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Posted by Pete Berg on Wednesday, August 11th, 2010 at 2:53 am

Each word leads into the next. A stunning film from Will Hoffman and Daniel Mercadante to accompany NPR / Radiolab’s “Words” episode.


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How To Be Alone

Posted by Pete Berg on Friday, August 6th, 2010 at 6:58 am

I found this video poem by Andrea Dorfman to be really beautiful. I hope you enjoy it.


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How to Turn a Sphere Inside Out

Posted by Pete Berg on Friday, July 16th, 2010 at 10:43 am

This was interesting, but I also found it super creepy because of the computerized voices they used.


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Good Fortune

Posted by Pete Berg on Thursday, July 15th, 2010 at 3:46 pm

Good Fortune, a documentary by my good friend Jeremy Levine and his partner, Landon Van Soest, both alumni of my alma mater Ithaca College, aired last night on POV on PBS. It is a sad and brilliant piece, and from today until October 12, 2010, the film is available to watch for free, in full, on the PBS website. I truly encourage you to watch Jeremy and Landon’s film. Below is the synopsis. The trailer follows.

Good Fortune is a provocative exploration of how massive international efforts to alleviate poverty in Africa may be undermining the very communities they aim to benefit. In Kenyas rural countryside, Jackson’s farm is being flooded by an American investor who hopes to alleviate poverty by creating a multimillion-dollar rice farm. Across the country in Nairobi, Silva’s home and business in Africa’s largest shantytown are being demolished as part of a U.N. slum-upgrading project. The gripping stories of two Kenyans battling to save their homes from large-scale development present a unique opportunity see foreign aid through eyes of the people it is intended to help.


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Big Bang Boom

Posted by Pete Berg on Thursday, July 15th, 2010 at 8:20 am

“An unscientific point of view on the beginning and evolution of life … and how it could probably end.” Absolutely brilliant wall-painting stop motion animation by BLU. This will blow your mind… (Thanks, Charles!)


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Degrees of Intelligence…

Posted by Pete Berg on Friday, June 4th, 2010 at 9:15 pm

The first video is a brilliant chimp solving a simple problem that most humans could figure out in a matter of minutes. The second video is Neil Degrasse Tyson speaking on the relative intelligences of chimps vs. humans vs. … higher beings.

Watch these two clips back-to-back. It will blow your f’n mind.


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What We Are

Posted by Pete Berg on Thursday, May 27th, 2010 at 8:09 am

We are just a bunch of monkeys. This great video from a few years back (2006!) really knocks humanity down a few pegs. And this guy is dead accurate. Must watch.


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Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

Posted by Pete Berg on Monday, May 24th, 2010 at 2:24 pm

Dan Pink’s talk about what actually motivates us, with an awesome real-time animation / drawing. Interesting findings.


Category: Animation, Awesome, Enlightening/Intellectual	1 Comment »

Storm by Tim Minchin

Posted by Pete Berg on Thursday, May 20th, 2010 at 12:05 pm

A 9-minute beat poem by Tim Minchin (with rolling text) is a brilliant & witty demolition of irrationality in all its many guises.


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Our Pale Blue Dot

Posted by Pete Berg on Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 at 10:25 pm

This is moving. Thank you, Carl Sagan.


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James Randi OBLITERATES self professed “psychic” on TV

Posted by Pete Berg on Sunday, December 14th, 2008 at 8:21 am

One of the few intelligent daytime talkshows ever recorded.


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An anthropologicial look at web video

Posted by Pete Berg on Thursday, July 31st, 2008 at 7:01 am

This is a really interesting lecture about the growth of YouTube, Web 2.0 and social media. It’s an hour long, and not the kind of thing I’d normally post on Pie Heaven, but I found it very interesting. Besides, this is the reason why Pie Heaven exists in the first place. Definitely worth a watch!


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