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Secretary of Education Arne Duncan takes your questions about education in a discussion with MSN’s Shira Lazar. 1st collector for Open for Questions: Education with Arne DuncanFollow my videos on vodpod
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President Obama announces that Rahm Emanuel is stepping down as White House Chief of Staff and names Senior Advisor Pete Rouse as interim Chief of Staff. 1st collector for White House Chief of Staff AnnouncementFollow my videos on vodpod
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John ‘Melodysheep’ Boswell’s great production, with added subtitles. John’s channel youtube.com/melodysheep Also visit John’s “Symphony of Science” website symphonyofscience.com The Sagan Appreciation Society channel youtube.com/SaganAppreciationSoc [deGrasse Tyson] We are all connected; To each other, biologically To the earth, chemically To the rest of the universe atomically [Feynman] I think nature’s…
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Lyrics: [Sagan] If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch You must first invent the universe Space is filled with a network of wormholes You might emerge somewhere else in space Some when-else in time The sky calls to us If we do not destroy ourselves We will…
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http://www.youtube.com/v/oLAmxvtUBtY&hl=en&fs=1 via youtube.com “I doubt there are many people who could effectively execute this manner of “loving pressure” on the Leader of the Free World, and I am glad to see West do it. Sometimes speaking truth to power means speaking truth to one’s friends– a delicate, precarious, but obligatory…
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http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:360495 via dailykos.com “And, as an originalist, Scalia argues that the idea that the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment protects women’s rights is a “modern invention”, because he says, in 1868 when it was written, “Nobody thought it was directed against sex discrimination”. Evidently, back then, women hadn’t…
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“For the first time, we have the power to decide the fate of our planet and ourselves. This is a time of great danger, but our species is young, and curious, and brave. It shows much promise.” – Carl Sagan 1st collector for Carl Sagan’s Cosmos Episode 1: The Shores…
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http://www.youtube.com/v/g4v0BBfjoBk&hl=en&fs=1 via youtube.com “Don’t ask me What you know is true Don’t have to tell you I love your precious heart I……….I was standing You were there Two worlds collided And they could never tear us apart We could live for a thousand years But if I hurt you I’d…
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Fangs ain’t what they used to be … Bela Lugosi as Dracula in the 1931 film version “Here’s what vampires shouldn’t be: pallid detectives who drink Bloody Marys and work only at night; lovelorn southern gentlemen; anorexic teenage girls; boy-toys with big dewy eyes,” writes Stephen King in the introduction…
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“Command Performance”:The Arthur Magazine Email BulletinOctober 1, 2010 Special Edition Why I Left My Publisher in Order to Publish a Bookby Douglas Rushkoff I’m getting more questions about my latest book than about any other I’ve written. And this is before the book is even out—before anyone has even read…
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“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” – Carl Sagan “Explanation: A mere 20 light-years away in the constellation Libra, red dwarf star Gliese 581 has received much scrutiny by astronomers in recent years. Earthbound telescopes had detected the signatures of multiple planets orbiting the cool sun, two at…
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via en.wikiquote.org “God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part. God alone exists truly. Man manifests Him in time, space and matter.” I know that most men — not only those considered clever, but even those who are very clever and capable of…
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http://www.youtube.com/v/ma5np8PcaY8&hl=en&fs=1 via youtube.com “Introducing White House Whiteboard. In this first edition, Austan Goolsbee, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers here at the White House, tackles the tax cut fight and what it means that Congressional Republicans are “holding middle class tax cuts hostage” as the President has said.”