Numberphile: Clifford Stoll - An astonishing old calculator
That is a pretty epic machine!
Posts for 2017/12/03
TED: Paul Hessburg - Why wildfires have gotten worse and what we can do about it
"In 1910 [a huge wildfire] killed 87 people. Most of them were firefighters. [...] and this would shape the way we thought about wildfire in our society for the next 100 years."
Pre-colonial Australia: natural wilderness or gentleman’s park?
Indigenous scholar Marcia Langton rates Bill Gammage's exploration of Aboriginal land management, The Biggest Estate on Earth, as one of the great books.
Scientifically Accurate Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (#2)
Another version, lots of lyrics for this one.
Astronomically Correct Twinkle Twinkle (#1)
First of a few of these.