YouTube – Adam Menzies: Trampoline Demo:
A totally amazing athlete – the movie is fair quality and 6 minutes with good variety. Anyone who enjoys jumping or climbing will be impressed.
Fun, sciencey videos/links:
Water Balloon popping in slow motion Water Balloon, filling with dry ice, and collapsing in Liquid nitrogren Representation and explanation of 10 dimensional space (as described in string theory) GeoHacks – 30 minute interesting lecture on mapping and math Thinking Big: Robotics – 30 minutes interview on robotics and intelligence Protien Assembly – 13 min (1971) – hilarious cut-scenes Nagoya City Science Museum – 13 min in Japanese
YouTube – White and Nerdy- Weird Al
This video/song is fantastic… it hits pretty close to home for me and several of my friends, though. Personally it’s hitting at least 40% acurate for me:
I’m fluent in Javascript, do webpages for friends, got a friend who went to MIT, have stationary rims, i’ve got a soldering gun, i edit wikipedia, i can quote the whole “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”, and I wanna bowl with the gansta’s.