Posts Tagged ‘prize’

500th Subscriber prize giveaway + want to buy me Superman t-shirts? :D lol

May 27, 2010 - 2:02 pm 17 Comments

MixMusicChannel: http://www.youtube.com/user/MixMusicChannel
Superherostuff site: http://www.superherostuff.com/characters/Superman/Superman.html

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Authors@Google: Tyler Cowen

May 11, 2010 - 6:23 pm 1 Comment

Tyler Cowen is a professor of economics and director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He writes for MarginalRevolution.com, the #1 economics blog according to blogpulse.com. Stephen Dubner, co-author of Freakonomics, called this blog “awesomely good, every day.” Cowen also writes a monthly column for the business section of The New York Times, and contributes to many other publications.

Tyler’s Economics Blog: http://www.marginalrevolution

In DISCOVER YOUR INNER ECONOMIST: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist , economics professor Tyler Cowen shows how many of our needs, whims, and wants can be understood through markets. Want to vent some anger? A bar in China lets you pay to beat up the staff. Want to talk to aliens? For $3.99 a minute a company will broadcast your phone call directly into space.

This event happened September 14, 2007 at the Google NY office.

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MARK TWAIN PRIZE | Modern Man | PBS

May 8, 2010 - 1:24 pm 25 Comments

http://www.pbs.org/marktwainprize Taped at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on November 10, the 90-minute 2008 Mark Twain Prize honoring George Carlin features tributes and comic testimonials from a star-studded cast including Richard Belzer, Lewis Black, Margaret Cho, Ben E. King, Denis Leary, Bill Maher, Joan Rivers, Garry Shandling, Jon Stewart, and Lily Tomlin.

The Eleventh Annual Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize will air on PBS stations nationwide on Wednesday, February 4, at 9pm ET. http://www.pbs.org/marktwainprize

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My Dying Bride – The Prize of Beauty

May 2, 2010 - 12:14 am 25 Comments

The Prize of Beauty video clip

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Missouri Lottery $258.5 Million Powerball Winner

April 28, 2010 - 10:28 pm 27 Comments

A millionaire in the making: As Lottery staff gathered footage of the store that sold the winning ticket, we caught the very moment our big Powerball winner, Chris Shaw, showed up thinking he had it.

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Barack Obama Wins 2009 Nobel Peace Prize and…

April 28, 2010 - 10:28 pm 25 Comments

If the world was stunned to learn that President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, it will be even more amazed by all the awards that are still coming his way.

A Reason.tv Rapid Response video. Approximately two minutes.

Written and produced by Meredith Bragg and Nick Gillespie.

For more videos, go to http://reason.tv

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Jeremy Paxman gives up! The Turner Prize and Stuckists

April 26, 2010 - 12:22 am 26 Comments

Charles Thomson (Stuckists co-founder) and artist Brad Lochore on BBC2 Newsnight discuss the 1999 Turner Prize, which featured Tracey Emin. Stuckist paintings are shown and art (a washing up bottle on a plinth) owned by Lochore. Jeremy Paxman presents. Includes the “is my shoe art?” incident.

Newsnight on BBC web site: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/
Stuckism web site: http://www.stuckism.com

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Nobel Prize for Physics 2008 Nambu Kobayashi Maskawa BBC Documentary (1/5)

April 26, 2010 - 12:22 am 18 Comments

Yoichiro Nambu (USA)(1/2)
Makoto Kobayashi (Japan)(1/4)
Toshihide Maskawa (Japan)(1/4)

Yoichiro Nambu (Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA)

“for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics”

Makoto Kobayashi (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)
Tsukuba, Japan)
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Toshihide Maskawa (Kyoto Sangyo University; Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Kyoto University
Kyoto, Japan)

“for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature”

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FND Films – Mystery Prize Inside

April 20, 2010 - 3:30 am 26 Comments

Everyone loves the prizes at the bottom of the box…

More at www.FNDfilms.com

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Bruce Springsteen – Eyes on the prize (LIVE in DUBLIN)

April 20, 2010 - 3:30 am 26 Comments

A great live version in full dvd quality

…keep your eyes on the prize, hold on.

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