streaming videos
grrlscientist | June 15, 2007tags: schoolhouse rock, media-opoly, streaming video
This schoolhouse-rock satire streaming video was only shown only once on TV. [2:25]
grrlscientist | June 14, 2007tags: Paris Hilton, humor, satire, streaming video
Okay, I hate to give in to the current state of media stupidity, but this video is just so funny that I had to share it with you. The last verse of this song is especially amusing. [2:47]
grrlscientist | June 14, 2007tags: environment, humor, streaming video
Martin Short revisits his classic character Nathan Thurm, the nervous, sweating, chain smoking big business lawyer. In this skit, Robert F. Kennedy grills him on global warming and how his clients, the big oil companies, are contributing to it. [2:18]
grrlscientist | June 13, 2007tags: environment, humor, streaming video
This wierdly humorous piece by an Australian comedy team, Clarke and Dawe, is something akin to a Monty Python sketch. It is funny despite the subject matter. [2:01]
grrlscientist | June 12, 2007tags: constitution, humor, streaming video
This biting political piece by Bill Maher has been around for a little while but it is but it is definitely worth watching. "I email myself a copy of the constitution every morning in the hopes that they [the Feds] will open it to see what it says." [6:11]
grrlscientist | June 11, 2007tags: teaching, streaming video
Everyone knows that "those who can, do, while those who can't, teach". Right? Wrong. This streaming video of Taylor Mali, slam poet and teacher, speaks his mind regarding what teachers make. While it speaks to the traditional foundations of the teaching role, it also speaks to the heart and soul of it. Congrats to all of the teachers who have just finished up for the year, are on the home-stretch, or are about to get started again for another program this summer (or another phase of their year-round program)! [3:08]
grrlscientist | June 10, 2007tags: urban sports, humor, streaming video
While writing tomorrow's issue of Birds in the News, I found this hilarious video that you might enjoy. Like most sports, urban sprinting is simple. First, you find a shop with a security guard, then you take an alarmed tag off merchandise and walk out the door with it, setting off the alarm. Of course, you haven't stolen anything (except the tag), but they'll still chase you anyway. When you get to the nearest hamburger shop, the clock stops. And that's how you play urban sprinting!
grrlscientist | June 9, 2007tags: Rags to Riches, Belmont Stakes, Triple Crown, Horse racing
Rags to Riches working out.
Rags to Riches will be only the 22nd filly to ever attempt to win the Belmont Stakes, and the fifth since 1980.
Image: NYTimes
Often, when the first two races of the Triple Crown of Horse Racing have been split between different winners, the Belmont Stakes serves as a Derby/Preakness winner rematch. However, that will not be the case today, because the Derby winner, Street Sense, was not entered in the race. But there is an entrant who is just as interesting: a filly will run in this demanding mile…
grrlscientist | June 9, 2007tags: Secretariat, Belmont Stakes, Triple Crown, Horse racing
Since the Belmont Stakes will be run soon today, I thought I'd show you a streaming video of the great Secretariat winning the mile-and-a-half Belmont Stakes in 1973, and smashing the old record. This particular race is probably one of the most famous ever seen.
grrlscientist | June 8, 2007tags: hot ice, chemistry experiment, kitchen science, streaming video
This streaming video shows a fun chemistry experiment that you can do in your kitchen! Basically, you create a liquid that radiates heat and turns solid when something touches it. [2:25]
grrlscientist | June 8, 2007tags: creation museum, humor, streaming video
This streaming video shows Jackie and Dunlap talking about Kentucky's new creation museum, the new Billy Graham library, and Murfreesboro's own bible park. Plus, it includes a sneak peek at the new Ben Stiller comedy "Night at the Creation Museum". [2:36]
grrlscientist | June 7, 2007tags: Big Talk, humor, streaming video
This streaming video is actually a fake ad, showing a humorous situation where a father goes to his son for advice .. because the father is used to "doing things the old fashioned way" [1:10].
grrlscientist | June 6, 2007tags: satire, humor, politics, streaming video
This humorous streaming video written and directed by Andy Cobb examines the value of subpoenas, immunity, and aggressive congressional police work. [1:37]
grrlscientist | June 6, 2007tags: Komodo Dragons, Indonesia, streaming video
This streaming video shows the "small miracles" that are hatching out at the Denver Zoo: the rare and difficult-to-breed Komodo Dragons. Komodo dragons are large lizards native to several small islands in Indonesia [2:25].
grrlscientist | June 5, 2007tags: Dick Cheney, Roy Zimmerman, politics, streaming video
This streaming video is a song by Roy Zimmerman, who is a musician and political humorist. In this video, he chose to sing about Dick Cheney, who is supposedly the sexiest man alive [3:00].
grrlscientist | June 4, 2007tags: shrimp, pistol shrimp, ocean, streaming video
This streaming video shows how a pistol shrimp hunts; by laying in wait for its prey to wander nearby, then using its claw to blow a stunning blast of water at a speed of 100km/h with temperature 5000C [1:33].
grrlscientist | June 2, 2007tags: evangelical christians, religion, brainwashing children, streaming video
Do you want to see something truly frightening? This streaming video is a trailer from a documentary that shows how evangelical christians are brainwashing children into becoming an army for jesus. This is simply outrageous, not only because of the blatant brainwashing, but also because it is just what muslim extremists are doing with their kids. When will the world wake up and realize that religion is the cause of most of the world's problems? When will we wake up and realize that religion is nothing more than…
grrlscientist | June 1, 2007tags: learning, rat brain, airplane, streaming video
This research shows how brains learn at the cellular level. By placing neurons from a rat into a cell culture that is contected to a flight simulator, the neurons learn how to fly an airplane. And they learn it by trial and error. [3:25].
grrlscientist | May 31, 2007tags: Homer Simpson, humor, politics, Tonight Show, streaming video
As everyone in the entire world knows, America is getting ready to elect a president for the first time in nearly 8 years. Of course, this means that we all are quite excited to have our votes counted this time -- really counted, yaknowwhatImean? -- and we are having fun debating the relative merits of the many candidates we have to choose from. It turns out that most of the candidates are also putting in their two-cents' worth on the topic as well, including Homer Simpson [2:20]
Which reason was your most favorite in the…
grrlscientist | May 31, 2007tags: cat, battle, Africa, streaming video
It's a little long, and it has been all over the internet by now, but this video shows a fascinating battle between a pride of lions, a herd of buffalo, and 2 crocodiles at a watering hole in South Africa's Kruger National Park while on safari [8:23].