Director Justin Lin tells Screen Junkies how he got away with wrecking over 200 cars for the fifth installment of The Fast & the Furious franchise.
PSN Hacked! What You Need To Know
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Today Sony announced the reason for the recent week long outage of the PlayStation Network and Qriocity. A hacker was able to get access to PSN and get access to a wide variety of personal information including your name, address, birthdate, PSN password and more. There are things you can do to protect your data and yourself so please change your passwords and spread the word about what has happened.
John Hunter: Teaching with the World Peace Game
http://www.ted.com John Hunter puts all the problems of the world on a 4’x5′ plywood board — and lets his 4th-graders solve them. At TED2011, he explains how his World Peace Game engages schoolkids, and why the complex lessons it teaches — spontaneous, and always surprising — go further than classroom lectures can.
Anil Ananthaswamy: What it takes to do extreme astrophysics
http://www.ted.com All over the planet, giant telescopes and detectors are looking (and listening) for clues to the workings of the universe. At the INK Conference, science writer Anil Ananthaswamy tours us around these amazing installations, taking us to some of the most remote and silent places on Earth.
Harvey Fineberg: Are we ready for neo-evolution?
http://www.ted.com Medical ethicist Harvey Fineberg shows us three paths forward for the ever-evolving human species: to stop evolving completely, to evolve naturally — or to control the next steps of human evolution, using genetic modification, to make ourselves smarter, faster, better. Neo-evolution is within our grasp. What will we do with it?
Tonight’s Sky: May 2011 Highlights
Backyard stargazers get a monthly guide to the northern hemisphere’s skywatching events with “Tonight’s Sky.” In May, the hat-shaped Sombrero galaxy and the Virgo galaxy cluster grace the skies, and expect an early visit from the Eta Aquarid meteor shower.
“Tonight’s Sky” is produced by HubbleSite.org, online home of the Hubble Space Telescope. This is a recurring show, and you can find more episodes — and other astronomy videos — at HubbleSite.org.
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On being wrong | Kathryn Schulz
http://www.ted.com Most of us will do anything to avoid being wrong. But what if we’re wrong about that? “Wrongologist” Kathryn Schulz makes a compelling case for not just admitting but embracing our fallibility.
Jackson Browne: “If I Could Be Anywhere”
http://www.ted.com At TEDxGPGP, Jackson Browne plays a song he started writing last April aboard Mission Blue Voyage, the Sylvia Earle-inspired trip to brainstorm ways to save the ocean. “If I could be anywhere,” he sings, “anywhere right now, I would be here.”
3 things I learned while my plane crashed | Ric Elias
http://www.ted.com Ric Elias had a front-row seat on Flight 1549, the plane that crash-landed in the Hudson River in New York in January 2009. What went through his mind as the doomed plane went down? At TED, he tells his story publicly for the first time.