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Fog of War Excerpt
What makes it immoral if you lose but not if you win?
Length: 364
Rating: 3.70 (404 ratings)
Tags: ComingAnarchy.com
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Top 25 Seinfeld Moments
The top 25 Seinfeld moments. Visit BagofShoes.com to see the whole thing along with some other great videos.
Length: 447
Rating: 4.80 (3095 ratings)
Tags: Seinfeld Kramer Jerry George Elaine
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BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Impeachment Panel Excerpt | PBS
This week, Bill Moyers Journal takes an in-depth look at the heated talk of impeachment taking place across the country. To explore the issue, Bill Moyers is joined by Bruce Fein, a constitutional scholar, who was Associate Deputy Attorney General under President Reagan and is a weekly columnist for THE WASHINGTON TIMES and John Nichols, a Washington correspondent for THE NATION magazine and author of THE GENIUS OF IMPEACHMENT: The Founders' Cure for Royalism.
The program airs Friday, July 13 at 9 p.m. on PBS.
To watch online visit: http://wwww.pbs.org/moyers
check your local listings at: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/about/airdates.html
Comment after the broadcast at The Moyers Blog: http://www.pbs.org/moyers
Length: 308
Rating: 4.90 (333 ratings)
Tags: bill moyers george bush dick cheney impeach iraq pbs
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Christian Marclay's Video Quartet - Excerpt #1
A few minutes of Christian Marclay's 13-minute music/video installation Video Quartet, as shot on DV at the Tate Modern in London (unauthorized, thus the crappy sound quality, sorry).
Wikipedia sez:
Christian Marclay (born 1955) is a visual artist and musical composer based in New York, who is exploring the pattern languages connecting sound, photography, video, and film.
Length: 169
Rating: 4.50 (31 ratings)
Tags: Marclay Video Quartet videoquartet sampling sample tate modern tatemodern london
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BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Buying the War | Excerpt | PBS
Bill Moyers Journal: Buying the War
Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 9 PM on PBS (check local listings)
How the administration marketed the war to the American people has been well covered, but critical questions remain: How and why did the press buy it, and what does it say about the role of journalists in helping the public sort out fact from propaganda?
In this clip from the premiere of Bill Moyers Journal on PBS, Bob Simon of 60 Minutes, who was based in the Middle East, talks about the reporting he was seeing and reading out of the beltway, and John Walcott and Warren Strobel of Knight Ridder newspapers (now The McClatchy Company), discuss their work burrowing deep into the intelligence agencies to determine whether there was any evidence for the Bush Administration's case for war. On Wednesday, April 25 at 9 P.M. on PBS (check local listings), watch "Buying the War," a 90-minute documentary that explores the role of the press in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq, which includes interviews with Dan Rather, formerly of CBS; Tim Russert of Meet the Press; and Walter Isaacson, former president of CNN.
Two days later on April 27, the Bill Moyers Journal airs its regular timeslot on Fridays at 9 P.M. with interviews and news analysis of underreported stories across an array of beats, including: the environment, media, politics, the economy, arts and culture, and social issues.
Length: 289
Rating: 4.90 (271 ratings)
Tags: environment media politics economy arts culture Moyers pbs Iraq war
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"Sharp Teeth" Excerpt #1
Check out the book "Sharp Teeth" on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Sharp-Teeth-Toby-Barlow/dp/0061430226/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212767529&sr=8-1
Animation directed by Limbert Fabian. Produced by Matt Thunell. For more information go to sharpteeththebook.com
Length: 93
Rating: 4.40 (699 ratings)
Tags: "sharp teeth" werewolves "Toby Barlow fiction animation art
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Free Will and Physics - Waking Life excerpt
"In a way, in our contemporary world view, it's easy to think that science has come to take the place of God. But some philosophical problems remain as troubling as ever. Take the problem of free will. This problem has been around for a long time, since before Aristotle in 350 B.C. St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, these guys all worried about how we can be free if God already knows in advance everything you're gonna do. Nowadays we know that the world operates according to some fundamental physical laws, and these laws govern the behavior of every object in the world. Now, these laws, because they're so trustworthy, they enable incredible technological achievements. But look at yourself. We're just physical systems too, right? We're just complex arrangements of carbon molecules. We're mostly water, and our behavior isn't gonna be an exception to these basic physical laws. So it starts to look like whether its God setting things up in advance and knowing everything you're gonna do or whether it's these basic physical laws governing everything, there's not a lot of room left for freedom.
So now you might be tempted to just ignore the question, ignore the mystery of free will. Say "Oh, well, it's just an historical anecdote. It's sophomoric. It's a question with no answer. Just forget about it." But the question keeps staring you right in the face. You think about individuality for example, who you are. Who you are is mostly a matter of the free choices that you make. Or take responsibility. You can only be held responsible, you can only be found guilty, or you can only be admired or respected for things you did of your own free will. So the question keeps coming back, and we don't really have a solution to it. It starts to look like all our decisions are really just a charade.
Think about how it happens. There's some electrical activity in your brain. Your neurons fire. They send a signal down into your nervous system. It passes along down into your muscle fibers. They twitch. You might, say, reach out your arm. It looks like it's a free action on your part, but every one of those - every part of that process is actually governed by physical law, chemical laws, electrical laws, and so on.
So now it just looks like the big bang set up the initial conditions, and the whole rest of human history, and even before, is really just the playing out of subatomic particles according to these basic fundamental physical laws. We think we're special. We think we have some kind of special dignity, but that now comes under threat. I mean, that's really challenged by this picture.
So you might be saying, "Well, wait a minute. What about quantum mechanics? I know enough contemporary physical theory to know it's not really like that. It's really a probabilistic theory. There's room. It's loose. It's not deterministic." And that's going to enable us to understand free will. But if you look at the details, it's not really going to help because what happens is you have some very small quantum particles, and their behavior is apparently a bit random. They swerve. Their behavior is absurd in the sense that its unpredictable and we can't understand it based on anything that came before. It just does something out of the blue, according to a probabilistic framework. But is that going to help with freedom? I mean, should our freedom be just a matter of probabilities, just some random swerving in a chaotic system? That starts to seem like it's worse. I'd rather be a gear in a big deterministic physical machine than just some random swerving.
So we can't just ignore the problem. We have to find room in our contemporary world view for persons with all that that entails; not just bodies, but persons. And that means trying to solve the problem of freedom, finding room for choice and responsibility, and trying to understand individuality."
Length: 193
Rating: 4.80 (408 ratings)
Tags: David Sosa Physics Free Will Philosophy Waking Life
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Kurt Cobain: About a Son (Excerpt)
Excerpt from "About A Son," which uses Kurt Cobain interview tapes collected by journalist Michael Azerrad. Music by Ben Gibbard and Steve Fisk.
Length: 68
Rating: 4.80 (278 ratings)
Tags: nirvana kurtcobain michaelazerrad bengibbard
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Julia Sweeney: Letting Go of God (excerpt): TEDTalks
http://www.ted.com Julia Sweeney shares the first 15 minutes of her new solo show at TED2006. The comedian and playwright created the SNL character "Pat," and wrote her own hit Broadway show "God Said Ha!" (produced also as a film). (Recorded February, 2006 in Monterey, CA.)
Length: 1037
Rating: 4.70 (420 ratings)
Tags: TEDTalks atheist atheism catholic catholicism LDS Mormon Julia Sweeney Letting Go of God solo
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