yes in some parts of the city I think they’re into full bloom, but today I saw one tree only barely peeking. hope to visit the botanical garden this week
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A funny youtube channel recommendation is: Steven he
I’m not doing a shoutout, ad, etc. I generally think he’s really funny, at least for me. You might want to put on the captions while watching his videos (while he’s acting, of course), because he’s acting as a chinese person. It’s not offensive. He also have a behind the scene at the end of the video, which I think most of the other channels don’t have. So, when you have time, you can check out Steven he on youtube! 
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This is probably the most hipstery Lego set ever made:
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Not very thought-provoking, but fun to watch:
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This is a short and very simple video.
The question is straightforward: will a ball bearing roll faster down the straight or “hilly” ramp?
Hell, I’ll throw in a poll:
- straight
- hilly
0 voters
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Here’s the channel, btw, which looks to be a real gold mine of short, interesting practical science videos.
This is another gravity demonstration, in fact the first video on the channel.
If you like that channel, you’ll probably also like this one:
The toys seem to be very varied and he has ~1,300 videos with no playlists, so I advise either travelling with purpose (by the search function) or by a scenic route of just scrolling through and poking around.
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I saw this amateur film earlier in the week – it’s almost exactly an hour long.
Don’t be put off by the Awhile spelling in the title; that’s likely intentional. Joel Haver is mainly known for producing comedy shorts, but this isn’t really a comedy film, although neither is it plot-driven. I’d describe it as a character film.
The story is about a housesitter who ends up cohabiting with the absent tenant’s ex-boyfriend, and the development of their friendship. Like Waiting for Godot, it’s a single-location film: in this case, the location is the large house, and only those two characters appear.
Forget About Everything for Awhile is the sixth and shortest of his seven films. If you’d prefer a less minimal film with more characters, more music, and more filming locations then I recommend his second, 31 Days in Marshall, North Carolina, ~1h 20m. I can’t speak for the other five as I haven’t yet seen them.
You might want to look at Lego Masters if you aren’t already familiar with it.
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Maybe one of the best speeches on the topic, EVER:
Enjoy 
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Tim from Grand Illusions shows a series of gravity props used to demonstrate Lenz’s law.
Lenz’s law, for those of us who aren’t physicists,
states that the direction of the electric current which is induced in a conductor by a changing magnetic field is such that the magnetic field created by the induced current opposes changes in the initial magnetic field.
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I really loved the Cleese video—so wise and witty. For anyone interested in the subject, I highly recommend The Act of Creation by Arthur Koestler.
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A short trending video.
I recently saw this documentary about the architecture of the Barbican, an experimental 20th-century upmarket housing complex in London.
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Construction of a DIY outdoor cat and dog house.
This one has a bit of everything. Dog (obviously), Northern US forested landscape, night footage, even geese eating pumpkins.
DIY from the new cat channel I found:
cat bed
in the cat house :3
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Lately I’ve been watching clips from the Peter Capaldi or Twelfth Doctor era of Doctor Who (series 8–10 of the revived series, ie. 2014–17), which I largely missed the first time around.
This is one of my favourite:
New Doctor Who is very good at setting the scene of an alien world and, having created that setting, building up the tension.
Notice the jarring contrast between the bank manager’s upbeat professional attitude and the sinister reality of the unfolding events – that deliberately unsettling contrast seems to be a classic feature of the show’s style in the early-mid 2010s.
Compare a different but very classic clip from 2007’s Blink, widely regarded as one of the revived show’s best episodes:
Here, the show does the other thing it loves to do: having explored exotic exoplanets for a while, it returns to a story in its traditional homeland setting of contemporary 20th- / 21st-century London.
One of my little son’s favourite videos at the moment (okay, I also like it). Watch and enjoy.
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I just watched this documentary.
The content is straightforward: real interviews conducted in London, in the 1850s, with street merchants and performers; the interviews are presented as monologues.
The people interviewed are, in order:
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a maker of false eyes for both people and dolls
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a “pure-finder”, a gatherer of dog mess for the tanning industry
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a “costermonger”, a streetgrocer; and a coster girl
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a pedaller of microscope attractions
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a seller of fresh milk
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a ratcatcher
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a clown
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This reminds me of La Commune by Peter Watkins, about the insurection in Paris 1871. It’s a masterpiece of cinema, and despite the television interviews and other uchronial elements (or because of 'em?! Brecht would smile on this) an accurate and vivid retelling of what happened back then. It’s the 150th anniversary of those events too.
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Holy mother of salads, lmao. ^^
You and your son might like this I guess:
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This is a short video showing the operation of a sort of typewriter I didn’t even know existed, in which a metal sphere holding the type rotates extremely quickly to press the proper character onto the page.
The key advantage of this style is that font can be changed very easily: one font = one type ball.
And a couple of little things from Grand Illusions. The second video demonstrates a Pythagoras cup.
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