The Veritasium YouTube channel produced the following short video responding to 13 misconceptions about global warming in about 30 seconds each: Link: http://youtu.be/OWXoRSIxyIU Click above for links to additional information. The video is quite good, but it omits (presumably for … Continue reading
I’ve held the Miss America pageant in contempt for decades. It doesn’t bother me so much that it’s a beauty contest but that it pretends to be a scholarship program. (I can see awarding scholarships based on need or merit, … Continue reading
One possibility I’ve seen suggested is that this cat intensely dislikes junk mail and bills: Link: http://youtu.be/SaFoLMFqkWQ (I posted this previously but the original link no longer works.) by … Continue reading
From Berlin’s National Museum of Arts and Crafts (Kunstgewerbemuseum), a desk and cabinet created by the furniture makers Abraham and David Roentgen and owned by King Frederick William II of Prussia (1744-1797). It’s full of hidden compartments and extras. I … Continue reading
Link: http://youtu.be/Sewo2HCtkYY by … Continue reading
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie that’s a moray, or so they say. I’m rather surprised by this relationship. You never know what you’ll see on YouTube. Link: http://youtu.be/3IQ2I-P8Ucw by … Continue reading
Imagine finding one of these on your window. Link: http://youtu.be/9e9NCAfp5-E Link: http://youtu.be/y1dY59vhQlo I’m not etymologist, but I believe these are hornets, which are large “eusocial” wasps, meaning they live in cooperative colonies like ants and honeybees. The term is derived … Continue reading
Movies of the 1930s and 1940s often featured black actors in secondary comic-relief roles, frequently playing racial stereotypes. I recently suffered through an extreme example of that in Charlie Chan in Egypt (1935, reviewed here), which is a pretty bad … Continue reading
Brilliant, and possibly the best thing the pro-union side could use as an ad: Link: http://youtu.be/-YkLPxQp_y0 by … Continue reading
A 3-year-old boy in Hawaii born with a hand missing its fingers gets a computer-printed Iron Man hand from a group called E-Nable, and the hand is actually functional, able to move and grasp things under the boy’s control. This … Continue reading