The following short video from best-selling novelist and popular vlogger John Green was posted last December 12 and points out that while 2017 had been marred by a continuing opioid crisis in the United States a famine in South Sudan … Continue reading
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Update 2018 February 7: The launch was successful in every respect but one: The middle of the three booster rockets failed to land on the floating platform as intended because one of the required engine firings didn’t happen. Interestingly, the … Continue reading
Here’s a sea shanty from the A Capella Science YouTube channel about the discovery of insulin. The song’s first-person narrator is a man named Leonard Thompson, who is dying of pneumonia but who would have died over a decade sooner … Continue reading
The bitter cold affecting the U.S. East Coast in early January created a strange phenomenon on the beach at Nantucket, Massachusetts: ocean water frozen to the consistency of slush, with slow-motion waves. This report from PBS News Hour runs under … Continue reading
Astronaut Karen Nyberg demonstrates hair washing aboard the International Space Station. This is actually more interesting than you might think: Link: https://youtu.be/uIjNfZbUYu8 by … Continue reading
The 15 Second Horror Film Challenge is an international ultra-short-film competition. For more information see http://15secondhorror.ca. There you can also find out about the 2018 competition, open now until October 15. Below are my personal favorites among the top 20 … Continue reading
Another one found on NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) blog, from Monday: Link: https://youtu.be/h1eRp0EGOmE What we have here are smoke, dust, and salt spray as tracked by satellite, which shows wind patterns including the formation of hurricanes. A … Continue reading
This was highlighted yesterday on NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day blog. It’s a one-minute animation of where we came from starting at the Big Bang and continuing to the present. Details can be found in the YouTube description at … Continue reading
How did I not know about this before? Just over ten years ago the Japanese company Crypton Future Media released computer software that can be used to generate a female singing voice, originally in Japanese and later in English and … Continue reading
A relatively new attraction in New York’s Times Square is Gulliver’s Gate, something like a huge model train set the size of a football field reproducing famous locations around the world in 1:87 scale. It includes the city’s own Grand … Continue reading