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THE PLEASURE OF FINDING THINGS OUT, Richard Feynman Interview (1981)

BBC Horizon/PBS Nova THE PLEASURE OF FINDING THINGS OUT, Richard Feynman Interview (1981)

Fifty minutes of PURE Feynman! This is the original Horizon Nova interview – essential for any Feynman fan… and for everyone else too!

“I’m an explorer, OK I like to find out!” Richard Feynman, physicist and adventurer extraordinary…

THE PLEASURE OF FINDING THINGS OUT was filmed in 1981 and will delight and inspire anyone who would like to share something of the joys of scientific discovery. Feynman is a master storyteller, and his tales — about childhood, Los Alamos, or how he won a Nobel Prize — are a vivid and entertaining insight into the mind of a great scientist at work and play.

“The 1981 Feynman Horizon is the best science program I have ever seen. This is not just my opinion – it is also the opinion of many of the best scientists that I know who have seen the program… It should be mandatory viewing for all students whether they be science or arts students.”
- Professor Sir Harry Kroto, Nobel Prize for Chemistry

BBC Horizon/PBS Nova

Michael Gazzaniga: An interview with the neuroscientist and professor of psychology

Decoding the Brain’s Cacophony (NYT)

Anecdotal evidence of enormous Jellyfish population blooms are raising questions: Are we seeing the population suddenly boom?

From Futurity, we learn that these “blooms” are a regular phenomena, and so far, the evidence is that worldwide population is fairly stable.

But to make sure, a group of Jellyfish experts are forming a global database — the Jellyfish Database Initiative (JEDI) — to be used track over 500,000 data points about global jellyfish populations. The goal is to determine if data can confirm if the current blooms are shifting from historical norms. JEDI (heh heh) will be a repository for datasets so that the issue of jellyfish blooms can be continually monitored in the future.

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Giant jellyfish clogging fishing nets in Japan

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Source:
Experts question: Jellyfish really on the rise?
George Foulsham-UC Santa Barbara February 2, 2012
http://www.futurity.org/science-technology/experts-question-jellyfish-really-on-the-rise/

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From National Geographic via Visual.ly
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by NatGeo via

We first looked at this back in 2010, but with sailing weather a mere 3 months away, its time to bring this back:
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Full graphic after the jump

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So awesome! Enormous infographic from the CableTV.com:

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Crazy awesome!

Hat tip Cool Infographics

Its Friday — here’s an overwhelming amount of cute:

Hat tip Yves

In this new RSAnimate, renowned psychiatrist and writer Iain McGilchrist explains how our ‘divided brain’ has profoundly altered human behaviour, culture and society. Taken from a lecture given by Iain McGilchrist as part of the RSA’s free public events programme.

To view the full lecture, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbUHxC4wiWk

Madness!

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