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grrlscientist | June 23, 2008tags: language as bullshit, George Carlin, humor, comedy, streaming video
When I woke up this morning, I heard George Carlin talk about language on NPR. What's wrong with using simple, direct and honest language? He wonders. "It's getting so bad that any day now I expect to hear a rape victim described as an 'unwilling sperm recipient'!" [6:55]
grrlscientist | June 23, 2008tags: shit versus stuff, George Carlin, humor, comedy, streaming video
I woke up this morning to hear George Carlin talking about materialism on the radio. You know, stuff. Yes, stuff. "Have you noticed that their stuff is 'shit' and your shit is 'stuff'?" he asks [5:09]
grrlscientist | June 23, 2008tags: pro-life is anti-woman, George Carlin, humor, comedy, streaming video
George Carlin talks about the so-called pro-life people, who use their hypocritical position to legalize and institutionalize their hatred for women. He asks, Why, when it's us, it's an abortion, but when it's a chicken, it's an omelet? [9:50]
grrlscientist | June 23, 2008tags: Religion is Bullshit, George Carlin, humor, comedy, streaming video
As usual these days, I was awake until the sun came up. So in the wee hours of the morning, I learned that one of my favorite people, George Carlin, died. I've always loved George Carlin even though I've never had the privilege to see him perform live. I especially enjoyed George's comments about religion, but he is so brilliant that I "especially enjoy" many things that he had to say. I know that he lived a long and wonderful life, with little mental or physical deterioration to rob him of his dignity and integrity,…
grrlscientist | June 23, 2008tags: Where the Hell is Matt?, documentary, streaming video
Here's a wonderful streaming video that celebrates this beautiful world and the people in it! It celebrates our common humanity, regardless of where we live, or what we look like. My favorite parts were when Matt was dancing among the red crabs on the beach of Christmas Island, I laughed to see him dance in the demilitarized zone in Korea and to see him and a crowd dancing in a downpour in Quebec, I caught my breath .. for just a moment .. when I watched him dance among the sons of headhunters of Poria, Papua New Guinea (where some…
grrlscientist | June 20, 2008tags: Anthropologists on Mars, autism, mental health, documentary, streaming video
This streaming video is a short documentary that explores notions of happiness within the autistic spectrum. [4:56].
grrlscientist | June 19, 2008tags: 42, Shell Theorem, Newtonian physics, theoretical physics, bad science, streaming video
This streaming video is a short presentation of a theoretical physics exercise to demonstrate Newtonian physics and the Shell Theorem [1:58].
Okayyy .. what's wrong with the er, "science" in this video?
grrlscientist | June 18, 2008tags: Every Bird Should Get To Fly, flightless birds, washington state lottery, streaming video
A friend sent me this clever streaming video, which is a sweet commercial for the Washington State Lottery .. it shows a variety of flightless bird species enjoying the gift of flight! [1:02].
So .. I know the emu on the ground was real, but do you think the "flying" emu a real bird?
grrlscientist | June 17, 2008tags: rainforests, conservation, CO2, streaming video
This streaming video provides yet another excellent reason that all the world's citizens should protect and conserve the world's rainforests. The music is "Nude (String FX Etc. Stem)" by Radiohead. [0:52].
grrlscientist | June 16, 2008tags: Barack Obama, religion, politics, streaming video
In this video, Barack Obama talks downright lucidly about religion and politics. To all the idiots claiming the US was founded on christianity, he suggests that they read the words of John Adams because "the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion..." He also states that "the United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Muslim nation." Obama suggests that all these so-called christians and other religious wingnuts actually READ THEIR BIBLES -- wow, how radical…
grrlscientist | June 13, 2008tags: five types of lucky, wow, humor, streaming video
Because it is Friday the Thirteenth, a day that the superstitious among you view with abject terror, I thought I'd have a little talk with you about luck. Yes, luck. There are five types of luck, apparently, as documented in this video [0:57].
Oddly, all these types of luck involve vehicles. It makes me wonder if they also invoved alcohol?
grrlscientist | June 12, 2008tags: bird nestboxes, skull, humor, streaming video
This video shows you the most remarkable nestbox that you can provide for your birds -- a nestbox that will be a certain conversation stopper, or starter, depending upon what your conversation is doing when your guests spot it [0:46]
grrlscientist | June 11, 2008tags: dead whale, blast from the past, humor, streaming video
This video documents what happens when a dead beached whale, half a ton of dynamite, and an exclusion zone that was way too small all interact on an Oregon beach [2:35]
grrlscientist | June 10, 2008tags: Harry Potter, JK Rowling, Harvard University commencement 2008, streaming video
JK Rowling's commencement speech at Harvard University this past weekend .. not only is she funny (who knew?), but her speech is extremely, wonderfully good, and very well worth listening to. [9:01]
Part 2 [7:51];
Part 3 "We do not need magic to transform our world, we have the power already inside ourselves .. " JK Rowling, 2008 [7:03];
Wow, she's just so amazing!
grrlscientist | June 7, 2008tags: Big Brown, horseracing, Triple Crown, streaming video
Big Brown fights with his jockey, Kent Desormeaux, in the stretch before he crosses the finish line last in the 140th Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y. on Saturday, June 7, 2008.
Image: Chang W. Lee, NYTimes.
Big Brown was the favorite to win to today's Belmont Stakes, the 140th time this classic race has been run. Big Brown started from the far inside post position and ran against eight rivals in the 1.5 mile (2.41 kilometers) race, often referred to as the "Test of a Champion." The record for this race, 2:24, was…
grrlscientist | June 7, 2008tags: Affirmed, Alydar, horseracing, Triple Crown, streaming video
This is Affirmed's 1978 Belmont Stakes win which gave him horseracing's most recent Triple Crown win. This particular race is often cited as being the most exciting Belmont win in history. Remarkably, this was the first time in history that the same two horses, Affirmed and Alydar, finished one-two in all three of these races. This, combined with Affirmed's very small margins of victory in all three races (a combined total of less than two lengths), made many people think of Alydar as the first true runner-up to the Triple…
grrlscientist | June 7, 2008tags: Seattle Slew, horseracing, Triple Crown, streaming video
Here's a video of Seattle Slew's victory in the Belmost Stakes in 1977 -- the speedy Seattle Slew was the first horse to win horseracing's Triple Crown while remaining undefeated. He also turned in a fast time, despite the crappy track conditions that he ran on. If Big Brown manages to win today's Belmont Stakes, he will become just the second racehorse to win the Triple Crown while remaining undefeated [3:04].
Seattle Slew was not expected to be a great racehorse, so he was sold at public auction -- the first Triple Crown winner…
grrlscientist | June 6, 2008tags: physics, second law of thermodynamics, unmixing a solution, streaming video
The second law of thermodynamics: the overall entropy, or disorder, of an isolated system which is not in equilibrium will increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium, or at maximum disorder.
Okay, we all know that, according to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, you cannot unmix liquids after they've been mixed, right? Okay, all you smart people, here's a streaming video for you to watch and to explain, where a mixed solution is unmixed by reversing the stirring process. [2:19].
In the…
grrlscientist | June 5, 2008tags: arctic ice pack, global warming, climate change, environment, physics, streaming video
A stunning animation from WWF International Polar Programme, showing the progressive melting of Artice sea ice since 1979. The white is older ice -- five years or more old -- and the blues are progressively younger ice, with the shade closest to the ocean being fresh, or one year old, ice. The red dots are tracking buoys, showing how the ice is shifting further and faster as it melts. [0:34].
grrlscientist | June 4, 2008tags: Magnetic Movie, magnetic fields, human technology, NASA, physics, streaming video
Magnetic fields are invisible, at least usually. But scientists from NASA's Space Sciences Laboratory have made them visible as "animated photographs," using sound-controlled CGI and 3D compositing. It makes the fields, as explained by the scientists, dance in an absolutely gorgeous movie called Magnetic Movie [1:17].
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