YouTube - The Story of Stuff (2007) - Ch.1: Introduction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqZMTY4V7Ts
Watch this.
Danny McAskill filming in Chamonix for "Perfect Moment - Instant"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjAFgN3eQLY&feature=player_embedded
Watch this twice, once for the riding and once for the scenery
Yep that's me, waiting next to the really hairy dude.
Warning: Your reality is out of date - The Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/02/28/warning_your_reality_is_out_of_date/
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- What
The opening paragraph of the article says it all:
A team of scientists has succeeded in putting an object large enough to be visible to the naked eye into a mixed quantum state of moving and not moving.
Wait, what? Like, WHAT? Ok, let's start over:
Andrew Cleland at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his team cooled a tiny metal paddle until it reached its quantum mechanical 'ground state' -- the lowest-energy state permitted by quantum mechanics. They then used the weird rules of quantum mechanics to simultaneously set the paddle moving while leaving it standing still.
The fuck? In my day, we were taught, with the help of non-graphing calculators and paper notebooks, that quantum mechanics was a lot of wand-wavey nonsense about wave/particle duality that you never had to worry about because it belonged to some magical tiny land that no one visits with their actual eyes. This...this is straight-up magic.
Just broke our lemon juicer. Did you know you're not allowed to squeeze it as hard as you can? I didn't.
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Irish Spiderboy
Chat Roulette Piano Improv
YouTube - Hot Wheels Custom Motors Cup Challenge - START HERE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPGhqQ9vZPM&feature=related
Sweet interactive youtube thingo.
Cultured, huh.
Hey, Rupert.
Ten Word Wiki - The Express Till For The Internet
Bite-sized Knowledge, often surreal with jokes - frustratingly not allowed twelv-
- Oooh yeeeah