Reto Schneider, curator of the WeirdExperiments.com web site (and Reto is also Improbable Research’s Swiss Desk Chief), has made a happy discovery. Full details are on his site. Here’s how he begins the tale: Several years ago when I first wrote about the famous Dr Fox lecture I thought the original footage was lost forever. […]
Tag: video
If you choose to fall off a mountain [video]
Question: What does it look like when you fall off a mountain? Answer: If you’re lucky, something like this: (Thanks to investigator Wenhua Qifor bringing this to our attention.) BONUS: “Revisiting the fall of the Old Man of the Mountain“
All about taking a photograph, Rube Goldbergily
David Dvir and his collaborators made a Rube Goldberg machine about making 2-D photographs, and then they made a four-minute(or so)-long video showing the machine in action: Dvir wrote an explanation. And then the bunch of them made a video about making that video: (Thanks to investigator Geri Sullivan for bringing this to our attention.)
Speaking of sex in an MRI tube
“Took me a couple of goes, but I see it now. Still euww though. Please can you post some actual porn to take the image out of my mind.” That’s our favorite comment, from a Guardian reader, about this first-ever MRI video of human sexual organs while those organs were in use. The video was a spin-off […]
What’s worth looking at (science, etc.)
There is a metaphor here, in this short (0:01:33) video, about how people decide what’s worth looking at: The filmmaker is named Malik. (HT @almuraisy)
Jethro Tull in or of the lab
Be daring, scientists are told. Here’s one result of that advice: a lab that applied Jethro Tull’s song “Locomotive Breath” to its work, or perhaps the other way around. (Thanks to Ivan Oransky for bringing it to our attention.) The top video stars Roland Houben. The bottom video stars Ian Anderson (who recently did a rather nice […]
Penguin-huddling, seen at high speed
You may believe that there’s nothing like the sight of thousands of penguins huddling together, viewed in time-lapse video. A new study says that there are quite a number of things like that, coordinated traveling waves being the essence of it. The Cosmic Log blog reports on that report: It’s a great deal for the […]
Boobies at Sea, with Cameras and Comrades
Today’s Boobies-at-Sea Study-of-the-Day is: “Social Interactions of Juvenile Brown Boobies at Sea as Observed with Animal-Borne Video Cameras,” Ken Yoda, Miku Murakoshi, Kota Tsutsui, Hiroyoshi Kohno, PLoS ONE 6(5): e19602. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0019602. (Thanks to investigator Robin Abrahams for alerting us to it.) The authors, include video, some of which you can watch (or, depending on how […]
Lee Loveless: Vampire video for tooth care
The perhaps misleadingly-named Lee Loveless [pictured here] works for the UK’s National Health Service [NHS) in the city of Portsmouth. Loveless appears, in words only, in a BBC news report: Vampire video aims to help improve Portsmouth’s teeth A viral vampire video is at the centre of a new dental health campaign in Portsmouth. Inspired […]
Not just another krill sex video
At last comes an animated video about krill sex that’s understated and tasteful, and informative: (Thanks to investigator Barbara Keough for bringing it to our attention.)