Tuesday, August 24, 2021
The Solar System: Our Home in Space
The German science group Kurzgesagt produced this lovely motion graphics video explaining our Solar System, newly translated into English. It is simple enough for schoolchildren, but if you watch long enough, you'll run into things you don't already know. (via mental_floss)
Monday, August 23, 2021
The Islands With Too Much Power
While the rest of the world is turning off lights to save energy, the Orkney Islands are producing so much clean renewable energy that they don't know what to do with it! To be honest, there are plenty of things they can do with it, but the necessary infrastructure is not quite there yet, so they are looking in many different directions to keep from wasting it. The obstacle, of course, is money. Sadly, according to an Orkney resident in the comments, one thing the power companies haven't considered is dropping the price of electricity for local residents, so they still burn coal and oil to heat their homes, if they don't have their own turbine.
The History of Our Addiction to Caffeine
The world runs on coffee, and to a lesser extent tea, chocolate, and other caffeine drinks, but it wasn't always that way. Plant scientist Michael Pollan explains what caffeine does to our minds, and how the use of caffeine supercharged the progress of civilization. (via Geeks Are Sexy)
7 Classic Movie Tricks That Led To Modern CGI
Movies transport us to worlds unknown, but it's not always been easy to pull it off. In the old days before computer-generated cinematic effects, people would often leave a theater wondering how they did that. What filmmakers did was put 100 years of imagination to work in any way they could. The classic effects of those films inspired and guided modern computer effects. Insider explains how that happened. (via Damn Interesting)
Miss Cellania's Links
The Extinct Human Species That May Replace Neanderthals As Our Closest Relatives.
Rare Albino Alligators Hatch at Florida Zoo.
The 20 Greatest Movies Hollywood Never Made.
A True Crime Whodunit in the Australian Outback. When someone is murdered in a town of 13 people, you have 12 suspects. (via Damn Interesting)
18 Photos And Memes About Capitalism.
The Amazing Ecological Transformation of Ascension Island.
The Potato Photographer of the Year Awards 2021. See the top photos here. (via Nag on the Lake)
They Ate More and It Paid Off. What New Zealand's women's rowing team changed for the Tokyo Olympics. (via Metafilter)
A blast from the past (2014): The Terminator: 30 Years Later.
Koolaid and his Ball
Koolaid is a very young parrot who is obviously learning to talk. Meanwhile, he gets really excited by his favorite toy! (via Daily Picks and Flicks)
Tweet of the Day
(via Digg)when people say "you have more filmmaking technology in your pocket than alfred Hitchcock had his whole career" theyre referring to how smartphones make it much easier to harass blonde women to the point of mental breakdowns
— cullen "swamp trash" crawford (@HelloCullen) August 18, 2021
Sunday, August 22, 2021
A Remote-Control LEGO Car That Will Climb Anything
The YouTuber behind the Brick Experiment Channel designed and built a remote-control LEGO car to see how it would climb obstacles. The first iteration of that car is here, but it wasn't good enough. In this video, he adds another joint to the chassis and puts it into situations you just know the car cannot climb out of. But it does. The vehicle design is quite impressive, but his skills at controlling the movements are amazing. (via reddit)
Greetings
Click to the right to advance the comic. The story ended too soon, but I like to believe that they told the cow to stop farting so much, as it contributes too much methane to the atmosphere. This comic is from Yanni Davros at Prolific Pen Comics.
A Day at the Zoo
This classic Looney Tunes short from 1939 is full of non-stop puns and sight gags, most of which you have to be pretty old to recognize. I sent it to Princess to prove to her that "bread and butter" was really a thing. The kids always acted like I just made that up. (via reddit)
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