Comments on: 10 Signs of Intelligent Life at YouTube

10 Signs of Intelligent Life at YouTube

Soup — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:40:33 -0800

Open Culture's "10 Signs of Intelligent Life at YouTube" features "intellectually redeemable" channels from UC Berkeley, @GoogleTalks, TheNobelPrize, TED Talks, FORA.tv, the European Graduate School, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, BBC Worldwide, National Geographic, PBS, UChannel, MIT, Vanderbilt, and USC.

By: drea

drea — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:56:48 -0800

Awesome resource. I've stuck mainly with podcasts (iTunesU) and the schools usually didn't have anything in my field; plus I always keep forgetting to check out TEDtalks.

By: DU

DU — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:11:34 -0800

Just visit YouTube's so-called Education Section, and you'll be hard-pressed to find anything actually educational. To be fair, this is explainable on the basis of YouTube being badly organized. But the good news is that we're seeing some recent signs of intelligent life at YouTube. There's lots of great stuff at YouTube, but you have to stumble across it. Even (or "especially"?) the Recommended stuff is pretty dumb. Or you could get a list of great links like in this post.

By: specialk420

specialk420 — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:18:25 -0800

on of my favorites is world affairs council of northern california - lots of very very good stuff here - randall robinson and paul krugman were pretty excellent last night on the sometimes good sometimes wet noodle charlie rose - i would be remiss to not link up the only required 2 hours of programming weekly ian masters background briefing coverage of domestic and foreign affairs.

By: mwhybark

mwhybark — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:40:48 -0800

A fourteen-link YouTube post? When will the ban begin, oh when?!!? I kid, I kid! Only joking!

By: John of Michigan

John of Michigan — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:41:25 -0800

So, would you search for "Primate Studies" or "Urological Processes" when looking for that video of the orangutan peeing into his mouth?

By: loquacious

loquacious — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:50:20 -0800

~~Ow my balls!~~

By: treepour

treepour — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:14:29 -0800

I just came across two Badiou lectures in the EGS section. Oh wow oh wow oh wow, I can't wait I can't wait! Couldn't you have posted this a few nights ago, gift-wrapped it, and maybe delivered it via a chimney?

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:28:24 -0800

The smart stuff will always be enmoroned by the comments. It could be an exquisite documentary on the genius of Ludwig Wittgenstein and the first comment will always read WHO CARZ FOR THIS STUPID GUY HA HA DUMB!

By: Jazznoisehere

Jazznoisehere — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:32:19 -0800

Great - does that mean that we'll be able to watch Yanni, Suze Orman and Andre Rieu on the PBS channel??? Please.

By: sdodd

sdodd — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:38:31 -0800

I haven't been this excited since quite unimportant posted the Google Video of Berkeley's Physics for Future Presidents class. Man, the hours I spent watching those lectures. Thanks, Soup! Who needs primetime TV when you've got all this cools stuff to watch? Beware striking writers.

By: etaoin

etaoin — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:54:08 -0800

TED talks are great--really marvelous, even the bad ones.

By: quite unimportant

quite unimportant — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:35:54 -0800

A shout out! *swells with pride*

By: robtf3

robtf3 — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:01:05 -0800

*Whew* My girlfriend bought me Planet Earth on DVD for Christmas. Glad to see it isn't in the lineup of BBC Worldwide videos.

By: specialk420

specialk420 — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:01:25 -0800

Funny to see the snarky snarks offer up their attempts at humor rather than links to alternative media... when was the last time you saw anything on commercial television or cable that match the links above for real value? (pbs and cspan excluded) ... the state of commercial media in amerika is ... well lets face it ... beyond pathetic. and yet we all watch FCC hearing come and go and are happy with john stewart etc....

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:16:49 -0800

YAYY Soup, great find, thanks.

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 03:00:35 -0800

Here's, uh, Steve Sawin rapping about the Poincare conjecture.

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 03:22:12 -0800

By: fcummins

fcummins — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 03:35:54 -0800

This is an absolute Godsend. YT posts or not, this is what MF is for! Thanks!

By: smackfu

smackfu — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 06:58:39 -0800

when was the last time you saw anything on commercial television or cable that match the links above for real value? The "real value" of most commercial TV to people in "amerika" is that it's something to help them forget the drudgery of their workaday lives.

By: rlk

rlk — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 08:36:36 -0800

I often click on links to TED Talks, but I've never made it past the opening of one. "Once a year 1000 remarkable people gather in Monterey, California to exchange something of incalculable value: Their ideas. What happens there has never been shared... until now." The absolute hubris of this statement causes me to click away every time.

By: schwa

schwa — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:49:15 -0800

The absolute hubris of this statement causes me to click away every time. If only there was a way to fast forward through videos...