YouTube description: In which John visits the Za'atari refugee camp in northern Jordan and talks with refugees there about their hopes, ambitions, fears, and complex lives. Thanks to everyone at UNHCR,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 12 months ago • 144 views • 3:31Videos (29) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
To quote her own presentation: - Our fears about debt and deficits are driven by an outdated gold standard ideology - Money is not a finite "thing" - Deficits can be too big or too small - The goal... continue reading
posted by radx 8 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 278 views • 1:18:38The eight glasses of water a day is a myth! YouTube: How much water should you drink every day? Not as much as you've been told. This summer, like many summers before it, has seen a rash of articles... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 793 views • 6:46When I was a preschooler I walked face first into a spider web. Hence my lifelong fear of the eight legged creepers. YouTube: Spiderwebs are designed to trap bug-sized creatures. So how come spiders... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 9 months ago • 27 views • 3:06"Since the 1960s, developmental psychologists point to the 'Visual Cliff'—an experiment that plops babies on a fake precipice—as proof that infants learn to fear heights as they learn to crawl. Yet,... continue reading
posted by ant 9 years 2 months ago • 386 views • 5:31YT: Daniel Kish has been blind since he was 13 months old, but has learned to "see" using a form of echolocation. He clicks his tongue and sends out flashes of sound that bounce off surfaces in the environment... continue reading
posted by Zawash 9 years 2 months 1 week ago • 208 views • 13:08YouTube: Michio Kaku describes how our prefrontal cortex disengages as we dream, thus suppressing the fact-checking component of our consciousness.
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 124 views • 4:42Get up, get out!
posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 9 months 1 week ago • 715 views • 3:06Since it is Labor Day in a good part of the world, here is a video about the incidents at Haymarket Square following the call for workers to strike on May 1st. It picks up on May 3rd. The events would... continue reading
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 1 month 1 week ago • 1,238 views • 5:15