Jhené Aiko Spotlight (Photo Gallery, Video)

“I’m not a loud person,” Jhené Aiko says, explaining the retreat from the bubblegum of her youth. But despite a concerted effort to mellow out, much of her debut mixtape Sailing Souls is playful and attention grabbing: jazzy songs, riffs on weed and told-you-so chants, all of which seem to be part of Aiko’s day-to-day life.

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Jhené Aiko – Higher

No stems, no sticks, no seeds its just you and me
On this cloud and we don’t ever have to come down now
We are so faded going to places beyond the sun

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Jhené Aiko – Bed Peace ft Childish Gambino

If I had it my way
I’d roll out of bed
Say bout 2:30 mid day
Hit the blunt then hit you up to come over to my place
You show up right away
We make love and then we fuck
And then you give me my space

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Jhené Aiko – Stranger (Official Music Video)

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How Mushrooms Can Save The World – Paul Stamets Ted Talk (Video)

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Paul Stamets (one of worlds most well-known mycologists) gives a lecture discussing 6 ways mushrooms can save the world. Far too many people look at fungi as a source of food, but they are much more than that. (Shrooooms!)

The focus of Stamets’ research is the Northwest’s native fungal genome, mycelium, but along the way he has filed 22 patents for mushroom-related technologies, including pesticidal fungi that trick insects into eating them, and mushrooms that can break down the neurotoxins used in nerve gas.

There are cosmic implications as well. Stamets believes we could terraform other worlds in our galaxy by sowing a mix of fungal spores and other seeds to create an ecological footprint on a new planet.

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The Best Scenes of Riki-OH Compilation (Video)

The Best Scenes of Riki-OH Compilation (Video) | Third Monk

In The Story of Riki-OH, a young man with superhuman strength is incarcerated at a prison run by corrupt officials and seeks to use his martial arts to clean up the system. This compilation of the best scenes of Riki-OH contains some brutal violence created with hilarious claymation.

Batman – Unmasked, The Psychology Of The Dark Knight Documentary (Video)

Batman - Unmasked, The Psychology Of The Dark Knight Documentary (Video) | Third Monk

The History Channel examines the mental landscape of Batman with select interviews from writers and various experts in the psychology field. Insight is given on the motivating forces that drive the Joker, Catwoman, and the other villains of Gotham City.

I always felt Batman had a great curiosity about the Joker because he hadn’t ever come across someone like him before. This is another character like himself that will not compromise whatsoever. The Joker wants to see that everybody has a price, that nobody is pure and that even Batman can be bought or leveraged in such a way that he would compromise his principles.

-Christian Bale

The Joker has an agenda of a chaos, he’s a unique villain in that he is not necessarily after money or power, or any of those traditional things, that’s really the hardest kind of evil to fight because you can’t bargain with it.

-Danny Fingeroth, author Superman on the Couch

Batman says philosophically we can acknowledge an imperfect world, we can acknowledge that we have to step outside of social norms but that doesn’t make the social norms meaningless. The Joker says the presence of random injustice means that there is no justice. The fact that innocents can be destroyed means that there is no innocence. The Joker isn’t just threatening him physically, he’s threatening the premise of Batman’s existence, that’s why it’s such an epic discussion that they’re having and it’s played out physically, it’s played out in punches and gun fights.

-Benjamin R. Karney, Professor of Psychology, UCLA

Matrix Philosophy – Return to the Source Documentary (Video)

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Jump back into the Matrix with this video and explore the philosophical concepts featured in  the Matrix movies. The documentary includes scenes from the trilogy which are broken down and analyzed for their philosophical meanings.

Hubert Dreyfus, Professor of Philosophy, UC Berkeley: (On René Descartes) “I think therefore I am”, His basic idea that we only have access to the content of our own minds gives us this thing called the “Problem of the External World”

The Matrix is everywhere, it is all around us, even now in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.

There are no general features Descartes thought that you could use from within a dream to be certain that you’re dreaming

Alan Watts Discusses Nothingness (Video)

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Alan Watts discusses the state of Nothingness.

“So, you know the story; when the sixth patriarch was given his office as successor, because he was truly enlightened, there was a poetry contest, and the losing one wrote the idea that the mind (the consciousness) was like a mirror, which had to be polished. And constantly, you know, I have to polish my mirror; I have to purify my mind, see? So that I am detached and calm and clear-headed, you know, Buddha. But the one who won the contest said that there is no mirror, and the nature of the mind is intrinsically void, so where is there anywhere for dust to collect? By seeing that nothingness is the fundamental reality, and you see it’s your reality, then how can anything contaminate you?”

Joe Rogan on the Marijuana and Paranoia Relationship (Video)

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Getting baked doesn’t create positive or paranoid emotions, it just enhances whatever mood you’re in. If you have issues that you refuse to deal with, you might want to avoid marijuana, because it will bring them to the surface.

Being paranoid is a good thing. The experience of being paranoid when you smoke weed is to get you to look at yourself. It’s to get you to look at life. You’re not always looking at it as clearly as you could. Those jolts of perception you misinterpret as paranoia, what you’re really doing is just dealing with information that’s already there. – Joe Rogan

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Father Uses Medical Marijuana To Fight Son’s Brain Cancer (Video)

Father Uses Medical Marijuana To Fight Son’s Brain Cancer (Video) | Third Monk

A family’s two-year old son, Cash was diagnosed with a brain tumor. The chemo treatment jacked up his body, preventing him for eating any solid food for 40 days. Cash’s dad decided to turn to medical marijuana by secretly giving him cannabis oil to increase his appetite. The increasing number of positive medical marijuana cases can no longer be ignored, watch the clip for the full story.

The Wire – 100 Greatest Quotes (Scene Compilation) (Video)

The Wire – 100 Greatest Quotes (Scene Compilation) (Video) | Third Monk

A selection of the top 100 quotes from The Wire, the greatest TV show ever made. Note: Video contains spoilers from all 5 seasons.

Fans of the Wire know that the writing is outstanding. The stories are sprawling, epic, Greek-tragic ruminations on the nature of American conquest and the sacrifices made by the people at the bottom of the ladder on behalf of the ineptitude of those at the top. What’s more, the dialogue is this thick gun-blast of hardened profanity, street slang, police argot, and the undeniably Shakespearean pleasures of hearing gifted orators hold forth on the tilted battle between good and evil.

Enjoy this outstanding compilation of 100 of the greatest quotes from “The Wire”, it’s a jaw-dropping reminder of how many amazing moments this show had.  For those of you who still haven’t seen “The Wire”: you owe it to yourself to pack a bowl and watch it. It gets old telling people “Yes, it really is that good” all the time.

Bonus: The Wire – Other 100 Greatest Quotes

So many fans complained about their favorite lines not being included in the first video. The creator happily obliged by creating a second video of the greatest wire quotes.