Science
Wu-Tang’s The ‘GZA’s Series “Liquid Science” Is Now On Netflix
July 25, 2018
The GZA has been all about the knowledge, and science, for the longest. We’ve posted on some of that here. Well, he has a series on that front on Netflix for you to check out – “Liquid Science” (Get it? If you are GZA/Wu-Tang Clan fan… yeah ya do)!
WATCH: LIQUID SCIENCE (NETFLIX)
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Comedy: John Oliver On ‘Gene Editing’ As A Cure-All Or The Thing That Kills Us All (Video)
July 6, 2018
Bwaahahaa! Only John could work 30-foot wolves and ‘crunchy rectums’ into a futurist topic discussion. Okay, John. Gene editing is that topic… GO!
Scientists are developing new ways to alter the genetic code of living organisms. John Oliver explores the risks, rewards, and wolf-related hazards of gene editing.
– Last Week Tonight
#AndBuffBeagles #ScienceBxtches
– @ojones1
Could Ant-Man Be The Most Powerful Avenger? (Video)
July 6, 2018
This one is more [theoretical] science than science fiction, and I will tell you in advance… I did not get it (even after the second watch) totally. But that last ‘outtake’ point that Kyle makes… I got that the first time! In fact, me and @RealSuperKing were talking about the ‘mass problem’ on “Ant-Man” in a different way while back: When he gets super-tiny, but retains his mass, wouldn’t he crack anyone’s arm he ran up?? SCIENCE!!
When you think of powerful Avengers, you probably think of Hulk or Thor, but should we be considering Ant-Man too? Kyle has the quantum realm science on this week’s “Because Science”!
This ep is awesome to watch. Now, do NOT let all this ruin your movie-watching experience. I won’t. In fact, I’m hoping to see an ‘easter egg’ in the “Ant-Man And The Wasp” movie that hints at Ant-Man giving Thanos the business… and saving the world #InfinityWars #HelpUsScottLang #MaybeOurOnlyHope
– @ojones1
Posted in Animation, Comics, Science, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi), Videos | Tags: Ant-Man, Avengers, Because Science, Kyle Hill, Marvel, Marvel Comics Universe, Nerdist, quantum physics, quantum realm, quantum realm science | No Comments »
Racist History Of American Medicine (Documentary Short)
July 5, 2018
You don’t have to tell me about racism in medicine and research. I. Am. From. Tuskegee, Alabama! Watch the video and you will learn why that matters, too.
People of color in the U.S. have endured centuries of abuse in the name of science. It’s time we stop celebrating this blatantly racist history.
– Racist History
– @ojones1
Posted in Activism, Film, Health and Wellness, History, Science, Videos | Tags: American Medicine, Racist History, Racist History of American Medicine | No Comments »
Science: What Did Tyrannosaurus Rex Actually Sound Like? (Video)
May 28, 2018
No… we did not discovery time travel, or some reeeeeaaally old recording device that survived the eras since the dinos fell. It’s science! See how scientists put together a plausible sh!t-your-pants sound bite (er… if there were, say, pants way back then) for what the big reptile chomper could have sounded like. Peep.
– @ojones1
Watch This Band Play… Under Water (Video)
April 29, 2018
Eff being under ground… watch and listen to this band play a concert underwater!!
– @ojones1
Posted in Craft, Human Interest, Science, Videos | Tags: aquatic band, concert underwater, In The Know, In The Know Creative, World's first underwater band | No Comments »
Science: Researchers Develop A Potentially Useful Plastic-Eating Enzyme (Video)
April 19, 2018
Okay, the breakthrough we hope for in the real world is years away. But considering the fact that much of the plastic waste we produce will otherwise not break down for millennia, scientists may as well get started. And they have… accidentally.
Professor John McGeehan of Portsmouth University, co-lead author on a paper detailing an accidental discovery that could help cure our plastic waste problem, speaks with News Stream.
– CNN
They discovered the enzyme by accident. Yeah, so?? Rubber was an accident, too.
– @ojones1
Posted in Environment, Interview, Science, Videos | Tags: CNN, John McGeehan, News Stream, Plastic-Eating Enzyme, Portsmouth University | No Comments »
The U.S. Wants To Have A Word With You: A Plasma Effects Weapon Is In Development Now (Video)
April 6, 2018
The government and military use drones already. Man do they use drones! Imagine giving them lasers, too. But not just ‘pewn pewn’ ray gun lasers; though surely those are in development, as well. However, this tech is a new kind of way to weaponize with lasers.
The U.S. military’s Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program, or JNLWD, is inching closer to a weapon that alters atoms to literally create words from thin air. It’s called the Laser-Induced Plasma Effect and, fingers crossed, they hope to be able to say intelligible words within the next three years.
– Patrick Tucker
Creating words from thin air! Think about it: Within three years, we are thinking that they will be able to aim a beam or something into a room and create a voice that sounds like someone is in that room. An enemy combatant is sound asleep, and they put a ghost voice in the room – no body, no drone, just a voice – to tell them something startling like, “There is nowhere to run. We’ve got you in our sights. See the red dot on you? Do… NOT… move!”
Scary, right? Especially if ‘they’ decide that YOU are the enemy.
Science: This Is Your Brain On Alcohol (Video)
March 19, 2018
Hahaaaa! She is skrrruuuggling near the end. Too many drinks and big words for her family. Just DRANK!!
(Shannon cute for reals though. I’d buy her a drink or two.)
A drunk neuroscientist explains what alcohol really does to your brain. Things get a little blurry…
– Your Brain On Blank
– @ojones1
Posted in Health and Wellness, Science, Videos | Tags: A Drunk Neuroscientist Explains What Alcohol Does To Your Brain, Neuroscience, Neuroscience PhD candidate, Neuroscientist, Science Alert, ScienceAlert, Shannon Odell, Weill Cornell Medical Collage, Weill Cornell Medical College, Your Brain On Alcohol, Your Brain On Blank | No Comments »
RIP Stephen Hawking (Video)
March 15, 2018
Theoretical physicist, cosmologist, Stephen Hawking has passed away. He was 76 years old. Widely recognized as one of the brightest minds of all time, Professor Hawking lived most his life with a rare form of motor neurone disease (diagnosed at the age of 22, given only a few years to live at the time) that limited his body to a wheelchair and his speech to a voice synthesizer. But his offerings to the world would still not be bound – including his theory on black holes emitting [eventually namesaked] “Hawking radiation” and his multimillion-copy selling book, “A Brief History Of Time.”
In the late 1990s, he was reportedly offered a knighthood…
MORE: STEPHEN HAWKING (BBC)
– @ojones1
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The Psychology Of Sports Super Fans (Video)
February 13, 2018
Is there a way to scientifically examine fanatic fandom, or rather, study of what it is to be a ‘superfan’? Check out the video above that brings theories on millennia-old survival instincts, groupthink & social psychology and more science to bear to clinically explain the mystique and makeup of the superfan.
Posted in Science, Sports, Videos | Tags: New Yorker, NewYorker, Super Fan, SuperFan, The New Yorker | No Comments »
Cover Story: How Falcon Heavy Will Change Space Travel (Video)
February 12, 2018
Did you catch SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the other day? Wonder what all the fuss was about? And maybe why it carried a red Tesla roadster into orbit? Well, watch and learn, friends. Watch and learn.
Posted in Cover Story, Science, Technology, Videos | Tags: Bill Nye, Cape Canaveral, Elon Musk, Falcon Heavy, Loren Grush, Planetary Society, Space X, SpaceX, Tesla roadster, The Verge | No Comments »
Science: Checking Out The Scene, On Mars, With Footage From The Curiosity Rover (Video)
February 1, 2018
‘White-balanced’ eh? Okay, so the video was touched up a bit. Still, imagine: There is an Earth vehicle roaming Mars… now… looking around… for topography and perhaps proof of life.
Curiosity Project Scientist Ashwin Vasavada gives a descriptive tour of the Mars rover’s view in Gale Crater. The white-balanced scene looks back over the journey so far. The view from “Vera Rubin Ridge” looks back over buttes, dunes and other features along the route.
– NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Watch The Trailer For “Guion” And Learn About The First Black Man To Go Into Outer Space (Trailer)
January 31, 2018
So people are really not knowing about Guy Bluford for real? Well, that ends now with this project. Get ready for the full-length doc about the first Black man in outer space.
Posted in Animation, Film, History, Science, Trailer, Videos | Tags: First Black Man In Outer Space, Guion, Guion Bluford, Guy Bluford, NASA | No Comments »
Wait! Before You Take That Power Nap… (Video)
January 19, 2018
My brother (BoneBreaker Jones) and I speak on this from time to time. We’re both night owls trying to do us AND do our best to meet the daytime demands of ‘their’ world. Going hard, getting older wiser; we know we need rest and respect nap time. We can’t be #TeamNoSleep because that is just not healthy or even productive. But maybe we go about it wrong somehow. In the above clip, we (like me & you, bro can watch later after doing ‘their’ work) learn about the ‘power’ of naps… good and bad.
Let’s build that sleep pressure up while on the grind, then get only the good sleep.
#TeamGetGoodSleep
– @ojones1
Why Have We Not Gone Back To The Moon? Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson Answers (Video)
January 18, 2018
Still won’t put down conspiracy theorists, but Neil deGrasse Tyson offers a really reasonable response to rumors of lunar landing fakery, to beliefs of America’s leadership in the field of space exploration, to general inquiry about the motivations for going into space in the first place (the moon, Mars and beyond).
– @ojones1
Posted in Celebrity, History, Interview, Podcast, Politics, Science, Series, Videos | Tags: going to Mars, going to the moon, Joe Rogan, lunar exploration, Mars exploration, Neil deGrasse Tyson, space exploration | No Comments »
Baba Brinkman Is Dropping Science… Brain Science… In His “Rap Guide to Consciousness” (Trailer)
January 18, 2018
Not sure if you know like I know, but there are folks in Hip-Hop whose works I admire yet will probably never totally ‘get.’ Like, I know Raekwon is dope, but sometimes he goes into some bushes I have never seen before… and I can’t follow what he’s doing. I just chalk it up to him doing him doing Hip-Hop… and I stay on a Hip-Hop path because I know he will come back and stomp down a familiar path (or at least one I can follow) and we’re good. That kind of thinking is not just for Hip-Hop. I think about Neil deGrasse Tyson or Gary Vaynerchuk or some of the far-out science/tech articles I post here… not knowing all of what is going on, but knowing there is something there; that this is something I should be following.
This cat, Baba Brinkman. He’s like that; with his lyrical presentations about consciousness and such. I just dug some write-ups about him out of the inbox and peeped this trailer that came with them… I’m seeing critical acclaim, some building buzz, association with work I often follow into some of those aforementioned bushes (see Mega Ran – who I ran across while staying up on the moves of the homie SkyBlew). Yeah. So I subscribed. I get a good amount of what he is spitting about (yeah, like rapping about) in his rhymes that engage and explore the mind. And while I am sure Baba will head off into some bushes I’m not eff’n with from time-to-time, I get the feeling that he will brink it back (come, rewind). Like Chef Raekwon and Dr. Tyson do for me.
Check dude’s trailer out and see if you can keep up with what he’s putting down. One time for your mind!
– @ojones1
Posted in Education, Hip-Hop, Performance, Science, Videos | Tags: Baba Brinkman, Consciousness, Rap Guide to Consciousness | No Comments »
Science: Heather Berlin Asks, “Who Is Your Brain?” (Video)
January 17, 2018
Interesting! Check out this TEDx Talk from Dr. Heather Berlin – neuroscientist, spouse of consciousness rapper Baba Brinkman, and mother of a new ‘experiment in diapers.’
“Dr. Berlin examines the relationship between the brain and mind, with a focus on borderline personality disorder. She looks at the neurological basis of identity, taking apart the stigmas that are often attached to mental illness.
By understanding how disordered minds construct a sense of self, we can gain insight into the selves that each of us creates through our choices and interactions with the world.”
– TEDx Talks
Hmm… the Doc’s got content on PBS and Discovery and off Broadway. Yup. Now she is on my radar!
Posted in Lecture, Science, Videos | Tags: Asbury Park, Heather Berlin, TEDx Talk, TEDx Talks, TEDxAsburyPark, Who Is Your Brain | No Comments »
Science: Have You Seen The First Interstellar Visitor To Our Solar System Yet? (Video)
January 5, 2018
My brother and I were just talking about this: Soooo, an INTERSTELLAR object in our real view now… scientific FACT… like a few months ago at most… and we are not gonna talk about it anywhere near as much as a science-FICTION about some long-ago-far-far-away ish???
Astronomers recently discovered a bizarre-looking object in our solar system that’s unlike anything they’ve ever seen before. It’s so peculiar that astronomers think it’s not even from our solar system. They’ve dubbed this mysterious interstellar asteroid “Oumuamua.” Following is a transcript of the video.
This asteroid is not from around here. Turns out, it came from another star system. This is the first time humanity has observed an interstellar object.
– Tech Insider
– @ojones1
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Science: Earth’s Longest Living Lifeforms (Video)
January 4, 2018
I was just telling someone the other day: I think it is a good thing that we cannot talk to animals and plants. Some species have been around way long, and live way longer, than us. They could tell us about ourselves. Really tell us about ourselves.
And living that long, that ‘reading’ on us could get ugly. Still… thinking about how long they (e.g. non-human lifeforms) live. Hella interesting!
– @ojones1
