There’s some mildly off-color material here (only on the late-night broadcast television level, but I try to caution sensitive readers), but some of it is pretty funny. Basically, actors come on Jimmy Kimmel to read nasty Tweets about themselves: Link: … Continue reading
At something over 17 minutes, the clip below is longer than I normally post here, but it really is worth seeing, and it gets better as it goes along. The best parts have to do with a charming, smiling 16-year-old … Continue reading
A few days ago I posted a four-minute video from John Green talking about the UN’s Millennium Development Goals, an ambitious proposal from the year 2000 to address a number of major world problems in just 15 years. You might … Continue reading
A week ago I posted a video from John Green about the current refugee crisis in Europe, much of which is the result of the ongoing civil war in Syria. Here John’s brother Hank (who possibly drinks nothing but espresso) … Continue reading
There’s more than one Scots accent, and some of them, especially in southern central Scotland for some reason, are incredibly opaque at least to my American ears. This clip features a Scottish couple who are not at all happy with … Continue reading
Benedict Cumberbatch may be the most popular British actor of the moment, with success in everything from a Sherlock Holmes television series and the Hobbit movies (curiously playing opposite the same costar in both) to Hamlet on stage. So it’s … Continue reading
Here in under 4 minutes John Green reviews how much has been made achieved toward an ambitious set of goals created by the United Nations 15 years ago and finds that on most of them the world has made a … Continue reading
During the “New Rules” segment of his latest HBO show, Bill Maher talks about the human tendency to keep believing in something we’ve invested in despite evidence that it’s not working. This is a generalization of the “sunk cost” fallacy … Continue reading
To follow up on a post from Sunday, here’s an even shorter video (about 6 minutes) that provides some additional information about the Syrian refugee crisis. There is a lot here that might surprise you. (At least it surprised me.) … Continue reading
This is way more interesting than you might expect. Some young folks drive to a dry lake bed in Nevada and set up a scale model of the Solar System, that is, with all the planets and their orbits laid … Continue reading