Reggie Watts, at the 2012 TED conference, provides parody with this hilariously mind-bending talk and performance.
Reggie Watts’ beats defy boxes. Unplug your logic board and watch as he blends poetry and crosses musical genres in this larger-than-life performance.
Reggie Watts creates unpredictably brilliant performances on the spot using his voice, looping pedals and his giant brain.
A classic stick-and-ball model of DNA on display at the Boston Museum of Science.
Photograph by Metousiosis.
It’s important to be reminded of the goals of propaganda.
Stereotypes are at the heart of all propaganda efforts. Their purpose is to create the perception that our actions are always ethical and honorable, while those of our opponents are always unethical and dishonorable.
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Matthias Muller provides an artistic rendition of our universe in this remarkably beautiful video.
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RSA Animates contributor Manuel Lima, senior UX design lead at Microsoft Bing, examines our networked world and how the Tree of Life has been replaced with the Web of Life.
NASA has recently reprocessed some of its SDO data in order to enhance structural features and produce this aesthetically beautiful look at our Sun.
This video takes SDO images and applies additional processing to enhance the structures visible. While there is no scientific value to this processing, it does result in a beautiful, new way of looking at the sun. The original frames are in the 171 Angstrom wavelength of extreme ultraviolet. This wavelength shows plasma in the solar atmosphere, called the corona, that is around 600,000 Kelvin. The loops represent plasma held in place by magnetic fields. They are concentrated in “active regions” where the magnetic fields are the strongest. These active regions usually appear in visible light as sunspots. The events in this video represent 24 hours of activity on September 25, 2011.
[Via NASA]
At the 2012 Maker Faire, the Tesla Coil musical group Arc Attack put Adam Savage and a Dalek in the Faraday Cage in order to perform their renditions of AC/DC’s Back in Black and the theme to Doctor Who, respectively.
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