From various places on line. (Note that you don't need to type the quotation marks shown below, and depending on what browser you use and how it's configured, you can often type searches right into the address bar.) For useless … Continue reading
Last month Queen Elizabeth II toured the Game of Thrones production facility in Northern Ireland and among other things saw the notorious Iron Throne. She declined to sit, but she did give it a careful look, as you can see … Continue reading
Using camera phone telekinesis to affect another person. Possibly set up, but it looks like a real coincidence: Link: http://youtu.be/YmDXfqsG-Gw by … Continue reading
In passing in a previous post I erroneously said that investment income is free of Medicare tax in the U.S. As I should have remembered, that's no longer true for high income people (such as single taxpayers making over $200,000 … Continue reading
What fraction of people getting a particular medical treatment will be helped versus harmed? Link: http://youtu.be/e_ytF2-4NkI This is a follow-up to a previous commentary on the "number needed to treat" calculation mentioned in this previous post. Here Dr Carroll offers … Continue reading
I like Oliver's stuff because he's informative as well as funny: Link: http://youtu.be/LfgSEwjAeno A couple more points on the estate tax: As Oliver points out, only a microscopic proportion of estates -- a mere 14 out of every 10,000 -- … Continue reading
An aurora seen in northern Canada as captured on video in real time. That is, this is not time-lapse, it's actually what auroras look like. I saw similar ones when I was stationed in Iceland. Aurora Substorm - Real time … Continue reading
According to this news report from some kids in Utah, it's winter in Canada (it's probably always winter in Canada), and unfortunately, a major snow tornado is apparently threatening the entire country, so if you're anywhere in Canada, you should … Continue reading
A collection of videos of various people various places helping out, sometimes risking their own lives. Link: http://youtu.be/oeph_eX_pVw If you click through to YouTube you'll find a bunch of similar videos, which will lead to a bunch more, and the … Continue reading
I believe this is in Russia: Link: https://youtu.be/qaUqyBwBwtg (Updated 2015 July 11 because the original link had been replaced with a scam later blocked by YouTube. This is I believe the same video previously linked to, just in a different … Continue reading