My blog and occasional comment on current affairs.
This is a great video featuring the always watchable Neil deGrasse Tyson about what science is and why it is important. It is also slightly depressing. Essentially, if you are against science, you probably don’t understand what science is. From a purely personal point of view, I would also like to add that you are an…
NASA has opened an archive site that hosts 140,000 files of space-related awesomeness. It should keep you in screensaver images for a long time – possibly forever as they said they will continue to add to it.
I think this is one of the greatest things I have seen on the internet. People are photoshopping Mr Bean’s superb face into everything from movies to politicians to classical works of art. It has caused me to grin like a loon for about an hour now, so I thought I would share. This is…
A highly talented and possibly slightly bored fellow called Jan Fröjdman has taken lots of detailed photos from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and put them together to create an amazing flyover of the red/brown planet. For the past 12 years, the Orbiter has taken over 50,000 images using its HiRISE camera, which are available to anyone online….
In case you didn’t know, to catfish is when someone pretends to be someone else online and then strings some poor sod along. Sometimes it’s for money, other times because… I don’t know, people are weird.
Essentially this clip just mocks really dumb people but with the classically trained Shakespearean actor Patrick Stewart delivering the words. Which is great, right?
NASA has stitched together 100 photos from the New Horizons flyby in 2015 to give an idea of what it would be like to land on Pluto. In colour!
I’m sure you have read articles about increasing numbers of people retreating into their personal space, interacting solely through the internet and no longer being interested in having sex. Or at least relationships. Then there are the articles that say this is bollocks.
An artist called Nikolai Lockertsen creates amazing art on an iPad Pro using an iPad pencil. His other art is superb but I saw this video of him drawing a piece called ‘Scooter Trouble’ and was inspired.
Happy CNY my awesome readers! May you be healthy, wealthy, and wise. Or more than you are already at least.
There have been loads of weird theories about Pixar movies. (Well loads of movies actually, people are bored.) One is that all their movies exist in the same universe and are linked somehow.
Happy New Year fantastic Word of Ward readers!
Whatever your culture or religion (and feel free to keep that to yourself), it is likely that you will be celebrating something today. So from all of us here at the shining Word of Ward publishing towers, Happy Winter Festival and/or Christmas and/or Sunday!
You know how exciting it is to watch professional-level rock, paper, scissors in an arena? Me either. But in Japan they do and they somehow make it seem really exciting.
Someone was clearly stoned and/or drunk and was listening to Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody and thought “Dude, that could totally be made into a short film.” So they did.
A guy dialect coach called Andrew Jack shows what the various accents are like around the UK.
This is incredible. The band ‘OK Go’ always does pretty cool videos but this one took so much planning and is so well done that I found it hard to believe at first. What they did was set up a load of events, timed everything with computers and digital triggers, then filmed ‘The One Moment’, real time, in 4.2 seconds. The music video is then that 4.2 seconds stretched out.
These are waves in Taiwan and they are massive. The lighthouse is apparently around 75 foot tall and is presumably empty or sheltering people in brown pants.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a great read and it doesn’t really matter if this is your first Poirot or Christie novel.
Benedict Cumberbatch was on Saturday Night Live the other day (probably on Saturday) because he seems to be contractually obliged to be absolutely everywhere at the moment. To be fair, that is quite subjective – we just saw Dr Strange (which I loved), that prompted my wife to re-watch Sherlock, all while I have been…