http://www.vidipedia.org/ Recent Videos Video  January 01, 2012 C-SPAN http://MOXNews.com]]> Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:05:11 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/12325/culture/chris-hedges-qbrace-yourself-the-american-empire-is-over-a-the-descent-is-going-to-be-horrifyingq.html  More attention needs to be brought to this critical issue.]]> Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:48:06 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/12324/nature/boycott-tasmanian-lumber.html  What happened in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead WAS NOT A WAR BUT A MASSACRE, a massacre of a defenceless, imprisoned and besieged civilian population. The IOF air assault (in the first of 3 weeks) dropped bombs around the clock hitting homes, hospitals, ambulances, UN & Red Cross outposts & compounds, schools, universities & government buildings, with the borders closed & NO WHERE in Gaza to seek refuge, "it was like shooting fish in a barrel". 1400 murdered (358 were children) with kill ratios of 4/5 being civilians + over 5 thousands seriously injured. For every israeli soldier killed (5+5 from friendly fire) 100 Palestinians were killed, for every israeli civilian killed (3) 400 Palestinian civilians were murdered. These are not the statistics of war, it was GENOCIDE PURE & SIMPLE. Those calling it a war are wittingly or unwittingly being agents of proper-gander]]> Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:57:55 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/12275/culture/norman-finkelstein-there-was-no-war-in-gaza-it-was-a-massacre.html  The book explores the movie's key questions and themes, including how we can tell if we're dreaming or awake, how to make sense of a paradox, and whether or not inception is possible. It also gives new insights into the nature of free will, time, dreams, and the unconscious mind. In addition, it discusses different interpretations of the film, and whether or not philosophy can help shed light on which is the "right one,' and deepens your understanding of the movie's multi-layered plot and dream-infiltrating characters, including Dom Cobb, Arthur, Mal, Ariadne, Eames, Saito, and Yusuf. You can find the complete "And Philosophy" series at http://andphilosophy.com/]]> Sun, 01 Jan 2012 08:27:01 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/12224/culture/authorsgoogle-kyle-johnson-inception-and-philosophy.html  A look at the world from an aerial and environmental perspective.]]> Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:22:40 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/12201/nature/earth-from-above.html  We have weird gravity here in Rockford Illinois. The neodymium magnets are super powerful and even though they are not attracted to the copper, they still produce eddy currents that buffer the fall as seen in the video. Lenz's Law make a great experiment for kids to adult. Also, great at parties when conversation goes stale.]]> Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:39:21 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/12197/technology/copper-pipe-magnet.html  13 Grudnia 1981 roku, wybuchł stan wojenny.]]> Sat, 31 Dec 2011 14:57:05 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/12196/culture/stan-wojenny-modzi-pamitaj.html  An interesting party trick.]]> Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:44:31 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/12175/technology/eulers-disc.html  September 22, 2011 - Wong Auditorium, MIT - In 1967, as the Vietnam War escalated, Noam Chomsky penned The Responsibility of Intellectuals, a stunning rebuke to scientists and scholars for their subservience to political power. Today we face a similar array of crises, from wars to escalating debt. What are the obligations of intellectuals in this day and age? Introduction by Joshua Cohen. Ideas Matter, a joint project of Boston Review and MIT's Political Science Department, is a lecture series that brings our writers together with other experts and practitioners for substantive debate on the challenges of our times. The series, free and open to the public, will offer four events in the 2011--12 academic year. bostonreview.net/ideasmatter]]> Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:45:32 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/12166/culture/noam-chomsky-on-the-responsibility-of-intellectuals-redux.html  More about this programme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018xsc5 Pelicans in the Sea of Cortez are our guide to the incredible flying Devil Rays. A John Downer Production Narrated by David Tennant Series begins Thursday 29th December at 8pm on BBC One.]]> Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:04:28 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/12139/nature/pelicans-and-flying-rays-narrated-by-david-tennant-earthflight-bbc-one.html  Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/15835017 (video extracted with StreamTransport) As brine from the sea ice sinks, a 'brinicle' forms threatening life on the sea floor with a frosty fate. A bizarre underwater "icicle of death" has been filmed by a BBC crew. With timelapse cameras, specialists recorded salt water being excluded from the sea ice and sinking. The temperature of this sinking brine, which was well below 0C, caused the water to freeze in an icy sheath around it. Where the so-called "brinicle" met the sea bed, a web of ice formed that froze everything it touched, including sea urchins and starfish. The unusual phenomenon was filmed for the first time by cameramen Hugh Miller and Doug Anderson for the BBC One series Frozen Planet. Creeping ice The icy phenomenon is caused by cold, sinking brine, which is more dense than the rest of the sea water. It forms a brinicle as it contacts warmer water below the surface. Mr Miller set up the rig of timelapse equipment to capture the growing brinicle under the ice at Little Razorback Island, near Antarctica's Ross Archipelago. "When we were exploring around that island we came across an area where there had been three or four [brinicles] previously and there was one actually happening," Mr Miller told BBC Nature. The diving specialists noted the temperature and returned to the area as soon as the same conditions were repeated. "It was a bit of a race against time because no-one really knew how fast they formed," said Mr Miller. "The one we'd seen a week before was getting longer in front of our eyes... the whole thing only took five, six hours." Against the odds The location - beneath the ice off the foothills of the volcano Mount Erebus, in water as cold as -2C - was not easy to access. "That particular patch was difficult to get to. It was a long way from the hole and it was quite narrow at times between the sea bed and the ice," explained Mr Miller. "I do remember it being a struggle... All the kit is very heavy because it has to sit on the sea bed and not move for long periods of time." As well as the practicalities of setting up the equipment, the filmmakers had to contend with interference from the local wildlife. The large weddell seals in the area had no problems barging past and breaking off brinicles as well as the filming equipment. "The first time I did a timelapse at the spot a seal knocked it over," said Mr Miller. But the team's efforts were eventually rewarded with the first ever footage of a brinicle forming. HOW DOES A BRINICLE FORM? Dr Mark Brandon Polar oceanographer, The Open University Freezing sea water doesn't make ice like the stuff you grow in your freezer. Instead of a solid dense lump, it is more like a seawater-soaked sponge with a tiny network of brine channels within it. In winter, the air temperature above the sea ice can be below -20C, whereas the sea water is only about -1.9C. Heat flows from the warmer sea up to the very cold air, forming new ice from the bottom. The salt in this newly formed ice is concentrated and pushed into the brine channels. And because it is very cold and salty, it is denser than the water beneath. The result is the brine sinks in a descending plume. But as this extremely cold brine leaves the sea ice, it freezes the relatively fresh seawater it comes in contact with. This forms a fragile tube of ice around the descending plume, which grows into what has been called a brinicle. Brinicles are found in both the Arctic and the Antarctic, but it has to be relatively calm for them to grow as long as the ones the Frozen Planet team observed.]]> Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:23:55 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/4346/nature/bbc-nature-brinicle-ice-finger-of-death-filmed-in-antarctic.html  Was the Cold War a battle between capitalism and socialism?]]> Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:52:55 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/4109/culture/prof-noam-chomsky-on-the-cold-war.html  http://www.bbc.co.uk/frozenplanet Some penguins turn to a life of crime to build the perfect nest.]]> Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:26:40 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2789/nature/criminal-penguins-frozen-planet-bbc-one.html  Intellectuals.]]> Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:11:06 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2787/science/intellectuals-they-love-a-parade.html  On September 30, 2011 at 11:08am, Derek Deville's Qu8k (pronounced "Quake") launched from the Black Rock Desert in Nevada to an altitude of 121,000' before returning safely to earth. Above 99% of the atmosphere the sky turns black in the middle of the day and the curvature of the earth is clearly visible. SHORT VERSION OF VIDEO HERE: http://youtu.be/5HTwbpjBUOk?hd=1 More Pictures and Info -- http://ddeville.com/derek/Qu8k.html Sponsors: http://www.mayback.com/ http://www.syntheon.com/ Learn more about the hobby of High Power Rocketry: http://www.tripoli.org/ Cosmic Ray Project: http://symbiosis-foundation.org/background.html]]> Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:10:51 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2786/technology/qu8k-balls-20-carmack-prize-attempt-high-altitude-rocket-on-board-video.html  Toroidal Vortices produced by dolphins, beluga whales, humpback whales, volcanoes, hydrogen bombs, and man. ***The 17 second clip of the humpback whale bubble rings shown from 1:56 to 2:13 is from danthewhaleman (The Whale Video Company).*** http://www.youtube.com/user/danthewhaleman http://www.whalevideo.com Dolphin footage originally uploaded by: http://www.youtube.com/user/chiajungchi Etna smoke rings originally uploaded by: http://www.youtube.com/user/icampabadals Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.]]> Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:40:55 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2771/nature/extraordinary-toroidal-vortices.html  The simple act of taking a journey by bus can help achieve half the Government recommended 30 minutes of exercise per day, according to a study released today (12/09/11).]]> Wed, 28 Sep 2011 05:33:43 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2761/science/why-taking-the-bus-is-good-for-your-health.html  Congress approves the Declaration of Independence, brilliant scene from John Adams mini-series.]]> Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:08:31 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2564/history/john-adams-declaration-of-independence.html  Gary Wenk, professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at The Ohio State University discusses what happens to our brains as we age. Low doses of marijuana seem to stimulate the brain in positive ways. Coffee acts as another stimulant that is proving helpful. Professor Wenk also talks about the best method to slow down the aging process.]]> Fri, 16 Sep 2011 04:02:47 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2550/science/marijuana-and-coffee-are-good-for-the-brain.html  The disposal of drums of sodium into Lake Lenore, an alkaline lake in the Grand Coulee area of eastern Washington State, in 1947 by the War Assets Administration. From a January 13, 1947 newsreel available at the Internet Archive.]]> Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:04:07 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2527/science/disposal-of-sodium.html  Accuracy not guaranteed. Get Audacity and play! http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Correction: it is the "Basilar" membrane, which is what I say, but somehow between recording the script and actually drawing the stuff I got confused and thought I just pronounced my Vs poorly. Always sad to have such a simple and glaring error in something I put hundreds of hours of work into, but a "Vasilar" membrane can be the kind that a Vi draws to explain Viola Vibrations, I guess! Making up new words is just so prolightfully awstastic. Props to my Bro for excellent and creative swing pushing, and to my Mamma for filming it. Extra special thanks to my generous donators, without whom I would not have been able to create this video. Because of your support, I have the equipment, time, and take-out Thai food necessary for doing stuff like this.]]> Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:40:49 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2471/science/what-is-up-with-noises-the-science-and-mathematics-of-sound-frequency-and-pitch.html  Secretary Steven Chu discusses the benefits of switching to white roofs and light colored pavements.]]> Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:28:42 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2466/technology/white-roofs.html  Bill opens up a computer hard drive to show how it is engineered. He describes how the "head" reads the magnetic information on the disk; reveals how a voice coil motor and a slider controls the position of that head. He also discusses how smooth a disk must be, and briefly mentions a mathematical technique that allows engineers to pack more information on a drive.]]> Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:22:47 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2312/technology/hard-drive-teardown.html  What is the minimum amount of road needed to connect these four towns together? Known as the Motorway Problem or Steiner Problem. An experimental solution. With thanks to Scott Grandison of the University of East Anglia for all his help! And David and Neil of the workshop for making the props! Reference: Problem solving with soap films: Part I, C Isenberg 1975 Phys. Educ. 10 452 http://iopscience.iop.org/0031-9120/10/6/314 More information from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steiner_tree]]> Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:13:31 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2311/science/maths-problem-connect-the-towns-solution-motorway-problem.html  http://ramprapanna.webs.com/ Ramprapanna Bhattacharya presents Bandishes of Ustad Vilayat Khan on Raag Darbari Kanada. An excerpt of live performance by Ramprapanna Bhattacharya, the highly acclaimed Sitarist of Imdadkhani-Etawah Gharana (which is one of the oldest and most illustrious gharanas of Indian Classical Music which has produced the biggest names of Instrumental Music through each generation including Ustad Vilayat Khan) on Raga Darbari Kanada. He is disciple of his father Ram Udar Bhattacharya, Pt. Kashinath Mukherjee and Pt. Arvind Parikh. He is fortunate to have blessings from none other than Ustad Vilayat Khan. Here he presents some of the classic compositions of Aftaab-E-Sitar Ustad Vilayat Khan Sahib. This was a live concert at ASPEE Auditorium, Mumbai on 5th July, 2009. Sri Kaushik Bose (Mumbai) accompanied the artist on tabla. Pt. Arvind Parikh was present in the audience. For more information on artist, please log on to: http://sites.google.com/site/ramprapanna/ Video Courtesy of Sri Ram Udar Bhattacharya.]]> Sun, 05 Jun 2011 16:28:11 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2303/culture/ramprapanna-bhattacharya-presents-bandishes-of-ustad-vilayat-khan-on-raag-darbari-kanada.html  PACTISS.org - Philosophers and Critical Thinkers in Senior Schools. An excellent analogy describing the nature of science (both strengths and weaknesses). Why thinking of science as being divided between 'Laws' and 'Theories' can be misleading.]]> Sat, 04 Jun 2011 03:23:00 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2299/science/nature-of-science-feynmans-analogy-of-science-and-chess.html  This machine manipulates small spherical rare earth magnets, slicing one at a time from the end of a long chain, moving it around a bit, then dropping it back to re-connect at the tail end of the chain. It also demonstrates a little snippet of science called eddy currents. Watch how slowly the magnet falls through the aluminum tube compared to falling through air: the falling magnet generates an electrical current in the tube, and that current in turn generates a magnetic field that opposes the movement of the magnet, slowing it down dramatically. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_current if you want more. I made this machine for my father-in-law for his 75th birthday: astute viewers equipped with video analysis software and way too much time on their hands might find that the magnet drops 75mm from the tip of the slicer until caught by the lifter, and that the lifter then drops it through a 75mm long aluminum tube. These magnets are currently a popular toy, and can be purchased on the web or in stores (usually in a set of 216, which makes a 6x6x6 cube). Many different brands exist: Zen Magnets (http://zenmagnets.com/), Buckyballs (http://www.getbuckyballs.com/), nanodots (http://www.thenanodots.com/), Neo Cube (http://www.theneocube.com/), and more. I highly recommend this toy! Watch some videos at the above sites. I used a plastic drywall anchor for the main screw drive that pulls the chain of magnets through the machine. The 2 other driven axles -- the slicer and and the lifter -- are geared directly to the screw drive. (Steven Garrison's gear cutting method was invaluable to make the gears operate smoothly, see http://www.stevengarrison.com.) The lifter is based on a standard four bar linkage (a film advance mechanism) but was modified to dip very low before lifting back up and stroking its straight vertical line at the top. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/dogrocket/sets/72157626544506603/ for still photos of building it. I don't know who first figured out that 5mm spherical rare earth magnets could be so much fun, but whoever they are, I thank them.]]> Sun, 22 May 2011 01:39:49 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2253/nature/a-magnet-machine.html  Congo soldiers explain why they rape]]> Sat, 21 May 2011 14:08:27 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2252/culture/congo-soldiers-explain-why-they-rape.html  3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine thats MDMA, the drug used illicitly as ecstasy was first created completely by accident in 1912. Its initial foray into the world of medicine was cut short when people started using it recreationally, leading to it being banned as part of the War on Drugs. But doctors continued to campaign to be able to use it in medical research, and recent developments have shown the drugs potential for use in conjunction with psychological counselling to treat post-traumatic stress disorder, trauma and anxiety. HUNGRY BEAST airs in Australia on the ABC, 9PM Wednesdays. More stories: www.abc.net.au/hungrybeast]]> Thu, 12 May 2011 14:18:06 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2234/culture/the-beast-file-mdma-hungry-beast.html  Unknown]]> Mon, 09 May 2011 23:52:31 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2229/nature/killer-whale-vs-great-white-shark.html  How to make liquid carbon dioxide using a plastic pipette.]]> Mon, 09 May 2011 01:30:05 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2228/science/liquid-carbon-dioxide.html  SDSU's Professor Anderson demonstrates the wave pendulum, a collection of 15 oscillators of varying period. The results are visually intriguing.]]> Mon, 02 May 2011 02:56:07 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2209/science/wave-pendulum.html  A cluster of fire ants floating on the surface of water is pushed down with a pair of tweezers. Note the deflection of the water surface and how water does not penetrate the raft. Visit www.antlab.gatech.edu for more information and be sure to check out my other uploaded videos]]> Tue, 26 Apr 2011 04:40:57 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2200/nature/a-floating-fire-ant-raft-is-pushed-down-on-the-surface-of-water.html  This video is a basic overview of U.S. imperialism toward Iran that began at the behest of the British Government and big oil interests including British Petroleum also recently known as BP. The United States' own CIA led it's first coup to overthrow a foreign leader against Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953, The U.S. has suffered "Blowback: ever since, all the while the supposed leaders in Washington continue to demonize Iran's leaders on flimsy grounds as more pretense to continued Middle East war and occupation by the U.S.]]> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:52:29 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2195/culture/history-of-us-intervention-in-iran-1953-until-present.html  This video is awesome, it teaches you how to build computer while listening to amazing music! for more content, visit http://jdmag.com]]> Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:22:41 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2183/technology/how-to-build-a-computer.html  The concluding part of the interview which features the obligatory and unfortunate attempt to try and link his Linguistics to Politics though in a slightly novel manner.]]> Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:57:57 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2180/culture/the-ideas-of-chomsky-bbc-interview-5-of-5.html  This is a blue laser pointer (405 nm) aimed at a glow in the dark ball. Explaination to be on http://scienceblogs.com/dotphysics]]> Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:23:55 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2166/science/blue-laser-on-glow-in-dark-ball.html  This is just the straight cartoon of Destino by I've changed the music. I never really liked the original soundtrack. The new music is a track called 'Steal Compass/Drive North/Disappear' by the Canadian band 'Set Fire to Flames'. It's from their 2001 album 'Sings Reign Rebuilder'. I hope you like it.]]> Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:08:46 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2155/culture/destino-by-salvador-dali-a-disney.html  Bill takes apart an LCD monitor and shows how it works. He explains how it uses liquid crystals, thin film transistors and polarizers to display information.]]> Mon, 04 Apr 2011 21:47:31 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2154/technology/lcd-monitor-teardown.html  Frank Barat asks Noam Chomsky a question sent by well known Glaswegian, Paul Laverty. Filmed and Edited by Martin Ginestie. To watch full interview click here: http://vimeo.com/21277024 Frank Barat recently edited "Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians" a book by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe. http://www.gazaincrisis.org/ He is also the coordinator of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine, an initiative endorsed by Noam Chomsky. http://www.russelltribunalonpalestine.com/en/]]> Sat, 26 Mar 2011 19:25:44 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2147/culture/get-your-tongue-twist-on-with-noam-chomsky.html  Visit http://alternativepowerdistribution.com/]]> Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:18:40 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2135/technology/evacuated-tube-solar-collectors.html  Google TechTalks July 21, 2006 Guido van Rossum is a computer programmer who is best known as the author and Benevolent Dictator for Life of the Python programming language. ABSTRACT The next major version of Python, nicknamed Python 3000 (or more prosaically Python 3.0), has been anticipated for a long time. For years I have been collecting and exploring ideas that were too radical for Python 2.x, and it's time to stop dreaming and start coding. In this talk I will present the community process that will be used to complete the specification for Python 3000, as well as some of the major changes to the language and the remaining challenges.]]> Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:40:47 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2132/technology/python-3000.html  Google Tech Talks January 8, 2009 ABSTRACT Keeping two or more copies of the same document synchronized with each other in real-time is a complex challenge. This talk describes an algorithm which is robust, convergent, and efficient. Differential synchronization is the algorithm powering MobWrite. Speaker: Neil Fraser Neil is the developer of MobWrite, a real-time collaborative web-based editor.]]> Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:40:42 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2131/technology/differential-synchronization.html  Google Tech Talks October 30, 2008 ABSTRACT Coreboot, formerly known as LinuxBIOS, was originally started in 1999 to complement LOBOS [2] (Linux OS Boots OS) as part of an effort to move away from inscrutible and inflexible proprietary BIOS firmware used in clusters at high-security government research labs. However, coreboot took on a life of its own and quickly overcame many obstacles thanks to the help of a friendly and knowledgable open source community. This talk will give an overview of coreboot, what it is capable of, what it is incapable of, and what makes it different from the traditional PC BIOS and EFI. We'll focus on developments in version 3 which cleans up the development model substantially, has much improved ACPI and SMI support, usage of the Linux kernel build system to build coreboot, new ways to boot locally and over a network, do some demos, and more! Speaker: Ronald G. Minnich Ron Minnich founded the LinuxBIOS project (which is now Coreboot) when he joined the Cluster Research Team at Los Alamos Nat'l Lab in 1999. He has been working in HPC for much longer than he ever expected to, which explains the grey hairs in his beard. He has built software and HPC systems based on FPGAs, PIMs, distributed computers (co-authoring a famous C song: "I was Grid before Grid was cool"), and clusters. He has been working with Unix innards longer than some of his co-workers have been alive, which fact causes him to wonder if he should get in another line of work. Ron is also a contributor to Linux (v9fs), Plan 9, has written articles for numerous publications (DDJ, Linux Journal, etc) and has authored and co-authored over 20 papers [4] covering everything from distributed computing, shared memory models, firmware (Coreboot), large-scale fault tolerant computing, and much more. [4] portal.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81100104582=15151515=6184618 Speaker: Stefan Reinauer Stefan Reinauer was a very early contributor to the project during his time as system architect as SuSE and was also the lead developer of OpenBIOS, the free/open-source Open Firmware implementation. Stefan eventually founded Coresystems GmbH which focused on providing firmware solutions centered around Open Firmware and Coreboot and has since assumed stewardship of the project.]]> Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:40:37 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2130/technology/coreboot-aka-linuxbios-the-freeopen-source-x86-firmware.html  Google Tech Talk April 24, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Joel Spolsky Until recently, searching for help on highly technical programming problems has been a mess. A lot of what the search engines found was old discussions in forums, where you have a lot of wrong answers and out-of-date answers that you have to sift through yourself. You also found a lot of answers at sites that were hidden behind a pay wall, which uncloaked themselves for Google and then demanded membership fees to see the answers. StackOverflow.com is a programmer's Q&A site that launched last September to address these problems. It incorporates more modern ideas about community such as voting and public editing, and even a few ideas from game design, to create a much more successful way to get help with programming problems. In a few short months, it has grown to 14 million page views a month and reaches 3 million unique programmers every month. The lessons we've learned in creating a successful Q&A site has many implications for search which I'll share in this talk.]]> Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:40:32 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2129/technology/learning-from-stackoverflowcom.html  Google Tech Talks September 2, 2008 ABSTRACT We have been brought up to believe that the mind is located inside the head. But there are good reasons for thinking that this view is too limited. Recent experimental results show that people can influence others at a distance just by looking at them, even if they look from behind and if all sensory clues are eliminated. And people's intentions can be detected by animals from miles away. The commonest kind of non-local interaction mental influence occurs in connection with telephone calls, where most people have had the experience of thinking of someone shortly before they ring. Controlled, randomized tests on telephone telepathy have given highly significant positive results. Research techniques have now been automated and experiments on telepathy are now being conducted through the internet and cell phones, enabling widespread participation. Speaker: Rupert Sheldrake Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D. is a biologist and author of more than 75 technical papers and ten books, the most recent being The Sense of Being Stared At. He studied at Cambridge and Harvard Universities, was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge and a Research Fellow of the Royal Society. He is currently Director of the Perrott-Warrick project, funded from Trinity College Cambridge.]]> Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:40:27 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2128/technology/the-extended-mind-recent-experimental-evidence.html  Google Tech Talks October, 12 2007 ABSTRACT When you have hundreds of people simultaneously patching 25000 files of the Linux Kernel in sometimes conflicting ways, you might need some scheme or plan to sort all that out before you can build your next kernel and reboot. The Linux team uses "git" for their source code repository management, a homegrown solution that is optimized for highly distributed development, working with huge sets of files, merging independent work at multiple levels, and seeing who broke what. (Git has also since been notably adopted by the Cairo, x.org, and Wine teams, and is being transitioned to by the Mozilla codebase.) In my talk, I describe what "git"; is and isn't, and why you should use it instead of CVS, Subversion, SVK, Arch, Darcs, Mercurial, Monotone, Bazaar, and just about every other repository manager. I'll also walk though the basic concepts so that the manpages might start making sense. If I have time, I'll even do a live walkthrough, where you can watch how fast I make typos. Speaker: Randal Schwartz]]> Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:40:21 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2127/technology/git.html  Google Tech Talks November 8, 2006 ABSTRACT The term Web services carries the connotation of (slowly) doing RPC over SOAP. While many original SOAP toolkits supported and promoted that model (including Apache SOAP which I created), that is not at all what Web services are about. Apache's history with Web services has seen three generations of efforts: Apache SOAP, Apache Axis and now Apache Axis2. Axis2 is fundamentally different: instead of treating XML as a hot potato that must be replaced with a language structure immediately, it treats XML lovingly and offers a very clean processing model for XML. Of course it does support data binding for those that want to look a the XML as objects but the...]]> Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:40:16 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2126/technology/web-services-middleware-all-grown-up.html  Google Tech Talks July 23, 2007 ABSTRACT Merlin Mann, a well known productivity guru and creator of the popular 43 folders website will talk about Getting Things Done, the importance of getting your inbox to zero, and strategies for dealing with high volume email. Credits: Speaker:Merlin Mann]]> Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:40:11 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2125/technology/inbox-zero.html  Google Tech Talk April 6, 2010 ABSTRACT Presented by Dr Matthew Todd, School of Chemistry, University of Sydney. Open Science: how can we crowdsource chemistry to solve important problems? Science shaped itself in the founding days of learned societies: individuals or teams competed, in secret, with paper-based communication in subscription journals. Why are we all still doing science like this? The internet has had a major impact in our sharing of data by traditional means, but it has not yet radically changed the way we actually perform science. My lab is involved in a new project a government/WHO-funded research project that is completely open, where we are trying to solve a serious problem in public health through basic research in organic chemistry. The project involves a wonder drug used to treat a tropical disease but we need to improve it, and fast: http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100204/full/news.2010.50.html With an eye on the bigger issue, we propose open methods can allow science to happen faster than traditional means, but we do not yet have the tools to make this happen. This talk is about hard science and soft human nature. It is also an appeal for decent tools scientists need to collaborate properly. The over-riding requirement: low barrier to entry.]]> Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:40:06 GMT http://www.vidipedia.org/index.php/login/viewvideo/2124/technology/chemistry-on-the-web-how-can-we-crowdsource-chemistry-to-solve-important-problems.html