In the early seventies, Ian Waterman lost all sense of proprioception, which is the body's nearly unconscious sense of position in space -- how you know where your arm or toe is without having to think about it. Incredibly, he has managed to learn to walk again, gesture again, manipulate objects and live a relatively normal life again. This is a BBC documentary about him and his incredible concentration.
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This is what will happen if the net is not kept neutral. The importance of this site I'm sharing is in the marketing-speak, the lies and the pictures of happy people. They will limit you and charge you for it while trying to make you believe you're winning. "Best deal," indeed . (Click on the photo to link to the site. This is the introduction of a cool new feature I just discovered.)
Some lucky tourist gets amazing footage of a volcano erupting explosively. Bang! An episode of PBS's "Secrets of the Dead" that explores the development of the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated, and the context around it. Some unseen footage and interviews with people who watched nuclear tests back in the day.
http://video.pbs.org/video/1923035514/ Impress your friends and fill out the shelves of your home library with this multi-volume set that seeks to write out the number One Googolplex (a one followed by a googol [10^100] zeroes). Available in PDF form or (if someone wants to pay) in a slim, 10 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 volume print edition. http://www.googolplexwrittenout.com/ It's magnetic putty. What do you want, a reason to watch? Fine: it's magnetic freaking putty. Kill some time trying not to get killed by the giant meteor that's fucking all the shit up. You are a dinosaur. Right is safe. Left is apocalypse. The rest is a really good game. http://www.pixeljam.com/dinorun/index2.html The developers have a new game now you can check out as well. Why are these still in every newspaper? Do people actually believe them? Here's an incredibly simple, clear breakdown of several reasons astrology is bunk. If you need it. The blog in general is great. Here. In this video you can see the shadow of the moon pass over the earth. It's something you wouldn't normally be able to make out but the right combination of moon position and timing delivers awesomeness. Link to NASA's Astonomy Picture Of The Day site (and the video): here. From NASA: "Have you ever experienced a total eclipse of the Sun? The above time-lapse movie depicts such an eclipse in dramatic detail as visible from Australia last month. As the video begins, a slight dimming of the Sun and the surrounding Earth is barely perceptible. Suddenly, as the Moon moves to cover nearly the entire Sun, darkness sweeps in from the left -- the fully blocked part of the Sun. At totality, only the bright solar coronaextends past the edges of the Moon, and darkness surrounds you. Distant horizons are still bright, though, as they are not in the darkest part of the shadow. At mid-totality the darkness dips to the horizon below the eclipsed Sun, created by the shadow cone -- a corridor of shadow that traces back to the Moon. As the total solar eclipse ends -- usually after a few minutes -- the process reverses and Moon's shadow moves off to the other side.Solar eclipses can frequently be experienced at gatherings organized along the narrow eclipse path as well as specialized cruises and plane flights." |
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