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Friday, April 22, 2022

# More Catch-up Posts

103 bits of advice I wish I had known

Working with the Coen brothers:

How fungi can help feed future space colonies (The Expanse)

What macOS 8 was like (look for Oregon Trail)

The Real Reason To ‘Learn To Code’? Automating Your Life

Rarely Published Maps and Paintings by J.R.R. Tolkien Go Online

How Saturn Got Its Rings

The 2,731-Person Project to Build New York City in Minecraft

What is Beskar really made of?

Beskar steel SSDs

Do you know where you’re at?

100 people

Thursday, March 10, 2022

# What Makes This Song Great? Tears for Fears

The first half talks about the time signature and chord inversions that maintain the same bottom note.

Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Thursday, January 13, 2022

# Fringe

Episode Reviews

Observiews

Episode Live Posts

Observer Sightings

Easter Eggs

Glyphs

Saturday, December 18, 2021

# Trauma surgeon examines every 'Home Alone' injury

# More Catch-up Posts

Pando, One of the World’s Largest Organisms, Is Dying

Lord of the Rings’ Gollum is a singular performance without a sole author

Visualizing the Accumulation of Human-Made Mass on Earth

# Engineering a Capable Climing LEGO Car

# Most people don't know how bikes work

# Scale of Ocean Depths

# Carnivorous Plants and Their Prey

# The Most Insane Ski Run Ever Imagined

Friday, October 29, 2021

# Sandworm Jack-o-Lantern

Sunday, October 24, 2021

# More Catch-up Posts

Why Dune endures

The Muslimness of Dune: A Close Reading of “Appendix II: The Religion of Dune”

Postmark Express: Journey to the inbox web comic

This web comic follows an email’s incredible journey through the Wild West of the internet.

First You Make the Maps

How cartography made early modern global trade possible.

Vermont Bee Survey | Vermont Atlas of Life

Vermont has more than 300 species of wild bees. Since 2019, the Vermont Bee Survey has been exploring the Green Mountain State for bees. Join us!

Saturday, October 23, 2021

# Catching up on Posts

In Search Of A Flat Earth

Watch not so much for the conspiracy stuff as the techniques for proving the earth is round.

Welcome to the bigger, bolder, and maybe overcrowded MCU

How video game rocks get made

Visually stunning math concepts which are easy to explain

PlayDate Digest NO.1

Poaching is altering the genetics of wild animals

Lava powered planets

Talks about Metroid Dread.

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

# The Lord of the Rings Prequel

Saturday, July 17, 2021

# More on the MCU Kang the Conqueror

Finally, late in Richards’ autobiographical monologue, he tells us which Richards he was.

“That first variant encountered a creature created from all the tears in reality, capable of consuming time and space itself,” Richards tells Loki and Sylvie, talking about the smoke monster Alioth we saw policing The Void in last week’s episode. “I weaponized Alioth. And I ended the Multiversal War. Once I isolated our timeline, all I had to do was manage the flow of time and prevent further branches.”

First thing here: in the multiverse, everyone is a variant. There is no “original” version. So when he talks about the “first variant” there he just means he’s referring to the first version of himself that he had mentioned earlier in this story, and not some hierarchy of versions of himself.

Second: this version of Richards that we know is that that first variant. Which means he is not including himself among the warmongers — those were other variants. He could be smudging the truth, what with villains often think they’re the hero and all that. Not to mention that he may actually have destroyed all those other universes, which is not something you would think a nice person would do. On the other hand, none of us has ever been in a Multiversal War. Let’s just say we don’t have enough context to judge this guy.

But we do have to take him at his word on some level. This whole sequence with Richards, which took most of the episode, was basically an exposition dump. If Marvel was trying to deceive us with this conversation, it would have happened before the finale. The norms of Hollywood storytelling indicate we should be able to take this guy mostly at his word.

So if this guy spewing all this exposition at Loki and Sylvie isn’t Kang, then who is? Well, I think we saw a statue of him in the last shot of the episode.

Near the end of Sylvie and Loki’s chat with Richards, they ask him how he could trust them with this choice.

“What’s the worst that can happen? You either take over and my life’s work continues, or you plunge a blade in my chest and an infinite amount of me start another Multiversal War. And I just end up right back here anyways. Reincarnation, baby.”

Sylvie kicks Loki back to the TVA, then kills Richards, triggering the multiverse. And then Loki learns that Richards was wrong. He didn’t end up back there. Now a Richards variant is openly leading the TVA instead of hiding behind the facade of the Time-Keepers.

Richards thought that if the multiverse came into being that the exact same stuff would play out again. But it didn’t. Maybe there was another multiversal war, with just one Nathaniel Richards remaining by the end– but a different one this time. A bad one. Kang the Conqueror. It’s exactly the kind of poetic dualism that Hollywood storytellers love. And it preserves the multiverse even with a new TVA, because as his title indicates he wants to conquer other realities, not destroy them.

Understanding what’s happening at the TVA here is difficult to discuss. There’s no before or after for the TVA — remember, it exists outside of time. That is a hard thing to depict in this specific sequence because, likewise, there’s no before and after the multiverse. When the multiverse came back, it simply was there, and from the TVA’s perspective all of time played out at once, including that hypothetical multiversal war.

And it would have been affected by those events, because even though the TVA is outside of time and the multiverse, it only exists because somebody from inside the multiverse created it. If there’s a different Nathaniel Richards in charge, that would either erase the TVA completely, or change it dramatically. But how to you portray that change to the TVA as it’s happening? You can’t, because it’s basically indescribable. Something like that is outside the scope of our understanding. But they can show us the effect of the change, which it seems like they did.

All of this is paradoxical, at least to how we perceive reality in the real world. “Loki” is using its own logic, though, for all this multiverse stuff, and since it’s all very new still we can’t work out that logic just yet. As with Netflix’s twisty German time travel series “Dark,” you’re just gonna have to accept that paradoxes are going to be a part of all this multiverse stuff.

Friday, July 16, 2021

# Steam Deck from Valve

However, Valve already has a history of releasing hardware and failing to support it. In 2013, Valve announced its Steam Machine, rolling out its own operating system on premade PCs built like consoles. It was considered a failure very early on, and reports from that time suggest Valve wasn’t responsive to manufacturers. Games also ran poorly on the SteamOS compared to Microsoft’s Windows.

Thursday, July 15, 2021

# Understanding Differences

# Kang the Conqueror

Jonathan Majors, who’s been cast to play Kang in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, played a Variant of a 31st Century scientist whose exploration into the multiverse sparked a massive Multiversal War (thanks to some of his more evil, power-hungry Variants). In Episode 6, this Variant went by “He Who Remains.”

Wednesday, July 7, 2021

# One-hour Batmobile Documentary

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Trauma surgeon examines every 'Home Alone' injury

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Most people don't know how bikes work

Scale of Ocean Depths

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The Most Insane Ski Run Ever Imagined

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10 Star Trek Episodes That The Actors Regret Filming

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How Does America's Response to Climate Change Look From Abroad?

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How Pulleys Work

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Star Trek The Next Generation D Bridge walk around with a twist Part 1

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Husky doesn't want to hear it

How a Computer Works

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May 6, 1937: The Hindenburg Disaster

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The Invention of the Lightbulb – And how they work

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Andrew Bird's Live from the Great Room

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20 Science Experiments in 5 Minutes

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Remaking the Spider-Verse Trailer with Traditional Animation Techniques

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Star Wars announces 'The High Republic'

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Different ways of multiplying numbers

How 10 Satellites Build a Daily Global Precipitation Map

How The Mandalorian was filmed

How The Wind Waker Defined Cel Shading

The Relative Rotation of the Planets

The Best Optical Illusion of 2019

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Is Meat Bad for You? Is Meat Unhealthy?

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Create Gameboy Style Games

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Crusoe the Chemistry Dog

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Star Wars Sound Design Commentary

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How Animators Created the Spider-Verse

Why parrots can talk like humans

Star Wars Always

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Enterprise-D Conference Lounge in Opening Credits

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What a Medieval Knight Would Eat

Klingon Language

Two Brothers Create Toy Story 3 in Real Life

LEGO in Real Life 3

VFX artist shows you how BIG SpaceX rockets REALLY are

Brickfilms

Coffee Expert on Coffee

Choco Mountain: The History of Mario Kart 64's Most Infamous Track

How to Draw Chibis

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Making stop motion animation

Dominoes

How Star Wars was saved in the edit

How do mice get into your house?

Tourists in Tokyo Reenact Mario Kart

Lightning in Slow Motion

Thomas the Tank Engine Stunts

13 Year Old Builds Tiny Cabin for $1500!

Homemade Science with Bruce Yeany

Man Breaks Guinness World Record for Wearing a Bee Beard

Make an Origami Fidget Spinner

Pangolins are the Cutest Animals You’ve Never Heard Of

How to Turn a Carrot Into a Recorder

Take on Meme

Trends in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

Mark Knopfler on Guitars

Why do dogs tilt their heads?

Chris Cornell Ukulele Riffs

A Contemporary Stone Carver

Tabs – Eat My Uke

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A Contemporary Stone Carver

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What Makes This Song Great? Tears for Fears

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Composer Performs Theme to The Mandalorian

Bach’s Prelude to Cello Suite No. 1, Deconstructed

Parts of a Song

Composer Danny Elfman

Legend of Zelda Theme on the Marimba

Musical Composition / Composing Music

An actual sweet potato ocarina

This musician has a melodica and ocarina

The evolution of music technology

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Make a Bagpipe

Hear the Music That Inspired Star Wars

Take on Meme

Mark Knopfler on Guitars

Chris Cornell Ukulele Riffs

Tabs – Eat My Uke

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More Ukulele Videos

Watch this kid play ukulele

Chris Cornell Ukulele Riffs

Tabs – Eat My Uke

Tablature

Tabs – Eat My Uke

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LearnToMod

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Unity 3D is what people use to make games

Learn Real Code with Swift Playgrounds

LearnToMod

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Glif Tripod Mount

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Glif Tripod Mount

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Learn Real Code with Swift Playgrounds

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Glif Tripod Mount

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novelWriter is an app for writing novels

Start a Neighborhood Newspaper

Sandra Boynton's Office

The Unemployed Philosophers Guild

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44 engineering and science challenges from the engineers at Dyson

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How to see subatomic particles

Scientists have captured a photo of a black hole, Sagittarius A*, for the first time in history.

What's Eating Dan?

From Zygote to Tadpole in Six Minutes (Cell Division sped up)

How the human eye works + neat eye tricks

All About the Winter Solstice

Lightning in Slow Motion

Homemade Science with Bruce Yeany

Little Planets

The Best Photos and Videos of the 2017 Solar Eclipse

How the Solar Eclipse Will Look in Your Zip Code

The Solar Eclipse

Eclipse Maps from NASA

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Why do dogs tilt their heads?

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Four Years of Guitar Practice

The Beginner's Guide to Guitar Gear

20 Amazing Bass Lines

Mark Knopfler on Guitars

Climate

Atlas for the End of the World

Trends in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

Data

How do you pronounce "data?"

Imaging the entire Earth, every day

How to be a Reporter (Freedom of the Press!)

Trends in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

Macos

How to use iMovie

Podcast

Podcasts

Eighties

Take on Meme

Illustrator

Illustrator: Mackenzie Schubert

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Build a Roarockit Preshaped Skateboard Kit

Animated Knots

Make an Origami Fidget Spinner

Pedro Medeiros is creating Pixel Art and other Game Dev stuff

How to Turn a Carrot Into a Recorder

Harry-potter

Lord Voldemort Origin Story

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Complete List of Harry Potter Spells in JSON

Nasa

LEGO NASA Apollo Saturn V

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LEGO White Noise

LEGO Stop Motion Chocolate Cake

Brickfilms

LEGO NASA Apollo Saturn V

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Catching up on Posts

Classic Reload - Over 6000 old computer games

Comparing the sizes of fictional buildings from books, movies, TV, and video games

How The Wind Waker Defined Cel Shading

Super Mario Maker 2 - Genius "3D Maze House" Level

Pillars of Eternity is coming to the Switch

The Making of Subnautica

Much more than Mario Kart: The history of kart racers

Handheld Gaming Systems

Playdate. A New Handheld Gaming System.

Create Gameboy Style Games

Make Videogames

Mega Man 11

Super Mario Brothers Speed Run Explained

Legend of Zelda Player’s Guide

Games Nostalgia has classic/retro games available for download

Pedro Medeiros is creating Pixel Art and other Game Dev stuff

Animation

Remaking the Spider-Verse Trailer with Traditional Animation Techniques

The Return of Grumpy Cloud (Flipbook)

How Animators Created the Spider-Verse

Paper Mario Stop Motion Animation

Brickfilms

STAR WARS Asciimation

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Stop motion animation of stop motion master Ray Harryhausen

Chuck Jones’ rules for writing the Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote cartoons.

Stuff

A Visual History of Lunchboxes

The Unemployed Philosophers Guild

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Make an Origami Fidget Spinner

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52 things I learned in 2020

52 things I learned in 2019

What Does ‘New Lyceum’ Mean?

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What Does ‘New Lyceum’ Mean?

Travel

States I’ve Visited

Comics

Free Comic Book Day is in August This Year

How Marvelman Changed Superheroes

Free Marvel Comics

Sasha Matthews has been selling comics since she was 10 years old

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More Catch-up Posts

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Generating Fantasy Maps

Dungeon Map Generator

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Vermont Tabletop Hotspots

Prehistoric Google Earth

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Space

Micrometeorites are all around

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Scientists have captured a photo of a black hole, Sagittarius A*, for the first time in history.

Are Planets Like Those in ‘Star Wars: Rogue One’ Really Out There?

How Space Travel Affects Astronauts

Postcards from Mars

How long is the shortest day of the year?

Google Maps Street View of International Space Station

Nasa

Apollo Guidance Computer Simulator

spaceprob.es

Are Planets Like Those in ‘Star Wars: Rogue One’ Really Out There?

How Space Travel Affects Astronauts

Postcards from Mars

Google Maps Street View of International Space Station

Society

The Evolution of Trust

History

May 6, 1937: The Hindenburg Disaster

An Animated 3D Video Tour of Paris Through History from 52 BCE to 1889

How Davy Crockett became an American legend

Animated map of population density in the US

What a Medieval Knight Would Eat

Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebook

Hiking

How do I clean my Camelbak reservoir?

Gear

How do I clean my Camelbak reservoir?

Eclipse

The Best Photos and Videos of the 2017 Solar Eclipse

How the Solar Eclipse Will Look in Your Zip Code

Internet

The Markup

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Bees

More Catch-up Posts

More Catch-up Posts

Bees Are Nice

Man Breaks Guinness World Record for Wearing a Bee Beard

Lotr

The Lord of the Rings Prequel

Amazon's LOTR is a Prequel

Mr. Chickadee builds a Hobbit-style root cellar

Andy Serkis' Hobbitathon

A historian's look at the Siege of Gondor

Production of LOTR Movies

J.R.R. Tolkien reads from The Hobbit

Unity3d

Unity 3D is what people use to make games

Health

US kids spend too much time in front of a screen and too little asleep, study finds

Americans waste 1 pound of food per person, per day

Impact of 1 Pack of Cigarettes

Workspace

Sandra Boynton's Office

Star-wars

The Tragedy of Droids

Caption this photo

Star Wars timeline in Earth calendar years

More Fictional Starships Size Comparisons

Star Wars announces 'The High Republic'

The Evolution of the Stormtrooper

Star Wars Sound Design Commentary

Star Wars Always

The Complete History of the Millenium Falcon

STAR WARS Asciimation

All the changes to Star Wars: A New Hope over the years

Are Planets Like Those in ‘Star Wars: Rogue One’ Really Out There?

How Star Wars was saved in the edit

What happened between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens?

Hear the Music That Inspired Star Wars

John-williams

Hear the Music That Inspired Star Wars

Planets

The Relative Rotation of the Planets

Are Planets Like Those in ‘Star Wars: Rogue One’ Really Out There?

Little Planets

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13 Year Old Builds Tiny Cabin for $1500!

Tiny-house

13 Year Old Builds Tiny Cabin for $1500!

Games

Jack Harrison makes tabletop games

24 Amazing, Homemade Dungeons & Dragons Maps

The Indie Game Report

Make the Snake game in Python

So you want to be a tabletop game designer

Top-ranked board games

Making Games, Part 2

UPDATED: Making Tabletop, RPG, and Board Games

D&D for Kids

Rpg

Mistborn Adventure Game

Jack Harrison makes tabletop games

Pillars of Eternity is coming to the Switch

24 Amazing, Homemade Dungeons & Dragons Maps

Fantastic Maps

r-n-w & rpgtools

CARDBOARD & DUCK TAPE RPG!

DRAGON is a D&D magazine that's still published!

D&D for Kids

Weather

The weather site you want to use - Windy.com

How 10 Satellites Build a Daily Global Precipitation Map

Lightning in Slow Motion

How long is the shortest day of the year?

Earth

Watch the Earth rotate under the stars

Imaging the entire Earth, every day

Prehistoric Google Earth

All About the Winter Solstice

How long is the shortest day of the year?

Seasons

All About the Winter Solstice

How long is the shortest day of the year?

Santa

Santa's House (is NOT for sale)

Houses

Santa's House (is NOT for sale)

Lightning

Lightning in Slow Motion

Mario

Reprogramming Super Mario Bros. 3 with Gameplay

Paper Mario Stop Motion Animation

Choco Mountain: The History of Mario Kart 64's Most Infamous Track

Super Mario Brothers Speed Run Explained

Tourists in Tokyo Reenact Mario Kart

Nintendo

I Restored and Upgraded This $2 Junk Original Gameboy

Legend of Zelda: Complete (1980s) Cartoon Series

Guy Makes a Portable Wii U Gameboy

Reprogramming Super Mario Bros. 3 with Gameplay

Handheld Gaming Systems

Choco Mountain: The History of Mario Kart 64's Most Infamous Track

Tourists in Tokyo Reenact Mario Kart

Solstice

All About the Winter Solstice

Mice

How do mice get into your house?

Nature

See a Salamander Grow From a Single Cell in this Incredible Time-lapse

How Sounds are Faked for Nature Documentaries

Birds See More Colors Than You

Endangeried Species by State

Nature Photographer of the Year

Photography

Vermont: Images of the Green Mountain State

How to shoot photos & video on iPhone

Nature Photographer of the Year

Dogs

Dogs' Noses

Husky doesn't want to hear it

Dogs of the World (And Their Countries of Origin)

Crusoe the Chemistry Dog

Click for Corgi!

The Ultimate Data Dog

Data-visualization

The Ultimate Data Dog

Mars

Postcards from Mars

Starcraft

More Fictional Starships Size Comparisons

StarCraft Quotations

Pixel-art

Animated US Pixel Art Map

Pixilart Draw

Diy

DIY Astronaut

Make a Bagpipe

Recorder

Make a Bagpipe

Anatomy

How the human eye works + neat eye tricks

Anatomy of Cartoon Characters

Illustration

Anatomy of Cartoon Characters

Cartoons

Anatomy of Cartoon Characters

Snoopy

Anatomy of Cartoon Characters

Dna

How Space Travel Affects Astronauts

Scandinavia

Happiest Countries are Snowy & Cold...Why?

Finland

Happiest Countries are Snowy & Cold...Why?

Norway

Happiest Countries are Snowy & Cold...Why?

Platypus

Platypuses

Maker

Maker Camp Project Library

So you want to be a tabletop game designer

Making Games, Part 2

UPDATED: Making Tabletop, RPG, and Board Games

Allergies

Allergies get worse every year

Stop-motion

LEGO in Real Life 3

Brickfilms

Making stop motion animation

Food

Weeknight Dinner Around the World

What's Eating Dan?

What a Medieval Knight Would Eat

Sustainable Food Systems Major at Sterling College

Americans waste 1 pound of food per person, per day

Environment

Americans waste 1 pound of food per person, per day

Books

Vermont Treasure Hunting

The Great American Read

Piano

The evolution of music from 1680 to 2017

Super-mario

The evolution of music from 1680 to 2017

Duck-tape

CARDBOARD & DUCK TAPE RPG!

Make a Duck Tape Coin Purse

Math

Catching up on Posts

An Infinite Hotel Runs Out of Rooms

Mathematicians Discover the Perfect Way to Multiply

'Pick a number and I'll guess it': the math behind the magic

Different ways of multiplying numbers

42

Perfect Numbers

Using math in real life

Artists

Sasha Matthews has been selling comics since she was 10 years old

Business

Sasha Matthews has been selling comics since she was 10 years old

Kids

Sasha Matthews has been selling comics since she was 10 years old

Cooking

Pastry Chef Atttempts to Make Gourmet OREOs

Sustainable Food Systems Major at Sterling College

College

Sustainable Food Systems Major at Sterling College

Cg

Special Effects in Movies

How Marvel Movies Are Made Before They’re Actually Made

Tank / Making of Tank

Dungeons-and-dragons

Free Stuff from Wizards of the Coast

Dungeon Map Generator

Some D&D Videos

24 Amazing, Homemade Dungeons & Dragons Maps

Dungeon Mastering 101

Fantastic Maps

r-n-w & rpgtools

D&D Attributes Explained with Tomatoes

DRAGON is a D&D magazine that's still published!

Selling

UPDATE: Montpelier's Next Generation Entrepreneurs!

Montpelier's Next Generation Entrepreneurs!

Montpelier

UPDATE: Montpelier's Next Generation Entrepreneurs!

Montpelier's Next Generation Entrepreneurs!

Vermont

Rock of Ages Quarry Commercial

Meteor

Meet Vermont's Youngest Candidate for Governor

Vermont: Images of the Green Mountain State

Endangeried Species by State

Vermont Tabletop Hotspots

UPDATE: Montpelier's Next Generation Entrepreneurs!

Montpelier's Next Generation Entrepreneurs!

Movies

How Slow Motion Works

Special Effects in Movies

How Marvel Movies Are Made Before They’re Actually Made

Comparing the sizes of fictional buildings from books, movies, TV, and video games

Worldizing - How Walter Murch Brought More Immersive Sound to Film

Klingon Language

Two Brothers Create Toy Story 3 in Real Life

LEGO in Real Life 3

All the changes to Star Wars: A New Hope over the years

Paper Animation on iPhone

Iphone

Brickit iOS app from LEGO

How to shoot photos & video on iPhone

Paper Animation on iPhone

Drawing

How to Draw Chibis

Coffee

Coffee Expert on Coffee

Cardboard

CARDBOARD & DUCK TAPE RPG!

Dm

Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master

CARDBOARD & DUCK TAPE RPG!

Spacex

VFX artist shows you how BIG SpaceX rockets REALLY are

Voltron

LEGO. VOLTRON.

Lego

Engineering a Capable Climing LEGO Car

Brickit iOS app from LEGO

LEGO in Real Life 3

LEGO. VOLTRON.

Corgi

Click for Corgi!

Character-sheets

r-n-w & rpgtools

D&D Attributes Explained with Tomatoes

Tutorials

Fantastic Maps

Prehistoric

Prehistoric Google Earth

Ocarina

An actual sweet potato ocarina

This musician has a melodica and ocarina

Melodica

This musician has a melodica and ocarina

Chef

Pastry Chef Atttempts to Make Gourmet OREOs

Ingredients

Pastry Chef Atttempts to Make Gourmet OREOs

Game-design

The Making of Subnautica

Make Videogames

Videogame

Could a video game help us solve climate change?

Climate-change

How Does America's Response to Climate Change Look From Abroad?

Could a video game help us solve climate change?

Python

Make the Snake game in Python

Coding

PICO-8 Fantasy Console

Make the Snake game in Python

Dungeon-master

Dungeon Mastering 101

Gaming

Steam Deck from Valve

PICO-8 Fantasy Console

Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master

Vermont Tabletop Hotspots

Dnd

Hand of Glory 2: Modular Magnetic Gaming Miniatures

Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master

Boardgames

Prime Climb Instructions

Oak Meadow's High School Homeschool board

The Board Game Remix Kit

The Indie Game Report

Making-games

24 Amazing, Homemade Dungeons & Dragons Maps

The Indie Game Report

Klingon

Klingon Language

Star-trek

Star Trek Design

10 Star Trek Episodes That The Actors Regret Filming

More Fictional Starships Size Comparisons

The Typography of Star Trek

Star Trek The Next Generation D Bridge walk around with a twist Part 1

Star Trek

Star Trek

Star Trek

Star Trek

The Invention of the Lightbulb – And how they work

Star Trek

Star Trek

Star Trek

Star Trek

Star Trek

How do you pronounce "data?"

Enterprise-D Conference Lounge in Opening Credits

Klingon Language

Screens

US kids spend too much time in front of a screen and too little asleep, study finds

Exercise

US kids spend too much time in front of a screen and too little asleep, study finds

Zelda

Legend of Zelda: Complete (1980s) Cartoon Series

How The Wind Waker Defined Cel Shading

Legend of Zelda Theme on the Marimba

Ocarina of Time Speed Run

Speed-run

Ocarina of Time Speed Run

Vision

More About Bird Vision

How Blind People "See" Using Echolocation

How the human eye works + neat eye tricks

Medieval

Medieval City Generator and Flyover

What a Medieval Knight Would Eat

How-things-work

Some Neat Explainer Videos

Biology

12 year-old terrarium

The most detailed model of a human cell to date

From Zygote to Tadpole in Six Minutes (Cell Division sped up)

Parrots

Why parrots can talk like humans

Birds

More About Bird Vision

Birds See More Colors Than You

Why parrots can talk like humans

Primes

Perfect Numbers

Spider-man

Remaking the Spider-Verse Trailer with Traditional Animation Techniques

How Animators Created the Spider-Verse

Body-science

A Phonetic Map of the Human Mouth

Language

Elvish Translators

How do you pronounce "data?"

More Vocalizations

A Phonetic Map of the Human Mouth

Odyssey

Pronunciation Guide to Names in the Odyssey

Greece

Explore Athens 3D

Pronunciation Guide to Names in the Odyssey

Accents

More Vocalizations

Species

Endangeried Species by State

Sound-effects

Star Wars Sound Design Commentary

Guitars

Different Guitar Amps

Amps

Different Guitar Amps

Synthesizer

TE PO-28 Robot Introduction

TE PO-28 Arcade Introduction

The low-cost Behringer TD-3 synthesizer looks like a lot of fun

Synth Tricks

Sounds

Synth Tricks

Chemistry

Crusoe the Chemistry Dog

Bass

20 Amazing Bass Lines

Cities

Empty Cities

Medieval City Generator and Flyover

Dark-ages

Medieval City Generator and Flyover

Astronaut

DIY Astronaut

Meat

Is Meat Bad for You? Is Meat Unhealthy?

Knots

Animated Knots

Survival

Animated Knots

Mario-kart

Much more than Mario Kart: The history of kart racers

Pollinators

Pollinators need you. You need pollinators.

Gardening

Pollinators need you. You need pollinators.

Probes

spaceprob.es

Exploration

spaceprob.es

Nytimes

How to be a Reporter (Freedom of the Press!)

Spreadsheets

How to be a Reporter (Freedom of the Press!)

Journalism

How to be a Reporter (Freedom of the Press!)

Subnautica

The Making of Subnautica

Physics

Physics Girl

How Pulleys Work

No One Can Explain Why Planes Stay in the Air

How Fast is the Speed of Light

How to see subatomic particles

Cosmic-rays

How to see subatomic particles

Subatomic

How to see subatomic particles

Switch

Super Mario Maker 2 - Genius "3D Maze House" Level

Pillars of Eternity is coming to the Switch

Sci-fi

Science Fiction Meets Science Reality

70s Sci-Fi Art

Fantasy

Generating Fantasy Maps

70s Sci-Fi Art

Art

Explore Arts & Culture

70s Sci-Fi Art

Mario-maker

Super Mario Maker 2 - Genius "3D Maze House" Level

Wild-frontier

How Davy Crockett became an American legend

Davy-crockett

How Davy Crockett became an American legend

Satellites

How 10 Satellites Build a Daily Global Precipitation Map

Imaging the entire Earth, every day

Brain

How Blind People "See" Using Echolocation

Hearing

How Blind People "See" Using Echolocation

Senses

How Blind People "See" Using Echolocation

Electric

How lightswitches (and household electricity) work

Canada

Know Your Canadian Provinces (and Territories)

Neighbors

Know Your Canadian Provinces (and Territories)

Provinces

Know Your Canadian Provinces (and Territories)

Astronomy

Watch the Earth rotate under the stars

Sky

Watch the Earth rotate under the stars

Flipbook

The Return of Grumpy Cloud (Flipbook)

Marimba

Legend of Zelda Theme on the Marimba

Voldemort

Lord Voldemort Origin Story

Dinner

Weeknight Dinner Around the World

Culture

Weeknight Dinner Around the World

World

Empty Cities

Weeknight Dinner Around the World

Colors

Birds See More Colors Than You

Paris

Explore the Catacombs of Paris

An Animated 3D Video Tour of Paris Through History from 52 BCE to 1889

France

Explore the Catacombs of Paris

French Paper Mill Still Makes Handmade Paper

Paper

French Paper Mill Still Makes Handmade Paper

Craft

French Paper Mill Still Makes Handmade Paper

Handmade

French Paper Mill Still Makes Handmade Paper

Evolution

A Mural on Moth Wings

Seven Million Years of Human Evolution

Home-sapiens

Seven Million Years of Human Evolution

Code

Generating Fantasy Maps

The Lines of Code That Changed Everything

Light

How Fast is the Speed of Light

More About Bird Vision

Andrew-bird

Manifest

Andrew Bird's Live from the Great Room

Andrew Bird is posting 1 video per day

Andrew Bird's Olympians

Andrew Bird's Bloodless

Andrew Bird's Sisyphus

Andrew Bird: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Egg

Watch a Baby Chick Develop

Chick

Watch a Baby Chick Develop

Baby

Watch a Baby Chick Develop

Composition

Composer Danny Elfman

Danny-elfman

Composer Danny Elfman

Special-effects

Production of LOTR Movies

Moth

A Mural on Moth Wings

Garageband

Parts of a Song

Ocean

The Deep Sea

Ocean-life

The Deep Sea

Solar-system

The Relative Rotation of the Planets

Illusions

Akiyoshi's illusion pages

Fossils

The World's Oldest Known Fossil

New-york

The World's Oldest Known Fossil

3d

How The Wind Waker Defined Cel Shading

Design

How The Wind Waker Defined Cel Shading

Audio

Worldizing - How Walter Murch Brought More Immersive Sound to Film

Music-theory

Bach’s Prelude to Cello Suite No. 1, Deconstructed

Bach

Bach’s Prelude to Cello Suite No. 1, Deconstructed

Cello

Bach’s Prelude to Cello Suite No. 1, Deconstructed

"sci-fi"

Comparing the sizes of fictional buildings from books, movies, TV, and video games

Buildings

Comparing the sizes of fictional buildings from books, movies, TV, and video games

Tabletop-games

Jack Harrison makes tabletop games

Athens

Explore Athens 3D

Hygiene

How Soap Kills Coronavirus

How to make sure you're washing your hands thoroughly

Most often missed areas while washing hands

Airplanes

No One Can Explain Why Planes Stay in the Air

Mandalorian

How The Mandalorian was filmed

Multiplication

Mathematicians Discover the Perfect Way to Multiply

Different ways of multiplying numbers

Magic

'Pick a number and I'll guess it': the math behind the magic

Lists

52 things I learned in 2020

52 things I learned in 2019

Prequel

Star Wars announces 'The High Republic'

Gondor

A historian's look at the Siege of Gondor

Battles

A historian's look at the Siege of Gondor

Miniatures

Hand of Glory 2: Modular Magnetic Gaming Miniatures

Coronavirus

Empty Cities

How Soap Kills Coronavirus

Projects

Maker Camp Project Library

Museums

Explore Arts & Culture

Collections

Explore Arts & Culture

Street-view

Explore Arts & Culture

Catacombs

Explore the Catacombs of Paris

Elvish

Elvish Translators

Zine

Start a Neighborhood Newspaper

News

The Markup

Start a Neighborhood Newspaper

Live

Andrew Bird's Live from the Great Room

Retro

Classic Reload - Over 6000 old computer games

Marvel

MCU Shows & Movies

Vision & The Ship of Theseus

How Marvel Movies Are Made Before They’re Actually Made

Free Marvel Comics

Bikes

Most people don't know how bikes work

More Bikes Than Cars

Europe

More Bikes Than Cars

Netherlands

More Bikes Than Cars

3d-print

Free 3D Printer Plans for D&D Figures

D-n-d

Free 3D Printer Plans for D&D Figures

Figures

Free 3D Printer Plans for D&D Figures

Cosmere

Mistborn Adventure Game

Mistborn

Mistborn Adventure Game

Skateboard

Skate Wheels & Trucks

Build a Roarockit Preshaped Skateboard Kit

Gaming-pc

NZXT Starter PC

Politics

Meet Vermont's Youngest Candidate for Governor

Wealth

Measuring Wealth

Inequality

Measuring Wealth

Bicycle

May is National Bike Month

Biking

May is National Bike Month

May

May is National Bike Month

Hobbit

Andy Serkis' Hobbitathon

The-humanity

May 6, 1937: The Hindenburg Disaster

Fibonacci

Nature by Numbers

Golden-ratio

Nature by Numbers

Pocket-operator

TE PO-28 Robot Introduction

TE PO-28 Arcade Introduction

Squirrels

Squirrels

Computers

Special Effects in Movies

How a Computer Works

Husky

Husky doesn't want to hear it

Gravity

Feather vs. Hammer on the Moon

Skateboarding

Skateboarding

Mad-river-glen

Mad River Glen Webcam

Webcam

Mad River Glen Webcam

Construction

Mad River Glen Webcam

Fire-ants

Fire Ants Escape

Insects

Fire Ants Escape

Pulleys

How Pulleys Work

Money

A million dollars vs. a billion dollars

Billions

A million dollars vs. a billion dollars

Homestead

Mr. Chickadee builds a Hobbit-style root cellar

Typography

The Typography of Star Trek

Wii

Guy Makes a Portable Wii U Gameboy

Starships

More Fictional Starships Size Comparisons

Cells

The most detailed model of a human cell to date

Raccoons

Feeding Raccoons

Terrarium

12 year-old terrarium

Indie-games

Work With Indies

Apollo

Apollo Guidance Computer Simulator

Computer

Apollo Guidance Computer Simulator

Novels

novelWriter is an app for writing novels

80s

Legend of Zelda: Complete (1980s) Cartoon Series

Gameboy

I Restored and Upgraded This $2 Junk Original Gameboy

Clean-hands

I Restored and Upgraded This $2 Junk Original Gameboy

Weird

Fry an egg

Philosophy

Vision & The Ship of Theseus

Meteors

Micrometeorites are all around

Meteor

Chess

Where chess pieces are most often captured

En Passant

Sound

How Sounds are Faked for Nature Documentaries

Animals

How Sounds are Faked for Nature Documentaries

Cake

LEGO Stop Motion Chocolate Cake

Summer

Free Comic Book Day is in August This Year

Hobbitses

Amazon's LOTR is a Prequel

Geography

Compare geography with Scale-a-Tron

Engines

Everything About How an Internal Combustion Engine Works

Cars

Everything About How an Internal Combustion Engine Works

Batteries

Gravity-based batteries try to beat their chemical cousins with winches, weights, and mine shafts

Stormlight

Gravity-based batteries try to beat their chemical cousins with winches, weights, and mine shafts

Scent

Dogs' Noses

Conservation

Dogs' Noses

Salamander

See a Salamander Grow From a Single Cell in this Incredible Time-lapse

Development

See a Salamander Grow From a Single Cell in this Incredible Time-lapse

Rocks

Micrometeorites are all around

Slow-mo

How Slow Motion Works

Rain

Follow a raindrop

Rivers

Follow a raindrop

Water

Follow a raindrop

America

How Does America's Response to Climate Change Look From Abroad?

Bonsai

Transformation of a Bonsai Tree Over 12 Months

Technology

The Markup

Big-tech

The Markup

Infinity

An Infinite Hotel Runs Out of Rooms

Cds

Music Media & Formats

Cassettes

Music Media & Formats

Cameras

How Cameras & Lenses Work

Barre

Rock of Ages Quarry Commercial

Props

Star Trek Design

Droids

The Tragedy of Droids

Sudoku

The Miracle Sudoku

Phylogenetics

There's No Such Thing as a Tree

Sugar

Sugar in Food

Nutrition

Sugar in Food

Nutella

Sugar in Food

Batman

One-hour Batmobile Documentary

Batmobile

One-hour Batmobile Documentary

Loki

More on the MCU Kang the Conqueror

Kang the Conqueror

Mcu

More on the MCU Kang the Conqueror

Kang the Conqueror

People

Understanding Differences

Steam

Steam Deck from Valve

Handheld

Steam Deck from Valve

Kang

More on the MCU Kang the Conqueror

Amazon

The Lord of the Rings Prequel

Dune

More Catch-up Posts

Sandworm Jack-o-Lantern

More Catch-up Posts

Email

More Catch-up Posts

More Catch-up Posts

Halloween

Sandworm Jack-o-Lantern

Skiing

The Most Insane Ski Run Ever Imagined

Plants

Carnivorous Plants and Their Prey

Oceans

Scale of Ocean Depths

Home-alone

Trauma surgeon examines every 'Home Alone' injury

Injuries

Trauma surgeon examines every 'Home Alone' injury

Fringe

Fringe