The Clash - Rock the Casbah (1982)

Psychedelic Enlightening Audiovisuals

J. BIEBZ - U SMILE 800% SLOWER by Shamantis
Source: How to Make Justin Bieber Sound Incredible: Slow Him Down 800 Percent

Everynone's WORDS (via Warren)

WORDS from Everynone on Vimeo, supported by and featured on WNYC's Radiolab.

Reason Has Nothing To Do With Reality

"We like to believe that the gift of human reason lets us think like scientists, so that our conscious thoughts lead us closer to the truth. But here’s the paradox: all that reasoning and confabulation can often lead us astray, so that we end up knowing less about what jams/cars/jelly beans we actually prefer. So here’s my new metaphor for human reason: our rational faculty isn’t a scientist – it’s a talk radio host."

(via Jonah Lehrer's We Are All Talk Radio Hosts, now at Wired Science)

"Renn, wenn du kannst" im Kino

Go and check out "Renn, wenn du kannst" (Run, if you can) in the movies - a great new young intelligent funny political entertaining German movie by Dietrich Brüggemann.

His plea, the facebook group, the website, the screening dates, the trailer.

Pulpo Paul, the Uri Geller of Cephalopod Molluscs, and Publication Bias

Neil O'Connell has a neat little piece over at Body in Mind on what Paul the Psychic Octopus tells us about the nature of scientific truth (via Seed Magazine's "Are Octopuses Smart?")

HipHop Rocks Historical Lexicography

...and Melle Mel rocks the Oxford English Dictionary (cf. Ben Zimmer's feature in the New York Times).