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Daniel Wolpert: The real reason for brains

http://www.ted.com Neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert starts from a surprising premise: the brain evolved, not to think or feel, but to control movement. In this ...
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Solar Cycle Maximum On Its Way | Space.com

Solar Cycle Maximum On Its Way | Space.com | Science News | Scoop.it
Activity on the Sun is due to reach its peak around early 2014, so expect more flares, eruptions and ejections for the next few years. Early predictions say the estimated Sun activity between 2020-2030 may not be nearly as intense as the 2000-teens.
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Space Station Cameras Capture New Views of Hurricane Rina

From an altitude of 248 miles, external cameras on the International Space Station captured new views of Hurricane Rina at 3:18 p.m. EDT on Oct. 26, 2011, as...
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NASA Time-lapse video - Night views over the Mediterranean Sea

This video over the Mediterranean Sea was taken by the crew of Expedition 29 aboard the International Space Station. This sequence of shots was taken on Oct....
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Night Pass over Central Africa and the Middle East

This video over Central Africa and the Middle East was taken by the crew of Expedition 29 aboard the International Space Station. This sequence of shots was ...
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Evening Pass over the Sahara Desert and the Middle East

This video over the Sahara Desert and the Middle East was taken by the crew of Expedition 29 aboard the International Space Station. This sequence of shots w...
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Heliotropes – beautiful short film about nature...

Heliotropes – beautiful short film about nature and mankind’s shared propensity for following the sun, opening the final day of PopTech 2011

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Nathalie Miebach: Art made of storms

http://www.ted.com Artist Nathalie Miebach takes weather data from massive storms and turns it into complex sculptures that embody the forces of nature and t...
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Daytime pass over North America

We are all cells of a much greater meta-organism, the planet Earth. This hypercomplex jewel of a planet drifts between the stars, an island of consciousness ...
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THE BEGINNING OF INFINITY [VIMEO]

"The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself." - Steven Johnson

This video is inspired, in part, by the ideas explored in David Deutsch’s new book, THE BEGINNING OF INFINITY. We hope it moves you.

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Fascinating TED talk What Children’s Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life

Fascinating TED talk by Alison Gopnik on how babies think. Gopnik’s The Philosophical Baby: What Children’s Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life is one of this year’s must-read books by TEDGlobal speakers.

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First Orbit, a film made in space following Yuri Gagarin’s flight path

First Orbit, a film made in space following Yuri Gagarin’s flight path | Science News | Scoop.it
Cool stuff | First Orbit | I missed this a few months ago when it came out, but it's pretty neat: First Orbit, a film made in space following Yuri Gagarin's flight path as the first human...
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Daniel Wolpert: The real reason for brains | Video on TED.com

TED Talks Neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert starts from a surprising premise: the brain evolved, not to think or feel, but to control movement.
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Over Earth: Envisat's View - Part 1 | Space.com

Over Earth: Envisat's View - Part 1 | Space.com | Science News | Scoop.it
Europe's environmental monitoring satellite has taken breathtaking imagery of land and oceans with its optical and radar instruments. The satellite is orbiting 497 miles above the Earth.
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Aurora Explosion from Ozark, Arkansas (10-24-2011)

Here is a little time lapse from stills showing the faint aurora explode in just a few minutes to become some of the brightest aurora ever seen at such low l...
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NASA Time-lapse video - Halfway Across the World

This video was taken by the crew of Expedition 29 aboard the International Space Station. The sequence of shots was taken on Oct. 8, 2011, from 20:53:10 to 2...
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Day Pass through Western United States

This video over the Western United States was taken by the crew of Expedition 29 aboard the International Space Station. This sequence of shots was taken on ...
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Underwater cloaking device creates mirage

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21007-nanotubes-help-cloak-objects-in-a-mirage.html...
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Six Famous Thought Experiments, Animated in 60 Seconds Each

Six Famous Thought Experiments, Animated in 60 Seconds Each | Science News | Scoop.it
From Ancient Greece to quantum mechanics, or what a Chinese room and a cat have to do with infinity.
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Quantum Levitation

Video courtesy of the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC), representing the science center and museum field worldwide. To learn more, visit www....
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Seeing through walls - MIT News Office

Seeing through walls - MIT News Office | Science News | Scoop.it
Researchers at MIT’s Lincoln Lab have developed new radar technology that provides real-time video of what’s going on behind solid walls.
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The skies reflect our spinning world | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

The skies reflect our spinning world | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine | Science News | Scoop.it
Astronomy | Brad Goldpaint | We live on a spinning ball, rotating madly as it moves through space.
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Rover's Eye View of Three-Year Trek on Mars

During the three-year trek of NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity from Victoria crater to Endeavour crater, rover planners captured a horizon photograph at the end...
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VIDEO - Flu Attack! How A Virus Invades Your Body

When you get the flu, viruses turn your cells into tiny factories that help spread the disease. In this animation, NPR's Robert Krulwich and medical animator...
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