Category: Because it’s Friday

PES does wonderfully surreal stop-motion shorts, the most recent is Submarine Sandwich:

I really like Fresh Guacamole also:

But the most viewed is Western Spaghetti:

A video to get you thinking about the interlocking of the ecology that keeps us alive, and our impact upon it:

We live in a selfie obsessed world, even Morph is getting in on it:

NATS have produced a wonderful time-lapse video of the flight activity happening above our heads every day in the UK:

“Created from actual radar data showing over 7,000 flights, the video graphically illustrates the daily task facing air traffic controllers and the airspace features that help make it all work.

Created by air traffic management company, NATS, the video takes viewers on a unique tour of some of the key features of UK airspace – from the four holding stacks over London and the military training zones above Wales, to the helicopters delivering people and vital supplies to the North Sea oil and gas rigs.”

Via Mashable.

The sun is massive and has a huge impact on our planet. The sun is also incredibly active.

Sometimes it likes to remind us of how active it is, from the 14th October 2014 to 30th October it showed us the largest sunspot that we have seen for 22 years.  It measures 80,000 miles across or roughly the width of 10 Earths side by side.

The following videos were produced from 17,000 4K resolution images and show us how active the sunspot was while it was visible from the earth:

A bit of silliness from the team at Improv Everywhere.

 

This made me smile:

The other week Dan showed us how to make coffee using a V60, this time he shows us how to use an AEROPRESS:

It’s been one of those weeks that requires a bit of silliness to finish it off:

The internet is a great place to find information, but it’s also a wonderful place to watch idea propagate, even when those ideas are myths.

My favourite of the moment is the “we only use 10% of our brain” one, a number of people have said that to me recently, it’s not true.

This chart tries to correct a number of those MythConceptions:

via: Information is Beautiful

 

There is coffee, and then there is great coffee (there’s also something called instant coffee, but that’s not really coffee at all). Coffee requires care and precision.

There are a few places in the North West where you get great coffee. J. Atkinson and Co in Lancaster is one of the best, this is why:

Some stop-motion brilliance from the workshop of Frank Howarth:

via Colossal