Miss Sunday's solar eclipse? If you don't live in a part of the country where you could see the moon pass in front of the sun, leave it to the Internet to help you view the space phenomenon.
Photographer Cory Poole shot 700 pictures of the event through his telescope and turned those images into a beautiful view of the eclipse, no sunglasses or pinhole projector required. Watch the moon's journey in the video below.
Stylist Jacqui Getty captured Skaist-Taylor's eclectic Californian style for the first video in her new series, With Love, Jacqui.
Getty, whose videos will appear on YouTube's new fashion and beauty channel Look TV, explored the inspiration behind Pamela Skaist-Levy and Gela Nash-Taylor's line, which debuted during New York Fashion Week Fall 2012. In the clip below, Theodora Richards wanders through the woods before encountering the designers — and their Fall 2012 line — in a well-appointed home while an Allison Iraheta cover of Massive Attack's "Paradise Circus" plays in the background. Getty's series will include similar videos, as well as interviews with the designers and other people in the fashion industry. For now, take a look at Getty's inaugural video.
Along with looking into the mystifying world of science, picking up a freeze-dried astronaut ice cream sandwich is one of our favorite parts of a visit to a space or science museum.
Engineer Ben Krasnow also loved those strange pieces of sweets as a kid, so much that he naturally decided to re-create the food himself in his home workshop. Now Ben's methodology, as seen in the video below, is not intended as a quick afternoon DIY. He shows us how to build our own freeze-dryer with tools easily purchased on the Internet to then transform an ordinary ice cream sandwich into its NASA-approved counterpart. Geek sugar, indeed!
The video itself is a fun lesson in the scientific properties you may have forgotten since high school, as is the rest of his YouTube channel Fun With Applied Science.
YouTube isn't just for watching funny videos about cats, it's also a great place to get educated. No, really! Take SciShow, for example. This channel is dedicated to teaching the masses interesting things about science, computers, and all things geeky, in a highly entertaining way, thanks mostly in part to the adorably nerdy host, Hank.
Get schooled on things like solar energy, mind reading, and Tatooine, both in quick "dose" formats or longer, more involved episodes. Obviously an overachiever, host Hank also gives you the easy-to-digest lowdown on biology on a secondary channel. Classic geek move, right there.
What are some of your favorite educational YouTube channels? Share them with us (so we can get smarter together) in the comments!
In a policy revision announced this week, Google will be instituting one blanket privacy policy across their many web products with the reasoning that they're building a streamlined user experience. The data from your activity and habits on one Google-owned site will be stored in their servers and shared across all their sites. The legal speak details for Google's new Terms of Service are available on their website, but we've broken down what you need to know and how the changes affect your digital life below.
Tell us your feelings on the Internet giant's changes in the comments and watch Google's video explanation of the new policy after the break.
At one point, YouTube beauty videos may have seemed to be just a blip on the radar. But as a group of beauty gurus is proving, there's more to it than creating cute looks on camera. In fact, some are getting into the retail game, launching products as an extenuation of their Internet personas.
In a recent episode of the BBC's A Night With the Stars, physicist Brian Cox (similar in reputation to Neil deGrasse Tyson, except British) enlisted the help of actor and geek we love, Simon Pegg, to explain the physics of why atoms are so vast yet empty.
Brian leads Simon and physicist Jim Al-Khalili in a giggly demonstration of standing wave principles in relation to the characteristics of atoms. We certainly could use these sorts of explanations in regards to the TARDIS in future Doctor Who episodes, don't you think?
Now that the Christmas buying madness is over — and your little lady's room is probably stocked full of new princess toys and your son has scored some new trucks — watch this future feminist's rant against the gender stereotyping of toys. The adorable little Riley is not happy that toy manufacturers keep forcing pink and princesses on little girls, who she says like other colors and superheroes, too. Her diatribe puts her right up with the 5-year-old lil girl who told us she had to have a job before she got married — one of the cutest kid videos of 2011. Kind of makes you think, right — and wonder what her parents did to make her so articulate and thoughtful at such a young age? Riley, Betty Friedan, and Gloria Steinem would be proud!
It's hard to go a couple days (or hours) without a friend, parent, or co-worker directing you to the "most amazing video EVER" on YouTube. Following the world's video sharing trends closely, YouTube unveiled the Top 10 YouTube videos of 2011. We'll admit we've watched videos one through 10 multiple times, but have our own list of top five favorites. While "Friday" was catchy, it didn't make our cut, which you can check out below.
Two more YouTube faves after the break.
Each year brings a new slew of beauty videos to the web. And on YouTube, it was a year dominated by music video looks, a certain sultry celebrity, and even a Disney princess. This year's most-viewed beauty video was the above tutorial, based on LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It," which pulled a whopping 12 million views. To see the rest of the top five, just keep reading.
