01:00
John McWhorter - Txtng is killing language. JK!!!
by bcmoney
2078 views,
3802 days ago
Does texting mean the death of good writing skills? John McWhorter posits that there's much more to texting -- linguistically, culturally -- than it seems, and it's all good news.
01:00
Erik Brynjolfsson - The key to growth? Race against machines
by bcmoney
1817 views,
3802 days ago
As machines take on more jobs, many find themselves out of work or with raises indefinitely postponed. Is this the end of growth? No, says Erik Brynjolfsson -- it's simply the growing pains of a ra...
01:00
Robert Gordon - The death of innovation, the end of growth
by bcmoney
1789 views,
3802 days ago
The US economy has been expanding wildly for two centuries. Are we witnessing the end of growth? Economist Robert Gordon lays out 4 reasons US growth may be slowing, detailing factors like epidemic...
01:40:53
Douglas Engelbart - The Mother of All Demos (1968)
by bcmoney
5245 views,
3830 days ago
"The Mother of All Demos" is a name given retrospectively to Douglas Engelbart's December 9, 1968, demons...
01:13:29
Crockford on JavaScript - Function the Ultimate
by bcmoney
3377 views,
3830 days ago
Yahoo!'s former JavaScript lead architect Douglas Crockford continues his lecture series on the JavaScript programming language with a discussion of functions in JavaScript. "Functions are the very...
01:30:23
Crockford on JavaScript - Then There Was JavaScript (VOL.2)
by bcmoney
3259 views,
3830 days ago
Yahoo!'s former JavaScript lead architect Douglas Crockford surveys the features of the JavaScript programming language.
01:42:09
Crockford on JavaScript - The Early Years (VOL.1)
by bcmoney
3251 views,
3830 days ago
Douglas Crockford puts the JavaScript programming language in its proper historical context, tracing the language's structure and conventions (and some of its quirks) back to their roots in the ear...
09:13
Arthur C. Clarke - Reflections on his Nineteeth Birthday
by bcmoney
3401 views,
3833 days ago
The world's best known writer of science fiction, Sir Arthur C Clarke was the first to propose satellite communications in 1945. One of his short stories inspired the World Wide Web, while another ...
53:45
Arthur C. Clarke - Fractals The Colors Of Infinity
by bcmoney
3406 views,
3833 days ago
Fractals: The Colors of Infinity.
The Mandelbrot set -- someone has called it the thumb-print of God -- is one of the most beautiful and remarkable discoveries in the entire history of...
01:34
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Internet and Home PCs
by bcmoney
3491 views,
3833 days ago
Looked at today, this interview - where Arthur C. Clarke appears to predict future technologies such as the internet and Computers as small as laptops - is particularly powerful because it takes pl...
00:27
Pavel Datsyk - NHL 94 Style
by TheLyle
3749 views,
3836 days ago
Pavel Datsyk channels NHL 94 as he goes end-to-end and single-handedly takes on the entire Nashville Predators' team, a feat common in the classic video game but much less so in real life.
02:51
NHL 94 - The Best Hockey Video Game Ever Made?
by TheLyle
4891 views,
3837 days ago
Electronic Arts' EA Sports division produced a iconic hockey game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) and Sega Genesis consoles. 20 years later, it remains a landmark game and fan fa...
21:05
Elon Musk - The Mind Behind Tesla Motors, SpaceX & SolarCity
by bcmoney
3748 views,
3838 days ago
Entrepreneur Elon Musk is a man with many plans. The founder of PayPal, Tesla Motors and SpaceX sits down with TED curator Chris Anderson to share details about his visionary projects, which includ...
59:06
50 performance tricks to make your HTML5 apps & sites faster
by bcmoney
3340 views,
3838 days ago
Creating high performance web apps is crucial for every web developer. Learn directly from the Internet Explorer Performance team about what actually drives performance across the web and how you c...
05:40
Programming as Art
by bcmoney
2851 views,
3840 days ago
Based on the 1974 article by Donald Knuth. It also seems as though many major figures in computer programming and computer science...
54:35
Clay Shirky - Cognitive Surplus
by bcmoney
2774 views,
3843 days ago
Author, teacher and activist, Clay Shirky, discusses the visionary insights of Marshall McLuhan as well as his own ideas about the effects of new media and social networking on our society. Shirky'...
09:56
Green Economy & Sustainable Development - Bring Back Social
by bcmoney
2987 views,
3843 days ago
Discussions about Green Economy often ignore the Social - this short 10 minute video addresses this issue. Check out UNRISD's Project on the
by bcmoney
Humankind has been looking for the giant squid (Architeuthis) since we first started taking pictures underwater. But the elusive deep-sea predator could never be caught on film. Oceanographer and i...
13:48
Edith Widder: How we found the giant squid
3075 views,
3850 days ago
02:55
OREO Separator Machine #3 - Conceptual Artist Col. DENTAKU
by bcmoney
2742 views,
3852 days ago
Conceptual art has its uses. Especially when it separates OREO cookies. Watch as art collective Dentaku blurs the line between art and deliciousness. Music Credits: Artist-Anamanaguchi Title-Meow
02:41
OREO Separator Machine #2 - Toy Scientists Bill and Barry
by bcmoney
1743 views,
3852 days ago
One toy scientist in Minnesota likes the creme while another likes the cookie, so they built a machine to separate OREO cookies and serve each delicious half to its respective scientist.