Health-Fitness
Video: Your Brain at Work
This video is highly recommended if you want to optimize your intellectual output. Links Managing with the brain in mind Neuroscience of mindfulness David Rock's blog
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Video: Sita Sings the Blues
Nina Paley (of "Mimi and Eunace" ) animated feature. From Nina's main page: Dear Audience, I hereby give Sita Sings the Blues to you. Like all culture, it belongs to you already, but I am making it explicit with a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License. Please distribute, copy, share, archive, and show Sita Sings the Blues. From the shared culture it came, and back into the shared culture it goes. You don't need my permission to copy, share, publish, archive, show, sell, broadcast, or remix Sita Sings the Blues. Conventional wisdom urges me to demand payment for every use of the Read more…
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Video: The Spy Factory – NSA and 911
The Spy Factory covers some of the eavesdropping techniques available to the NSA.
Hacking
How to remove XP Internet Security 2012
Spyware / virus lept onto my machine somewhere! Following worked on my desktop. Instructions using multiple tools here What are the symtoms? OTL – Old Time Lister TDSSKiller – a rootkit remover tool – http://support.kaspersky.com/downloads/utils/tdsskiller.zip How to use ComboFix ESET online scanner This process seems to have worked. On my laptop I had a similar redirector. After I used the above tools internet explorer would not work. For that I used the following tool. This worked. Method A: Reset security settings back to the defaults – fix 50198
Economics
Video: Milton Friedmans Free to Choose
​ Milton Friedman is inspiring. This is the first episode of Free to Choose. You will see the rest of the 10 episodes listed to the right side. Friedman's questioners in the post presentation look like naive amateurs in contrast. America's freedom and prosperity derive from the combination of the idea of human liberty in America's Declaration of Independence with the idea of economic freedom in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. Friedman explains how markets and voluntary exchange organize activity and enable people to improve their lives. He also explains the price system. Friedman visits Hong Kong, U.S. and Read more…
Milton Friedman
Video: Milton Friedman – Why Drugs Should Be Legalized
Milton Friedman is going to be added as a tag on this blog. If you watch the following video you will understand why.
Economics
Video: The Crash of 1929 & The Great Depression
Note how there were mini crashes and mini bail outs until the faith in the bail outs went to nil. That is when the real crash occurred in October of 1929. With the central government of the USA doing the bailing it may only take longer. In fact its probably occurring with just the stock market artificially inflated by Ben Bernanke on the behalf of President Obama. Obama appears to be of the cargo cult religion that says if we merely keep prices up the economy will be healthy. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Read more…