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Can Art Destroy Us?Shots of Awe

Stendhal Syndrome: “A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give weight in one’s life…There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this, and it mattered to me.” -Alain de Botton [wpdevart_youtube width=”640″ height=”385″ autoplay=”0″...

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“The Beauty Of Science”-Richard Dawkins (Quest Science month special)

Richard Dawkins explains why science is beautiful with a short, inspirational tale. Use this video to start your day with the understanding that simply by being alive in this modern age, you already possess more knowledge than humans thousands of years ago ever could.  

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Journey to the Moon (Apollo 11 Moon Landing Remixed)(Quest Science month special)

A song sampling the NASA documentary “Flight of Apollo 11″, depicting the events of July 1969 when the first human set foot upon the moon [wpdevart_youtube width=”640″ height=”385″ autoplay=”0″ theme=”dark” loop_video=”0″ enable_fullscreen=”1″ show_related=”0″ show_popup=”0″ thumb_popup_width=”213″ thumb_popup_height=”128″ show_title=”0″ show_youtube_icon=”0″ show_annotations=”1″ show_progress_bar_color=”red” autohide_parameters=”1″ set_initial_volume=”true” initial_volume=”62″ disable_keyboard=”0″]-fPJCEHumvE[/wpdevart_youtube]

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ELECTRONIC BUDDHISM -Shots of Awe

“We smash out sense of separateness […] in a form of electronic Buddhism..” – Alan Harrington [wpdevart_youtube width=”640″ height=”385″ autoplay=”0″ theme=”dark” loop_video=”0″ enable_fullscreen=”1″ show_related=”0″ show_popup=”0″ thumb_popup_width=”213″ thumb_popup_height=”128″ show_title=”0″ show_youtube_icon=”0″ show_annotations=”1″ show_progress_bar_color=”red” autohide_parameters=”1″ set_initial_volume=”true” initial_volume=”54″ disable_keyboard=”0″]5SsgxjHoFTk[/wpdevart_youtube]

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World’s Best Technological Hub-Silicon Valley(Quest Science month special)

Silicon Valley is a nickname for the southern portion of the San Francisco Bay Area, which is located in part of the U.S. state of California known as Northern California. It is home to many of the world’s largest high-tech corporations, as well as thousands of startup companies....

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JUST SURF THE NET(Quest science month special)

M[wpdevart_youtube width=”640″ height=”385″ autoplay=”0″ theme=”dark” loop_video=”0″ enable_fullscreen=”1″ show_related=”0″ show_popup=”0″ thumb_popup_width=”213″ thumb_popup_height=”128″ show_title=”0″ show_youtube_icon=”0″ show_annotations=”1″ show_progress_bar_color=”red” autohide_parameters=”1″ set_initial_volume=”true” initial_volume=”54″ disable_keyboard=”0″]2rEuie5lpGA[/wpdevart_youtube]usical tribute to the internet’s golden age: the 1990s.

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Artificial Intelligence-Shots of Awe

“The daily grinding of evolution, as accelerated by technology, churns out more and more complex organisms, with higher rates of energy use, and with increasing specialization. Minds are the ideal way to express complexity, energy density, increasing specialization, expanding diversity — all in one system. Mindedness is what...