Showing posts with label Interesting Talks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Interesting Talks. Show all posts

Friday, May 14, 2010

James Randi

Es hora de asumirlo: está James Randi (Randi el Magnifico) y, después, el resto del mundo.
Para los que no lo conozcáis (como yo hasta hace un par de días), es un mago y escéptico que lucha para que la gente no se deje engañar y tiene una fundación sin ánimo de lucro (James Randi Educational Foundation) conocida por ofrecer un millón de dólares a quien demostrara un fenómeno paranormal. Cabe decir que el "premio" lleva en activo desde 1996, y nadie ha conseguido llevárselo a casa.

Espero que os guste:

Os dejo un trozo:
So what does Silvia Brown give you for that 7 hundred dollars?
She gives you the names of your guardian angels, that's first. 
Now, without that, how could we possibly function?
She gives you the names of previous lives, who you were in previous lives. Duh
Turns out that the women that she gives these readings for were all Babylonian princesses, or something like that.
And the men were all grecian warriors fighting with Agamemmon.
Nothing is ever said about a 14 year old bootblack in the streets of London who died of consumption. He isn't worth bringing back, obviously. And the strange things - you may have noticed this too- you see the folks on television, they never call anybody back from hell.
Everyone comes back from heaven, but never from hell. If they call back any of my friends they're not going to.. well.. we'll see the story.



Tuesday, March 30, 2010

jugglers!!

They're just amazing! Raspyni Brother's TED Talk... because there is also innovation in juggling!

Saturday, December 26, 2009

Gods are too provintial

First of all, Happy Winter Solstice!

Here you have a fantastic talk from Richard Feynman about gods, religion and doubt. Hope you enjoy it!



By the way, if you're also flying home this holidays.. you may find interesting this webpage about how to sleep in airports. .

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Imagine

Today, I feel like traveling.
Hope we manage to have a well-preserved multicultural world some day.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Wind-fed walking sculptures

While watching a science-divulgation spanish tv show called redes (sé que tengo demasiado tiempo libre), I remembered about Theo Jansen's kinetic sculptures.
An amazingly astonishing conference  that I saw in ted.com which, by the way, is a fantastic site that gives you access to all kinds of talks.

I think it is completely worth it. So please, do not forget to press play and enjoy the wind-fed walking "animals".