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Sometimes, the real power in a video isn't the image, it's the sound. That's the case in a compilation video assembled by CNN that captures the intense earthquake as it happened. If you can, turn up the volume as you watch and see if your body doesn't feel the impulse to take shelter. It's scary stuff. And no words could describe it the way the natural sound on this video does. In one clip ...

***** Brain Pickings takes 30+ hours a week to curate and edit. Help us make it work - even a $5 donation is greatly appreciated, it helps pay the bills and keep on bringing you eclectic interestingness. ***** How a biblical creation myth replays itself from bone and muscle to jazz improvisation. In labs around the world, a new breed is arising. A friendly breed of intelligent machines designed to look like us, move like us, behave like us, and interact with us in ways that seem les

It might have begun with a picture in your mind’s eye of a sea shore at dusk. You pictured the large blue waves rolling over the shoreline the pristine sand in the foreground the sun gently setting in the west. You might have imagined sea gulls gently flying past and children building sand castles along the shore. This was the image you might have taken with you as you began your labor for childbirth. It might have been one of a number of relaxation techniques you learned in your childbirth prep

In the image below The Joker is clearly depicted as an evil knife wielding Jewish demon of the Zohar who is about to impale all that is holy in Gotham City. The Joker sports a star of David with an inverted pentagram (a symbol of Satanic worship) emblazoned on it's center, and written on the wheel behind him you can clearly see the words HASHEM and SABBAOTH. Somehow I fail to recall the public outcry and media outrage over this depiction. Obama Joker artist unmasked

Image via: SamsonOS It happens to everyone: you’re sitting at your desk, staring into the distance, or out the window, silently kicking yourself because you know you should be working, but it’s just not happening. Every little distraction seems to be much more interesting than what you’re meant to be doing, yet turning your attention to the work at hand is easier said than done. This is even further accentuated when you’re working for a small company, starting your own business, or work fro