Fun Videos

Building landscape art from food

Watch this video of how Carl Warner creates landscape art from food. They are beautiful.

Singing the Periodic Table

David Newman sings the periodic table.  Those who knows chemistry will appreciate this.

Fun Math Videos by Mathemusician Vi Hart

The videos by Mathemusician Vi Hart on YouTube are fun to watch and educational too.

One of her videos was featured on NPR.  And she has a website at vihart.com

Science and Physics Comedians

Brain Malow of sciencecomedian.com likes to tell science jokes.  He was seen on Fora.tv as part of Wonderfest 2009.  He’s on YouTube here, here, here, and on the Late Show with Craig Ferguson.

Another science comedian is Norm Goldbaltt as seen on fora.tv.

Tim Lee is a scientist who became a comedian and will actually sometimes use Powerpoint in his comedy as seen here and here.

How NASA Scientists Attempts to Meet Girl

Here is a funny video on theOnion.com of a parody of how NASA scientists attempts to meet a girl in a laundry mat.

Time Elapsed video of baby at play

Want to know what a baby does all day?   Well, here is a time-elapsed video of 4 hours of 9-month old baby at play squeezed into 2 minutes.

Douglas Adams Humorous Talk about Conservation

Science function writer and satirist Douglas Adams gave this humorous talk…

But it has a serious message about conservation of our planet. He talks about his adventures tracking down exotic animals and what he learned from them.

Beautiful Anarctic animals in Video of TED talk

Paul Nicklen gave a Ted talk in 2011 where he showed this beautiful slideshow of an Antarctic animals set to music which includes some great shots of a rare white bear. He also got some great shots of leopard seals when he got into the water with them. Besides having very beautiful photographs, the talk also has some humor in it. But the main point of the talk is to generate awareness of the global warming problem and its danger to the wildlife that inhabits the icy world. You also see a photograph of a dead polar bear.

Watch video on TED.com »

Videos of Comedian Demetri Martin

Demetri Martin is a comic in New York City. You can see some of his video clips on ComedyCentral linked here. I would classify a lot of his joke into the category of “observational humor” and reminds me a lot of the style of Seinfeld. His joke are relatively clean (relatively speaking as compared to other comedians).

Martin got a degree from Yale and almost got a degree from NYU School of Law (which he had received full scholarship to). But he dropped out of law school to become a comedian one year prior to graduation [source Wikipedia].

Here is an article interview of Martin.

Here is audio program on NPR about Demetri Martin.

Chicken or Egg First? Humorous Video Answer

The question of which came first, the chicken or the egg, results in a paradoxical answer. The answer, regardless of which one it is, will lead to another question that contradicts that answer. If you say chicken came first, then the question is where is the egg from which the chicken came from. If you say egg came first, then the question is where is the chicken that laid the egg?

Here is the video by schoolfreeware.com that attempts to answer that question. It is quite humorous.