Werner Herzog Has a Beef With Chickens

in Comedy, Film, Random | February 8th, 2012

It’s part of the beau­ty of Wern­er Her­zog. His films engross us, and the direc­tor pro­vides the enter­tain­ment on the side. You have seen him take a bul­let dur­ing an inter­view in LA. You’ve heard him read “Go the F**k to Sleep” in New York City. And, of course, you’ve watched him eat his shoe (lit­er­al­ly!) after loos­ing a bet to fel­low film­mak­er Errol Mor­ris. Well, today we give you the lat­est, great­est Her­zog moment — his 40 sec­ond dis­course on why he has a beef with chick­ens. h/t Coudal.com

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Everything You Wanted to Know About Coffee in Three Minutes

in Random | January 19th, 2012

Cof­fee — it’s the fuel of the mod­ern world and cer­tain­ly this site. And, if you believe this video (appar­ent­ly not made by Star­bucks or the Amer­i­can cof­fee lob­by), it’s the great­est, safest addic­tion around. Take it all with a grain of salt … while you drink your morn­ing (or after­noon) cup of joe.

More Relat­ed Cof­fee Items:

How to Drink Cof­fee at Zero Grav­i­ty

David Lynch’s Organ­ic Cof­fee (Bar­bie Head Not Includ­ed)

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The Large Hadron Collider Rap, Yo

in Music, Physics, Random | December 22nd, 2011

Last week, the reports about Hig­gs Boson, oth­er­wise called the God par­ti­cle, put CERN and the Large Hadron Col­lid­er back into the news, lead­ing some to ask: What exact­ly are Hig­gs and the Col­lid­er all about? We’re glad you asked. And what bet­ter way to answer that ques­tion than with a fly, lit­tle rap by Kate McAlpine (aka Alpinekat) and Will Bar­ras. You can find the full lyrics below the jump, and the parts about Hig­gs Boson right below…

The Hig­gs Boson – that’s the one that every­body talks about.
And it’s the one sure thing that this machine will sort out
If the Hig­gs exists, they ought to see it right away
And if it doesn’t, then the sci­en­tists will final­ly say
“There is no Hig­gs! We need new physics to account for why
Things have mass. Some­thing in our Stan­dard Mod­el went awry.”

But the Hig­gs – I still haven’t said just what it does
They sup­pose that par­ti­cles have mass because
There is this Hig­gs field that extends through all space
And some par­ti­cles slow down while oth­er par­ti­cles race
Straight through like the pho­ton – it has no mass
But some­thing heavy like the top quark, it’s drag­gin’ its ***
And the Hig­gs is a boson that car­ries a force
And makes par­ti­cles take orders from the field that is its source.
They’ll detect it…

(more…)

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Iron Mike Tyson Sings “The Girl From Ipanema”

in Music, Random | November 29th, 2011

Once beau­ty, now farce. h/t @opedr

Relat­ed Con­tent:

Getz and Gilber­to Per­form ‘The Girl from Ipane­ma’

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The Thanksgiving Math Lecture: Real Meets Virtual

in Random | November 24th, 2011

Matthew Weath­ers teach­es com­put­er sci­ence and math­e­mat­ics cours­es at Bio­la Uni­ver­si­ty in south­ern Cal­i­for­nia, and, while wrap­ping up a lec­ture last week, the talk turned to Thanks­giv­ing and, well, you can watch the rest.

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A Stunning, Chance Encounter With Nature

in Random | November 13th, 2011

Sophie Wind­sor Clive and Lib­er­ty Smith were canoe­ing some­where in Ire­land when they had a chance encounter with one of nature’s great­est and most fleet­ing phe­nom­e­na — a mur­mu­ra­tion of star­lings. The spec­ta­cle is a mag­i­cal case of math­e­mat­i­cal chaos in action. And, it’s all dri­ven by the quest for sur­vival. The Tele­graph has more.…

via Dot Earth

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How Much Does The Entire, Big Internet Weigh?

in Random, Technology | November 3rd, 2011

5 mil­lion ter­abytes of infor­ma­tion. That’s what you get when you bun­dle up all of the emails, videos, pho­tos, web sites and sundry mate­ri­als avail­able on the web. Now here’s the big ques­tion: how much does all of that infor­ma­tion weigh? No spoil­ers here. We’ll let the folks at VSauce give you the answer.

PS The 5 mil­lion ter­abytes fig­ure was giv­en by Eric Schmidt in 2005. So the fig­ure is a bit dat­ed, but it does­n’t take away from the gist of the exer­cise…

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Names of Paris Métro Stops Acted Out: Photos by Janol Apin

in Random | October 30th, 2011

A lit­tle fun for any­one who has spent time on the Paris Métro, which car­ries mil­lions of pas­sen­gers through 301 often art­ful­ly-named stops each day. Shot dur­ing the 1990s by Janol Apin, this col­lec­tion of pho­tos takes the names of real sta­tions and acts them out in imag­i­na­tive ways. Enjoy the rest here. H/T @MatthiasRascher

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