Here’s something many of us ponder at some point: Do you get wetter walking through the rain or running, given that running causes you to hit more drops per second from the side? The answer isn’t terribly surprising — you’re … Continue reading
Writer-director Michel Hazanvicius and actors Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo of OSS 177: Cairo, Nest of Spies are back, this time in a film set in the late 1920s and early 1930s. And once again Hazanavicius uses cinematic techniques appropriate … Continue reading
Here’s yet another example of entertaining education on YouTube. Kids no longer have an excuse not to know stuff. Link: http://youtu.be/Yocja_N5s1I I particularly liked the answer to “Will this be on the test?” in the first minute. (Short version: Yes, … Continue reading
This keeps getting funnier as it goes along: Link: http://youtu.be/fSgpR71fM1Y by … Continue reading
Three years after the frequently hilarious OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, director Michel Hazanavicius and star Jean Dujardin return with a sequel (released in French as OSS 117: Rio ne répond plus — Rio is no longer answering) that … Continue reading
Here’s a quite funny spy film parody from the director and stars of the Oscar-winning The Artist. In 1949 a French writer named Jean Bruce launched a series of spy novels about an American of French descent named Hubert Bonisseur … Continue reading
Welshmen wire up sheep with battery packs and LEDs to produce weird patterns in the night, assisted by sheep dogs. I’m not sure I actually believe this… Link: http://youtu.be/D2FX9rviEhw by … Continue reading
Here’s how to climb to the top of a broadcast transmission tower. It keeps getting worse as it goes along, but you do wind up with a clear view to the horizon, something we’d all like to have at the … Continue reading
I finally realized that I had missed one of the videos deleted by the WordPress 3.5 vanishing video bug. Better late than never and all that. I’ve restored it in the original post, and for sake of convenience, here it … Continue reading
The U.S, National Research Council has a quite good website explaining what is actually known about global warming and various approaches to dealing with the problem. The site is intended for the general public and presents the facts in a … Continue reading