and 50 other things in less than 2 minutes! 
But really, these quick Jason Silva videos are wonderful. Watch in full screen.
More info on each of the videos (and more rants by Silva) on his vimeo page.
Category: nature
October 5, 2011
Jason Silva on time, intelligence, language, psychedelics…
September 23, 2011
Sci-fi abilities of 6 real life plants
Plants don’t get enough respect as sci-fi monsters. Sure, Triffids will always rule, but sci-fi baddies tend to be mutants, zombies, vampires and other altered mammals. This is in ignorance of plants’ amazingly creepy special abilities. To prove it, we’ve dug up six plant skills that freak us out more than Godzilla.
September 20, 2011
June 11, 2011
TEDxPSU – Richard Doyle – Scaling the Noösphere
This is a TEDx presentation given by my favorite scholar of the rhetoric of biochemistry and post-vital living, Richard Doyle, about the importance of developing our conceptions of the noösphere.
Currently I’m reading his newest scholarly book concerning his ecodelic hypotheses about archaic and contemporary psychedelic media technologies, Darwin’s Pharmacy: Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noösphere.
March 11, 2011
The Mystery of Change
A short film with narration by Alan Watts and music by Sigur Rós.
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In an online thread about about death, consciousness and DMT, Robert Forte told this story:
18 years ago I was trying to get my five year old son to say some cute and profound thing so i asked him what he thought happens when you die.“i don’t want to talk about it,” he said.“oh come on,” i said, ”its going to happen to everyone. what do you think happens?”“Dad,” he said firmly, ”i don’t want to talk about it.”I said, ”its nothing to be afraid of.”“Dad,” he said, nearly shouting. ”I don’t even want to think about it.”“but why not?” i asked.“Because i want it to be a surprise.”
Yugen.
March 3, 2011
Minilogue – The Leopard (Extrawelt Remix)
The Minilogue/Extrawelt soundtrack to this profound video is superb and really heightens the emotional experience of the content. I played it for a friend of mine and she was letting loose the waterworks by the end.
February 26, 2011
Cultivating A Cure
Cultivating A Cure is a documentary in production and currently fundraising for completion. It is about the wealth of medicinal plants in the Amazonian rainforest and their impending threat of eradication. It includes interviews with native healers and research scientists such as Dennis McKenna.
Please the watch the trailer for what looks like a beautiful and immensely important project: CultivatingACure.com
February 20, 2011
Descendants
Lovely 14-minute animated short film with a touching story.
(watch full screen)
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February 1, 2011
Acoustic Botany
We all know about selective breeding and genetic engineering of plants for food, medicines and materials and I’m sure many have thought about the possibility of engineering plants for visually aesthetic qualities (heck, I’d buy some fluoro-flowers), but what about for their acoustic attributes? A London artist along with some scientists are examining the ways we could create ‘sound gardens.’
http://www.davidbenque.com/projects/acoustic-botany
