Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Blog: Favourite YouTube Videos (Volume 103)

In this volume of my favourite YouTube videos, we have to move, have to run and have to sing!

  • First, on Periodic Videos we watch as Prof. Poliakoff prepares to leave one of the labs his group has used for a very long time. As a person who gets very attached to places and things I understand his feelings. Even when it's the right thing to do sometimes moving on is hard.
  • Next,  let Mr. Smooth McGroove pick up your spirits as he races to eat everything he can see.
  • Finally,  because doing largely unrelated projects when you should be working on your thesis, is totally foreign to me *cough cough*, I'd like to present AcapellaScience singing about String Theory to the tune of Bohemian Rhapsody. 

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Blog: Favourite YouTube Videos (Volume 102)

In this volume of my favourite YouTube videos, we go to a dark place, a duck place and a community place.

  • First, Mr. Smooth McGroove takes us to the dark world. It's a dark place and menacing.
  • Next, Kevin Gisi, tells the old programmer's parable about the rubber duck. Rubber duck debugging is important and I think he make a good point that it's worth employing in other parts of life.
  • Finally, Kevin talks about how the "YouTube Community" needs to think about YouTube, not itself a community, but simply as a platform. Hank Green's Subbable approached this although didn't quite get the traction I think it deserved. I still think this is a problem on the Internet, too many people are relying on companies to form their communities rather than taking that control themselves.

Friday, August 28, 2015

Blog: Favourite YouTube Videos (Volume 101)

In this volume of my favourite YouTube videos, we say the words that we know, stompa our feet and play crazy songs at all hours of the night.

  • First, John Green, illustrates the United State's inability to understand hats. I'd say more, but I need to go get the car out of the parkade.
  • Next, it's time to get up and Stompa Your Feet along with Serena Ryder.
  • Finally, Hank Green and friends prove that 3AM is definitely the best time of day to play Louie Louie. 

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Blog: Favourite YouTube Videos (Volume 100)

In this volume of my favourite YouTube videos, we invent colour, eat cereal and follow the whims of Nerdfighteria.

  • First, Mr. Smooth McGroove brings vibrancy and colour to a black and white (yellow?) world, singing the Muda Kingdom Theme from Super Mario Land.
  • Next, Mr. Charlie McDonnell talk about whether or not it's worth it to spend ten minutes of your life watching him eat cereal. Well that and the worth of how we spend our time doing anything.
  • Finally, Mr. Hank Green, does... things...

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