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History of the entire world, I guess

Posted by Pete Berg on Friday, May 19th, 2017 at 2:15 pm

We don’t update Pie Heaven too much these days, so I figured I’d try to at least include the history of the entire world in the latest post. I guess.


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How The Media Coverage Of Mass Shootings Makes Everything Worse

Posted by Pete Berg on Friday, December 14th, 2012 at 2:34 pm

This clip from Charlie Brooker’s “Newswipe” breaks down the absurd sensationalism of news coverage in the wake of mass tragedies like Columbine, Aurora, and Newtown. A forensic psychiatrist lays out some rules for the media to follow when reporting on such incidences … and the media proceeds to break pretty much all of them.


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Frank Abagnale, the famous con-artist and inspiration for “Catch Me If You Can,” tells his story

Posted by Pete Berg on Wednesday, April 11th, 2012 at 3:09 pm

Frank William Abagnale, Jr. is an American security consultant known for his history as a former confidence trickster, check forger, impostor, and escape artist. Here he is telling his story.


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Crazy Watering Can

Posted by Pete Berg on Saturday, February 25th, 2012 at 11:38 am

Brilliant commentary on religion.

Crazy Watering Can from vania heymann on Vimeo.


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Things We Wouldn’t Have If It Weren’t For Trees.

Posted by Jim Cartwright on Monday, September 26th, 2011 at 3:46 pm

Thanks Trees.


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Play-by-play analysis of the Chess “Game of the Century” by 13 year old prodigy Bobby Fischer

Posted by Pete Berg on Saturday, June 25th, 2011 at 9:07 am

I enjoy playing Chess, but I have never before thought this in-depth about the strategy and the the terms of the game. This right here is a master lesson in the ultimate game of strategy. “Now if you came up with this move… I don’t believe you!”


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J. Robert Oppenheimer on the Atomic Bomb

Posted by Pete Berg on Saturday, June 25th, 2011 at 8:18 am

The “father of the atomic bomb,” scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, talks about the moral quandary of inventing weapons of mass destruction…


Category: Enlightening/Intellectual, Vintage	No Comments »

Tribe in Papau New Guinea meets white man for the first time

Posted by Pete Berg on Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 at 8:18 am

This is beyond amazing. I feel really privileged to watch this.


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How the odd path of the Laryngeal Nerve helps prove evolution

Posted by Pete Berg on Sunday, May 29th, 2011 at 4:11 pm

An interesting anomoly among animals is the path of the laryngeal nerve — a long nerve which connects the brain to the voicebox. While the two organs are only inches apart, and a direct path between the two would make far more sense from a design or engineering perspective, the nerve actually goes down the entire length of the animal’s neck, loops around a blood vessel near the heart, and then runs all the way back up to the larynx (voice box). This odd path can be explained by evolution — as Richard Dawkins demonstrates in this video clip, with a dissection of a giraffe and then a discussion of how this oddity evolved.


Category: Enlightening/Intellectual, Science	1 Comment »

One Second Every Day video project by Cesar Kuriyama

Posted by Pete Berg on Friday, May 27th, 2011 at 2:42 pm

A guy I met through Rental Car Rally a few months ago named Cesar Kuriyama is doing an interesting project — he’s taking one second of video of his life every day for one year, documenting his experience and point of view in micro-moments. He has gotten a bit of attention already, because he got into the audition rounds to give a TED Talk on the project. This video here is the trailer that got him selected by the TED Talks committee.

Cesar says he’s planning to launch a website where others join him in recording their own one-second-a-day videos. (Seems like something that would be right up a few Pie Heaven readers’ alley.)

Also…I happen to be in one of the shots in this promo video. I’m the guy dressed as a scientist standing next to the bicycle-riding robot — who is another Pie Heaven contributor, Tim Reese. It’s a quick glimpse of a 2am desert bicycle joust from Rental Car Rally: LA to Tahoe this past February.

Anyway, I wish Cesar luck with the project, and I look forward to seeing the finished 365 second video!

TED 2012 Full Spectrum Audition – One Second Everyday from Cesar Kuriyama on Vimeo.

PS: Since we’re on the subject of Rental Car Rally, here’s a video that Cesar put together with footage from the LA to Tahoe rally. There’s another rally coming up at the end of June, LA to Vegas, and I encourage all of you in the SoCal area to sign up. It’s a blast.

Rental Car Rally from Rental Car Rally on Vimeo.


Category: Art, Awesome, Enlightening/Intellectual, Friends	No Comments »

Mike Rowe on alarming changes in the U.S. labor market (the pussification of America)

Posted by Pete Berg on Thursday, May 12th, 2011 at 7:55 am

Mike Rowe talks about the alarming issue that the U.S. is shifting to a services based industry, where almost nobody knows how to build stuff or fix stuff. All of us are going off to get four year college degrees in soft theoretical/services/entertainment industries but don’t know how stuff is made or how stuff works. Sad, really. I agree with him 100%…and acknowledge that I am part of the problem.


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The Official U.S. Obesity Rates Timeline

Posted by Pete Berg on Tuesday, April 26th, 2011 at 1:51 pm

Not good, America. Not good at all.


Category: Culture / World, Enlightening/Intellectual, Fail, News / Politics, WTF	No Comments »

102 year old Ed Rondthaler on the nonsense of English spelling

Posted by Pete Berg on Tuesday, April 26th, 2011 at 8:00 am

I’ve seen things like this before, but not from a 102 year old who performs like a fucking boss. You tell ’em, Ed!


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Ricky Gervais, Louis CK, Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock discuss Stand-Up Comedy

Posted by Pete Berg on Tuesday, April 26th, 2011 at 1:46 am

Four of the funniest people on the planet discuss stand-up comedy for 50 minutes, talking about how they got started, comparing and contrasting their styles, and discussing what makes things funny. This is a master class in stand-up. Extremely revealing and enlightening. Definitely a must-see if you have the time.


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“Just Keep Going, You Got Nothing To Lose”

Posted by Pete Berg on Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011 at 12:13 pm

Interviews with random strangers on the New York City subway.


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