h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I stumbled over this link while still feeling all euphoric after the Manchester Meet.

And I like it. A lot. And I listen to it again, and again. And yes, I've even looked up some of the folks involved and listened to their orginal talks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB7jSFeVz1U&feature=player_embedded

And if that speficic video didn't appeal to you, feel free to check out all the other videos over at:

http://www.symphonyofscience.com/

There's some pretty cool people in the Brain video - I've already listened to two TED talks; one by Olver Sacks, and one by Jill Bolte Taylor (about how she experienced having a stroke). Can't access Carl Sagan's Cosmos from Sweden, obviously.

Pepe had put this on her blog - I had missed this post of yours, but saw it there.
That's how the autotune should work.

Well, if you go the symphony of science site, there's a button called 'Additional info' or some such on the right hand side of each video. There you'll find links to the lectures and documentaries that the samples were taken from - that's how I found the TED talks.

Oh yeah, I liked it a lot! Thought I had to share it! So weird. So great.

I even recognised some parts of it from a documentary we watched in physics class about string theory. mwehehe

I may have shared it on facebook. TED talks are great, i get them downloaded to my computer as podcasts quite often.

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I am bowled over. I've finally come here to find out what this thread was about. Not only is the content extremely well collated, but the tune is lovely to listen to. And you get something you often wish lecturers would do - they repeat the important bits so you can find out if you heard it right the first time.

I'll definitely recommend these to my kids.

I find myself humming '...explodes into this enormous collage...' and 'we're perfect, we're whole and we're beautiful' quite often

I think I need to go watch some TED talks...

I really love the Oliver Sacks one

I just signed up to start translating ted talks.
Not that I think that a lot of swedes don't know enough english to understand it. But still! :D

>>Not that I think that a lot of swedes don't know enough english to understand it>>

Oh, I'm not entirely sure of that. One of the girls in the current season of Top Model Sweden seems amazingly bad at English - even though she is old enough to have finished 'gymnasiet'. It's the episode where Janice Dickinson is the photographer, and I think the girl's name is Victoria.

The episodes are available at tv3play dot se for Swedish watchers. Victoria misunderstood some instructions, as did one of the other girls who seemed to think that 'pinup' meant she should stick one of her legs straigt up into the air (when she's lying down on her back on an autopsy table). We even have a 'Swedish' word for it: 'pinuppa' In the end Janice grew impatient and told her to just lie still 'like a dead person'.

And these girls want to become international top models? They should have spent more effort on learning English then.

Mind you, I am aware that not everyone find learning a foreign language easy - but maybe they shouldn't pick an international career if they have difficulties.

A phrase by dear old Oliver Sacks (well, you've got to admit he looks pretty much like ) that keeps coming back to me (and now I've got another brain ghost coming up, but never mind).

From Symphony of Science, featuring Oliver Sacks:

We see with the eyes
But we see with the mind as well
And seeing with the mind
Is often called imagination

Ah, here's the 'all coming back to me' reference, sorry...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjCIhV0QEPc

If only, if only, if only Meatloaf had done it with...

They would have triggered each other to new heights, they would, I'm sure of it - but no, it wasn't meant to happen

And now, come to think of it, I feel quite about the two of them never making it together - they've robbed us listeners of what might have been a really great experience. Bah!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOikQWAL8qc

Aah, the original music video - and sorry for some very serious OTD drift, but the TED talks themselves set my brain off...

What do you mean with OTD?
I just watched the talk with the neuroscientist who had a stroke - that was so amazing.