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A short collection of photos from 2012 showing humans at their best. Very much worth your time: Link: http://youtu.be/gJWrBjdI4HY by … Continue reading
Category Archives: Video clips
Yet another clip from John Green, this one referencing the 2014 annual letter from the Gates Foundation exploding some myths about developing countries. Interesting stuff, delivered in Green’s usual enthusiastic style and in under four minutes: Link: http://youtu.be/K8UlTygCYjo One of … Continue reading
Playing video games may improve your eyesight and some aspects of thinking, even enlarging parts of the brain: Link: http://youtu.be/OOsqkQytHOs This reminds me of something I read many years ago. Men typically do better than women in tests of spacial … Continue reading
Another prank video, this one involving an evil baby in a remote-controlled carriage. Apparently this is promo for a movie. by … Continue reading
A public service announcement (PSA) from New Zealand: It reminds me of one from England that’s perhaps the best PSA I’ve ever seen: by … Continue reading
A YouTube commenter managed to confuse the late Nelson Mandela with someone else, prompting the following brief exchange of messages as dramatized by Adrian Bliss and performed by Grahame Edwards and Eryl Lloyd Parry. (Indelicate language, but funny.) Link: http://youtu.be/Lm-6RR4sLXw … Continue reading
YouTuber Robert Jones assembles scads of short clips and sets them to music to create some quite entertaining little videos. Here are a couple worth seeing: First, excerpts from some of the most popular things on YouTube: Link: http://youtu.be/4sGTQ0jRnMo Next, … Continue reading
One of my all-time favorite bits from the National Public Radio comedy news quiz show Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me began with quotations from email from Microsoft-founder Bill Gates about the horrors of trying to download software from the Microsoft … Continue reading
Bad news for pessimists: A remarkable number of things are actually getting better. Link: http://youtu.be/4SfcGmEVuBY Of course, not everything is improving. Global warming remains a serious and neglected problem, for one huge example, and there’s reason to think Congress is … Continue reading
From the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology at the University of Oxford, a nice short video I wish I’d seen soon enough to post for Christmas: Link: http://youtu.be/u6AuTch808I Grapes… by … Continue reading