To My Fellow Americans (URGENT? if yes, please rate, fave, mirror)RabidApe2009-05-06 | (thanks to askegg for the heads-up [via twitter]):
http://www.youtube.com/user/askegg
link to Steven Pinker @ TED on the history of violence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ramBFRt1UzkIncreasing Voter Participation Through Instant Runoff Voting and Eliminating The Electoral CollegeRabidApe2011-10-04 | The first video in what will hopefully be a series dealing with politics and policy.
Antinatalism? naaaahhhh...Why do I make videos, anyway? (rambly...)RabidApe2011-09-27 | Just trying to get in the swing of things again.
Sorry, it's a quick capture (I lost my editing software), but I got a new camera finally!
Why do I make videos?
To paraphrase Sam Harris, I want my atheism to fade into the background, and I want to merely be a person who destroys bad ideas wherever he finds them - whatever form they might take.
I don't have time to watch very many videos AT ALL these days, so I don't have a lot of ideas at the moment (most of my past videos have been direct or indirect responses to other videos and comments).
Sam Harris on the "dangers" of atheism:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KG5s_-Khvg ("11:55 - 12:27. There's the meat. Every atheist/agnostic should take note." -graciousSenor)
more to come!Feynmans Messenger Lectures AVAILABLE AGAIN!RabidApe2009-07-16 | Courtesy of Bill Gates?! He is getting harder and harder to hate.
;D
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.htmlOVER NINE THOUSAND km/hour crash into the moon! (to find water?!)RabidApe2009-07-14 | Last month, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter launched to the Moon. It is a precursor mission to sending humans back to the Moon - permanently, this time! (as in rotating crews like the ISS)
It's also carrying a very interesting "secondary" mission called LCROSS (Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite), which will help answer the question "Is there water on the Moon?", which has the potential to be an invaluable resource for future lunar missions.
This video is compiled from two press briefs, which covered both LRO and LCROSS. This video focuses on LCROSS.
The amount of comments that get deleted is virtually zero. Comment deletion is basically restricted to obvious spam, personal information, or advocating violence. I DO NOT DELETE COMMENTS OF PEOPLE I AM ACTUALLY ARGUING WITH.
Being blocked from a particular channel does NOT violate your "free speech" rights because YOU STILL HAVE YOUR CHANNEL AND CAN POST ALL OF THE VIDEOS YOU WANT.
A quick glance on any of my videos will demonstrate that I don't block people JUST for disagreeing with me. Engaging with "dissent" is part of my primary motivation here.
I have also embraced a tactic outlined by FakeSagan (whose methods and positions I tend to disagree with):
If I see you say something REALLY stupid and/or hateful on another channel, I just might take the time to block you before you even make it over to my channel. If I "pre_blocked" you, you definitely earned it. But that will also be temporary as outlined in the video.This Aint Rocket Science!RabidApe2009-06-20 | wtf is a "soul", anyway?
I don't even know what to do other than raise a stink.Advantages to questioning Creators Word not The CreatorRabidApe2009-06-14 | mirrored with permission from:
ToddAllenGates, who is teh AWESOME!
http://www.youtube.com/user/ToddAllenGates
DNA Do Not Abort United States Supreme Court partial birth abortion Christian Defense Coalition Bioethics Abortion in most cases are not justifiable woman entitled prevention is important pro-life prolife abortions life anti-abortion pregnancy pregnant pro choice ectopic fetus pro-choice prochoice video rareEVERYTHING you do (or dont) mattersRabidApe2009-06-14 | http://www.rabidape.net/blog/21-video/114-everythingyoudomatters
"Connection Between Norman Borlaug and George Washington Carver"
Feel free to copy, mirror, remix, and adapt this video, but please provide a link back here, and/or to http://www.rabidape.net,just follow this license:
license:
http://tinyurl.com/rabidapelicenseOrigin of Species 04.a Chapter 4 Natural Selection, pt. 1RabidApe2009-06-10 | late.
14-and-up club got a dollar back.
Rest of chapter (and mp3s etc) coming.
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial
photo credit:
"Charge of the Kemp's ridley hatchlings"
http://www.flickr.com/photos/qnr/2612108926CHRISTIANITY SHOULD BE AGAINST TEH LAW (not...)RabidApe2009-06-04 | PLEASE watch the video before you comment based on title alone...
(On second glance, it actually looks like I'm RIGHT ON TIME, no matter how you slice it, for my promised weekly chapters. So if you're in the "14 and up" club AND know what this description said before THIS edit, send me an email from the same address attached to your paypal account.)
I should probably make a calendar or something so as to be more precise with deadlines in the future.
Chapter 4 is pretty long, and may be split into two parts. Hopefully the next one comes soon.
I've got some work-work to catch up on (which I can do from home, which is nice - being a webmaster has it's perks)....
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I WILL DO A REMASTER/PRONUNCIATION FIX WHEN IT IS ALL DONE. PLEASE POINT OUT ANY ERRORS AS I GO!
This is the third chapter of the Origin of Species.
Complete Playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=4F620CF68F6B2B2B I think it is VERY conceivable that I can do one whole chapter a week for the next 14 weeks in order to finish the book. I can make one or more (LONG) video(s) for each chapter.
No, this will not keep me from getting the Big Bang thing done this summer, OR all those video responses I promised (which are on a list and ARE on the way!).
For the sake of transparency and consistency, I cannot make any promises about specific amounts (you'll just have to trust me), but the more people throw me a buck for a given chapter, the more likely/more soon the next one will be. ;D
If enough brave souls can throw $14 at me, I will GREATLY hasten the project.
I CAN promise that anyone who gives me $14 (or more) will get a dollar back for every week I don't post a new chapter.
Also, it will all be released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license, regardless of the pace.
You are free to copy, distribute, transmit, mirror, or adapt any of the audio and/or video and/or words and/or written music, under the following conditions:
2) The use is licensed for non-commercial purposes only.
Contact me if you have any questions.
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photo credit:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/serk1/3128577489Evolution in 120 secondsRabidApe2009-06-01 | my entry for the Discover Contest. I am posting it here for "personal use" ie feedback. I will remove it if I am selected as a finalist.
JFK @ Houston's Rice University, 1962VenomFangX 2.0 tells it like it isRabidApe2009-05-27 | (for what it's worth, I'm pretty sure PCS2.0, aka "GEERUP", isn't actually driving. I think he is just sitting in his car.)
music from:
http://royaltyfreeinstrumentals.comJared Diamond - The Evolution of Religions (usccollegecrcc)RabidApe2009-05-27 | thank you, CRCC @ USC for giving permission to rebroadcast this video!
Jared Diamond, professor of geography at UCLA, received the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 1998 for Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. In 1999, he received the National Medal of Science. His most recent book is Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2004).
Professor Diamond argues that religion has encompassed at least four independent components that have arisen or disappeared at different stages of development of human societies over the last 10,000 years.
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http://www.youtube.com/user/usccollegecrcc for more videosDoes Science Diminish the Beauty of the World?RabidApe2009-05-25 | The beginning may seem a bit dry, but that actually kinda helps drive the point home. It's only seven minutes total and is WELL worth sitting through.
This is an excerpt of a lecture given by Professor Alex Filippenko, for his class at UC Berkeley called "Introduction General Astronomy":
(Does an excerpt count as a "derivative work"? I get the impression that a "derivative work" would be more like if I combined a bit from one of these lectures in a documentary, or spliced it together with footage from the MIT channel or something...)The Origin of Species 02 - Chapter 2, VARIATION Under Nature (speako in beginning)RabidApe2009-05-25 | Help an Ape out and buy this .mp3 for a buck (change the quantity to increase the amount if feeling generous):
This is the second chapter of the Origin of Species.
Complete Playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=4F620CF68F6B2B2B I think it is VERY conceivable that I can do one whole chapter a week for the next 14 weeks in order to finish the book. I can make one or more (LONG) video(s) for each chapter.
No, this will not keep me from getting the Big Bang thing done this summer, OR all those video responses I promised (which are on a list and ARE on the way!).
For the sake of transparency and consistency, I cannot make any promises about specific amounts (you'll just have to trust me), but the more people throw me a buck for a given chapter, the more likely/more soon the next one will be. ;D
If enough brave souls can throw $14 at me, I will GREATLY hasten the project.
I CAN promise that anyone who gives me $14 (or more) will get a dollar back for every week I don't post a new chapter.
Also, it will all be released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license, regardless of the pace.
You are free to copy, distribute, transmit, mirror, or adapt any of the audio and/or video and/or words and/or written music, under the following conditions:
Join James Peebles, one of the world's foremost cosmologists, as he explores the universe. Like fossils, thermal radiation carries information about the past, in this case the nature of the early universe. This information has confirmed ideas about the expanding universe, and it has presented us with new challenges. In particular, dark matter and dark energy. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Council Lectures" [2/2007] [Science] [Show ID: 12005]
I cannot find any licensing information for this clip, but it seems that UC's default policy falls within the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial No derivatives license. I have good faith that reposting this video here for educational purposes is in accordance with the spirit of UC's broad intentions. I have written to uctelevision, and will be happy to remove this video at their request.The Universe and Three Examples, Alan Guth (MIT mirror)RabidApe2009-05-23 | This is the lecture from week #10 of the class "Exploring Black Holes: General Relativity & Astrophysics" from MIT's Open Course Ware:
What was the origin of the universe and what will be its fate? UCLA Cosmologist Ned Wright describes the tools used to answer these questions. He has been involved in Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), COsmic Background Explorer (COBE), the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), and the Space InfraRed Telescope Facility (SIRTF), now called Spitzer. Series: UCLA Faculty Research Lectures [3/2009] [Science] [Show ID: 15879]
The copyright owner allows distribution of this video with attribution but prohibits commercial use or derivative works. For more information about this license, please read: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0Biology/Evolution Lecture (UCLA mirror)RabidApe2009-05-22 | This is the third of nineteen lectures, but it's actually a good listen on it's own.
I haven't listened to all of them yet, but I've caught the first few lectures, and this is a really cool class.
It seems to be done in a spirit similar to UC Berkeley's "Physics for Future Presidents Course" (
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=095393D5B42B2266 )
, in that it is aimed at non-bio majors, and provides "real world" context for what is being discussed.
As biotechnology becomes more prevalent, an understanding of BIOLOGY will be more and more important/useful.
Here is the playlist for the whole class again:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=8EE54070B382E73AAstronomy and Cosmology lecture, UC Berkeley PfFP (mirror)RabidApe2009-05-22 | click around to get past video freeze glitch:
(sometimes it takes a few clicks, so click AROUND where you're trying to get to a few times, THEN click the time you want. Yeah, it's weird.)
0:32
1:03
1:19
59:59
01:09:11
01:09:48
69:00
68:30
One of the last lectures of the semester from the (WONDERFUL) class "Physics for Future Presidents" class at UC Berkeley. The class is taught by Richard Muller, but this lecture is from Bob Jacobsen, who is also a great lecturer (and has appeared on at least one episode of Mythbusters, yeah!).
This is from Spring 2009:
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses.php?semesterid=2009-B
This is lecture #31:
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details_new.php?seriesid=2009-B-51905|2009-B-69390&semesterid=2009-B
But there are several versions of this course going back for the past several years. One of the earlier semesters is on YouTube in its entirety:
Latest vid (as of this writing) on his new channel is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUFgHe2tVlYFalse Flagging and the YourTubeAdvocate Account (themaskedanalyst mirror)RabidApe2009-05-21 | Original video by themaskedanalyst, who is a very insightful guy. As his username suggests, he provides analysis on various situations.
My account was suspended for four months due to a totally bogus DMCA. I wrote to YouTube asking them to watch the video and this would PROVE that the DMCA was bogus. Watch the video starting around 2:35.
The following video is MUST WATCH material. You will see that members of Congress want their constituents to communicate to them through YouTube. How can you post a video response or comments to them if YouTube has suspended your account? Is this not a form of disenfranchisement?
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YourTubeAdvocate false flagging suspension YouTube Whitehouse Senate HouseThe Origin of Species 01.b - Chapter 1 (part b)RabidApe2009-05-20 | Help an Ape out and buy this .mp3 for a buck (change the quantity to increase the amount if feeling generous):
This is the second part of the first chapter of Origin of Species.
Complete Playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=4F620CF68F6B2B2B I think it is VERY conceivable that I can do one whole chapter a week for the next 14 weeks in order to finish the book. I can make one or more (LONG) video(s) for each chapter.
No, this will not keep me from getting the Big Bang thing done this summer, OR all those video responses I promised (which are on a list and ARE on the way!).
For the sake of transparency and consistency, I cannot make any promises about specific amounts (you'll just have to trust me), but the more people throw me a buck for a given chapter, the more likely/more soon the next one will be. ;D
If enough brave souls can throw $14 at me, I will GREATLY hasten the project.
I CAN promise that anyone who gives me $14 (or more) will get a dollar back for every week I don't post a new chapter.
Also, it will all be released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license, regardless of the pace.
You are free to copy, distribute, transmit, mirror, or adapt any of the audio and/or video and/or words and/or written music, under the following conditions:
Consider this a "first draft" as it is WAY over the 120-second time limit. I may or may not rewrite/reshoot/reedit.
But I thought this video stood up on its own merits, and didn't deserve languishing on the cutting room floor.
The license for THIS video is my typical "Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial" with ONE caveat:
1) Do not use any of the audio or video to enter in the contest. You CAN use or adapt anything I say in this video for the contest, just don't directly use my audio or video. For any use other than for the contest, the "normal" license applies:
EXCELLENT video from DonExodus2 regarding phylogenetic trees:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CvX_mD5weMThe Origin of Species 01.a - Chapter 1 (part a)RabidApe2009-05-14 | Help an Ape out and buy this .mp3 for a buck (change the quantity to increase the amount if feeling generous):
This is the first part of the first chapter of Origin of Species.
I think it is VERY conceivable that I can do one whole chapter a week for the next 14 weeks in order to finish the book. I can make one or more (LONG) video(s) for each chapter.
No, this will not keep me from getting the Big Bang thing done this summer, OR all those video responses I promised (which are on a list and ARE on the way!).
For the sake of transparency and consistency, I cannot make any promises about specific amounts (you'll just have to trust me), but the more people throw me a buck for a given chapter, the more likely/more soon the next one will be. ;D
If enough brave souls can throw $14 at me, I will GREATLY hasten the project.
I CAN promise that anyone who gives me $14 (or more) will get a dollar back for every week I don't post a new chapter.
Also, it will all be released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license, regardless of the pace.
You are free to copy, distribute, transmit, mirror, or adapt any of the audio and/or video and/or words and/or written music, under the following conditions:
2) The use is licensed for non-commercial purposes only.
Contact me if you have any questions.
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This is the introduction to the 1st edition of Origin of Species. I think it is VERY conceivable that I can do one chapter a week for the next 14 weeks in order to finish the book. I can make one (LONG) video for each chapter. No, this will not keep me from getting the Big Bang thing done this summer, OR all those video responses I promised (which are on a list and ARE on the way!).
For the sake of transparency and consistency, I cannot make any promises about specific amounts (you'll just have to trust me), but the more people throw me a buck for a given chapter, the more likely/more soon the next one will be. ;D
If enough brave souls can throw $14 at me, I will GREATLY hasten the project.
I CAN promise that anyone who gives me $14 (or more) will get a dollar back for every week I don't post a new chapter.
Also, it will all be released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license, regardless of the pace.
Is that fair?
Help an Ape out and buy this .mp3 for a buck (change the quantity to increase the amount):
You are free to copy, distribute, transmit, mirror, or adapt any of the audio and/or video and/or words and/or written music, under the following conditions:
This is in the key of E major, switches to E minor for the bridge
**Approximate** Chord Sequence:
Intro:
C#m
"Verse":
B - C#m (slide), F#m
B - C#m (slide), B
B - C#m (slide), F#m
B
"PreChorus":
A, A, A, Ddim
"Chorus":
E, G#m - A, F#m. A - G
E, G#m - A, F#m, B
"Bridge":
Em, G, Em, G, Em, G,
Em
"Outro":
Starts as a chorus, but then
???? (That's actually why SteamShovel finishes on bass.... I recorded the rhy guitar first, and kinda fucked up art the end, but managed to improvise an ending. He just wailed on the bass in the key of E major...)
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This video (and most everything else I do) is released under this Creative Commons license:
You are free to copy, distribute, transmit, mirror, or adapt any of the audio and/or video and/or words and/or written music, under the following conditions:
Here's a shorter bit with Dennett, from an interview with Robert Wright:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utai74HjPJEPoes Law at work?RabidApe2009-05-09 | Don't worry if this vid doesn't seem to make sense.
It's not quite supposed to.
This is a parody done in the style of the video/channel linked below. Satire?
"How is 'conversion under threat of hellfire' different from 'conversion at the sword'"?Population Genetics and Evolution (MIT mirror)RabidApe2009-05-05 | Population Genetics and Evolution (Prof. Martin Polz, Guest Lecturer)
License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
More information at http://ocw.mit.edu/terms
More courses at http://ocw.mit.edu
Much thanks to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for releasing this lecture, and hundreds (thousands?) of others, on their YouTube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/mit
as well as on their Open CourseWare site:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/av/index.htmEvolution of Sex and Sexual Selection (UC Berkeley mirror)RabidApe2009-05-02 | This is a lecture from a class called "Animal Behavior", taught at UC Berkeley.
This lecture, along with THOUSANDS of others from HUNDREDS of courses:
http://webcast.berkeley.edu
More recent version of the class (probably better if you want to hear it all):
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details.php?seriesid=1906978533
Older version of the class (missing some bits, but is clearly-labeled, which might be better if you don't plan on listening to the whole class):
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details.php?seriesid=1906978310
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I have good faith that posting this video here for educational and commentary purposes falls within "fair use", as well as the spirit in which the University of California has released material online.
This class is from 2006, but as of 2007, "the default license attached to media recordings for disctribution is Creative Commons - non-commercial, attribution, no derivatives"( Tiktaalik & Other) Great Transitions in Evolution (mirror)RabidApe2009-05-02 | talk starts at 5:50
Much thanks to the University of California for releasing this video, along with many others featured on uctelevision channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/uctelevision
Neil Shubin, Associate Dean of the Biological Sciences Division at the University of Chicago describes how his diverse fossil findings allow him to devise hypotheses on how anatomical transformations occurred by way of genetic and morphogenetic processes. Series: UC Berkeley Graduate Council Lectures [5/2009] [Science] [Show ID: 16420]
"Details of "Dialogue with a Christian Proselytizer"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYKNo8hcGEIAbiogenesis in the lab vs. on the EarthRabidApe2009-04-29 | This (sloppy) video was done in response to some comments here:
(I deleted the video. The girl in it died within the past week, and I thought that was the least distasteful thing to do. Sorry.)
First of all:
Abiogenesis is NOT "spontaneous generation", which HAS been proven false.
You are free to copy, distribute, transmit, mirror, or adapt any of the audio and/or video and/or words and/or written music, under the following conditions: