Descripción: Lawrence Krauss talks about how science is being abused and misused in politics.... and why it is harmful to America's prosperity. Credit: "The Role of Science: How to Identify and Counter Misuse and Abuse of Science" Aspen Ideas Festival 07 Jul. 03, 2007 The Aspen Institute http:// aspeninstitute.org/ The full video can be found here: http://fora.tv/2007/07/03/Role_of_Science Fu...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks May, 20 2008 ABSTRACT Rudy Rucker's latest novel, Postsingular, describes an Earth blanketed with a light mesh of nanomachines, about one per square millimeter. The mesh makes everything "visible" on the Web. What happens then? Rudy will read a bit from the novel, describe the underlying ideas, and answer questions about his science-fictional visions of what's next. Speaker: R...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks October 2, 2008 ABSTRACT Award-winning author Richard Heinberg (The Oil Depletion Protocol; Peak Everything) identifies the essential axioms of sustainability and ties them to current economic trends such as the high and volatile prices of oil and other commodities. Species survival will require more than "Sustainability Lite"a vague commitment to more environmentally benign pr...

Descripción: SUBSCRIBE - WE'LL BE ADDING MORE HIGH QUALITY CLIPS IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING EACH DEBATE! Click on the HIGH QUALITY option below the video. Obama jabs at McCain for the Bomb Bomb Iran song he sang (at 6:45). The Interviewer asked Obama and McCain what lessons were learned from Iraq and then moved on to talk about Afghanistan Pakistan and Iran. Obama McCain Debate 2008 2008 Presidential...

Descripción: 7 Annual Big Press Conference Part 10 February 14,2008 President of Russia V.Putin The Kremlin,Moscow REUTERS: You, Russias most influential politician, have agreed it seems to become prime minister under a Medvedev presidency, that is, you would take a post that is subordinate to the president. How do you plan to use your political influence after the elections? Are you willing to play the...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks May 5, 2008 ABSTRACT Technology has transformed investment and trading over the past 30 years. Markets have become computer networks, brokers are disintermediated by direct access and algo trading. Reporters are disintermediated when investors have access to primary sources at the same time they do. An ever larger view of exploitable economic and business activity can foun...

Descripción: http:// ilmcast.com She loves me. She loves me not. Istikhara is usually brought up when it's time to make that big decision of love in life. But did you know that the Companions of the Prophet (SAW) used to make Istikhara for a lot more in life than just marriage? And I bet you didn't know that you could use Salatul Istikhara to live your life so that you have no regrets? As Shaykh Abdul...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks April, 15 2008 ABSTRACT The recent increase in demand for 3D content, for a wide variety of purposes, has led to a corresponding increase in the number and diversity of people using 3D modeling software. It has also amplified the pressure to deliver 3D models on tight budgets, and at pace. These combined pressures have driven an increase in the sophistication of 3D modelling so...

Descripción: Donald in Mathmagic Land is a Donald Duck featurette which was released on June 26, 1959. It was directed by Hamilton Luske and is 27 minutes in length. Many people collaborated on this project, including Disney artists John Hench and Art Riley, voice talent Paul Frees, and scientific expert Heinz Haber, who had worked on the Disney space shows. This featurette was originally released on a bill wi...

Descripción: Donald in Mathmagic Land is a Donald Duck featurette which was released on June 26, 1959. It was directed by Hamilton Luske and is 27 minutes in length. Many people collaborated on this project, including Disney artists John Hench and Art Riley, voice talent Paul Frees, and scientific expert Heinz Haber, who had worked on the Disney space shows. This featurette was originally released on a bill wi...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks August 5, 2008 ABSTRACT Estimating geographic information from an image is an excellent, difficult high-level computer vision problem whose time has come. The emergence of vast amounts of geographically-calibrated image data is a great reason for computer vision to start looking globally on the scale of the entire planet! In this paper, we propose a simple algorithm for estimat...

Descripción: Our political dialogue is so pathetic that the major 'issue' McCain is trying gin up in the waning moments of this campaign is what they call the devastating effects of Obama's tax plan on people and small businesses that make over $250,000 without ever being called on the carpet for not stating how much that tax increase is...Suppose Joe does buy out his business, and suppose he works hard, and s...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks May, 14 2008 ABSTRACT Google's own Dylan Casey will be speaking about his experience riding the TdF with the Lance Armstrong and the US Postal Team. Check out http:// dylancasey.com/ for more info about Dylan. Speaker: Dylan Casey Dylan Casey maybe best known for his prowess on the road these days, but he's also quite accomplished on the track. In 1998, Casey became just the...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks February, 28 2008 ABSTRACT Mindfulness meditation, one type of meditation technique, has been shown to enhance emotional awareness and psychological flexibility as well as induce well-being and emotional balance. Scientists have also begun to examine how meditation may influence brain functions. This talk will examine the effect of mindfulness meditation practice on the brain s...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks July 7, 2008 ABSTRACT Urbi is a middleware for concurrent and distributed programming, based on a new parallel and event-driven script language called 'urbiScript'. Using a familiar and easy-to-use syntax, the language offers several concurrent abstractions rooted in the language semantics, together with an integrated scheduler and a distributed component architecture cal...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks June, 3 2008 ABSTRACT Have you heard that Google wants to wire up the entire African continent? Or that broadband will be ubiqitous throughout developing countries in ten years? Or that poor kids with connected laptops will teach each other? Or that the latest fiber optics cable being installed will lower Internet costs overnight? Just like many other realms of human activity...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks October 20, 2008 ABSTRACT In this talk we will explore a few of the open source projects we work on here at Engine Yard. I will give a detailed overview of the Merb web framework and what it brings to the table. We will also discuss Rubinius, an alternate ruby VM based on SmallTalk 80 blue book that also uses LLVM for low level optimizations. We will also explore the 'stac...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks October 2, 2008 ABSTRACT Shifting from its initial purely entertainment-centric agenda, video is becoming an important media for communication, saving generic facts and personal memories. Viewdle is considering face recognition in real-life videos as one of the three material steps ahead (along with tracking location and timecodes) towards effective organization of videos. The ...

Descripción: If the Globalist's NWO master Plan for Utopia is so great then why all the wars, death, destruction, starvation, SECRECY and LIES? I see all countries are passing Gestapo style anti-terrorism laws that allow them to target people that criticize government. Thought crimes. The truth is being suppressed. You have nothing to fear but fear itself. We are like the ants driving off the elephant, we d...

Descripción: 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 t...