Cool youtube movies #1

Posted by Mr. Gene

April 15, 2009

Tired of everyday’s boring lab routine? Let’s change the channel and take a look at YouTube where really cool stuff can be found, such as …

… the Large Hadron Rap (referring to CERN’s Large Hadron Collider) whose backup-dancers, ha-ha, prefer anonymity, according to the credits (and I know why they prefer it!).

A more comical clip is the Creation Science 101 song by Californian satirical singer-songwriter and guitarist Roy Zimmerman. Enjoy!

Also screamingly funny are these Ali G classics on science (“…would it be possible to multiply nine-nine-nine-nine-nine-nine-nine-nine-nine…”) and medical ethics (“…you are a homophobic doctor!?” – “No, no, I’m a homeopathic doctor!”).

More serious stuff desired? Well, just watch computer-game-hero Will Wright talking about The Science behind Spore – even though seriousness doesn’t seem to be Wright’s middle name (just pay attention to the label “Composed of matter, anti-matter AND it doesn’t matter” behind him…!!).

Here are two legerdemains for your next party…

the nail trick (how to balance ten nails on the head of one),
the water and pepper trick (nice visualisation of surface tension),

… the ultimate YouTube short film, however, is the cool real-life μ-Tetris under a microscope (by optically trapping 42 glass microspheres with 1 μm diameter, weighting 1 picogram each of them, in a 25 μm x 20 μm sized area under a microscope).

Wow!!!

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