Bruce Lipton - The New Biology - Where Mind and Matter Meet:

"Recent advances in cellular science are heralding an important evolutionary turning point. For almost fifty years we have held the illusion that our health and fate were preprogrammed in our genes, a concept referred to as genetic determinacy. Though mass consciousness is currently imbued with the belief that the character of one's life is genetically predetermined, a radically new understanding is unfolding at the leading edge of science. Cellular biologists now recognize that the environment, the external universe and our internal physiology, and more importantly, our perception of the environment, directly controls the activity of our genes. This video will broadly review the molecular mechanisms by which environmental awareness interfaces genetic regulation and guides organismal evolution."

I thought this was really good. Definitely worth watching.

Wendell Potter on Bill Moyers' Journal:

With almost 20 years inside the health insurance industry, Wendell Potter saw for-profit insurers hijack our health care system and put profits before patients. Now, he speaks with Bill Moyers about how those companies are standing in the way of health care reform.

Fantastic! Worth a watch! This kind of thinking is far too common in big business.

Hawt Damn! Bernard 'Pretty' Purdie Unleashes The Fattest Groove I've Heard This Week!

"Groove Workshop" _{- sign.}

Bernard Purdie teaches us mortals how to groove!

Everything is amazing, nobody is happy...

The Primacy of Consciousness

"The Global Brain" by Peter Russell

"The crisis facing humanity today is, at its root, a crisis of consciousness." _{Peter Russell}

This was really good!

Alan Watts

Alan Watts - The Middle Way


More Alan Watts on YouTube:

The Mystery of Empty Space

"Get ready to re-think your ideas of reality. Join UCSD physicist Kim Griest as he takes you on a fascinating excursion, addressing some of the massive efforts and tantalizing bits of evidence which suggest that what goes on in empty space determines the properties of the three-dimensional existence we know and love, and discusses how that reality may be but the wiggling of strings from other dimensions. "

I thought this was pretty interesting. Worth a watch.

A Bit Of Perspective On Things:

Today (November 9), would have been the birthday of one of the most human of humans, Carl Edward Sagan. He would have been 74 today. Although he left us on December 20, 1996, he will live on forever here, in the hearts of the many that he so elegantly inspired. He left us with a challenge that I hope we can live up to. So, to mark this occasion, here is Carl with a bit of perspective on the trivial nature of our Earthly problems.

Zeitgeist: Addendum

The second movie in Peter Joseph's Zeitgeist series. Worth a watch.
(The first Zeitgeist here)

The Merchants of Cool:

I thought that this was pretty good. Worth a watch.

Eat To Save Your Life:

A glimpse of how all the crap we cram down our gullets is affecting our bodies. Worth a watch. (Not the highest quality sound and video, but it's watchable)

Absolute Certainty:

The dangers of certainty. I thought it was pretty good. Worth a watch.

El camino del Rey:

" Originally built in 1901, this walkway now serves as an approach to Makinodromo, the famous climbing sector of El Chorro."

Atom:

"In this three-part documentary series, Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the story of one of the greatest scientific discoveries ever: that the material world is made up of atoms."

"Part 1. THE CLASH OF THE TITANS. Professor Al-Khalili takes us from the discovery of the atom to the development of quantum mechanics."

"Part 2. THE KEY TO THE COSMOS. This episode tackles world-changing discoveries such as radioactivity, the Atom Bomb and the Big Bang, and tries to answer the biggest questions of all - why are we here and how were we made?"

"Part 3. THE ILLUSION OF REALITY. In the last in the series, Professor Jim Al-Khalili explores how studying the atom forced us to rethink the nature of reality itself. He discovers that there might be parallel universes in which different versions of us exist, finds out that empty space isn't empty at all, and investigates the differences in our perception of the world in the universe and the reality."

Just what is reality? I thought that this was quite interesting, well worth a viewing.

The Story of Stuff:

A story about the life cycle of all of our crap, err I mean stuff.

Ryan Leech in Prague:

Janine Benyus: 12 sustainable design ideas from nature:

With 3.8 billion years of research and development on its side, nature has already solved problems that human designers and engineers still struggle with. In this inspiring talk, Janine Benyus provides fascinating examples of biomimicry -- the way humans mimic nature in the products we build and the systems we implement. And because the champion adapters in the natural world are, by definition, those that can survive without destroying the environment that sustains them, biomimicry can contribute to the long-term health of our planet.

Dan Gilbert: Why are we happy? Why aren't we happy?:

Psychologist Dan Gilbert challenges the idea that we'll be miserable if we don't get what we want. Our "psychological immune system" lets us feel real, enduring happiness, he says, even when things don't go as planned. He calls this kind of happiness "synthetic happiness," and he says it's "every bit as real and enduring as the kind of happiness you stumble upon when you get exactly what you were aiming for."

Do We Really Have Free Will?

An excerpt from Waking Life discussing whether we really have any control over our actions, identity or advancement in life.

This is a clip from one of my favorite movies "Waking Life". A must watch movie!