OK, one more from the folks who did the time machine and pirates bits. This one starts a little slow but gets better. Nothing great, but mildly amusing, and I rather like harmless pranks like these: Link: https://youtu.be/_7fHkq88J0E Some earlier … Continue reading
From the folks behind the time machine prank put pirates on Central Park Lake: Link: https://youtu.be/RZVCpzTG44U by … Continue reading
The sort of thing that happens on a New York subway: Link: https://youtu.be/Z1Gq7Q3B9xU The same folks did a similar bit based on Back to the Future: Link: https://youtu.be/Ad6b1-wuM3w by … Continue reading
Pediatrician Aaron Carroll summarizes findings of a study on the behavior and other attributes of kids today versus 1972. The news is surprisingly good — not perfect, but better than many people might expect: Less use of tobacco and alcohol, … Continue reading
In this six-minute “New Rule” bit, Bill Maher manages to be pretty funny while calling for more empathy, that is, at least trying to be concerned about other people’s problems and not just the things that concern ourselves and our … Continue reading
Link: https://youtu.be/R89vhiua35A My first reaction on seeing this was that somebody seriously needs to set up a commercial service that operates exactly this way. People would line up to hire them, myself included. Then I looked at the YouTube comments, … Continue reading
Boston Dynamics is apparently developing robots that can walk, pick up boxes, and the like, and deal with problems in a reasonably human-like fashion. Here’s the result of adding an important new module that makes the behavior even more human-like. … Continue reading
Almost entirely safe for work: Link: https://youtu.be/Dp6Nl0Jdk_w by … Continue reading
Yet again John Oliver takes on a serious subject with combination of humor and a lot of solid factual information. This time the topic is Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump. My brother Tom recommended this to me over a week … Continue reading
This is nowhere near as clever as Rahat’s usual drive-thru pranks (skeleton driver and so on), but still reasonably amusing: Link: https://youtu.be/1nD0dInC5W4 More posts referencing Rahat’s pranks here. by … Continue reading