Amazing Atheletes in Action !
Monday, March 8th, 2010
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full screen is best !
less then 2 minutes
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Location ’stunt’ with Google Latitude
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
by TalkToMeGuy
less then 2 minutes.
Highly recommended, viewing at full screen!
if you would like more info: latitude
Electromagnetic fields cause fluorescent bulbs to glow – as art!
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
by TalkToMeGuy
Richard Box, an artist-in-residence at Bristol University’s physics department, was one of the first people to discover the phenomenon. He describes it below:
A fluorescent tube glows when an electrical voltage is set up across it. The electric field set up inside the tube excites atoms of mercury gas, making them emit ultraviolet light. This invisible light strikes the phosphor coating on the glass tube, making it glow. Because powerlines are typically 400,000 volts, and Earth is at an electrical potential voltage of zero volts, pylons create electric fields between the cables they carry and the ground. Box denies that he aimed to draw attention to the potential dangers of powerlines, ˜For me, it was just the amazement of taking something that’s invisible and making it visible, he says. ˜When it worked, I thought: ˜This is amazing.” 
Photo by Peter Dibdin
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Site in migration Transition!
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
by admin
For the next week – or less, this site will be in migration so it is going to be a little lumpy for a few days….
Then back with gusto !
TTMG
Sylvia Earle: Here's how to protect the blue heart of the planet!
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
by TalkToMeGuy
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“We’ve got to somehow stabilize our connection to nature so that in 50 years from now, 500 years, 5,000 years from now there will still be a wild system and respect for what it takes to sustain us.”
Sylvia Earle
Legendary ocean researcher Sylvia Earle shares astonishing images of the ocean — and shocking stats about its rapid decline — as she makes her TED Prize wish: that we will join her in protecting the vital blue heart of the planet.
Sylvia Earle, called “Her Deepness” by the New Yorker and the New York Times, “Living Legend” by the Library of Congress and “Hero for the Planet” by Time, is an oceanographer, explorer, author and lecturer with a deep commitment to research through personal exploration.
Earle’s work has been at the frontier of deep ocean exploration for four decades. Earle has led more than 50 expeditions worldwide involving more than 6,000 hours underwater. As captain of the first all-female team to live underwater, she and her fellow scientists received a ticker-tape parade and White House reception upon their return to the surface. In 1979, Sylvia Earle walked untethered on the sea floor at a lower depth than any other woman before or since. In the 1980s she started the companies Deep Ocean Engineering and Deep Ocean Technologies with engineer Graham Hawkes to design and build undersea vehicles that allow scientists to work at previously inaccessible depths. In the early 1990s, Dr. Earle served as Chief Scientist of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. At present she is explorer-in-residence at the National Geographic Society.
Sylvia Earle is a dedicated advocate for the world’s oceans and the creatures that live in them. Her voice speaks with wonder and amazement at the glory of the oceans and with urgency to awaken the public from its ignorance about the role the oceans plays in all of our lives and the importance of maintaining their health.
filmed Feb 2009 by our friends at the TED conference
run time: 18 minutes
'''What have we measured, what do we know.." A conversation about physics with Lisa Randall.
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
by TalkToMeGuy
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Charlie Rose: A discussion about theoretical physics with Harvard professor Lisa Randall. Her book is called “Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of The Universe’s Hidden Dimensions”.
A short second segment: With Harvard biology professor Edward O. Wilson. His latest book is “The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth”.
total run time 56 mins.
Change Congress – Presentation by Lawrence Lessig – Tides Foundation
Monday, January 26th, 2009
by TalkToMeGuy
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The argument for the Change Congress movement, given at Tides Foundation MOMENTUM 08, San Francisco.
Robin Williams on Obama, McCain….
Thursday, January 8th, 2009
by TalkToMeGuy
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puMz1Q3E000]
