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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Conversion (Live in Berlin)

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Anton Petrov on Plants That Respond to Sound

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The flowers are like their ears! Subscribe to Anton Petrov .

Wendy Dale - Don't Describe Your Life in Your Memoir

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This is reminiscent of David Lynch's advice on how to make a movie. Collect ideas, and when you have enough of them, that's a movie!  See  https://www.geniusmemoirwriting.com/ . Subscribe to Memoir Writing for Geniuses . David Lynch on Scriptwriting Subscribe to Frame into Focus . On Moving Paintings and Shooting Digital (2006): Subscribe to Filmagicians . So here are some short pieces I wrote at the first Turn Up And Write workshop I went to. We had ten to fifteen minutes to write something. 1. Fishing Alone on the beach Cold sand on the beach. Early morning and the smell of Feynbos. I'm going fishing. The sound of the waves crashing onto the beach behind the dunes. The cold. So cold. So cold my bare feet ached. It must've been the South-Easter blowing all night. It's refrigerated the sand! I have never felt cold that made me ache before. Is this normal? It must be. To ache, I mean; I know the cold wind isn't normal. The wind blows grains of sand in rivulets o

Victoria on Being Kind to Yourself

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She says you can't help others unless you learn to help yourself first. People were telling me that in Bolivia, and it used to annoy me a bit. It was because I didn't actually think I needed that much help myself, but it seemed very obvious that they needed more help than I was in a position to give, so all I wanted was enough help to be able to help them , and there they were saying to me "You have to help yourself first!". Subscribe to Zero Podcasts .

Toby on The Most Controversial Photograph in Biology

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She's putting this on her main channel now, in light of the 2024 Nobel Prize events. Huh? She has done an interesting Q&A on her Patreon page https://www.patreon.com/Tibees ,  talking about living in Australia, her book on life in the fourth-dimension (and the  Sci-Fi novel she's co-authoring!) and getting a position as an adjunct research fellow at a University. She could do that because she knows what she's interested in and what she wants to do. Subscribe to Tibees . David Baker explains his Nobel Prize research on protein design Doing things to it that the manufacturer had never thought of. Ever wondered what a protein sounds like when you stretch it out and pluck it? Ask Elizabeth Mamani C. (See The Jaguar Circuit and John Stuart Reid on Sound ). Subscribe to Top 2000 a gogo . AlphaFold - How do proteins fold-up? Science is a drug! Subscribe to Google DeepMind . Demon Seed was a Wild film! Subscribe to Warner Bothers Classic . US scientist Gary Ruvkun speak

Transpersonal Shadow Work - Maggie Reviewing "The Substance"

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See  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17526714/ I wonder if my daughter's mother would like to come see this with me? Subscribe to Deepfocuslens . Here's why transpersonal psychology is important: On psychology and physiology of sexuality, ... Unfortunately, my phone battery died before I started talking about the physiology. But here's the effect, called Wisteria : Subscribe to Movieclips . See David Luke - Psychedelics, Altered States and Transpersonal Psychology . Alice Roberts (PhD) got caught in the woods one day and interviewed by a YouTuber: Subscribe to Jane Shirley . She's been caught before: Alice Roberts interviewed by a 10-year-old about her children’s novel, Wolf Road See  Wolf Road . If I could time-travel I'd go back to Bolivia, you bunch of sick puppies! Subscribe to New Scientist . 

Space Mog on Ada Lovelace's Bug

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How do we know that was a bug, not just a typo? I mean, it could have been the printer that got it wrong, couldn't it? Subscribe to Space Mog . Toby made this a few years ago: How Ada Lovelace learned Maths See Sketch of The Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage at https://www.fourmilab.ch/ For more about Switzerland, see Sabine Hossenfelder - Superconducting Cables are Coming. I’m Not Joking. and Les Hirondelles and also Demonstrations in Switzerland in the Sixties and Seventies . Subscribe to Tibees . My graphics display needs a lot more work! What a strange process, this computer programming thing! See Wisteria ,  Myra West's Hello, World Program and Sci-Fi Short - Speak Only Good of The Dead , which is a story about a computer named EPICAC! Subscribe to Dust .

Sabine Hossenfelder on The Quantum Zeno Effect and A Great Story About How Easy it is To Fix Some Problems in Physics

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 Here's a spot for Nautilus : ... and here's another spot for Brilliant : The mistake here is thinking that not watching something can tell you about  that particular thing. It may, but how do you know which particular thing it was that you weren't watching? Subscribe to Sabine Hossenfelder .

Wisteria

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See Myra West's Hello, World Program and Maggie Reviewing Megalopolis first, then: Francis Ford Coppola on Making Megalopolis Subscribe to Indie Wire . Francis Ford Coppola Reveals the Message Behind Megalopolis Subscribe to Collider Interviews . Francis Ford Coppola's First Podcast: How Philosophy Has Inspired His Life and Career Subscribe to Daily Stoic . u kissed me just to kiss me (Leith Ross cover) easy (original song) Subscribe to lovelise . This is the letter I about logic and maths which I wrote to my daughter in 2010, I think. You are what you watch Subscribe to zero podcasts . The stars show some of the UNHCR refugee camps I could identify, and show roughly the route I took from Capurganá to the Pan American Highway: See it on Google Maps . Making a Mess: a History of Megalopolis Sophia Coppola and The Godfather Part II Disaster Subscribe to Be Kind Rewind . Subscribe to Suzanne Vega . Suzanne Vega on The South Bank Show 1 November, 1987 Subscribe to