About a year ago, Microsoft came out with this software that take a capella vocal tracks and matches them up with “appropriate” and “fitting” instrumental back-up stock music that it automatically generates. The problem is, Songsmith usually gets the songs hilariously wrong, and just loves to bend genres. It’s like a new form of absurdist art.
I’m sure you’ll enjoy this conga version of Queen’s hard rocking hit, “We Will Rock You.”
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Researchers pour a concrete mold of an ant colony then dig it up- holy hell is this cool.
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I want this pool table to display the pool game currently in play. That way, I’d be playing a game of pool on top of people playing a game of pool.
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Mike Barzman shot this fantastic 4000 FPS slow motion video and set it to the tune of the philosophy of Stephen Hawking. Wonderful stuff.
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Bacon and rocketry, in perfect harmony.
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I recommend watching the whole video, but if you can’t wait for that sweet, sweet marble action, skip to 7:55.
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Valuable + Science = Valuablence
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Some people think this is a cute example of an animal raising its young, others think it is creepy as shit. I fall into the latter category.
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Mars rovers “Spirit” and “Opportunity” were successful beyond NASA’s wildest dreams. Now they’re building a new, nuclear-powered Mini Cooper-sized rover to be lowered onto Mars by a hovering drop ship in 2013. Meet “Curiosity,” the new Mars Science Laboratory. Really interesting video showing how the new rover will work.
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This morning I was reading about the unique evolutionary advantages that humans possess over other animals. While we are not the fastest animals by a longshot, humans are actually the best suited distance runners on the planet. Running on two feet is much more efficient than four. And running on two feet allows us to “slow breathe” — four legged animals must take a breath with every step when running because their diaphragms are connected directly to their spines. The fact that we have sweat glands and skin is also essential, because we are able to keep out bodies cool much more efficiently than animals with fur. Humans are one of the only animals on earth that could handle running a 26 mile marathon.
Anyway, I stumbled upon this amazing David Attenborough video that perfectly demonstrates humans’ evolutionary advantages:
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As a former Cherokee owner, I can attest that this happens all the time.
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When I was in China, there was a guy in the park who did this from a little cart for a few bucks. My friend had it done, and said that he could suddenly “hear the entire world.” I stumbled across this video today and found it damn fascinating.
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First the robots solve our sudokus and then they enslave us. Mark my words.
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Apple’s latest gadget has been the butt of a lot of humor the last few days…most of it is not funny at all, but I felt compelled to post this for some reason. Probably to be topical. Anyway, watch the College Humor video below (fourth one down) — that really nails why the other three videos are not funny. Also, these stupid Hitler videos have totally jumped the shark. I suspect this is the last one I will ever post.
Pee-wee Gets An iPad!
Hitler Responds to iPad
HELLO!
The iPad is a Comedy Gold Mine - College Humor
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How much of your conscious decisions do you actually control? Or is your brain just chemically reacting to environmental stimuli, and all of your “thoughts” and “decisions” are just part of nature’s grand domino effect?
In this clip, Marcus Du Sautoy (Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford) participates in an experiment conducted by John-Dylan Haynes (Professor at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin) that attempts to find the neurological basis for decision making. The results are really quite shocking.
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