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Artist: Kitaro
Album: Impressions Of The West Lake

Impressions Of The West Lake is a modern day opera conceived and directed by internationally acclaimed filmmaker Zhang Yimou (Hero, Curse of the Golden Flower), the visionary artist behind the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
The production is highlighted by music composed by the Grammy and Golden Globe Award winning artist Kitaro. This pairing of East-meets-West is a rare combination of two artists at the peak of their creative talents.

The opera also marks a reunion for Kitaro and music arranger Randy Miller, the pair's first effort together since the Golden Globe-winning soundtrack to Oliver Stone's 1993 film Heaven and Earth. This opera is another impressive credit for Miller, whose lengthy career as a composer, orchestrator, and conductor for films includes such highlights as Without Limits, First Snow, and The Soong Sisters (Best Original Score, Hong Kong Film Award).
The show's soundtrack also features rising Chinese pop star Jane Zhang, a gifted young performer who provides stunning vocals to the production on the title track, "Impressions Of The Westlake".

Through the course of his career, Kitaro has sold millions of albums, CD's and DVD's worldwide. Kitaro's various sound collaborations and resonant, multi-textured compositions, with their crescendos of passion and oases of serenity, truly defy the constraints of any genre. His pioneering fusion of cultures, techniques and spheres of consciousness is truly his own. With Impressions Of The West Lake, Kitaro continues to explore new, uncharted terrain with his magnificently expansive vision and ever-questing spirit.

2008年北京奧運開閉幕式「印象西湖」的幕後推手是國際知名大導演張藝謀(曾指導電影,英雄, 滿城盡帶黃金甲,)。印象西湖是一場現代歌劇，而這場演出更因葛萊美及金球獎得主喜多郎的配樂而受人矚目，這場東西方間的罕見交會交織了兩位大師的絕頂創作天才

這場歌劇更是喜多郎與音樂總監藍迪米勒的再次聯手出擊。兩位大師於大導演奧立佛史東一九九三年所執導電影「天地」原聲帶中首次合作，並榮獲金球獎最佳原聲帶大獎。這場歌劇是米勒的另一傑作。米勒同具作曲家、指揮家身份於一身，其作品包括「永無止盡」、「第一場雪」、「宋家皇朝」(榮獲香港電影金像獎最佳原創配樂獎)。這場大秀原聲帶中尚有極速躍升的新星張靚穎共同演出，她為主打歌「印象西湖」獻出了極具震撼力的歌聲。

於其職業生涯中，喜多郎的專輯、CD、DVD，於全球各地狂銷數百萬張。喜多郎的作品揉織了多種樂音，成為和諧並多質感的樂曲。由他的作品中可以同時感受到音樂家的熱情，以及如綠洲般的寧靜。他獨到的融合了各種文化、音樂技巧、以及意識氛圍。於印象西湖中，喜多郎藉著他輝煌廣闊的視野以及永無止盡追求進步的精神，再次探索了全新、未知的領域。

Official Artist Page
http://www.domomusicgroup.com/kitaro/

喜多郎 Kitaro - Water Of Mystery from Live in Zacatecas, Mexico on 04/07/2010

Song: Water Of Mystery

２００１０年４月７日にメキシコのサカテカスで行なわれたコンサート模様です。

Synthesizer : Kitaro
Violin: Steven Kindler
Guitar: Gabor Goldschmidt
Synthesizer: Keiko Takahashi
Synthesizer: Diana Dentino
Percussion: Boyce McGinley

Kitaro Official Website
http://www.domomusicgroup.com/kitaro/index.php

喜多郎オフィシャルウェブサイト
http://www.diaa.net/kitaro/index.php

iTunes Store
http://itunes.apple.com/us/art....ist/kitaro/id2382005

Buy the DVD: http://www.domomusicgroup.com/....kitaro/albums/enchan
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喜多郎 Kitaro - Chant From The Heart from An Enchanted Evening DVD

Kitaro Official Website
http://www.domomusicgroup.com/kitaro/index.php

喜多郎オフィシャルウェブサイトhttp://www.diaa.net/kitaro/index.php

Composer Kitaro, with a Golden Globe Award, Grammy nomination, and two dozen albums to his credit, is revered most for his ability to embody the human spirit in his music.  Today, Kitaro's music is increasingly progressive, full of innovative touches.  Resonant with exotic Japanese instruments as well as the more familiar guitar, flute, and drums, it shimmers one minute and rumbles the next, by turns soothing and stirring, atonal and rhythmic, orchestrally full and dramatic, yet surprisingly intimate, with the ability to transport the listener on a far-reaching musical journey that draws refrains of East and West together.  Includes 5.1 audio created from original 2 track stereo.

Song List
01.  Chant from The heart
02.  Kokoro
03.  Mandala
04.  Planet
05.  Dance of Sarasvati
06.  Winds of Youth
07.  Heaven & Earth

Approximate Running Time: 84 Minutes

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Artist: Kitaro
Song: Impressions Of The West Lake
Album: Impressions Of The West Lake

Kitaro Official Website
http://www.domo.com/kitaro/index.php

Kitaro - Celestial Scenery: Silent Praying, Volume 2
iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/alb....um/celestial-scenery
MP3: http://www.payloadz.com/go?id=1489649

Kitaro s second album in the Celestial Scenery compilation, Silent Prayer, is only nine tracks long but clocks in just under an hour of music. Naming a recording "Silent" anything is the same sort of Zen reserved for questions like "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" Kitaro & Yu-Xiao Guang are in the right frame of thought here, and produced a soothing piece of work that helps the listener to focus on achieving an ideal state for mediation. Their New Age sound is peppered by electronic pings and pongs, harp, Japanese flute, rainstick work, and uplifting compositions from a full symphony orchestra. The pieces on Silent Prayer are not unlike to the finales on wuxia film soundtracks; it s easy to picture a lone victorious swordsman in the center a verdant forest, surrounded majestic mountains, and a pristine lake bathed in the late afternoon sun.

TRACK LIST
01. Thinking Of You
02. Koi
03. A Drop Of Silence
04. Nageki (Live)
05. Peace
06. Tenku
07. Cosmic Love
08. Island Of Life
09. Heaven And Earth (Live)

More information at Domo Music Group Website:
http://www.domomusicgroup.com

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Artist: Kitaro
Song: Mercury
Album: Thinking of You

43rd GRAMMY WINNING ALBUM (Best New Age Album)

"Thinking of You" is a resplendent expression of the beauty unearthed in nature portrayed musically as only Kitaro can.
Woven within a musical tapestry of song, Kitaro brings you ten astounding compositions rendering light to the environment of which many take for granted. As Kitaro notes, "Living close to this wonderful nature is the discovery of the joy of life everyday".
This Grammy Award winning release has garnered the accolades of die-hard and newcomers alike. As Kitaro remarks, "the 'You' in the titles signifies people close to me, those near and those far away from me. I tried to speak to each one of them through this musical expression."

Song List

01. Estrella
02. Mercury
03. Cosmic Wave
04. Harmony of the Forest
05. Fiesta
06. Thinking of You
07. Spirit of Water
08. Stream
09. Space II
10. Del Mar

Kitaro Official Artist Page
http://www.domomusicgroup.com/kitaro/

喜多郎オフィシャルウェブサイトhttp://www.diaa.net/kitaro/index.php

Buy this album: http://www.domomusicgroup.com/....kitaro/albums/kojiki
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Artist: Kitaro
Song: Matsuri
Album: Kojiki

20-BIT DIGITALLY REMASTERED!

Kitaro crafts this musical journey from the ancient chronicle (Kojiki) that recounts the birth of Japan and it's people.

Featuring the string section from the Skywalker Symphony, along with Kitaro's signature keyboard and flute sounds, the score to this thematic backdrop is full of passion and beauty that is masterfully conceived, arranged and performed.

Song List
01.  Hajimari
02.  Sozo
03.  Koi
04.  Orochi
05.  Nageki
06.  Matsuri
07.  Reimei

Approximate Running Time: 55 Minutes

Kitaro Official Website
http://www.domomusicgroup.com/kitaro/index.php

喜多郎オフィシャルウェブサイト
http://www.diaa.net/kitaro/index.php

The solution to 4 rotation-related riddles, including the mystery cylinder, bike pedal pulling puzzle, track problem, and train part going backwards. Thank you to everyone who responded, liked, shared, or made a video response.
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Special thanks to:
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Petr Lebedev for combing through thousands of comments and providing the stats I gave in this video.

Video responses I used in this video (or watched):
everWonder? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ub2Cuclh1M
A Random Nerdy Channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9RB9TrZGps
The Physics DoJo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pns0LCGLu9k
Oblivious Jim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12WZIMEPi1A
Armchair Explorers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1yX_LTqtms
MrEngineeringGuy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRF82Rx9_YI
Professor Cubers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOd5orH-jfM
Scoop Science https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzLO6GqmfhI

A few notes on the puzzle:
1. A half-full container of honey does pretty well in reproducing the behaviour of the mystery cylinder. I wonder if the motion is a little smoother or more periodic with the ping-pong balls because they move as organized objects - also the delays between motion seemed to be longer with them than without ping pong balls.

2. For the average speed track problem, every time I said velocity I meant speed. Sorry to the pedants out there who are perhaps looking for some trick answer due to displacement being zero when you run around a track.

3. Although a lot of people identified it was something about a train's wheels that move backwards, fewer identified that specifically it was the part of the flange below the rail. Some simply said the bottom half of the wheel.

4. The bicycle question is perhaps the most complex of these riddles. If you tried it with a bike you likely found that it went backwards. But what happens if you sit on the bike and only push backwards on the bottom pedal. The answer might surprise you so give it a shot!

Kitaro Official Artist Page
http://www.domomusicgroup.com/kitaro/

日本語
http://www.diaa.net/

Onbashira Festival
http://www.onbashira.jp/

- Kitaro dedication for Goshinki -
Gaia Onbashira is a musical exploration of respect and how it relates to ancient traditions. Gaia loosely translates to Goddess of the Earth or Mother Earth and Onbashira is a festival that occurs every seven years in Japan. During the Onbashira festival, eight individuals are chosen for spiritually cleansing. The participants ascend a mountain and attempt to spiritually connect with the heavens through the trees. These trees are then allowed to fall down the mountain and eventually become posts and the foundation of a ceremonial shrine. Through these events, these individuals learn to become more in touch with their spirits.

諏訪大社七年に一度の天下の大祭り「御柱祭」起源は平安時代以前と伝わる。長野県指定無形民俗文化財。喜多郎氏は日本の伝統文化を積極的に楽曲に取り入れ、世界に発信しつづけている。1998年深い精神世界を映し出した「Gaia Onbashira」はグラミー賞にノミネートされた。2010年御柱祭オフィシャルアーティストとして、御柱祭を目前に控え、横たわるご神木に敬意と感謝と祷りを込めて、御諏訪太鼓を奉納演奏した。朝未だ明けぬ未明、気温0℃の山に、力強い太鼓は鳴り響いた。

喜多郎 Kitaro - Live in Zacatecas, Mexico on April 7th, 2010 [FULL CONCERT]

Set List
01. Water Spirit
02. Wind & Wave
03. Requiem
04. Fiesta
05. Heaven & Earth
06. Sky And Ocean
07. Impressions Of The West Lake
08. Water Of Mystery
09. Matsuri

Encore
10. The Light Of The Spirit

２００１０年４月７日にメキシコのサカテカスで行なわれたコンサート模様です。

Synthesizer : Kitaro
Violin: Steven Kindler
Guitar: Gabor Goldschmidt
Synthesizer: Keiko Takahashi
Synthesizer: Diana Dentino
Percussion: Boyce McGinley

Kitaro Official Website
http://www.domomusicgroup.com/kitaro/index.php

喜多郎オフィシャルウェブサイト
http://www.diaa.net/kitaro/index.php

iTunes Store
http://itunes.apple.com/us/art....ist/kitaro/id2382005

Buy the DVD: http://www.domomusicgroup.com/....kitaro/albums/yakush
Buy at iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/alb....um/daylight-moonligh

Artist: Kitaro
DVD: Daylight, Moonlight - Live in Yakushiji

2001年　喜多郎コンサート　薬師寺

LIVE IN YAKUSHIJI is a broad and deep journey, to inner realms as well as exotic earthly destinations that only Kitaro can deliver.  Recorded over three evenings in the sacred Yakushiji Temple in the ancient Japanese capital of Nara.  Kitaro reprises nine favorite compositions from earlier albums, plus his Golden Globe Award-Winning theme from the Oliver Stone film "Heaven and Earth" and two previously unreleased tracks.  This is a tour de force for Kitaro and ensemble.

Special DVD Features:
Digitally Remastered Tracks
Interactive Menus
Mixed to Stereo and 5.1 Surround Sound
History of the Yakushiji Temple
Exclusive artists interview

Song List

01.  Monk's Introduction
02.  Hazimari / Sozo
03.  Caravansary
04.  Silk Road
05.  Magma
06.  Mercury
07.  Water of Mystery
08.  Estrella
09. Koi
10. Wa
11. Free Flight
12. Heaven and Earth
13. Dance Of The Sarasvati
14. End Credits

Approximate Running Time: 132 Minutes

Kitaro Official Website
http://www.domomusicgroup.com/kitaro/index.php

喜多郎オフィシャルウェブサイト
http://www.diaa.net/kitaro/index.php

Domo Music Official Website
http://www.domomusicgroup.com/index.php

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/team/default.htm
I have been working with Catalyst on ABC1 to bring some Veritasium to Australian TV. In this segment I ask why astronauts in the space station are weightless. The most common answer is because there is no gravity in space. But of course there is gravity in space, especially where the space station is located (only about 400km from Earth's surface). So astronauts still experience a gravitational pull - it's just that they and the space station are in free fall so they are accelerating together towards the Earth. The space station doesn't crash into the Earth because of its orbital velocity - it's going 28,000 km/h so as it falls, the Earth curves away from it.

What happens when single photons of light pass through a double slit and are detected by a photomultiplier tube? In 1801 Thomas Young seemed to settle a long-running debate about the nature of light with his double slit experiment. He demonstrated that light passing through two slits creates patterns like water waves, with the implication that it must be a wave phenomenon.

However, experimental results in the early 1900s found that light energy is not smoothly distributed as in a classical wave, rather it comes in discrete packets, called quanta and later photons. These are indivisible particles of light. So what would happen if individual photons passed through a double slit? Would they make a pattern like waves or like particles?

On a stream of water you can levitate light balls of all sizes and even disks and cylinders. The mechanism is not the Bernoulli effect...
Want to make this at home? https://youtu.be/BppcHF2EdAY

My friend Blake from InnoVinci emailed me with a cool idea for a video and footage of levitating balls in water streams. Initially it was tough to explain the physics of what was going on. The standard Bernoulli effect relies on the object being completely immersed in the upward-flowing fluid. But in this case the water seems to form a single stream around the object and it's deflected away and down from the stream. By Newton's third law, the force on the water by the ball is equal and opposite to the force of the water back on the ball, pushing it up into the stream. There is a stable equilibrium position because if the ball moves into the stream, it "cuts off" the water going over the ball so it drifts out. If it drifts out too far, then lots of water passes over the ball, pushing it back into the stream.

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Filmed by Raquel Nuno
Slow motion by Hollywood Special Ops http://hollywoodspecialops.com

Music from Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com "Colored Spirals 3" "Magnified X 3" "In Orbit 2" "ExperiMental 1"

Why does time appear to speed up as we get older? Can we slow it down?
Thanks to the National Geographic Channel for sponsoring this video!
The new season of Brain Games starts Sunday, February 14th at 9/8c - http://po.st/90S7Ow

Brain Games is an Emmy-nominated TV series that explores the inner workings of the human mind through experiments and interactive games. Did you know it's estimated that you have more than a dozen senses in addition to the standard five? One of those is a sense of time or chronoception. Tune in to the new season of Brain Games to learn about all of your senses, and more, starting Sunday, February 14 at 9/8c

References:

Ageing and duration judgement:
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Nerve conduction velocity slowing with age:
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Experiments with rats suggest time perception is distributed across brain:
http://bit.ly/1T6IjdO

Time perception with repeated stimuli:
http://bit.ly/1TRNbo5

Energy usage in brain with age:
http://bit.ly/1nXliOU

Time perception in moments of fear / danger:
http://bit.ly/1RoK7Ps
http://1.usa.gov/1TRNa3w
http://bit.ly/1Q8tDvW

Attention’s relation to time perception and recollection of perceived time:
http://bit.ly/20odeD8
http://bit.ly/1TRNfEf

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Kitaro Official Website
http://www.domomusicgroup.com/kitaro/index.php

喜多郎オフィシャルウェブサイト
http://www.diaa.net/kitaro/index.php

Domo Music Official Website
http://www.domomusicgroup.com/index.php

喜多郎 Kitaro - Intro and Magma from Tamayura (2000) DVD

Produced by Kitaro, Tamayura is a unique combination of Kitaro's signature sound married to visuals performed by Kochi Tamano and Harupin-Ha Butoh Dance Theater who bring the characters of the story to life.  With costumes by Heather Hanse and choreography by Koichi Tamano, Tamayura features wildly colorful scenes and surreal, almost magical dance routines.  Tracks include: Magma, Mercury, Sitara, Nageki, Beam Wave and Uranus.

Region: Region 1 (US & Canada Only)


Song List

01.  Introduction
02.  Magma
03.  Mercury
04.  Sitara
05.  Nageki
06.  Beam Wave
07.  Uranus
08.  Credits

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For more on deflecting polar streams with electric fields, see:
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I'm in Hobart for a live show on Friday at UTAS followed by gigs in Sydney and Canberra next weekend.

Kitaro - Celestial Scenery: Divine Spirit Vol. 8 (Full Album)
iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/alb....um/celestial-scenery
MP3: http://www.payloadz.com/go?id=1489903

In Divine Spirits, the eighth album in the Celestial Scenery compilation, Kitaro draws his inspiration from the invisible deities and forces of nature. The Taiko is here, as well as its companion thunder. The keyboard is here as well, complementing the sound of water. The synthesizer ties it up into a nice little aural package. There's even a live version of Mandala nestled in as the third track. Over-all, it's a calming album with excellent texture that's sure to please any long-standing Kitaro fan.

TRACK LIST
01. God Of Thunder
02. In The Beginning
03. Mandala (Live)
04. The Light Of The Spirit
05. Spirit Of Water
06. Strength
07. The Escape
08. Lord Of Wind
09. Reimei

More Information at Domo Music Group
http://www.domomusicgroup.com

How much would it take for you to risk $10?
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Psychological literature shows that we are more sensitive to small losses and than small gains, with most people valuing a loss around 1.5-2.5 times as much as a gain. This means that we often turn down reasonable opportunities for fear of the loss. However over the course of our lives we will be exposed to many risks and opportunities and this invariably means that taking every small reasonable bet will leave us better off than saying no to all of them.

NOTE: The video is not saying to accept every bet, only those with reasonable odds (preferably in your favour), and those which if you lose would not cause significant financial or other damage. In those cases it is wise to be loss averse!

Filmed by Adrian Tan

Thanks to Physics Girl for suggestions on previous versions of this video. https://www.youtube.com/physicswoman

喜多郎 Kitaro Live at Asian Art Museum in San Francisco on 12/26/2010.

１２月２６日にサンフランシスコのAsian Art Museumで行なわれたコンサート模様です。

Flute / Synthesizer: Kitaro
Violin: Steven Kindler
Gu Zheng: Su Chang (Viva Girls)
Synthesizer: Keiko Takahashi
Taiko Drum: Shohei Takatani

Kitaro Official Website
http://www.domomusicgroup.com/kitaro/index.php

喜多郎オフィシャルウェブサイト
http://www.diaa.net/kitaro/index.php

iTunes Store
http://itunes.apple.com/us/art....ist/kitaro/id2382005