YouTube brainbox GGP Grey investigates efficient and not-so-efficient ways to board commercial airline flights.
Random boarding is better, it seems, but as physicist Jason Steffen showed in 2008, there is a precise order which minimises the delay caused by other passengers stowing their luggage in overhead compartments.
A fascinating sequence taken from an upcoming PBS documentary ‘Octopus: Making Contact’ (you may have seen BBC2’s ‘Octopus In My House’) in which a sleeping octopus is observed by marine biologist Dr David Sheel who theorises that her colour changes are caused by cephalopodic dreaming.
Charmingly deadpan Brazilian pianist Lord Vinheteiro plays a series of increasingly expensive joannas, inviting you – the listener – to judge whether you can tell the difference in sound quality.
Previously: Fairly Tinkled
Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot – it does parkour now. To wit:
We created the manoeuvres using new techniques that streamline the development process. First, an optimisation algorithm transforms high-level descriptions of each manoeuvre into dynamically-feasible reference motions. Then Atlas tracks the motions using a model predictive controller that smoothly blends from one manoeuvre to the next.
…and then kills all humans.
Previously: Warehousebot
Animated by Remus & Kiki and narrated by Adrian Dannatt, Alex Gendler’s Ted-Ed lesson explores the origins of a game dating back to 7th century India.
Maybe ever earlier. I’d have to check, mate.
An evocative three and a half-minute sequence of lightning strikes and billowing storm clouds by Arizona-based storm-chaser and videographer Dustin Farrell.
Shot over two years and edited over 300 hours, it’s a sequel to this 2017 full-screener.
Move over, Danny MacAskill, there’s a new trials rider tyro in town.
Behold: the twistin’, flippin’, jumpin’ urban shennanigans of Austrian dandyhorseman Fabio Wibmer.
Director Will Welles’ story of a dysfunctional relationship – a lo-fi sci-fi short featuring a robot which wakes up in a junkyard then wanders off thorough the desert to meet its maker.
Professional musician Lucas Brar, the questions he’s most often asked at parties and a tongue-in-cheek but rather delightful soft jazz version of the Oasis classic.
An hypnotic, slightly alarming study in digital technology by Morgan Powell of Seed Animation Studio.
Digital technology.
Never mind.
