Grab bag of links
Jan. 19th, 2011 05:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eveglass1. Lego antikythera mechanism (3-minute video) -- a man recreates an ancient Greek calculating machine... out of Lego. Epic, truly.
2. My Blackberry is not working (3-minute video) -- a comedy sketch involving Blackberries, but perhaps not the type you think.
3. Why the other line is likely to move faster (4-minute video) -- I'm not convinced I agree with the math here, but it's still an interesting explanation for why it seems your line at the checkout is always the slowest. (For the record, I prefer this sort of explanation.)
4. Change blindness (6-minute video) -- experiment: would you notice if the man behind a counter became a different person halfway through your interaction? Don't be so sure.
5. Don't change your worldview based on one study -- one of the reasons science appears unstable is because the media publishes controversial new findings, even when the methods are flawed or the conclusions later disproved.
6. Serenity in gingerbread (pictures) -- someone with far too much time on their hands made a gingerbread replica of Serenity from Firefly. Amazing.
7. Croissants (10-minute video) -- an oddly hypnotic video showing how a bakery makes its croissants and other pastries. Worth checking out.
2. My Blackberry is not working (3-minute video) -- a comedy sketch involving Blackberries, but perhaps not the type you think.
3. Why the other line is likely to move faster (4-minute video) -- I'm not convinced I agree with the math here, but it's still an interesting explanation for why it seems your line at the checkout is always the slowest. (For the record, I prefer this sort of explanation.)
4. Change blindness (6-minute video) -- experiment: would you notice if the man behind a counter became a different person halfway through your interaction? Don't be so sure.
5. Don't change your worldview based on one study -- one of the reasons science appears unstable is because the media publishes controversial new findings, even when the methods are flawed or the conclusions later disproved.
6. Serenity in gingerbread (pictures) -- someone with far too much time on their hands made a gingerbread replica of Serenity from Firefly. Amazing.
7. Croissants (10-minute video) -- an oddly hypnotic video showing how a bakery makes its croissants and other pastries. Worth checking out.
