Category Archives: VIDEO

Цекало и Puttin` отожгли на Воробьевых горах [VIDEO] Dancing In Moscow

This video, uploaded to YouTube on February 26, 2012, is of a Russian ‘flash mob’ putting together a massive dance number on a Moscow street.

The song is Irving Berlin’s “Puttin’ On The Ritz”, written in 1929 and intended to satirize the less well-off dressing-up ‘to the nines’.

So … You’ve got a Russian Flash mob dancing to a song written by a Russian-American Jewish Composer, originally observing the working class trying to emulate the rich.

As with so many things, the media (Russian media, in this case) are debating whether the performance had a deeper sociopolitical meaning: “Puttin'”? Putin? Good Putin policy? Bad Putin policy?

Or is a dance sometimes just a dance?

Watch it here.

PS: If someone could give me a good English translation of the original Russian title, I’d be much obliged.

Wind Turbines: “It’s always something” [VIDEO]

UPDATE, 4/30/2012: Along the lines described in this piece: NASA Satellite Measurements Imply Texas Wind Farm Impact On Surface Temperature

UPDATE: 4/9/2012: On Wednesday, April 11th, I’ll be doing a show on Energy Independence on KPFT-FM 90.1 (Houston). You can read about the show and how to hear it here.

Since wind energy will be a topic of discussion, it seemed like a good time to re-post this piece, originally written by me in April of 2010.

– Mike

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It seems that wind turbines change how heat dissipates in the areas downwind of them, because they slow the wind as it spins their propellers. Once one begins to think about it, this domino effect makes perfect sense.
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NASA reveals how fiery magma disfigured the moon [Cool VIDEO!]

NASA’s CGI-animated history of the Moon. It’s had a tough life.

Read more via Wired Science.

Dog-Tested, Dog-Approved: Subaru Commercials [VIDEOS]

If you love doggies, you’ll love these Subaru commercials. :)

Camping

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Viola Variations On A Nokia Ring Tone (VIDEO)

Found at CBS.com:

(CBS) – Just last week it was reported that a cellphone call led to the conductor of the New York Philharmonic halting a performance. So let’s see how this violinist responds when the same thing happens to him in the above video.

Clever, right? The violinist has a truly great sense of humor and a whole lot of class!

The video was actually posted back in July, but is just now getting some buzz online and allegedly took place during a classical performance at a synagogue in Presov, Slovakia.

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Originally uploaded to YouTube by  (Jakub Haškoon) Jul 30, 2011

Commercial Access To Space: Soon Coming To An Orbit Near You?

[Excerpts] …Paul Allen has … a pioneering vision for commercial space travel. Allen, on Tuesday, unveiled designs for an efficient air-launch system that resembled a giant airplane split into two fuselages. The craft will take both government and commercial payloads into orbit, with human missions as an eventual goal.

…Allen funded the development of SpaceShipOne, the first manned private spaceflight.

The commercial space transport system will be built by Stratolaunch Systems, Allen’s new company. Burt Rutan, an aerospace engineer integral to the development of SpaceShipOne, will be helping Allen develop his new project. The billionaire believes that the carrier plane lifting rocket ships to higher altitude will be both safer and more cost-effective than launching a rocket from the ground.

Article: http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/paul-allen-unveils-new-business-for-commercial-space-travel/

OCCUPY HOUSTON, October 7th, 2011

#OccupyWallSt has grown, and it’s coming to a city or town near you.

If you live in or near Houston, Texas, the organizational web site is: http://occupyhouston.org/.

Click on the link to get latest info, but be sure to scroll down.

Following is a recent excerpt. There is more on the actual site.
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Doctor Who History 1963-2010 from Joe Siegler on Vimeo.

via Roger Ebert’s Journal

A (relatively) quick snapshot of “Dr. Who” — all of them — from 1963 onward.

If you have been watching BBCAmerica, it’s changed a bit over the years. Like many Americans, Tom Baker’s “Dr. Who” hooked me when it aired on PBS about 30 years ago.

Doctor Who History 1963-2010 from Joe Siegler on Vimeo.