Shots of Awe

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• 2:27

  Stendhal Syndrome: Can Art Destroy Us?

  • 1 week ago
  • 27,513 views

  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 mat...

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• 2:38

  The Solutions Project

  • 3 weeks ago
  • 87,132 views

  "If properly harnessed, there's enough sunlight that falls on the earth in just one hour to meet the world's energy demands for a whole year."
  
  Get educated, get involved, and join the conversation...

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• 2:18

  World In A Sentence

  • 1 month ago
  • 59,497 views

  "The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish." - Teren...

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• 2:25

  Reality of the Virtual

  • 1 month ago
  • 50,175 views

  "I have a feeling Virtual Reality will further expose the conceit that 'reality' is a fact. It will provide another reminder of the seamless continuity between the world outside and the world withi...

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• 2:22

  To Be Human Is To Be Transhuman

  • 1 month ago
  • 134,418 views

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  "We are as gods and might as well get good at it."
  Stewart Brand
  
  Join Jason Silva every week as he freestyles his way into the c...

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• 2:21

  Adrenaline Hack

  • 1 month ago
  • 43,283 views

  Check out Second Chance Subaru at http://www.revision3.com/subaru
  
  "Scary movies and skydiving are examples of metacognitive hacks of the
  human operating system, allowing us to transform our adrena...

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