Students at Harvard Medical School study body parts, among other things. Some of those students produced this video about the question “What does the spleen do?“: The makers supply this info: A Parody of “The Fox” by Ylvis. This video was created for the 107th Annual Second Year Show by the Harvard Medical School and Harvard […]
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Concerns about watching TV while driving: then and now
NOW: Stuff reports: The [UK] Department for Transport has acted to ban drivers from using Google Glass – even before Google’s smart eyewear launches to the general public. Stuff has learned that the government department is concerned about the potential for distraction that could result from using Google Glass while driving, and has taken pre-emptive action ahead […]
How kids should avoid colds, 1947-style [video]
“George jumps right into trouble, because he forgot his galoshes.” That’s just one insight from this 1947 American instructional video about “How young children must behave to avoid transmitting germs to one another.” At the end, “they learn that Dutch people are clean.”
Best space music videos: Hadfield/Bowie & Coleman/Anderson/Bach
These are our picks for best space music videos of the past few years. In our view, they qualify as being improbable in all the best senses of that word. Both videos show performances done by musician-astronauts in spacecraft orbiting the earth. Chris Hadfield performs David Bowie‘s “Space Oddity”: Cady Coleman and Ian Anderson (of […]