Compost-Fueled Cars: Wouldn't That Be Great? - Onion Talks - Ep. 1

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karaterobot · 2022-03 · Strong recommendation

> If he gets pulses 10,000 times faster, he says he can modify waste on an atomic level. The great thing about articles like this is that it reminds me to go rewatch the the video "Compost-Fueled Cars: Wouldn't That Be Great?"[1], which neatly summarizes so much of the breathless excitement of vague, detail-free scientific and entrepreneurial claims. [1] [VIDEO]

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simonsarris · 2013-12 · Strong recommendation

If you haven't seen The Onion's[1] Onion Talks and want a good satirical criticism of TED, I highly recommend them: [VIDEO] (There are more if you want to find them, I didn't want to pollute commentspace with too many links) [1] The Onion is a satire newspaper, one of the first newspapers to heavily adopt an online format. They just killed their print edition for good last year.

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rpm4321 · 2013-03 · Strong recommendation

If you haven't seen them, make sure to check out The Onion's TED parodies - Onion Talks: [LINK] They may be the funniest thing The Onion has ever done. =================================== Edit: of particular interest to the HN crowd would be their takedown of the "Idea Guy": [VIDEO] and the "Social Media Consultant": [LINK]

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