Self-explanatory and only 20 seconds long. Link: http://youtu.be/wtmI1FvRkek This reminds me of the time I was trying to figure out why an LED flashlight would not light up and for some reason thought it would make sense to look directly … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: January 2015
British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, who has also written books critical of religion, reads some of the charming emails he has received from offended believers. Be aware that many of these letters are from apparent professing Christians who haven’t quite … Continue reading
As with my earlier post (link) about color subsampling, this is another essay about video technology that I expect to be of limited interest (though oddly enough that previous post is one of the more frequently viewed ones on this site). If … Continue reading
How would Mars, Venus, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter, and Saturn look from the Earth’s surface if they were as far away as we are from the Moon? Link: http://youtu.be/usYC_Z36rHw For details, including a concise explanation of how it was made, click … Continue reading
[Updated to add a second clip.] As you’ve no doubt heard, Fox New finally apologized several times for its credulous interview with terrorism “expert” Steven Emerson, who claimed that Birmingham, the second largest city in England, is under the control … Continue reading
The Berkeley Earth project (link), a scientific organization founded by global warming skeptics and devoted to independent analysis of global temperature data, agrees with the Japan Meteorological Agency and with NASA and NOAA in the U.S. that the year 2014 … Continue reading
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have announce that the year 2014 was the warmest on record (link). This is in keeping with an analysis already published by the Japan Meteorological … Continue reading
The Falcon 9 rocket from the private SpaceX corporation recently delivered another Dragon capsule full of supplies and experiments to the International Space Station. But this time SpaceX tried something new: a very preliminary test of a system intended to … Continue reading
This is yet another one you might have seen already, albeit in possibly abbreviated or confused form. It’s a mix of hilarious and appalling. QVC is a television shopping channel based in the U.S. (I could describe it in more … Continue reading
If you watch any sports, you know that one way broadcasters and arenas fill time during the boring bits is to aim a camera at an apparent couple in the stands (boyfriend and girlfriend, husband and wife, Luke and Leia, … Continue reading