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March 28, 2021

This is the Thai Elephant Orchestra

The elephant ensemble was set up by Dave Soldier and Richard Lair at a conservation centre in northern Thailand. They set out to demonstrate that animals really can make music. Dave said: “We thought that maybe elephants would play on instruments if they were easy to use.” Dave and Richard Lair built 22 giant instruments designed to be operated with an elephant’s trunk or with a stick held in the trunk - like a giant xylophone and drums. The elephants can play individual notes on cue and have so far recorded three albums of music. A human orchestra in New York has even performed one of the elephants’ original compositions.

Sun Mar 28 00:31:31 2021

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if you like the “true facts about…” videos, Ze Frank talks about how he makes viral videos at Buzzfeed…

Buzzfeed’s Ze Frank shares his insights on how to create a viral video, and why we need them to beat isolation - Full WIRED 2014 talk Subscribe to WIRED ►► http://po.st/SubscribeWired

“One of the gifts the network has given us, is that we don’t feel alone anymore,” says executive vice president of video at Buzzfeed, Ze Frank. The master of the viral video is talking to the WIRED 2014 audience about the addictive nature of the gif, of memes. Essentially, the popularity of both stem from that sense of shared emotion that can be captured so much more succinctly in one image, or on film.

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Sat Mar 27 23:30:06 2021

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https://youtu.be/6mHkOCH8yMA

Leaving this here for a minute, might delete later

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Sat Mar 27 11:46:39 2021

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Found a group to join. Only a couple dozen members.

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Sat Mar 27 09:58:23 2021

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If you mention something on the internet, the internet hears, and responds.

“All watched over by machines of loving grace.” - Richard Brautigan

https://youtu.be/28Ip-STEPKU

But seriously. This is an amazing talk.

Emily Quinn has balls, literally. At age 10 she found out she was intersex (that her biology isn’t strictly male or female) and she was told not to tell anyone about it. In this brave, vulnerable talk Emily shares what it’s like to carry the burden of shame while navigating a world where nobody understood her body. Her experience teaches us that bodies are a lot more diverse and complicated than we make them out to be, and leaves us with one question: what’s so bad about being different? Emily Quinn is an artist, author, and intersex activist. She received her BFA in Animation in 2012 and worked at Cartoon Network on the Emmy Award winning show, Adventure Time. While there she partnered with interACT and MTV to develop the first intersex main character in television history. She came out publicly as intersex in a PSA alongside the character’s debut, which launched her into the national spotlight as an intersex person. She has since been featured in an array of media, including Teen Vogue, the Washington Post, Buzzfeed, Vice, Huffington Post, PopSugar, and many more. Emily worked as the Youth Coordinator for interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth before branching off on her own as a freelance activist and artist. She has experience speaking to a myriad of diverse audiences including the American Academy of Pediatrics, San Diego Comic-Con, Harvard University, GLAAD, South by Southwest, the Council of Europe, and, in 2018 she gave a TED talk. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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Fri Mar 26 22:02:55 2021

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Guitarist channels Frank Zappa. Film at 11.

https://youtu.be/vMube8clP4o

What’s amazing is that Frank was a composer, not just a hot guitarist. Recently I learned that possibly the reason that Frank was impressed by Steve Vai was not so much that he was a great guitarist but that he transcribed the Black Page and created his own version of it.

#FranklyFriday

The students of the Chicago School of Rock performing “Montana” by Frank Zappa at their tribute to Progressive Rock at Chop Shop/1st Ward.

Vocals: Judah Sweig Guitar: Lauren Conner Keys: Sarah Douglas Keys: Daniel Bergen Glockenspiel: Casey Street Bass: Ian Hammond Drums: Jack McDermott Percussion: Niko Tena Background Vocals: Alexis Walters Background Vocals: Eva Nikitovic Background Vocals: Tyler Thenstedt Background Vocals: Lauren Conner

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Fri Mar 26 21:36:02 2021

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I agree with the comment: play this at 1.25 speed. Normal speed is ok, but you want to get up and dance to the faster speed.

https://youtu.be/IEAxbjl2xWA

Institut of Love (Inga Humpe & Tommi Eckart) Cover of ‘O Superman’ by Laurie Anderson Vinyl 1997

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Fri Mar 26 13:45:14 2021

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Robert Sapolsky has am amazing course at Stanford called Behavioral Genetics which is available on YouTube.

This talk summarizes a lot of his key ideas, including one of my driving principles of the last 4 years that you can’t logic people out of a decision that was reached by emotions. He breaks that down to what part of the brain is in control much of the time.

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/seanmcarroll

A common argument against free will is that human behavior is not freely chosen, but rather determined by a number of factors. So what are those factors, anyway? There’s no one better equipped to answer this question than Robert Sapolsky, a leading psychoneurobiologist who has studied human behavior from a variety of angles. In this conversation we follow the path Sapolsky sets out in his bestselling book Behave, where he examines the influences on our behavior from a variety of timescales, from the very short (signals from the amygdala) to the quite ancient (genetic factors tracing back tens of thousands of years and more). It’s a dizzying tour that helps us understand the complexity of human action.

Robert Sapolsky received his Ph.D. in neuroendocrinology from Rockefeller University. He is currently the John and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor of Biology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery at Stanford University. His awards include a MacArthur Fellowship, the McGovern Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Wonderfest’s Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization.

Blog post with audio player, show notes, and transcript: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2021/02/15/134-robert-sapolsky-on-why-we-behave-the-way-we-do/

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#podcast #ideas #science #philosophy #culture

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Thu Mar 25 11:12:18 2021

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On the subject of screams…

https://youtu.be/TdEOtjSL8z4

We’ve all had a bit of a tough time in 2020 - so I thought I’d have a bit of fun exploring some of the most ‘arghhhhhhhhhhh’ chords in music. There are some pretty good ones, and I chucked in one of my own for good measure.

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#arghhh

CLIPS 10 . Bach St Matthew Passion Auf das Fest aber hatte der Landpfleger Gewohnheit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-Jc_gyzeto

Beethoven 9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOjHhS5MtvA

(Beethoven 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2aEikKiGcc))

8 Strauss Salome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cweQCnT97KI

7 Mahler Symphony No.10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qYqW-otXxI

Alban Berg Violin Concerto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RvEtoIOdNI
David Bruce Nothing (excerpts) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5oWvAvrNNY

More on the process of making it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmHCYRW8R-4

Bernard Herrmann Psycho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYsHrU5b02E
Penderecki Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HilGthRhwP8
Mark Anthony Turnage Three Screaming Popes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMWSy9mfxSs
Ligeti Requiem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqrJmxy4q3A

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Thu Mar 25 10:31:01 2021

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At my store in Longmont, “in loving memory” of the three fallen colleagues at rhe Boulder store.

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Thu Mar 25 08:36:23 2021

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What would that even look.like?

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Wed Mar 24 22:30:56 2021

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https://youtu.be/_vR1kKWmERM

Mike Oldfield and king crimson mashup… hope the copyright people don’t take it down

#Epitaph #Nuclear #Mashup Please Use Headphones.

This is a Remastered version of Nuclear Epitaph made by Air Slasher and Sophistrophy. We do not intend to profit from the original creators works and this video can be taken down due to copyright reasons.All the credits goes towards Mike Oldfield and King Crimson We only make content for entertainment purposes all the links and sources will be in the description below.

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Epitaph - King Crimson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXrpFxHfppI

Nuclear - Mike Oldfield https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_TbF5m5KpU

Nuclear Epitaph (Sophistrophy version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH3508_7Rtw

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#Nuclear #Epitaph #Mashups

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Wed Mar 24 15:18:18 2021

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Ubuntu has been reliable and all but I’ve been having issues with it lately. Installed Linux Mint on one, now two systems and the issues I’ve been having are not there. Maybe I have a new favorite distro…. Mate desktop is a little different but I can get used to it I suppose.