via @occam98, who describes this as “The Vi Hart of physics, who speaks a bit more slowly, too”
Category Archives: Video
Wazzap?!
Reminiscent of my navy days; when the enlisted students would walk around outdoors they had an uncanny knack of separating themselves into individuals or small groups, and you would have to return their salutes as you/they walked by. They only called me “Sir” though, not “My Lord”.
Not All Men are Created Prequel
That's the Best, Hand Down. Or Feet Up.
The downside, as it were, is that mistakes would tend to hit you in the face. This beats the hell out of the juggling my grad-school housemates did.
Because Graham is on Holiday and Chun Yao's Dead
Despite the fact that this is satire and thus includes some level of exaggeration, it does do a rather nice job of highlighting some of the frustration of science outreach. Not everything can be condensed down into an information mcnugget or two, and there are subjects where you really need a decent background in physics to understand what’s going on, even at a superficial level. That frustration comes to a head when you meet someone who thinks that advanced science should be understandable to them even without any background schooling, and those same folks seem to be the ones who hold you at fault when they don’t understand. (They also seem to conclude that it’s wrong if it doesn’t make sense to them, but that’s another level of frustration)
h/t to Schrödinger’s hat
Coordinate Transformation: Rocky the Flying Squirrel Edition
Sure, I want ideas for things to do with my own GoPro camera, but this is not one of the things I would do. He comes insanely close to “landing” partway through.
Better Than a Flight Simulator
A micro camera is installed onboard an r/c plane F-16. The camera transmit live the video to ground and I wear video goggle to fly the plane in real time like if I was in the cockpit. The camera replace the head of the pilot and the movement of the cam is control by the movement of my head on ground via a head mount gyroscope (head tracker)
Nudge, Nudge. You've, Y'know, Done it …
What’s it like?
This is what it’s like to be shot at with an AK-47
Trent Kimball, CEO of Texas Armoring Corporation (TAC), was tired of customers asking if his company’s bullet-resistant glass in its armored cars actually resisted bullets. So he did what any reasonable CEO would do: he asked his employee to shoot at him with an AK-47. It’s loud, scary, dangerous, and completely awesome.
Turn Me Loose Tonight
A series of videos from the Institute of Physics (IoP) that teach elementary radioactivity.
Each video is half as long as the one preceding it
Galileo Unchained
Click on your answer at the end to go to the next video.