I watched this video from @thundera@ and was just blown away by the video, its contents and the production value. Then in the comments, thundara posted another cool video he thought another use might like, and it gave me the idea:
We all probably have really good videos that we bust out to friends to really wow them. What are yours?
Pretty much every CGP Grey video. I like Numberphile, Periodic Videos and I'm starting to watch Sixty Symbols. I stumbled across this School of Life channel. I'm just gonna embed this one because I made a point to watch it today and it'll save me clicks.
I never told you this. Because of this post, I went on to watch almost every CGP Grey video, subscribe to Hello Internet and Cortex, got my girlfriend in on it, and just bought us both matching Hello Internet shirts. THANKS TACOCAT. : ) PS - oh, and I also love Alain de Botton and the School of Life videos, too.
I'm glad you enjoyed them. Like someone else said, I do think you need to take School of Life with a grain of salt. I like it for the most part but, like the video about bad taste, it makes a good argument but you can't prove anything in it. CGP Grey cameoed in a Numberphile video. Numberphile, Periodic Table of Videos and Sixty Symbols are all great channels that need no caveats about content. Periodic Table of Videos frequently blows things up in the name of chemistry. I don't like math but I do like Numberphile.
Definitely not in depth by any means. I think that corresponds to their goal (if I understand it correctly) to bring philosophy/sociology/art etc into a public consciousness to help with general life. A lot of philosophers did not talk about our day to day lives (especially some that appear on that channel), but they want to extract the bits that can help people and can be understood by a general audience without having to read Hegel.
Absolutely brilliant! Thank you so much, I'm gonna watch every one now.
I've been preaching the "Humans Need Not Apply" gospel since I saw that video, and listened to the accompanying Hello Internet podcast. Also, anything by Brady Haran is worth watching. Have you watched Objectivity?
If you don't listen to the Hello Internet podcast I highly recommend that, too. CGPGrey and Brady Haran in one place.
Whoa. It's kinda weird that I now have voices to associate with user names. I feel like any conversation about why the average person should care about surveillance should reference COINTELPRO and especially how it targeted MLK. I find it important to relay to "average" citizens that, although their "average" lives may not be very interesting, there are plenty of people, like MLK before them, doing work for a better society, and their privacy is important to their goals. This video goes into that a bit, but I think a real, historical example is pretty good for the argument as well.
Tell me about it. I feel like I'm old friends with almost all of the contributors... after listening to them over and over as I edit. It's a strange, one-sided relationship I have with several members of this community. :-)It's kinda weird that I now have voices to associate with user names.
I'll go first. This video is a condensation of the book The Empathic Civilization given by the book's author. The video is more than that, it's a realtime animation of the ideas and thoughts expressed by the author. It's brilliant. In fact, the youtube channel you could spend hours on, all the talks are like this.
I've been showing this in my class and to friends and family for years, they all love it. It's probably the funniest "nature" video I've ever seen.
truthfully... these are some of my favorite videos in the "make me smarter" vein:
I was looking at orbits for cross-correlating observations the other day, and found this: Probably the best simulation that I've seen of the heliospheric fleet, shy of booting up STK, begging tens of people for orbits data, and making my own animation. Too strapped for time. Also, since relatively no one has seen it, this.
How semi-automatic and automatic weapons work The Army created this video in World War 2 and I haven't seen a better version of it ever.