Happy Pi Day (3.14)! I’m going to have a berry cobbler for dessert tonight, which, while technically not pie, is my favorite and close enough, even if it is a rectangle. This is a video of some folks visually demonstrating pi using the pizza crust from one pizza and four
This is a video of biblical scholar/The Flash fan Dan McClellan discussing where the H in Jesus H. Christ likely came from. You know I love a good origin story! Basically, it’s believed it came from a christogram (a letter symbol used to represent ‘Jesus,’ ‘Christ,’ or ‘Jesus Christ,’ e.g.
In OMG what a precious angel news, this is a short video of a baby flamingo (just a lil’ flam) learning how to stand on one leg. How precious is that? The answer is ultra precious. Right up there with how Smeagol feels about the One Ring.
Note: Some appropriate excitement and colorful language following the landing. This is a video of flight instructor Kilo Tango Aviation flying with student LeoStixx86 for the first time outside a simulator and surprising him by letting him land the plane. Some more details while I tighten the shoulder straps on
Using AI learning, scientists at the University of Tokyo’s ISI Laboratory have successfully taught a pair of robotic arms to peel a banana without tearing your penis off with one hand and vaporizing it with the laser blaster in its other. Congratulations? Handling soft fruit is tricky for robots, but
These are two TikTok videos of Texas A&M University physics and astronomy professor Dr. Tatiana Erukhimova demonstrating inertia (the property of an object to resist change in its motion) with two experiments: one involving pounding a knife through a skewered potato with a rubber mallet, and another dropping an egg
This is a video from musician and Youtuber Andrea Boma Boccarusso providing a history of metal music, from the 1950’s to present. His lesson plan includes “a medley of metal examples accompanied by descriptions, artists, and albums that typified each era.” Neato. Of course if you don’t have time to
This is a video of a precious baby seal learning to swim as part of its rehabilitation at the Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan. Man, that seal is ALL EYES. What a cutie. You know I have fairly large eyes too. EIGHT OF THEM. “You’re not a spider.” Yes I am too