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Anita Sarkeesian claims over and over again that there is some conspiracy by male gamers to keep it a 'boys club'. Personally, whenever I played the only thing that mattered was how good you were.

And Yup, I think this is very like 'atheism plus' which basically tries to hijack a larger community with some personal political agenda.

Anitas CNN interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNyxq-gqFNU

Anitas Tedx talk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZAxwsg9J9Q

In this video I take to task Feminist Frequencys latest video on 'Tropes vs women: the damsel in distress'

I have two main problems with her video, the first is the way she takes a very, VERY natural response, like wanting to protect your loved ones, as for instance a damsel in distress, and turns this into objectifying the damsel in distress. This is simply bollox. Most people are perfectly capable of wanting to protect a loved one without thinking of them as an object.

Secondly is turning the games industry into some patriarchal conspiracy out to subjugate and objectify women. This is simply delusional, the games industry only cares about turning a profit, which it does by turning out fun games that people like to play.




I also find it rather weak that she holds up the 'pity shield' and adopts professional victimhood as seen in her ted talk. The conspiracy she paints is pretty paranoid. The reality is, pretty much everyone who wildly expresses an controversial opinion forcefully on the internet gets hatemail. In Anitas case, I think the majority of hatemail she got was simply because she was talking bollox. Thats always kinda a button issue on the internet!

For a breakdown of Feministfrequencys dissertation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6gLmcS3-NI

Richard Feynman on the ability to understand science

This is not me in the video, but I liked it, so I thought I would share it.

Noam Chomsky and Christopher Hitchens in a rare interview in 1992

Christopher Hitchens shows what he's really like when speaking about Sarah Palin and Margaret Thatcher. It suggests that Hitchens wanted to degrade and humiliate her, to "humble ye her". Noam Chomsky then responds.

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Noam Chomsky says Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris are religious fanatics. Recorded at the University of Toronto.

Noam Chomsky on Christopher Hitchens

Einstein's Relativity and the Quantum Revolution by Richard Wolfson

http://www.thegreatcourses.com/einstein

Welcome to Einstein's Relativity and the Quantum Revolution: A Course in Modern Physics for Non-Scientists. I'm Professor Rich Wolfson from Middlebury College. And before I begin, I'd just like to say a little about my title, to emphasize two terms in that title. First of all, the term modern physics. This is a course in the great ideas that shaped the physics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It's not a course in all of physics. And it's not a course in the really latest, most contemporary ideas, although we will touch on those. Rather, it's a course in the true, fundamental ideas that set the tone for all the physics that's occurred since the year 1900.

But this course is primarily about the key ideas of twentieth century physics. The big ideas. The two great big ideas. And what are those big ideas?

Well, the two big ideas are relativity—developed primarily by Albert Einstein, although with help from others—and quantum physics, which was developed by a whole slew of physicists. Einstein first told us about relativity in 1905. He expanded on relativity in 1914. And the rest of the twentieth century constituted of an exploration by physicists trying to verify that Einstein was correct. And in the last 10 years, and even in the last five years, we've had some remarkably dramatic confirmations of Einstein's theories, although the essence of those theories was confirmed very early in the century.

The course is going to be divided into basically two big halves. The first half is going to take us through the special theory of relativity. This was the first of the two relativity theories; the one that Einstein developed and published in the year 1905. And it has been very, very highly confirmed by all experiments that have been done since then. We're going to spend a good deal of time on special relativity. We'll take about four lectures of history. Understanding classical physics. Understanding the contradictions that rose from classical physics. Contradictions that we'll worry about both with relativity and quantum physics.

But after about four lectures, we'll begin to plunge into the essence of special relativity. And we're going to spend through Lecture Twelve on special relativity. And the reason for so much emphasis on this particular subject is special relativity is the most easily understandable of the modern physics ideas. It requires almost no mathematics. And this is a course that's basically devoid of mathematics. So I'm going to present all this material in a non-mathematical way. But if you wanted to understand special relativity thoroughly and mathematically, high school algebra would suffice. So relativity, special relativity, is an easy to understand subject. I can get you to understand thoroughly and logically why it has to be true.

After we do special relativity, we'll spend a few lectures on general relativity, which is Einstein's extension of special relativity to cover all states of motion. And it turns out to be a theory of gravity. And it's the theory that predicts the existence of bizarre things like black holes, and wormholes, and white holes and the kind of time travel that occurred in the movie Contact. If you've seen that where you go through a wormhole tunnel through space and time. General relativity talks about very strange things like that. It's harder to grasp mathematically. It's harder for me to show you the full, logical flow. We aren't going to spend as much time on it. But, you will get the essence of what general relativity is about.

And then we'll move on from there and look briefly at some very modern ideas that are outgrowths of quantum mechanics. We'll look at some experiments that have been done in the last few decades that are still causing controversy about the philosophical interpretation of quantum physics—because quantum physics is subject to interpretation, which is still a matter of great philosophical debate. And then, in the very end, we'll look at very contemporary searches for a so-called theory of everything—ideas in physics that would be able to explain everything from gravity to the structure of an electron and everything in between with one theory of everything.

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See my article about this controversy. http://elchiroilustrado.blogspot.com.es/2011/09/chomsky-a... Why not a public debate Chomsky-Hitchens? Such a debate to cover many other things, other relevant aspects of their different views, it would be a good idea, nothing better than a debate to compare and contrast both views.

Después de publicar sus reacciones a la muerte de Bin Laden, y decir que había sido un asesinato y que Bin Laden se quedaba corto en comparación con los crímenes de George W. Bush, Christopher Hitchens le acusa de hacer pronunciamientos estúpidos e ignorantes. En este vídeo Chomsky responde acusándo a Hitchens de haber sido él quien dijo que el bombardeo de Sudán de Clinton fue peor que el 11-S... cosa que no es cierta. Hasta donde yo se, Chomsky comparó el número de víctimas de ambos crímenes y Hitchens le acusó de establecer equivalencias morales, cosa que Chomsky rechaza, pero lo cierto es que Hitchens no dijo eso. Ver un análisis en detalle de la polémica en mi blog http://lecturasporcinas.blogspot.com/2011/05/amor-pobreza...

Due to repeated requests this series of videos goes through the questions I was asked at interview when applying for physics. Where necessary I've gone through the question with the answer they were looking for (not necessarily the answer I always gave!).

If anyone is looking for advice or help then please feel free to message me or comment down below. I'll try to get back to you as soon as I can, but I can't make any guarantees as Oxford is absolutely crazy during term time! Similarly, if anyone would like a tour of St. Peter's then message me and I'll try and sort something out.

I'm currently a second year physics student at St. Peter's College, University of Oxford, and beyond my enrollment as a student I have no other official affiliation with the university. As far as I am aware posting this isn't breaching any codes of practise, but should this prove to be the case I will remove it.

I apologise for the spot on my nose. It's really annoying.

Excerpt from the Q&A session of Noam Chomsky's 3 Dec 2009 talk at Columbia University, titled "The Unipolar Moment and the Culture of Imperialism". For the talk itself, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIknLSsyhCo
For the whole Q&A, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3671omQ-XY

Yes, Chomsky in this excerpt does refer to Osama bin Laden as "Obama bin Laden" a couple times, but it's pretty clearly just a slip of the tongue and not intentional.

Noam Chomsky responds to a caller's request for his thoughts on socialism, during a 2003 interview by Brian Lamb, for C-SPAN's "In Depth" program. He describes how socialism was equated with the Leninist model of the Soviet Union by both the USA and its allies on the one hand, and the USSR and its allies on the other.

Full interview available @ http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page...

I also recommend the following video, where Chomsky further describes the double-sided anti-socialist propaganda (beginning @ 7:55): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQsceZ9skQI

And here's a 1986 essay by Chomsky on the Soviet half of the anti-socialist duo: http://www.chomsky.info/articles/1986----.htm

Chomsky talks about the secret US foreign policy .
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Untitled Thinkers Productions - "Education, Power Systems & The Knowledge Revolution"

Six Questions:
1 - What is the function of a human?
2 - What is the function of civilization?
3 - How would you describe the interaction of self-interest and mutual-interest?
4 - How would you describe the concept of money?
5 - What patterns have you noticed over the course of your career?
6 - What do you hope for?

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Richard Feynman (1 of 4)

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Total internal reflection as seen from the bottom of a pool.

Jodeci's song My Heart Belongs To You from their 1993 sophmore album Diary of a Mad Band

Learn Einstein's special and general theories of relativity in 6 minutes, MIT style, in song form. This is what professors Max Tegmark & Tali Figueroa inflicted on their students to prep them for their final exam.

This video is a part of the "Physics-X" lecture series, taught at Michigan Technological University by Dr. Robert Nemiroff. Dr.Nemiroff is one of the co-creators of the popular website APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day).

"Physics-X" deals with some of the most extraordinary concepts in physics, most of which try to provide the Physics background behind some cool phenomena and theories like Time Travel, Special Relativity, Worm Holes and Black Holes, Quantum Mechanics, Parallel Universes, etc.

No textbook and no prior knowledge of rigorous mathematics, is required for the course.

In this second part of the Special Relativity lecture series, Dr.Nemiroff discusses the various paradoxes associated with travel at speeds at or exceeding the speed of light, and their related consequences. Issues of simultaneity and Time Dilation are discussed. Doppler effects and aberrational effects are discussed, and further paradoxes like Super Luminal Blinking, Superluminal Flashlight sweep, Quasar Motion Paradox are explained.

Walter Lewin, professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, sheds light on everyday phenomena such as rainbows and what makes the sky blue. Watch Lewin create a rainbow right in the lecture hall and other exciting demonstrations in this engaging and creative discussion of physics that sheds what lies beneath the everyday wonders of our world.

Up, down, charm, strange, top and bottom!
The world is made up of quarks and leptons!
Yum! Yum!

Original karaoke song on quarks by Lynda Williams,
The Physics Chanteuse.

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