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Ask YC: I have to iron. Where can I quickly find interesting non-fiction video besides ted.com
56 points by niels_olson on May 5, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 36 comments
what I've found so far: http://ted.com http://www.catonmat.net/blog/videos-from-defcon-15-hacker-conference/ http://content.nejm.org/misc/videos.shtml

Where's more stuff like that? Interestingness and learning.




I've turned several TED lovers onto Radiolab (not video, but great content sure to open your eyes, covers the intersection between science and culture with very well thought out themed episodes). When I listen to an episode I'm almost guaranteed a major WTF moment.

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/


I agree. Also: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/studio


I just listed to one at your suggestion. I'll vouch a +1.


I just looked through my delicious for tech videos and found these

Learning / Improving your Javascript videos: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/learning-javascript-programming...

Machine Learnig and AI videos: http://freescienceonline.blogspot.com/2007/07/machine-learni...

Google Research best of the year: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/12/google-research-p...

Videos on better public speaking: http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/html/icb.topic58703/winston1.ht...

A bunch of Free CS videos: http://freescienceonline.blogspot.com/2006/06/free-computer-...

of course google tech talks: http://www.youtube.com/user/googletechtalks

free science videos (not CS focused): http://www.freesciencelectures.com/

defcon videos: https://www.defcon.org/html/links/dc-video.html


Hehe. 4 of those links are to my sites. :)

Actually, if you looked more carefully through http://freescienceonline.blogspot.com (the right sidebar), you'd find around 10 posts on computer science videos (not just two you linked to :))

I'd also like to add more recent ones:

Learning Python Videos: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/learning-python-programming-lan...

Learning Design Patterns Videos: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/learning-python-design-patterns...

Defcon 15 conference videos (more than 200): http://www.catonmat.net/blog/videos-from-defcon-15-hacker-co...

:)


Awesome thanks for all the excellent links. I find my way to your posts often, but didn't realize how often I bookmarked them in delicious.

Keep up the good work.


check out google talks: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=engedu&sitesearch=

also at:

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=AtGoogleTalks

For more general topics, I like

http://bestdocumentaries.blogspot.com/


google the "Long Now Foundation."

If you're really hardcore try MIT Open Courseware. If you can iron while watching SICP and not burn your house down, you are the real thing.

For a lighter version of MIT Open Courseware, Stanford on iTunes has some decent audio lectures. Not sure if there's any video, though.


If I know the wizard book by heart - is that considered cheating?


Potter! Stop bragging, ten points from Gryffindor.


On the other hand ironing may be a challenge.


IT Conversations (http://itconversations.com/) has some good interviews and talks mixed in with the fluff.


You don't say what your interests are, but the googletechtalks channel on YouTube has lots of interesting stuff, not all Computer Science related.


http://www.confreaks.com/

Mostly focused on Ruby so far.

Click on one of the events in the right sidebar.


http://mitworld.mit.edu/

"MIT World™ is a free and open site that provides on-demand video of significant public events at MIT. MIT World's video index contains more than 500 videos."


This really isn't intended for technical topics, but VideoJug.com is informative and hilarious. Videos are instructional, and include dating tips, reading body language, cooking, diy projects, negotiation, etc.


Charlie Rose has over 4000 videos on his YouTube channel, if you're into in-depth, yet very calm interviews:

http://youtube.com/user/CharlieRose


Check out https://www.miroguide.com/ for one of the most comprehensive listings of video feeds you'll find anywhere.


http://smashingtelly.com/ Quote from the site: "Smashing Telly is a hand edited collection of the best free, instantly available TV on the web. Not 30 second clips of a dog on a skateboard, or the millionth person to mime the Numa song, but classic clips and full length programs, with a focus on documentaries and non fiction. Smashing Television, not Gimmick Television."


There are quite a few techy/etc. videos from the NZ Webstock conference here: http://webstock.org.nz/past/recordings.php

I've been enjoying them. The latest videos are from the conference held at the beginning of '08, so they aren't too old. Nat Torkington's, Peter Morville's and Luke Wroblewski's are all good and (often) front-end focused talks.


Not particularly hacker, but great in depth reporting/documentaries. I usually end up stopping my 'ironing' and just watching the video though.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/view/

If you are interested in foreign policy, there is http://foreignexchange.tv/


http://documentaries.videosift.com/


http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=techtalks


Also, see: http://www.fora.tv


http://www.changethis.com/

Samples on a whole lot of interesting subjects to get you to buy the whole video, but just enough the get something out of.

Short, too. Perfect for ironing.


This isnt video but: http://www.tvo.org/TVOsites/WebObjects/TvoMicrosite.woa?bigi...


Physics for future presidents; entertaining, fun, educational

http://muller.lbl.gov/teaching/Physics10/PffP.html


fora.tv is very good, although the talks aren't too technical. videolectures.net is highly technical though, and also very good (lots of interesting machine learning talks).


So this got 53 points on hacker news, 2 points on reddit.

35 comments on hacker news, 2 comments on reddit.

39 links on hacker news, 3 links on reddit, all of which were already in the hacker news thread.


Haven't watched all of these, but the High Perf ones are great:

http://www.bestechvideos.com/tag/yahoo


Excepting the terrible execution, http://expertvillage.com seems to have a variety of how-tos.


Check out http://www.scitalks.com - many science talks from various sources.


What's your reason for ironing?! That's way out of the Hacker mainstream!


On television? If you're lucky, and have cable with a few good channels.


intruders.tv


bigthink.com




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