Albert Bartlett explaining exponential growth.
A series of eight videos with a total length of 1h 15m 38s.
Definitely watch the first video (9m 18s), then see if you’ll continue…
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Reddit user KTR2 made this graphic to explain how evidence and theory, combined with critical thinking, help us reach the truth.
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Marketing Campaign of the Day: A new campaign called “Freedom to Serve, Freedom to Marry” — whose debut video will give you chills — takes aim at the Defense of Marriage Act and its impact on gay and lesbian military families. The video follows the devastating trajectory of a lesbian relationship when one of the women serves in Afghanistan.
Evan Wolfson, the founder of Freedom to Marry, one of the organizations behind the campaign, spells it out for us:
Many people assume that, with the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” gay men and lesbians serving our country are now being treated fairly and equally, but that’s not the case. We ended the ban on open military service for gay and lesbian Americans, but there is still federal ban on treating married service members as what they are: married.
This time lapse covers more than 1000 years and shows the shifting national borders of Europe.
There’s also a slowed-down version that shows the year and some annotation of events.
(via Kottke)
Marketing Campaign of the Day: Dad finally gets center stage — and the respect he deserves — in Volkswagen’s new 90-second spot for the “small but tough” Polo.
*Could cause misty eyes.
via Film Riot
Dolly zoom (or, the Vertigo effect) in action.
A useful (if slightly inaccurate) way of showing the importance of focal length.
via Reddit
Coffee Jerks
“I took a series of 1950’s and 60’s-era coffee commercials from the Prelinger Archives and edited them down to just the moments when the guys were the biggest jerks to their wives about coffee.”
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