Centrifugal force, which is (technically) a phony force, is at the center of this experiment about spinning children. The video presentation is of the sort known as “spinning a yarn”: (Thanks to investigator Laura Bassett for bringing this to our attention)
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Red clay and blue gloves, in yeasty musical parody
Red clay and blue gloves have their day in this music video called “Some Budding Yeast I Used to Grow”. The perpetrators: Lydia Thé, Haomiao Huang, and Nathaniel Krefman of the UC-Berkeley’s Department of Molecular and Cell Biology. It’s a parody of Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know”, which you can see below. The […]
It’s time to watch the human clock video
It’s time to watch the human clock video: [vimeo]41518240[/vimeo] It was created by Edson Oda.
“Shiny Robot” — A percussive video experience
“The essence of my computational-acoustics dissertation can be boiled down to trying to teach a computer to hear percussion in music like a human. Having a human, Alain Rouvez, teach a robot, Shiny Robot, how to dance seemed like the perfect metaphor,” writes Anderson Mills in describing the video he submitted to the most recent […]