the list and the number of times some of the videos have been viewed is astonishing! Sir Ken Robinson’s 2006 talk about how schools kill creativity tops the list with 13,409,417 views. It’s followed by brain researcher Jill Bolte Taylor’s epic story about suffering a stroke — and documenting her body shutting down. You need to watch all of these!
Putting it together: the modular car With the 10^5 Competition, MIT's Vehicle Design Summit (VDS) will leverage distributed innovation to build a better car. In August 2012, ASKlabs produced a microdocumentary about the MIT Vehicle Design Summit, an MIT Edgerton Center-supported team, featuring co-founders Anna Jaffe (Environmental Science MIT '06) and Nii Armar (Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT '08); Robyn Allen (Aerospace Engineering, MIT '07), a third co-founder, was not filmed. Founded in 2006, with the goals of reducing waste in auto manufacturing and reducing global carbon emissions from vehicles, this dynamic MIT student group has grown to become an international design and engineering collective. To date they have built four prototype alternative-fuel vehicles at over 200mpge efficiency, and a vehicle intended for the Indian market that was built in Italy. FILM CREDITS:Producer/Director: Alberta ChuEditor: Stephanie MunroeMotion Graphics: Alex HoganCinematography: Stephen McCarthyComposer: P.
Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3... Criatividade E se o cara atropela o Neymar na boca da Copa? Já passou de um milhão e meio de visualizações. O que fazer quando sua empresa patrocina o Neymar (Jr) e Ken Block, o rei dos stunts automobilísticos? Dá um jeito de misturar os dois no … O carrossel (não o de Mad Men!) Em uma casa de família “margarina”, a cozinha é um dos cômodos mais agitados. Hoje não faltam iniciativas de conscientização a respeito da crescente lista de animais ameaçados de extinção (quando não recém-riscados da lista dos existentes). Mais um curta celebrando os 75 anos de Batman. O Instituto Sea Shepherd Brasil para alertar sobre o risco de extinção dos tubarões Uma visita ao YouTube Space em Los Angeles Pode soar estranho ou mesmo … #LastSelfie de animais em extinção Produzido para a WWF da Dinamarca e da Turquia, a campanha #LastSelfie convida o usuário a tomar algumas atitudes para … Com trator parece mais fácil Simples e certeiro. Primeiro foi o “não corra papai”, depois veio o “use o cinto” e o “se beber não dirija”.
TreeHugger © James Lawrence Powell (with permission) Is There Still a Scientific Consensus on Global Warming? Back in 2005 (which is a loooong time ago in Internet time), Naomi Oreskes published a famous paper in Science titled "Beyond the Ivory Tower: The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change". Fast-forward to the present, and James Lawrence Powell has done a similar meta-study, but including a lot more peer-reviewed papers (thousands have been published since 2003). What did he find? The pie chart above is a good visual representation of the very strong scientific consensus. "If one thing we can be certain: had any of these articles presented the magic bullet that falsifies human-caused global warming, that article would be on its way to becoming one of the most-cited in the history of science." And if corroborated over time, such a paper would probably deserve a Nobel prize... NASA/Public Domain Remember this the next time the media tries to present things as if scientists are split on the issue.
The Startup Kids | Documentary about young entrepreneurs 7 fascinating TED Talks on the benefits of gaming This weekend, hundreds of video games enthusiasts lined up in the cold, waiting 12 hours-plus to be the first to get their hands on Nintendo’s new console, the Wii U. And when the game Call of Duty: Black Ops was released in 2010, gamers around the world played it for more than 600 million hours in just the first 45 days. That is the equivalent of 68 years. While some people worry about the popularity of video games, in today’s talk, brain scientist Daphne Bavelier suggests that gaming may be far more beneficial than we think (in moderation) — even if the game is all about shooting up the enemy. “Most of you have thought, ‘Come on, can’t you do something more productive than shooting zombies?’ In the lab, Bavelier and her team measure the impact of gameplay on the brain. It’s another common trope that gaming causes attention problems. Initial studies suggest that these benefits may be trainable. To hear more about Bavelier’s studies, watch her talk.