The Chinese Zodiac Explained

The Chinese New Year fell on February 16th this year, which means it's officially the Year Of The Dog and a good year for wearing purple and smelling the roses but a bad year for those born on a Dog year.

Over a quarter of the world's population celebrate the Lunar New Year and follow the Chinese Zodiac, but the rest don't understand why all those animal signs are such a big deal, which technologist ShaoLan Hseuh thinks is a shame.

So she gave an educational and fun TED talk explaining how the Chinese Zodiac works, including "how it's believed to influence your personality, career, marriage prospects and how you'll do in a given year."

(YouTube Link)


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Now who would think of that...!

I'd like to see Monty Pythons Fish Slapping Dance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhJQp-q1Y1s&feature=fvst performed by the original Star Trek crew...

But those fragments from Star Trek also do show how things have changed since then in the depiction of science fiction...
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Can anyone tell me what episode is happening at 1:11? i swear that looks like a young Picard that is being fought, and I'd like to figure it out :)

great mash-up though :)
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Cobaltblaze, that ain't no young-looking Patrick Stewart there. That's the one where they all live underground in an asteroid, and McCoy's dying and falls in love with the High Priestess. There's a little more just after that shot that's from the same episode. The episode title ends "I have touched the sky".
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