I'm a complete sucker for well-made Rube Goldberg/Heath Robinson/Fischli & Weiss machines, even if they're made by marketing people. My favourites are still the elegant little mechanisms used on Japanese children's TV show Pitagora Suiichi, but this one is impressive for its length, ambition, and variety. Well worth a watch -- some ideas there I haven't seen before.
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A difficult-to-read graph of video project sizes on my media drives, the upshot of which is that I don't have much drive space left.
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Brian Cox pulling a face at BA President and former Chief Science Advisor Sir David King, on Newsnight.
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Eric Laithwaite during the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, levitating an aluminium shell sphere.
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