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[eobversion1]

A new thread for items you want to bring up that might be a bit miscellaneous and might not carry a thread by themselves but you want to highlight anyway.

I'll go first, here's a video perfectly explaining how nostalgia works and why it's so difficult to live in the present:

[GooberBM]

This is good hustle, Evan

[eobversion1]

Let's see how it goes. Anything to generate more discussion.

[eobversion1]

An equally excellent video I saw this week.

[GooberBM]

That was a good video. I think I might sneeze that germ around a little bit

[eobversion1]

It just perfectly explains why so many things happen online.

[Jama7301]

This thread gave me the exuce to post a Vsauce video that talks about what humans will/are leaving behind. But, the point I'm jumping to at 17:00 is the interesting one to me. It's about the Library of Babel. A digital library that contains everything that's ever been written or ever will be written.

[AndyF1069]

Jama posting that gave me the excuse to post this video. Science is cool.

[eobversion1]

Very cool videos gentlemen, here's my contribution for the day. This guy is terrific.

[Jama7301]

That dude should be doing audio books. His voice is very calming.

[GooberBM]

The serious:



Because oh my god, I can't even deal with people driving in the city anymore.

And the not-so-serious:

https://www.facebook.com/MIX941Canton/v ... 162550353/

[eobversion1]

That does make some very good points, I would, however, point out that there are a lot of variables he's not accounting for like different vehicles, different engines, the number of occupants, weather conditions and traffic laws but his heart is in the right place.

We should totally do self-driving cars, given that there's an option of a failsafe.

[GooberBM]

Something worth a read (sorry for the non-video =p)

http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Ge ... ngham.html

[eobversion1]

That's a really powerful letter, Dr. King like Gandhi and Mandela is the measuring stick for approach social progress, actions that are sadly too toxic in today's environment to approach with a sincere level head. I can only imagine in this day and age how they would try to smear him.

[GooberBM]

You'd think it couldn't be worse than it was in his time, but they'd find a way now

[eobversion1]

Yeah, looking back it's an afterthought to his larger accomplishments, those people lost.

[eobversion1]

A collection of podcasts I regularly listen to, all of which I recommend and that are definitely worth trying out.

http://podbay.fm/show/762922035

http://podbay.fm/show/73802698

http://podbay.fm/show/893977298

http://podbay.fm/show/935764143

http://podbay.fm/show/593355728

http://podbay.fm/show/1077418457

http://podbay.fm/show/1125018164

http://podbay.fm/show/1111751047

http://podbay.fm/show/158004641

[GooberBM]

Well holy crap, then....

https://www.facebook.com/Vox/videos/567976820056591/

[eobversion1]

I had no idea that happened, great find.

[GooberBM]

Don't scroll down on that though. The comments...God, people are beyond saving