Tag: science
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The Rise, Lies, & Demise of Jan Hendrik Schön
I rarely ever watch documentaries on YouTube. Even rarely a science documentary. Never a documentary about…falsifying data and research?! Sounds boring right? Wrong. I just spent nearly two hours watching these. This is the story of how Jan Hendrik Schön became a Physics superstar, on the way maybe to a Nobel prize…until it all came…
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Turbo Encabulator
I bring you the Turbo Encabulator, because those nofer trunnions need their dingle arm sinusoidal redepleneration, otherwise they come in contact with the octarine thiotimoline you know, and that’s dangerous because of the dihydrogen monoxide (DHMO). And it’s been now subparceded by the Retro-Proto-Turbo-Encabulator, so those anhydrous sinusoidal dingle-sprockets can get the submersinized in a…
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The Mindscape of Alan Moore
I’ve seen clips from this but never watched the full documentary about Alan Moore – partly about his life and comics, but mostly about his magickal and spiritual thinking and thoughts of the future. Appropriate to be watching it on November 5th as fireworks explode outside, gunpowder treason and plot! While I’m not sure in…
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Mary Had A Laser Bat
Wow – Vi Hart explains the 12-tone series, but also touches on patterns, creativity, philosophy, and creates some very good and funny versions of Mary Had A Little Lamb and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, but my favourite was the avant garde piece inspired by Copyright Law (she couldn’t use Schoenberg or Stravinsky because, copyright). This…
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You can never touch anyone or anything
Well in atomic levels anyway – kind of depressing, then again YOU ARE HOVERING RIGHT NOW! (sorta via I Fucking Love Science)
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The Greatest Show is Science
I love this video from Symphony of Science – classic stuff with Dawkins, Attenborough and co. and a different take from the space ones. I wish John D. Boswell would take on archaeology next – that’s not only full of wonderful clips, I think it would make a great video! When people make all those…