Category: Film

  • The flight of the bumblebee

    YouTube link And try not to admire the mimics of Malena Ernman, the singer.

  • The Internet Movie Database turns 20 tomorrow

    The Internet Movie Database turns 20 tomorrow

    This is a very old age for a web site, but they actually started before the web, in 1990, as a set of scripts on Usenet group rec.arts.movies. Today, IMDB is a major web database full of details about movies and the movie industry. Happy Birthday IMDB!

  • Why I don’t want to go on a cruise

    LiveLeak link This video comes from a CC-TV filming the interior of a cruise ship in heavy weather. A love boat, indeed!

  • Fruits and vegetables in hospital

    Fruits and vegetables in hospital

    Normally, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is interesting only the physicists for its uses in scientific research and the physicians for the fabulous pictures it gives of the insides of the human body. An MRI scanner will allow to display fine cuts of the body of the patient laid into the machine, but what is to…

  • Hiroshima was just a beginning

    2,053 nuclear explosions took place around the world during the 20th century, starting with the detonations at Alamogordo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 to the more recent tests in India and Pakistan in 1998. YouTube link

  • Test for Earthquakes

    Building a tall structure able to resist the worst earthquakes, asks for some flexibility in the architecture. For this, it may be useful to do some tests simulating the furious conditions of a real earthquake. YouTube link

  • Bicycle vertigo

    After a previous attempt at inducing vertigo into our readership (Camino del Rey and more generic vertigo), I try again to make you fall from your chair. Think about it, you could go on a bicycle tour and find this kind of trail. Would you ride to the end of it? YouTube link

  • Pixel Culture

    Pixels by patrick Jean – Invasion pixels : geek tetris pacman ! YouTube link

  • Inside a 4-stroke piston engine

    You certainly know the basic principles of the operation of a 4-stroke engine with its different phases: piston going down to suck gas and air in piston going up to compress the mixture piston going down pushed by the explosion piston going up to push burnt gas out of the cylinder Let’s admire the actual…