Sunday, October 22, 2006

Mind and Matter meet

An inspiring talk by Bruce H Lipton on the biology of belief and further he attempts to explore where mind and matter can meet. An inspiring point in this talk is how one can transform one's life by changing the core belief harbored by a person.

Part 1 of 2 (duration 01:04:11)



Part 2 of 2 (duration 01:34:59)

Monday, October 16, 2006

Machine interprets sketches

This is a cool demo video of a new machine sketch interpretation technology called ASSIST. One can draw something and the software will understand what is drawn and then it can be simulated by running the program. You can think of possibilities of using this in a designing environment...!


(duration 00:04:43)

Friday, October 13, 2006

The Elegant Universe - 3 : Welcome to the 11th dimension

The Elegant Universe - 2 : String's the Thing

The Elegant Universe - 1 : Einstein's Dream

Here is the wonderful documentary from pbs trying to explain string theory in Physics. It comes in three parts. I hope those who have scientific thirst will enjoy this documentary.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Pleasure of finding things out - Richard Feynman

Richard Feynman (1918-1988) was one of the recipients of the Nobel prize in physics in 1965, along with Julian Schwinger and Shin-Ichiro Tomonaga. In this video he talks on, as the title goes, the pleasure of finding things out. He also ridicules the honours given to him but rather enjoys upon the real value and impact of his work in improving the knowledge of humanity.

(duration 00:49:38)




The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool - Richard Feynman

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

DNA and the Brain - James Watson

James Watson is a nobel laureate who made one of the greatest discovery of the century by revealing the structure of DNA along with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins. In this lecture he speaks on DNA and the Brain.

(duration 01:15:12)
note : lecture starts from 7th minute in this recording, hence forward to 7th minute and watch

Uniqueness of Human brain

Dr. VS Ramachandran gives an amazing lecture on the uniqueness of Human brain with some interesting evidences and illustrations. He is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at University of California, San Diego, the director of the Center for Brain and Cognition, and scientific advisor to the Beckey Foundation.

(duration 00:54:03)

Monday, October 09, 2006

On true potentital - Tony Robbins

Tony Robbins a great expert in the life-coaching industry. In this talk, he explains how to unlock your true potential, and asks the audience (including former Vice President Al Gore) for a bit of high-level interaction.

(Recorded February, 2006 in Monterey, CA. Duration 00:26:02)

On Creativity - Sir Ken Robinson

Sir Ken Robinson, author of Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, and a leading expert on innovation and human resources. In this talk, he makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it.

(Recorded February, 2006 in Monterey, CA. Duration 00:20:02)


On Happiness - Dan Gilbert

Dan Gilbert is a psychology professor at Harvard, and author of Stumbling on Happiness. In this memorable talk, filmed at TED2004, he demonstrates just how poor we humans are at predicting (or understanding) what will make us happy.

(Recorded February 2004 in Monterey, CA. Duration 00:22:02)


Thursday, October 05, 2006

In this video blog

Hi all

In this video blog I will try to put some interesting videos which impressed me.

thanks

prabu