100 Greatest Discoveries by the Discovery Channel (2004-2005) Updated 2024-12-15 +Created 1970-01-01
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Hosted by Bill Nye.
Physics topics:
biology topics:
  • Leeuwenhoek microscope and the discovery of microorganisms, and how pond water is not dead, but teeming with life. No sample of course.
  • 1831 Robert Brown cell nucleus in plants, and later Theodor Schwann in tadpoles. This prepared the path for the idea that "all cells come from other cells", and the there seemed to be an unifying theme to all life: the precursor to DNA discoveries. Re-enactment, yay.
  • 1971 Carl Woese and the discovery of archaea
Genetics:
Medicine:
  • blood circulation
  • anesthesia
  • X-ray
  • germ theory of disease, with examples from Ignaz Semmelweis and Pasteur
  • 1796 Edward Jenner discovery of vaccination by noticing that cowpox cowpox infected subjects were immune
  • vitamin by observing scurvy and beriberi in sailors, confirmed by Frederick Gowland Hopkins on mice experiments
  • Fleming, Florey and Chain and the discovery of penicillin
  • Prontosil
  • diabetes and insulin
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Accounts controlled by Ciro Santilli Updated 2024-12-15 +Created 1970-01-01
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Ciro Santilli controls the following accounts.
With non-trivial activity:
Trivial activity only:
Profiles without URLs (OMG...):
  • Discord: username cirosantilli, previously cirosantilli#8921
Accounts in Chinese websites. These accounts might be banned or altered or offer other limitations, so Ciro only communicates briefly through them. All communication through those channels should obviously be assumed to be compromised:
Accounts in Russian websites:
Dead websites:
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Blaise Pascal (1972) Updated 2024-12-15 +Created 1970-01-01
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Episodes of the life of Blaise Pascal.
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Cartesius (1974) Updated 2024-12-15 +Created 1970-01-01
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This film is really good.
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Discogs Updated 2024-12-15 +Created 1970-01-01
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The IMDb of music! They actually have a reputation system apparently. And sneaked in a vinyl marketplace as well.
The website name sounds like play on words: disc + hog, with hog in the sense "memory-hog", i.e. something that consumes all your computer's memory.
Video 1.
Everything you need to know about discogs.com by Vinyl for Miles (2019)
Source. Gives a good overview of the website.
Video 2.
AnalogPlanet Interviews Discogs Founder Kevin Lewandowski (2019)
Source.
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Education is broken Updated 2024-12-15 +Created 1970-01-01
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Once Ciro was at a University course practical session, and a graduate was around helping out. Ciro asked if what the graduate did anything specifically related to the course, and they replied they didn't. And they added that:
One has to put the bread on the table.
Even though Ciro was already completely disillusioned by then, that still made an impression on him. Something is really wrong with this shit.
Other people that think that the educational system is currently bullshit as of 2020:
Figure 1.
Educational systems are carried by Indian YouTubers meme
. Source. Over a Dmitriy Khaladzhi carrying a horse over his shoulders meme template.
Video 1.
Peter Gregory from Silicon Valley shows his hate for university in a fake TED talk
. Source. Key moment: someone from the crowd cries:
The true value of a college education is intangible!
to which the speaker replies:
The true value of snake oil is intangible as well.IMDb says it's not a cameo. It really looked like one, good acting, but what a missed opportunity. Imagine a Xavier Niel appearance.
Video 2.
David Deutsch on Education interviewed by Aidan McCullen (2019)
Source.
Key quote that hits the nail:
[...] the existing assumptions behind educational systems are that the purpose of education is to transmit valuable knowledge faithfully from on generation to the next. From people who already have that knowledge, to people who don't.
So the knowledge is conceived of as a kind of valuable fluid, which you pour from one generation to the next, pour it into their brains.
So right... the purpose of education is not to teach facts. The purpose of education is to propose ways of thinking, which students themselves must try to apply and decide if it suits them! And use the patterns of thinking that are useful to reach their goals.
Like Noam Chomsky, he proposes education has been a system of indoctrination more than anything else e.g. twitter.com/daviddeutschoxf/status/1406374921748496386:
All compulsory education, "tough" or not, "love" or not, in camps or not, and whether it "traumatises" or not, is a violation of human rights.
At twitter.com/DavidDeutschOxf/status/1051475227476185089 another good quote by Churchill:
Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime Ministers have never yet been invested.
The same video also mentions in passing that john Wheeler used to be Deutsch's boss, but I can't find a reference for it very easily.
Video 3.
Quote selection by Charles Bukowski (2016)
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Generally speaking, you're free until you're about 4 years old. Then you go to grammar school and then you start becoming... oriented and shoved into areas. You lose what individualism you have, if you have enough of course, you retain some of it... Then you work the 8 hour job with almost a feeling of goodness, like you're doing something. Then you get married like marriage is a victory, and you have children like children is a victory... Marriage, birth, children. It's something they have to do because there's nothing else to do. There's no glory in it, there's no steam, there's no fire. It's very, very flat... You get caught into the stricture of what you're supposed to be and you have no other choice. You're finally molded and melded into what you're supposed to be. I didn't like this.
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Was MIT worth it? by Joseph Li
. Source.
Video 5.
I "Crashed Out" After Studying Physics In College by Alex Wei
. Source. A large part of his problem are High Expectations Asian Father issues. But society does absolutely nothing to help either, treating education as an IQ test.
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Pirates (2005) Updated 2024-12-15 +Created 1970-01-01
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One of the first 1 million USD (zero artistic value) porn movie. And also a piece of shit! Hotter porn has been shot in kitchens around the world using iPhones.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220330011213im_/https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/2/Open/MTI%20Home%20Video/Pirates%20(2005)/_derived_jpg_q90_310x470_m0/Pirates2005-PosterArt.jpg
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Tempo Rei (documentary) Updated 2024-12-15 +Created 2024-08-27
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Very good documentary!
This is a documentary about Gilberto Gil going back to his homelnd for the first time since he emigrated to Salvador/Rio, with some of his most popular songs intermixed into it. Beautiful!
"Tempo Rei" is the name of a Song composed by Gilberto Gil.
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Tempo Rei documentary
. Source.
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