The cannot inhale in sync or the van would burst.

Yay capitalism.

Now show me the ten poorest people.

I love how it actually printed the track. Gives me an idea for an inverse system, where you draw random scribbles on a sheet of paper, put it under a scanner and have it converted to sound.

I find it very hard to believe he didn't have some backup plan in case he fell. Maybe he had his midget brother hiding under a bench, or a remote kill switch for the engine.

Otherwise, crazy.

a hairdryer in a bowl of water...how does than not short out? (Maybe they used purified water?)

This guy is hilarious. Very hard to pull off a dutch accent but he gets it right.

Too bad the left and right sound channels come from completely different sources. This would be better remixed with just the left channel for both (who needs stereo anyway?)

hair doesn't grow where brilliance lives.

These guys are obviously accomplished musicians with spirit.

Is that a bomb-proof shelter?

It's just power to weight. Can't beat a 200 kg (or thereabouts) bike.

The Veyron has over a 1000 bhp, but it weighs 9 times as much as the bike.

This may be an unpopular opinion but I take exception to almost everything said in this video. Sure, there are plenty of problems in this world (largely due to the pressure of population growth) but the way to address the is never mentioned in the video. To lay blame on the corporate leadership sidesteps the fact that they are people too, born into the same system. There are plenty of grassroots movements that aim to change society through law reform, but they need your support to carry enough weight to do it. Mainstream media never gives them any attention, not because of some evil conspiracy but precisely because they have no impact until they grow bigger.

Human society has indeed become very complex, but without these advanced structures it would not have grown so large. There is far less conflict than a century ago, fewer deaths due to diseases; we have a longer live span and far more opportunities than our ancestors. Our access to general knowledge has taken leaps and bounds in the last decades, which will undoubtedly bear fruit in the next generations. The screens we watch put us in touch with others in real-time, even if we sacrifice some of the here-and-now.

Being critical of our 'mindless drone' attitude needs some historic reflection. The Roman empire received similar critique (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses). Even if it's true, we cannot expect change to come simply from the realization that change is needed. What this inspirational video lacks is the direction we should take instead of what we are doing now.

Don't try this at home. Oh wait, he did. No helmet, no neck brace, no five point harness, no roll cage, no common sense. Just a lot of horse power and hopefully some muscle relaxant a.k.a. booze.

Good material for instructional videos.

Duke Ellington! This music is awesome!

I never realised how special this would be to foreigners. Basically all kids go to school by bike, unless you live closer than a 5 minute walk or further than about 50 minutes by bike (which amounts to about 15km). Because The Netherlands has excellent bike roads (separate from the cars and pedestrians) and it's mostly flat as a pancake (no climbing required!) it just makes sense. Bikes are cheap and take little parking space. Picture the size of the parking lot if all these kids had arrived by car (not to mention the traffic jam).

Must...hold...that...note

So he's leaking one liter of coolant every 500km.

The engine sounds rather like...an engine. You know, the internal combustion type. Unless he's turning water into hydrogen and oxygen (requires power!) there's something else besides water used as a propellant.

Since the video explains nothing I must remain skeptical.

Please PLEASE change the title. There is absolutely no reason to pit the honey bee against evolution. This is extremely misleading and it's definitely not the message of the video.

People are very happy he didn't break his neck.

Sauron couldn't have done it better.

#6 it's not Ryan Air that's fer sure!

Leonard Nimoy wrote two books: "I am not Spock", and, later, "I am Spock". He admitted the role defined him as a person more than he expected.

Most dangerous to drive, maybe. But I bet these roads don't account for even a fraction of the yearly numbers of deaths in traffic.

The last one really gave me the willies; driving on the edge of certain death (although you have some time to rethink your life on the way down...).

I think these videos are amazing and I'm happy to be able to see them here as I never caught them when they aired (on the BBC? Elsewhere?).

Aristoteles: purely hypothetically, load up with maximum cargo and mimimal fuel for takeoff, then fuel up in the air (needs mods ;-) and land with fuel tanks still full. Not very safe but at least the undercarriage can handle it.

This almost looks like the most fun job in the world. Parking ships in the scrapyard.
After that, the cutting and recycling is actually a pretty dirty job...

Kid's got a groove.

If you know you are going to fall, you are going to fall.

This is what art should always be. Engaging, outrageous and meaningful. There used to be theater shows that weren't satisfied until half the audience had left in disgust. Now it's all sponsored and assimilated in commerce and corporate. Go Banksy!

#2, #3, you're right. Although the human genome is being thoroughly mapped, and genes can be linked to traits such as (perhaps) a slightly bigger nose or higher forehead, we are far away from the technology that is boasted in the video. They do admit, in the end, that this is just a mock-up with faces from volunteers. Who, undoubtedly, had their faces modeled from a montage of video images.

I'm more concerned with the message they try to send. Is it that no matter who you are and what you do, Big Brother is watching you? Not so much about public shaming as it is about public scaring. The message may well be that if we don't watch our government, we may end up in a system where everybody's DNA is on file and they *can* trace minor offenses like these to your person. Even non-offenses, as cigarette butts can be obtained from ashtrays as well.

I welcome the day that smart phones simply refuse to record vertically. They do have tilt sensors, so they can just automatically crop the image to a 4x3 ratio. Everybody will automatically turn their phone then.

#4: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocturnal_penile_tumescence

Yuck, I can't begin to imagine how awfull this must taste. It's instant coffee to begin with, and instead of mixing it into hot water they actually had it sit in a large vat, warming up over the course of—what, an hour? They must be real addicts to appreciate the asphalt they're drinking.

I love it how the camera seems to lose focus during these antics.

What's really going on, I guess, is that the dog just misses its master. There is some time before she (?) decides to get a good ol' whiff of the master's smell by rolling around in it.

#1 you're missing the point. We already pay for use, because of the limit on my subscription. Some people (e.g. here in the Netherlands) are on 50 MB/s, others at 100 MB/s, and I am on 8 MB/s (which is fine for me). ISPs charge based on these limits.

Without net neutrality ISPs would be allowed to squeeze IP TV, telephony, video services etc. if they view this as competition of their own offerings. Basically allowing them to monopolize their hold of the data line. All for the purpose of MAKING MORE MONEY. Unless you are an ISP, this isn't good news.

Just to make one thing very clear: internet telephony is so low-bandwith, there is no technical reason whatsoever to squeeze it. Just a business/financial reason.

That press looks almost strong enough to break almonds.

Cool, but why a snowboard? Skis should be faster.

#1: helium is not going to work. It's pretty safe to breath and since it's lighter than air, it's just going to escape too quickly.

What you need is CO, CO_2, HCN or C_4H_8Cl_2S.

The last one is called a sympathetic vibration.

I bet that they could come up with a way to compensate the natural lighting, so the face becomes a perfectly blank canvas to project anything upon (including faces from other genders, races, or species).

I'm looking forward to a 'transparent' illusion where you'd see a glass head with the background shining through.

Take this a few years into the future, this is integrated with your webcam and video games, so your avatar has your face, plus mods of your own choice. And talks in lip-sync plus all the facial expressions as you talk to your team members in a MMORPG. Would be hilarious if your mom called you down for dinner and this burly orc starts yelling: "Mom, not now! We're about to raid this castle!"

@ #6: except the flat earth theory is easy to debunk, unlike the age of the universe.

To me it does not look plausible at all, in fact it baffles me every time. But this presentation does a really good job of explaining what scientists have discovered in terms I can understand.

If you only believe what seems plausible you're going to have a really hard time understanding most of physics, statistics, and women.

James Bond used this in Thunderball.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dekJ2Ip7koo

Pouring cream from one meter high is not a good idea, thanks for the lesson.

This makes my brain melt. Please will somebody explain what's going on?

didn't realize this was sped up until the end.

The penal system in the USA is a grave, grave blight on the principles of freedom, equality and fairness. Not only is the number of people put in prisons way too high, it's also more often than not the wrong people (r.i.p. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubin_Carter). The number of black and hispanic people in jail is disproportionately high compared to the overall population. Don't read this as though most crimes are committed by non-whites, but rather as a sign that racism runs rampant through society.

And the worst criminals go scot-free because their crimes are never brought to court: leaders of big corporations who pocket huge bonuses because they saved their companies tons of money with ruthless disregard of responsibility to the people or the environment (tons of examples, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Canal); government officials who purposely look the other way are just as bad. One can only guess how many lives this destroyed.

I am not saying it's ok to turn to crime, but if people weren't so damn poor there would be a lot less of it.

#5 yeah, electrocution means 'death by electricity'. The description was more shocking than the content.

Rugby ain't no sport for hotheads. This rarely happens. Good to see the other players quickly intervened.

Invulnerable superheroes make me bored.

Better read up on this guy.

http://www.skepticalscience.com/david-evans-understanding-goes-cold.html

Half truths are worse than clear lies.

Newton would have a word to say about this.

This video wins the award for most misplaced outrage. By the sound of it he had a pretty decent curriculum, which is more than can be said for the average school kid even in the more well-off countries. Educational reform is necessary especially in the USA but mostly because the amount of dollars flowing into the public school system has been systematically dropping, and the overall quality is under serious pressure.

The most important lessons of life are not learned in school; family (especially parents) has a role to play in preparing you for life. School is there to prepare you for your future study and/or job; a typical job interview seldom includes the question whether you are capable of filling in a tax return sheet.

I can't recite the full text of basic human rights but I know why they were established, and I'm sure the right to go to school is one of them. ;-)

Knight rider would've made it.

with 20-20 hindsight we can be pretty sure this didn't sell very well. At least, I've never heard of an account were such a boobytrapped bag was a success.

And just imagine standing in a full bus with this and accidentally triggering the safety mechanism.

Happened to me once, on approach to Munich airport. Quite scary as suddenly the engines rev up again! But the pilots keep their cool. There was just a raincloud exactly over the runway on first approach, the second time around it went smoothly.

#8: reloading is actually pretty fast. This is a Beriev-200 by the looks of it, it can land on water and refill in a matter of seconds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4EgOj0WKRA

#6 I agree :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRoWklGX_L4

This is pure UNIX Geek material. I've rarely used troff or pic; mainly to render UNIX manual pages. I've been bred on the next-generation typesetter called TeX by Don Knuth.
But these guys really were the original hackers!

0:39 where did his right hand go? Oops. And "Hahn academy"? That's a dead givaway isn't it?

But more importantly, would you really want this? The beer stays in one place while you move back and forth. So it doesn't even follow you when you move off the dance floor :-(.

What would House say?

#6 The change will have to come from within the country itself. The situation is not so different from Europe mid 19th century, when factory laborers suffered under the same conditions. Unionization and, ultimately, law reform, meant better conditions for the populace. This did not go without a fight.

As westerners we should keep an eye out for BIG MONEY companies trying to influence low-wage countries (by basically threatening to take their business and capital elsewhere) into postponing law reform and cracking down on labor unions. It's ok to buy affordable clothing as long as you can see that the money went to companies that care at least as much about their workers as about their profit margins. We should all demand such transparency.

I wonder if it's from the same guys who built a pulsejet bike. Makes an awful noise. I sort of expected the seat to catch fire, as the red-hot pipe is right next to it.

Another example of a stupid set of regulations that force manufacturers to implement stupid mechanisms in their tools.

It's just as stupid as if they were trying to implement a ban on 3D printed hand guns in the US. Sure, you could try to make 3D printers that recognise when somebody tries to print (parts of) a gun, but nobody is really interested in doing that when there are so many better options available.

There's some pretty good counterfeit currency around these days, especially 50 euro notes, and they don't come out of a Xerox machine. Not even my dear old mother would be fooled by laser printed money.

#7: Ok, I had to look up the maker's website (http://traubeck.com/years/) to see how the music was made. So the turntable looks at the treerings (with a camera) and this data serves as input to an algorithm that produces piano music. It's an interesting idea. #4: the harmonics come from the algorithm that made the music, not from the treerings themselves. I doubt that I could distinguish treerings from, say, pond ripples or any other repetative input.

CGP Grey is the best!

A. I need this for when my neighbors fire up their bbqs. Sweet revenge for all the stink they produce.

B. Awesome design, I especially like the frantic valve rods. Never realised that such engines can't use a camshaft.

C. The propellor (?) is just for the cooling, I suppose. Fit a bigger one and this will take off! Next step, fit in on a biplane!

Does it have an OFF switch?

Nice going, getting everybody all worked up about the future like that. But there's a couple of things that need mentioning.

First of all, while all of these technologies are already here, there is a gulf between the proof of principle and deployment on scale. For instance, Grid Computing started around the early 2000s and only now is picking up pace (renamed Cloud Computing).

Secondly, the transitions are going to be far smoother than shown here. The truck that collects the garbage in our street used to have three guys 5 years ago. Now it's one guy and a 'robot arm' to pick up the bins. The self-driving fully automated version is at least 10 years away.

Thirdly, there's the economy. The price of energy will pick up and become a more significant element in the overall picture. Running a data centre for just a couple of these mechanical brains costs in the order of 400 kW. Also, we're not building robots to amuse, feed or breed robots. At the end of the chain there is always the human consumer that sets the price. If he can't afford it because he's out of a job, the market crumbles.

Lastly, I'm not going to buy mechanical music. I doubt that any machine will match up to Pink Floyd any time soon. ;-)

There are good points made in this video, and some good examples, but I refuse to lie down and be called the 'new horse', dammit! When was the last time horses had the right to vote, hm?

Still better than the viola organista.

"No hazardous waste materials." I call bullshit on that. Burn fat you're going to end up with all kinds of carbon cyclic compounds. Doesn't matter if it's biodiesel or just plain petroleum. Clean diesel engines have microfilters on the back end.

Gives me an inkling of how the pyramids were built.

Odd; the first idea that I came up with was reaching into the box to force the door with my hands, so I could try to escape.

It's really beautiful, it makes me nostalgic for the days when we still spent so much time on manual labour, with such attention to detail. I can really appreciate the elaborate masonry of 19th and early 20th century facades here in the Netherlands, but today everything is prefab, concrete, and rigid straight-away modern architecture.

#4: yes, the sound is weird. Maybe this is from poor converting from surround to stereo.

#5, it's not just about Walmart. It's just a nice, big, common company people are familiar with so it serves as an example. The takeaway message is that the American people can probably afford to set (or raise) minimum wages. It's just going to raise prices on the order of 1%–2% for most consumer products. Walmart would simply act as a tax collector in order to help the poor, they're not going to lose money over it.

#1, for a true example of corporate greed that ruins lives, search 'GM' and 'faulty ignition switch.'

The most interesting about this discussion so far is the average length of the comments, and none about the subject at hand. Interesting little tactic for a quiet meal (away from predators?). Not easy to judge the scale but since this bubble is held intact by surface tension probably very small. Nothing here to inspire an evolution vs. design discussion; Richard Dawkins would have a field day. Now explain the bombardier beetle! And look up logical fallacies while you're at it so you won't mistake absence of an explanation for proof of the opposite.

This is boring until they scale down to about 100 nanometers. Starting them off is done with a laser pointer, and setting them up could probably be done with the smart application of static electricity.

#8: not sure how big a wave this would make, but I share the impression that they would risk little more than spilling some coffee...Some adrenaline junkies actually search out places like this to do some glacier surfing.

The carbon tubing is also made by hand, probably in China. But Colnago specs are very specific.

Sounds like these are great for taking along on a picknick.

We're gonna need a bigger mop!

nice to see the condensation starting on the left wingtip first, and the right wingtip halfway into the spin. There's quite some pressure on the wings, hence the 'buffeting' reported by the copilot.

This model really looks like a motorized glider, with a really lightweight and sleek design. The spin was not extremely vertical; I guess they wouldn't risk the wings from ripping off.

"airspeed 80..." seems very low given the fact they were losing altitude fast.

I need these to trim the verge.

Not staged, but less dangerous than it looks. This is tourism for rich people.

#5: not that argument again... the idea that armed citizens form any deterrent against crime is so hare-brained I'm just gob-smacked. I can't imagine any single scenario where a felony was foiled and people all around would go: 'wew, I'm sure glad that good man/woman/kid had a GUN or it would have all gone terribly wrong!'

#5 agreed, what crazy country allows new drivers to take lessons in power cars like that? Sounds like a recipe for disaster.

The table looks really flat but it's multiple layers and actually thick enough to get a grown man inside of. So he's lying crouched down, knees to the chin.

This looks like another attempt by a company to create something 'viral'. I believe the correct term is astroturfing.

The paypal account held by Butterflycanyon Productions, Inc., which is the production company of 2009 film 'That which is whitin'. Their youtube channel invites you to make remixes.

MTN (Milk Through Nose)! But the MILKED the joke for too long.

pretty fake. This sounds like a normal piano to me, sampled down.

I'm always distracted when I'm confronted with silly writing errors. And I'm a bit angered that the author put the burden of communication on me, the receiver, instead op putting in a bit more effort themselves to avoid these mental speed bumps. After all, written communication is 1-to-many, so the total effort of communication is the sum of one author and the entire readership. I think every drop of sweat on the part of the author is manifold redeemed when so many people enjoy the read.

I feel the same way about typography. While I agree entirely with Mr. Fry, I think the visuals that went with his speech contribute nothing; they merely distract. It's all effect and no substance.


"I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time." -- Blaise Pascal

Isn't this the type of engine in a typical American car?

I think this instrument is a nice experiment, but to me it sounds too much like a harpsichord. Good for baroque music, but it lacks expression and dynamics.

Has this guy never heard of clock_gettime()? It's a POSIX standard. For all but historic times it saves a ton of hassle. Code reuse to the rescue!

This is absolutely the worst rendition of the Final Countdown I've ever heard. I love that song so much, I cannot stand to listen to this.

Sorry for the negativity, but some songs are not meant for marching bands.

What people seem to forget is what the effect will be of having what is essentially a piece of the sun right here on earth. I'm not worried about ITER, which is only a prototype with a rather low output of 500 MW, but I am worried about scaling it up to 'solve the energy crisis'. All the energy we 'consume' is not consumed, as the law of conservation of energy tells us, but converted into heat. That heat ends up in the atmosphere. In the long run this might be worse than the greenhouse effect that is currently messing up our climate.

On the other hand, maybe it will prevent the next ice age. ;-)

Now do a barrel roll!

#4. No, there are also electric chainsaws (although not as powerful). OK, this thing came from 1967. The entire two stroke concept has been plaguing us for years because there's no economic incentive to improve on it. Even today they sell these infernal, noisy, polluting machines on all kinds of devices, from bikes to leaf blowers to lawn mowers. Can't stand them. Sorry.