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Posted: **Mon Jan 23, 2012 1:46 am**

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People & Power | Collapse of the Celtic Tiger
— Uploaded by AlJazeera English on Jan 19, 2012

[YOUTUBE NOTES.] A look at how Ireland, once a
beacon of booming development and social prosperity,
has been plunged into economic desperation.

Posted: **Wed Jan 25, 2012 1:44 am**

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Posted: **Sun Jan 29, 2012 1:30 am**

Trailer for Ethos: the truth about the U.S. Government and its corrupt system

Posted: **Sun Jan 29, 2012 4:36 am**

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Let’s bring music to kids worldwide | Jose Antonio Abreu
— a TED talk, Caracas, Venezuela | posted February, 2009

TED Prize winner

The Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra | Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
— a TED talk, Caracas, Venezuela | posted February, 2009

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The first piece is Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10,
2nd movement, marked Allegro;
the second piece is Arturo Márquez’s Danzón No. 2.

Posted: **Sun Jan 29, 2012 4:47 am**

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Beatboxes a whole band | Naturally 7
— a TED talk, Long Beach, California | posted February, 2009

Live in Paris Subway | Naturally 7

Posted: **Mon Jan 30, 2012 2:14 am**

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Mesmerizing, towering loops of solar magnetism
— Bad Astronomy | January 29th, 2012, 7:02 AM
— links in original; captions in vid

I know I’ve been writing about the Sun quite a bit lately, but I have a followup to yesterday’s cool video of the big solar flare… and you’re gonna like it.

I was fooling around with helioviewer.org, watching the flare in different wavelengths of light detected by NASA’s Solar Dynamics observatory, when I switched to 17.1 nanometers — in the far ultraviolet. At that wavelength, the glowing plasma that flows along the Sun’s magnetic field lines is very bright. The images were so beautiful, so incredible, I made a video animation of them, covering the time range of January 26, 2012 at midnight to January 28 at noon (UTC), which includes the huge X2 solar flare that erupted on the 27th. The video shows huge loops of magnetism on the Sun’s surface, glowing plasma flowing along them… and then 48 seconds in the flare changes everything. Watch:

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Posted: **Tue Jan 31, 2012 2:07 pm**

Posted: **Thu Feb 02, 2012 5:59 am**

but in reality I don't think the solar systems invariant plane (roughly the plane of Jupiter's orbit) is perpendicular to the motion of the sun around the galaxy, or is it?

Posted: **Thu Feb 02, 2012 9:23 am**

Vishwa Bandhu Gupta Explains Cloud computing [funny] English subtitles

An Indian tax commissioner explains how rain affects cloud computing. "Subtitles are almost accurate."