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grrlscientist | January 12, 2009tags: Iraq, Iraq for Sale, politics, streaming video
Robert Greenwald, the director of IRAQ FOR SALE, was invited to testify before Congress by Rep. Jim Moran. He prepared four minutes from the documentary to show.
Republicans insisted this video not be shown. [4:37]
zooillogix | January 10, 2009We are on a new Movable Type platform. You know what that means for you? Nothing! Absolutely nothing! .... maybe other than this. In celebration of the new, we offer the epically awesome old - Lobster Magnet
I'm gonna classify this as "medicine and health" just for kicks.
rallain | January 10, 2009So, here is a video (from break.com - so you know it is likely fake).
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If for some reason, you can not view this video, here is the plot.
Guy wears parachute and brings a portable thing like a see-saw.
Guy approaches large crane dropping a large mass repeatedly (I assume to flatten a dirt road)
Guy sneaks up an puts the see-saw under the area that the mass drops on and then stands on the other end of the see-saw.
Mass drops, guy shoots up and parachutes down.
So, why is it fake? I think the best thing is to give an analysis of the see-saw. To start this analysis…
rallain | January 7, 2009I saw this video posted on Physics and Physicists:
It reminded me that I had at one point tried to analyze this. I had actually posted something about this on the first generation of my blog (which no longer exists). I have found the analysis, and here it is from the archives. Thanks ZZ for reminding me.
Could this be true, or is it fake? I started to do an analysis of the trajectory, but I found the following frames:
Look at the guy's back. His back starts moving before the water bottle rockets. It must be some type of cable pulling him. If the rockets were propelling him, the rockets…
grrlscientist | January 7, 2009tags: Bush's Lies, politics, streaming video
Eight years of lies .. almost over. Finally. Almost. [1:41]
grrlscientist | January 6, 2009tags: Uncle Jay, humor, satire, parody, streaming video
It's been a whole year since Uncle Jay has SUNG an entire episode, and here's the reminder why! It's the year-end review of the news, and maybe it'll seem a little better with music. [3:21]
zooillogix | January 5, 2009
A little background here: Japanese squid monster moisturizer tentacle woman video. Yup.
grrlscientist | January 5, 2009tags: dog, pets, animal behavior, training, streaming video
This amazing video shows what must be the world's most obedient dog [1:22]
grrlscientist | January 3, 2009tags: golden eagle, Aquila chrysaetos, animal behavior, hunting strategy, streaming video
This astonishing video shows a Golden Eagle, Aquila chrysaetos, who has developed an unusual hunting strategy to capture and kill prey that is much larger than itself: grabbing and throwing live goats off a cliff [7:19]
rallain | January 3, 2009I finally saw the movie Iron Man. It was good. I feel that I am qualified to evaluate the movie. When I was in high school, I was totally into comic books. Mostly Spider-man, but I still have a significant collection of Iron Man comics. Ok, now you know I am not an Iron Man attacker. I will now attack the movie. Sorry, it's what I do (remember, I already said I liked it). There are several things I could comment on, in fact I recall some other blog talking about the physics of Iron Man.
My attack will center on the scene where Tony Stark (Iron Man) escapes from captivity with his home…
grrlscientist | January 2, 2009tags: transformer owl, African Owl, animal behavior, humor, streaming video
This interesting video shows you the anti-predator behaviors of an African owl species -- her behaviors are different for different owl species (narration is in Japanese) [3:20]
Can you name all the owl species depicted in this video?
grrlscientist | January 1, 2009tags: life cycle of a star, astronomy, physics, education, streaming video
The average star 'lives' for roughly 12 billion years. This wonderful video provides us with a visual glimpse into the entire life cycle of a G-type star, like our sun, from birth to death [6:29]
grrlscientist | December 31, 2008tags: politics, the year in review, JibJab, humor, streaming video
This amusing little video quickly summarizes 2008 -- a rather sad and scary year, if you ask me [2:13]
grrlscientist | December 30, 2008tags: robin williams, humor, comedy, satire, streaming video
The great Robin Williams at his best taking the **** out of Bush and a few others in politics -- this is a wonderful reminder of how talented Robin Williams is [9:21]
grrlscientist | December 29, 2008tags: christmas, dogs, pets, cute, streaming video
Dog lovers will especially enjoy this video even though it is a few days late [3:19]
grrlscientist | December 27, 2008Disney's new film, The Crimson Wing -- Mystery of the Flamingos tells the story of the birth, life and death of a million Lesser Flamingos, Phoeniconaias minor. Life at Natron is tough for the flamingos, with many predators threatening their daily survival. According to Aeberhard: "they have a number of predators such as Marabou Stork Leptoptilos crumeniferus, hyenas and jackals... The contrast here between life and death is very stark" [1:50]
grrlscientist | December 26, 2008tags: farewell from GW, satire, humor, will ferrell, streaming video
Will Ferrell does a splendid farewell imitation of our favorite lame-duck asshole, George Bush [1:31]
grrlscientist | December 25, 2008tags: Happy Christmas, The Microwave Song, satire, humor, streaming video
This is what happens when you have a bunch of people who are unemployed: they do silly things like this! And it seems this will continue for a long long time since they are not going to have jobs for a long time into the future, either [1:40]
grrlscientist | December 24, 2008tags: t'was the night before chistmas, poem, poetry reading, christmas, streaming video
This video features Tay Zonday reading the popular poem [3:03]
rallain | December 23, 2008Clearly, I am not a professional blogger. I am an amateur. This is because I was under the impression that only amateur bloggers could compete in the blogging olympics. When did they change these rules? Anyway, Adam Weiner did a physics-based analysis of the latest Star Trek movie trailer. Here is the trailer:
In the trailer (oh, spoiler alert) a young Kirk jumps out of a car before it goes over a cliff. It does look odd, and that is why I had intended to analyze it. In Adam's analysis, at PopSci.com the basic approach was:
Take the initial velocity of the car (from the clip)
Assume the…