Category Archives: YouTube
NewScientist reports on Prius with noise-machine.
I’m not sure if my sarcasm gene is on overdrive today or what, but this seems to me like biggest bit of non-news that NewScientist’s video channel has produced.
“Fake engine noise makes electric cars safer”
The main point seems to be to protect blind people and the terminally stupid (or i-Pod wearing) from being hit by quiet hybrid cars as they cross the street.
See how Mad Mike would solve the problem after the jump:
Playing the Building: David Byrne’s sound sculpture
This is pretty cool – turn an old building into a giant musical instrument:
Here’s the original link to the video at BoingBoingTV:
http://tv.boingboing.net/2008/06/10/david-byrne-and-xeni.html
Sustainable Dance Club
Here’s a cool idea – put transducers under the floor of a night club and use it to generate electricity to run the light and sound rigs. But just how much energy would be converted? Would it be significant?
Bill Nye takes on Pseudoscience
Thanks to mad.scientist from the TES Boards for digging this up.
Click here for PART 2 and PART 3.
Or you could spend the better part of a weekend watching a whole collection on this YouTube playlist.
Fun With Acetate
Thanks to Ben at Badscience for the link.
Here’s an idea for an exothermic reactions demonstration (original post from b3ta.com)
It’s all over! Good luck with the results…
Last night recorded a record number of hits for this blog – and nearly all the search terms were for the Further Human Physiology topics, so I hope the paper went well for you all today. I know my class left the room feeling OK, so fingers crossed for July!
Unwind for an evening with some Science comedy:
Physics next week?
The $50 SMARTBoard
This is just unbelievable, for two reasons:
1. If it works, you get thousands of dollars of functionality for near nowt.
2. You get an excuse to bring a Wii to school.
Here’s Johnny Lee and his Wii hacks (thanks to Henri Bemelmans for letting me know):
And while you’re at it…
Go and spend some time on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) website – there are some really top-class talks.
Animal Farm (Not the Orwellian one)
A while ago I posted about glowing pigs and fish and couldn’t work out where it had come from. Thanks to stitchintime from the TES Boards, I found out it was from Channel 4’s ‘Animal Farm’ series on genetic engineering.
Here’s the first part of episode 1:
It’s probably a good idea to save all the parts of it before it gets taken down. Here’s the link.
YouTube Blocked – disaster (averted)
Aduh, YouTube has been blocked by the Indonesian government because of a dispute over the movie Fitna. I haven’t seen it, though it apparently paints a pretty negative picture of Islam.
This is going to slow things down on the blog, but I’ll keep trying to find useful non-YouTube sources that will help with Science topics.
Hopefully they’ll see sense soon and lift the ban.
Luckily, the ever-growing TeacherTube is still going strong.
UPDATE – it’s back on again – I wonder whey they changed their minds?
Let’s celebrate with a recent item from Newsnight:
Thanks to Badscience for the heads up.
i-Biology 