Numberphile: Clifford Stoll - An astonishing old calculator
That is a pretty epic machine!
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That is a pretty epic machine!
"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."
First of a few of these.
Filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg shows us the intricate world of pollen and pollinators.
Scientifically accurate and aesthetically rich biomedical visualisations of the microscopic world inside our bodies.
Very cool TED talk by OK Go - whimsical, insightful, informative and musical.
MIT Media Lab Open Agriculture "food computers".
From 2005.
Another interesting project!
Building a like-new (but really refurbished) iPhone 6S entirely from parts - an interesting project.
This series of videos is pretty fascinating - there's so much craft in setting type.
Rob Reid on Copyright Math - an oldie but a goodie.
This is infuriatingly riveting.
Just in case you find Voyager I or II, here's how to decode the images on the golden records. For the rest of us, you can look at the pictures (there's a few odd choices really...) (and turn down the sound!)
This big dumb rocket has a lot going for it. The ocean launch is particularly neat.
Some really "long now" thinking. I love the possible answer to the Fermi Paradox too - that the ETs are hoarding mass & energy to do their computing when the universe cools down and it's more efficient to run their data centers.