30min clip - The Most Iconic Hip-Hop Sample of Every Year (1973-2023)

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4min 49sec clip - over 50 Years of the War on Drugs

2min 48sec @newyorker clip - Fifty years of "Doctor Who" and Daleks A look at the dimishing powers of Lincoln Center Fountain - from 2014

4min 32sec @djearworm clip - Time of Our Lives: #Songs from every year ( #1970 - #2020 )

found via laughing squid 

text from youtube "A trip through time with one song representing each year from 1970 to 2020.

Songs are listed for the year in which they were most popular 1970 - Jackson 5 - I'll Be There 1971 - Rod Stewart - Maggie May 1972 - Derek and the Dominoes (Eric Clapton) - Layla 1973 - Stevie Wonder - Superstition 1974 - Kool & the Gang - Hollywood Swinging 1975 - Average White Band - Cut the Cake 1976 - Rose Royce - Car Wash 1977 - Supertramp - Give a Little Bit 1978 - Little River Band - Reminiscing 1979 - Rupert Holmes - Escape (The Pina Colada Song) 1980 - Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers 1981 - Billy Squier - The Stroke 1982 - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Message 1983 - Men Without Hats - Safety Dance 1984 - Nena - 99 Luftballoons 1985 - (2 songs) - Madonna - Crazy for You - Tears for Fears - Shout 1986 - Janet Jackson - Nasty 1987 - Steve Winwood - Back In The High Life Again 1988 - Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me 1989 - Milli Vanilli - Baby Don't Forget My Number 1990 - George Michael - Freedom '90 1991 - Happy Mondays - Step On 1992 - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge 1993 - Arrested Development - Mr. Wendal 1994 - Beck - Loser 1995 - Dave Matthews Band - Ants Marching 1996 - Eric Clapton - Change the World 1997 - Chumbawamba - Tubthumping 1998 - The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony 1999 - Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5 (a Little Bit Of...) 2000 - Britney Spears - Oops!...I Did It Again 2001 - Sugar Ray - When It's Over 2002 - Ja Rule ft. Ashanti - Always On Time 2003 - Thalia ft. Fat Joe - I Want You 2004 - J-Kwon - Tipsy 2005 - Maroon 5 - Sunday Morning 2006 - Shakira ft. Wyclef Jean - Hips Don't Lie 2007 - Rihanna - Umbrella 2008 - Mariah Carey - Touch My Body 2009 - All-American Rejects - Gives You Hell 2010 - Young Money - Bed Rock 2011 - M83 - Midnight City 2012 - Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa ft. Bruno Mars - Young, Wild and Free 2013 - American Authors - Best Day Of My Life 2014 - Jessie J, Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj - Bang Bang 2015 - Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud 2016 - Justin Bieber - Sorry 2017 - Luis Fonsi ft. Daddy Yankee - Despacito 2018 - Bebe Rexha ft. Florida Georgia Line - Meant to Be 2019 - Post Malone, Swae Lee - Sunflower 2020 - The Weeknd - Blinding Lights

1min 37sec @NASA clip - Fifty Years of #Apollo #Technologies in Your Life

a 1min 5sec @wef clip - the human #enhancements that could be commonplace in 50 years

8 challenges for the next 50 years

these headlines are summarised from this OECD economic policy report no. 9 of July 2014 by Henrik Braconier, Giuseppe Nicoletti and Ben Westmore

1) With most key regions below crisis levels 5 years later after it started -policies need to be very accommodative

2) There will be a major shift of economic balance - towards emerging economies, particularly those in Asia.

3) Global growth prospects will be mediocre -

compared with the past, and population ageing will result in a decline in the potential labour force. 

4) Especially in Asia, growth could be curbed further by the rising economic damages from 

environmental degradation

5) Global integration is likely to continue, but at a slower pace

6) Policy changes will be needed to accelerate global integration, make institutions more resilient to shocks, curb emissions to mitigate climate change and make the most of the knowledge economy.

7) The beneficiaries of higher education will need to carry a larger share of the funding burden for such

8) If left un-addressed increases in earning inequality and costs of adjustment could eventually backlash on stability and growth.