Video Eugene Fischer | 16 Feb 2010
Now that the Winter Olympics are here and people in America, briefly, care somewhat about curling again, I am suddenly reminded of the great good fortune we all had that the last Winter Olympics happened in a year when Jonathan Coulton was forcing himself to write a new song every week. And one week he [...]
Video Eugene Fischer | 24 Jan 2010
There’s a neat video going around of a hunting strategy pursued by bottle-nosed dolphins in shallow waters. They swim in tightening circles and use their tails to make fences of cloudy water to trap schools of fish:
Very cool. But at the end of it good Mr. Attenborough pronounces that dolphins are the only known species [...]
Video Eugene Fischer | 20 Nov 2009
Because I miss her, I wish I’d learned of her work years earlier than I did, and because Molly Ivins’s insights in 2004 are still more relevant than what most commentators who are actually alive have to say.
(Video is about half prepared talk, half Q&A, and filled with both the brilliantly funny and the stunningly [...]
News & Texas & Video Eugene Fischer | 19 Nov 2009
So way back in 2005 the Texas legislature, in its alarmingly finite wisdom, passed an amendment to the state constitution to outlaw gay marriage. So eager were our elected representatives to protect us from the loathsome evil of same sex unions, it seems they may have overshot the mark somewhat and protected us from all [...]
Video Eugene Fischer | 18 Nov 2009
“A man is he who pisses against a wall!”
“That’s where we’re heading in this country, my friends…. We got a buncha pastors who pee sitting down. We got a president of the United States who probably pees sitting down. We got a buncha preachers and leaders who don’t stand up and piss against a wall [...]
Amusing & Blog & Video Eugene Fischer | 22 Oct 2009
I’m been sick in bed all day, and the pressure in my sinuses seems to be pushing directly on the being-vaguely-pissy center of my brain. But as many of my friends are sick too, we can all goof off on twitter together.
KatWithSword Have just learned that I am being nominated for a postdoc fellowship. [...]
Science & Video Eugene Fischer | 04 Sep 2009
Some clever people have gotten themselves a grant from the National Science foundation to make awesome hand-drawn cartoons of animals to pair with conversational interviews with scientists explaining their research. It’s kind of like if This American Life was a charmingly low budget biology vlog. It’s called Creature Cast, it’s creative commons attribution-noncommercial-share alike, and [...]
Video Eugene Fischer | 02 Aug 2009
This is popping up everywhere. Deservedly.
World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.
Video Eugene Fischer | 29 Jul 2009
An awesome one.
BIRDY NAM NAM – THE PARACHUTE ENDING from Steve Scott on Vimeo.
Thank you Steve Scott, whoever you are.