In this 2004 documentary “Super Size Me”, Morgan Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald’s for a whole month. Doctors tracked what happens to his health during this experiment. The film explores the obesity epidemic and how much fast food is contributing to this.

Watch the Nova documentary “Car of the Future” online.

This documentary explores alternative fuel vehicles which will be needed in the future as demand for fossil fuel outgrow supplies. And because this film is hosted by Tom and Ray Magliozzi (also known as Click and Clack) of the radio show CarTalk, you are sure to get a few laughs as well.

The first person to discover Nirvana was a prince in India 400 years before Christ. His name was Siddhartha and he discovered Nirvana while sitting under a tree through contemplative meditation. Then there is brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor in the modern world of today who during during a stroke to the left hemisphere of her brain experienced nirvana.

Watch both stories below…
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This documentary shows archaeologists uncovering the history of Buddha. Buddha was a prince in India 400 years BC by the name of Siddhartha. In his teens, he went outside the insular palace walls and discovered there was great suffering in the world such as old age, disease, and death. He journeyed in the lands as well as in his mind to find answers to the end of such sufferings and discovered it through contemplative meditation while sitting under a tree. There he reached nirvana and became Buddha, the “awakened one”. This was the start of the Buddhism.

Brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor gave this talk at TED where she showed us a real brain and how it consists of two separate halves. The right half thinks in parallel and knows the concept of “we”. The left half thinks in serial and knows that concept of “I”. One day she had a stroke on the left hemisphere and she is able to describe to us today what happened on that day as her brain functions started to shut down. She described how she lost the normal brain chatter that are always in our head, how she gained a perspective as an outsider looking at herself, and how she experienced nirvana.

This great animation was by Alan Becker. The original is at alanbecker.deviantart.com where he mentioned that it took him three months to do.

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Here is a funny conversation between Alan Greenspan and David Letterman. Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve Bank Chairman, tries to explains to Letterman what his role is when he was in that position. And I think he did a good job explaining it.

I always like to hear Alan Greenspan speak. Because as he says himself, “I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said”.

Alan Greenspan’s memoir is The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World

The title of this video “Maxed Out” refers to the maxing out on the credit card. It explores the credit card industry and Americans’ propensity to buy things on credit. The dark side is that credit card debt can sneak up a person. And sometimes the debt gets so bad that the person commits suicide.

The video contains interviews with Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard law professor who co-authored the book The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke.

This is the full-length two-hour long documentary found on Google Video.

Michael Moore’s film “Sicko” compares (sometimes with ironic humor) at the US’s broken healthcare system with universal health care systems in other countries such as Canada, Britain, France, and even Cuba.
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Professor Dan Ariely who studies behvioral economics explains some of our behavior that seems counter-intuitive in these videos…

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