I am very much the child of museums. Growing up in NYC I could often be found at the  Museum of Natural…

I am very much the child of museums. Growing up in NYC I could often be found at the  Museum of Natural History rather than…oh…class. . This video series is done up by a person who is working at such  a place. Emily shows us the behind the exhibit case workings of her place of work. This particular run of shows is how she preps a wolf for  future display. Not only do you get a close up anatomy lesson you get to see the work that goes into some of what you might simply pass by with a quick glance. For me it is these types of  vids that shows us the better parts of what a service like youtube can be.  As I am begging to notice about many of the vid series I am subscribing to  the Green brothers have s a part in this offering. #DFTBA

Wherein we collect a wolf that had been hit by a car. Merchandise – Teeshirts! TATTOOS! and Posters!

18 hours, $33K, and 156,314 cores: Amazon cloud HPC hits a “petaflop”

Shep made visual. Seltzer Bottle.  Thanks to Frank for finding this hard to  get at video. 

Shep made visual. Seltzer Bottle.  Thanks to Frank for finding this hard to  get at video. 

Shep tells several humorous stories about his teen years in an Indiana steel town. Jean Shepherd was

This story read like a demented Douglas Hofstadter explanation of a maths problem.

This story read like a demented Douglas Hofstadter explanation of a maths problem. 

After a three-year investigation, the Metropolitan Police have concluded that their initial suspicions of foul play were unfounded in the case of Gareth Williams, a 31-year-old intelligence agent whose naked body was found in his bathtub inside a padlocked bag….

Being a parent is very cool…very very cool. Cooler even still is finding things like this that will…

Being a parent is very cool…very very cool. Cooler even still is finding things like this that will not only teach the little buggers more about maths and games…but also score me a whole mess of chores to be done chits before they catch on. Evil Dad? When you are raising Evil Geniuses For A Better Tomorrow  its is a requirement. 

In this set of dice, green tends to beat red, red tends to beat yellow, yellow tends to beat blue, and blue tends to beat purple. So you might think green is the best dice and purple is the worst. But here’s the twist: purple beats green! There’s no best dice. Use them to win money or drinks or respect or whatever.  They’re called Grime Dice because they were discovered by our very own Dr James Grime of Cambridge University. There’s a lot more to…