Politics
Video: Ron Paul in 1988
Highly recommended Ron Paul interview from 1988. Please add comments about what is said in the video so others searching for particular content will find this video. Republicans and democrats tend to have their strings pulled the same people – by the power structure – that being said Ron Paul Read more…
Health-Fitness
Video: Free Socialist Canadian Health Care is not so free and certainly not easy to access
Appears to me that the Canadian health care approach is to just deny care for all but gaping bloody wounds in the philosophy that most minor things take care of themselves when they do not develop into full blown melanoma.
48 Laws-Of-Power
Samuel Langhorne Clemens aka Mark Twain
The first book I ever read was read to me before falling asleep at night by my mother. It was Huck Finn by Mark Twain. You can find some of his works online to read at the following locations: Huck Finn – original handwritten manuscript is in the Mark Read more…
Economics
Video: Google TechTalk – World economic analysis by Mish
Presented by Mike "Mish" Shedlock. Mike "Mish" Shedlock is author of one of the most read economics blogs on the Internet: Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis [http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. com/]. Mish gave an @Google talk, sharing his perspective on the state of the global economy (housing, the stock market, commodities, etc.) He Read more…
Quantum-Computing
Video: The race to Absolute Zero
No I am not talking about Obama. This is the story of Dewar and Kamerlingh Onnes race to liquify gases. The ultimate challenge was helium. Dewar gavce up after hydrogen as he found it difficult to get helium and had all along gone light on equipment whilst Onnes used Read more…
History
Video: How Scotland Came to be Gaelic
Before the Scots there were the Picts. The Picts were so called because they have tatoos on their bodies. ( pictures ). They pursued a strategy of fighting and then falling back into the rough Scottish country side. It appears that without sufficiently friendly environment the agressors would fall back. Thus Read more…
Relativity
Optical Effects of Special Relativity
Race down a road at near the speed of light. What do you see?
Video: Castles episode #1: How to supplant a ruling class – A historical guide to the stroke of state – coup d’etat
This is episode 1 of the series on English castles. Castles were most useful shortly after the 1066 Norman invasion of England. They were called "mottes and baileys". Shown in the picture below the motte is not the ditch around the hill but the hill. Perhaps that is how the Read more…