streaming videos
grrlscientist | August 10, 2007tags: cats, kung fu kitties, streaming video
I am finally catching up with the rest of the blogosphere by using my friday for CAT BLOGGING. Except I am going to do you all one better by CAT VLOGGING. In this Kung Fu thriller, the student kitty has become the master ... Please, viewers must be over 18 only (fighting cats, kung fu style) [3:44].
grrlscientist | August 3, 2007tags: lemon battery, streaming video
Creating a battery from a lemon is a common project in many science text books. Successfully creating one of these devices is not easy. This video demonstrates how to construct and use a lemon battery to light an LED and operate a calculator. Of course, I just want to know if I can use this battery to power my cell phone. [6:47]
grrlscientist | August 2, 2007tags: singing Tesla coil, streaming video
This video shows a solid-state Tesla coil that is "singing". The high voltage sparks are making the noises. Every cycle of the music is a burst of sparks at 41 KHz, triggered by digital circuitry at the end of a "long" piece of fiber optics. The primary run that you see in the video are at its resonant frequency in the 41 KHz range, and is modulated by a control unit in order to generate the tones you hear.
What's not immediately obvious in this video is how loud this is. Many people were covering their ears and dogs were barking. In the sections of…
grrlscientist | July 31, 2007tags: smoking, Ghetto Science, streaming video
This video of a "ghetto science" experiment can help people understand why smoking isn't such a good idea. Filmed in one take and completely produced in under an hour (also notice the music -- Mozart's beautiful Requiem). If you think the results are fake, go ahead and try it yourself. And if you start smoking, you are an absolute idiot. [3:28]
grrlscientist | July 30, 2007tags: Huntsman spider, Australia, streaming video
I hate to be all girly, but if I woke up and saw this thing hanging above my bed, I'd burn the place down (if I didn't die of a heart attack first) [1:45]
grrlscientist | July 27, 2007tags: Falcon Fascination, peregrine falcon, streaming video
Powerful and fast-flying, the peregrine falcon, Falco peregrinus, hunts medium-sized birds, dropping down on them from high above in a spectacular stoop. Virtually exterminated from eastern North America by pesticide poisoning in the middle 20th century, restoration efforts have made this species a regular, if still uncommon sight in many large cities.
Thanks to Charlie from KQED Public Broadcasting in San Francisco, I have embedded a wonderful video about the resident SF peregrine falcons (below the fold). These amazing predators…
grrlscientist | July 27, 2007tags: Mother's Day, humor, streaming video
This is a little late for Mother's Day but I watched this video while sitting in the library and was laughing so hard (and silently) that tears were coming out of my eyes. [2:08]
grrlscientist | July 26, 2007tags: salt water fuel, streaming video
While seeking a cure for cancer, a researcher accidentally discovers that burning salt water acts as a fuel -- will it revolutionize the world? [2:56]
grrlscientist | July 25, 2007tags: nuke Iran, humor, Jon Stewart, streaming video
This video nearly got me thrown out of the library because I was laughing so much -- and to think that we were a sixth rectal polyp away from World War III! [3:06].
grrlscientist | July 25, 2007tags: crow, cat, animal friendship, streaming video
One of those sweet animal stories where two animals that are supposed to be enemies become friends. This time it is a cat and a crow. [2:04]
grrlscientist | July 24, 2007tags: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, humor, streaming video
This is what the A train looks like when I ride it;
grrlscientist | July 24, 2007tags: Chickenhawk, streaming video
Roy Zimmerman sings a song that he wrote that emphasizes the carelessness with which our so-called leaders are willing to kill off our country's troops. [3:21]
grrlscientist | July 23, 2007tags: Evolution of Internet, streaming video
The history of the internet in five minutes presented by Ethan Zuckerman. Basically, it is the story of how, when hundreds and hundreds of monkeys are placed in the same room, it turns out that they will write encyclopedias -- now known as Wikis. I was surprised that he didn't cover the 1996 telecommunications act, which opened up broadband connections for the masses. [6:51]
grrlscientist | July 20, 2007tags: Dove Evolution, streaming video
In this interesting streaming video, time-lapse photography is used to show how an ordinary looking woman is transformed into a beauty for Dove beauty products [1:14]
grrlscientist | July 19, 2007tags: Antihelium, science, humor, streaming video
In this streaming video, Jay Leno and Josh Duhamel sniff some gas .. some sulphur hexaflouride to be exact, and make an interesting discovery. Josh's laugh is funny [1:59]
grrlscientist | July 18, 2007tags: BrewCam, beer, fermentation, streaming video
This is a three minute video depicting a week long process -- a fermenting beer. The finished product is Judy Garland Stout -- Like Judy, it grew up in the public eye and then turned bitter... I am curious how the photographer got the camera into the fermenter -- any ideas? [3:00]
grrlscientist | July 16, 2007This amazing video depicts thousands, hundreds of thousands and then billions of birds -- all caught on video courtesy of the Planet Earth series. This video also features some wonderful music, a piece called "Rushing" from the album called Play by Moby, that will send chills up your spine. [2:37]
(Incidentally, those of you who saw the amazing movie, Seabiscuit, also know of Moby from another piece of his entitled "Everloving", also from the album, Play. That particular piece was the background music for when Seabiscuit ran his first race after recovering from his leg injury -- can you tell…
grrlscientist | July 13, 2007tags: Harry Potter, satire, streaming video
If you have just returned from seeing Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, I think you'll enjoy this streaming Harry Potter movie spoof as a visual apéritif. (Well, okay, I thought it was funny) [5:21]
grrlscientist | July 13, 2007tags: Harry Potter, movie trailer, streaming video
To put it bluntly, I am going crazy waiting to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I should have gone to see it on Wednesday midnight-oh-one in the morning because, well, I can't stand to know that it is getting generally wonderful reviews (especially the young woman who plays Luna Lovegood) and I run in to fans on the subway who have seen it and who say "it is the best yet!" and I have not seen it yet!
So this has made me want to ask you, where were you when you saw all the other HP films for the first time? My list, along…
grrlscientist | July 13, 2007tags: Harry Potter, movie trailer, streaming video
The fifth Harry Potter film was released in several cities on the 11th, including NYC (no, I haven't seen it yet, but I've already talked to several fans on the subway who have seen it and loved it). But as of today, the fifth Harry Potter film is released for worldwide distribution. The positive reviews continue to pour in, so I am dying to see it, especially since the Luna Lovegood character has been so well received (she is one of my favorites in the books, especially since I see myself as a combination of Luna and Hermione).
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