When A Leaf Turns » Videos

Mmm sweet lemonade. Yeah, sweet lemonade

Venture Free — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:42:55 +0000

District 9: Bare Essentials

Venture Free — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:11:49 +0000

I highly recommend that you go see District 9 because it really is a very good movie. But if you can’t then this video will at least give you the highlights.

(Thanks to Topless Robot for the heads up)

Christmas Shoes

Venture Free — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:35:03 +0000

I’ve never heard this song myself, but by the sounds of it I didn’t miss out on much.

Febrile Nitwits

Venture Free — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:30:00 +0000

When the hacked emails first came out, I said they would be a quote miners heaven. I was right, but to a much, much lesser extent than I would have thought possible, which is saying a lot. It’s amazing how little material the climate deniers have actually found to backup their claims of conspiracy.

And then someone goes and makes a video like this, blasting the two most “damning” quotes out of the water.

As usual it’s not looking good for the deniers, and I’m sure that as usual they’ll simply ignore that fact and continue to proudly proclaim their “victory”.

(Thanks to Pharyngula for this one)

DJ Kentaro & Kinoshita Shinichi

Venture Free — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:10:39 +0000

Imagine a death metal band with a banjo player. That’s how strange this match up is. But it is awesome nonetheless!

Baloney Detection Kit

Venture Free — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:02:19 +0000

In case you’re not sure.

…And Again, And Again, And Again…

Venture Free — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:14:10 +0000

(Thanks to Organized Ignorance for this)

Scale

Venture Free — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:07:11 +0000

I think people automatically think on a kind of logarithmic scale when contemplating extraordinary distances simply because the analogies used by our intuition cause magnitude to be lost. The moon orbiting the earth is roughly analogous to the earth orbiting the sun and so our minds map the moon to the earth and the earth to the sun, and the difference in magnitude is lost. We look at a galaxy and it appears roughly similar to the solar system. We can tell ourselves that the galaxy is incomprehensibly larger, but in our heads we see a solar system and the size difference is reduced to “It’s like this, but bigger.” We look at the universe, at all of the galaxies out there, and it appears roughly similar to the stars in our own galaxy. “It’s like our galaxy, but bigger.”

My hope is that these resources might help you get a grip on the actual sizes involved when thinking about the universe.

First, this website (http://www.phrenopolis.com/perspective/solarsystem/) shows the solar system to scale. According to the site: “This page shows a scale model of the solar system, shrunken down to the point where the Sun, normally more than eight hundred thousand miles across, is the size you see it here [approximately 6 inches]. The planets are shown in corresponding scale.”

Next a comparison of celestial bodies, including the planets and various types of stars.

Finally, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D.

All this really does for me in the end is highlight just how bad I am at imagining the sizes and distances involved in the universe. Even knowing it I find myself unable to do any better.

The Cute…IT BURNS!!!

Venture Free — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:48:08 +0000

I don’t normally go for the latest viral video. But as a cat lover, I can’t help but share this in an attempt to infect others.

Abraham And Isaac

Venture Free — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:52:10 +0000