Here are some educational videos in random order …
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AtGoogleTalks’ YouTube channel has videos that are quite educational. Authors and sometimes political candidates are invited to give talks at Google. These talks are recorded and uploaded at this YouTube Channel.
PermalinkVideo of MIT Talk about our Ceaseless Society
Are we living in a Ceaseless Society? This is the term that used in the title of this 2006 talk at MIT titled “The Ceaseless Society: What Happens to Our Mind, Body, and Spirit When we Just Never Stop?”
Does it seem like we are always trying to get somewhere or accomplish something? If we are not doing “this”, then we are doing “that”. It seems like we are always “doing” and not just “being”. Sometimes it is just good to not be doing anything and just “being”. We are after all called “human beings”.
There are a few preliminary before Jon actually goes on stage to talk. If you want to jump directly to Jon’s talk, skip to 18 minutes into the video.
One of the speaker is Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn who had received a Ph.D. in molecular biology from MIT in 1971. Kabat-Zinn specializes in mind-body medicine and mindfulness living.
Kabat Zinn is Founding Director of Stress Reduction Clinic at University of Massachusetts Medical Center and wrote many books, two of which are Full Catastrophe Living and Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life.
Kabat-Zinn talks about how due to our business of our lives we sometimes lose sight of the present. We are so constantly striving to get “someplace” we forget where we are. He also discusses how mindfullness mediation and being in the moment can help us.
To boil it down, Kabat-Zinn says mindfulness meditation is basically… “Paying attention, on-purpose, in the present moment, non-judgmentally”.
Near the end of his talk, he recommended two reading material:
(1) Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
(2) Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
PermalinkVideos of Jon Kabat-Zinn Talking about Mindfulness
Jon Jon Kabat-Zinn is an author and authority on mindfulness meditation. He developed the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program and founded the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. His book is “Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness” which is a guide to help people overcome stress and pain through the use of mindfulness meditation.
As he says in this MITWorld video, mindfulness it is “Paying attention, on-purpose, in the present moment, non-judgmentally”
He also talked at Google…
PermalinkDouglas Adams Humorous Talk about Conservation
Science function writer and satirist Douglas Adams gave this humorous talk…
But it has a serious message about conservation of our planet. He talks about his adventures tracking down exotic animals and what he learned from them.
PermalinkSteven Fowkes video presentation on Alzheimer Reversal
Steven Fowkes has a PowerPoint/YouTube presentation broken into 9 parts that explains the initiating cause of Alzheimer Disease. This is a very detailed an in-depth presentation. Some details are targeted for doctors. However, anyone can benefit from watching to learn the general concepts.
The presentation says that mercury toxicity is a risk factor. Gluthathione is the cell’s main antioxidant and detoxifier of mercury. When gluthathione is abundant enough to be dominate over mercury, then we are in good shape. But when mercury overwhelms gluthathione’s ability to do its job, then that is when Alzheimer’s disease may initiate. Fowkes says that “Alzheimer’s is caused by loss of glutathione cycling.” Glutathione’s antioxidative ability can be recycled, but that requires cellular energy such as ATP.
This energy comes from foods we eat. The presentation talks about how the body can burn glucose as well as fats for fuel. It talks about the glucose pathway and insulin resistance. You may have heard that insulin resistance is a risk factor of Alzheimer’s. It also talks about ketosis and how the body can burn fat as fuel.
The presentation goes into talk about mitochondria, antioxidant system, inflammation as a risk factor, cortisol as neuro-toxin.
The term “Alzheimer Reversal” may be debatable. Certainly, the initiating processes of Alzheimer such as inflammation and mercury toxicity can reduced or reversed. But this is typically at the stage prior to clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer’s. Once late-stage Alzheimer where neurons death has set in, then it is much more difficult.
You can find the rest of the nine parts at his YouTube page.
If you like his presentation, you may also want to see his talk at GoogleTechTalks about “Nutrients for Better Mental Performance“.
PermalinkDarren Rowse Video Talks about Making Money Online
There are many videos on YouTube talking about making money online. But this video linked here by Darren Rowse actually makes a lot of sense. Darren Rowse is the founder of Problogger.net and have written the book ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income.
PermalinkTom and Ray of CarTalk host documentary on Car of the Future
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.
PermalinkNOVA Video on Hydrogen Fuel Cars
Watch this Nova video documentary about the technology of using hydrogen fuel cell in powering cars. The video is hosted by Robert Krulwich and starring Tom and Ray Magliozzi, the CarTalk brothers who does the weekly Cartalk radio show.
The video is 14 minutes long. The promise of fuel cells is very appealing as it makes cars emit nothing except water as a by product. However, the difficulty is getting enough hydrogen and storing it in the fuel tank. You can learn more about how fuel cells work in this Clickable Car.
Permalink“Did You Know” YouTube Video
Karl Fisch “Did You Know / Shift Happens” YouTube Video version 2.0 was announced on his blog back in June 2007 and which you can see here…
It puts into perspective how big the world is and how fast it is changing. Some of the statistics is amazing.
Since then, many other have re-mixed the presentation.
Here is another version …
with closing credits that says “Research and original design by Karl Fisch, Scott Mclood, Jeff Brenman”
With content based on Karl Fisch presentation, Jeff Brenman has a slide version of the presentation at uploaded to SideShare around 2006 which you can view here called ShiftHappens.
Now there is a “Did You Know 4.0″…
The people credited for this one are Scott McLeod, Karl Fisch, and Laura Bestler.
This one is nice in that is has credit and sources at the end and has a creativecommon license.
PermalinkVideo: Steven Levitt analyzes drug dealing economics
In this 2004 TED.com video, Steven Levitt presents analysis of drug dealing economics.
Steven Levit is the author of Freakonomics. Drug dealing is not as lucrative as some people might think, or as what is portrayed in the movies. It turns out that the lowest tier drug dealer makes the equivalent of $3.50 per hour — this is lower than the minimum age — which is why some drug dealer have to work part-time at McDonalds.
Worse than that is that it is a dangerous profession, with the chances of being killed on the same ballpark as that of soldiers in a war zone. Inner city drug dealers has about a 25% chance of getting killed over a four-year period.
In the video he compares the organization of drug gangs to that of the organization of McDonald’s where there are different tiers, levels, and hierarchy. Unlike the low-tier drug dealer, drug gang leaders (equivalent to that of a McDonald’s franchisee owner), however can make substantial amount of money — about $100,000 a year.
The video does have some humor injected into it by the presenter.
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