TED: Hannah Gadsby - Three Ideas. Three contradictions. Or not.
This is very good.
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Blue Bonds: An Audacious Plan to Save the World’s Oceans
This is an elegant idea to simultaneously provide debt relief and conserve ocean habitats.
Anders Hoff - On Generative Algorithms
There is some really cool and pretty stuff here.
Self-Solving Rubik's Cube Robot!
In our fully automated luxury communist future all our toys will have an "assist" mode like this for those of us who aren't smart enough to solve the old fashioned way.
UXY: Adding structure to the UNIX tools
This is a nice little tool.
Going Critical — Melting Asphalt
A nice interactive network theory visualisation.
Rich Harris: Svelte - Rethinking Reactivity
A promising JavaScript framework: svelte.dev
Medieval wood riving
This is fascinating. Manages to be so much work and also so efficient.
Brad Spencer - Project Gallery
These sculptures are really cool!
Making a Rover For My Kid!
I can (and do) spend hours watching competent people build with appropriate tools...
TED: Greta Thunberg - The disarming case to act right now on climate change
Ouch. She has one hell of a point.
TED: Douglas Rushkoff - How to be "Team Human" in the digital future
Join Team Human.
3Blue1Brown: Ever wonder how Bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) actually work?
This is a very good intro/refresher on how cryptocurrencies/block chains work.
Resin-in-resin: how to make a literal "embedded" device
A Raspberry Pi with a display completely encased in a block of clear epoxy, but still able to be updated and used.
toothpick-like sequence exploration
These are some pretty neat patterns.
via Numberphile
Rusty Deadlocked Vise - Perfect Restoration
More hypnotic slow-tv... not just slow, competent well equipped tv.
The Future of Education - Yuval Noah Harari & Russell Brand - Penguin Talks
These two complement each other well, an interesting session.
Continuous paths across minor junctions
This is a very neat urban design technique.
TED: Alex Honnold - How I climbed a 3,000-foot vertical cliff -- without ropes
It's hard not to get sweaty hands every time Alex Honnold is on video...
UpTown Spot
Also has surprisingly good comments for a youtube video...
openDog Dog Robot #9 - Kinematic Model XYZ
It's rather ironic that our brains do inverse kinematics so easily, and kinematics is hard, but it's the reverse when programming a robot...
Fixing an IBM 1401 mainframe from the 1960s
Some pretty hard-core debugging, and certainly plenty of "layers in the call stack" to get your head around, even back then before bloated dependencies.
Writing Fast and Efficient MicroPython by the Creator of MicroPython
Some inside tips on MicroPython optimization.
TED: DK Osseo-Asare - What a scrapyard in Ghana can teach us about innovation
Very ingenious.
The Curiosity Show: The Magical, Mystical, Mind-boggling Ames Window
This is a fascinating optical illusion, and The Curiosity Show was great!