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  • days is how long it would take to count to one million if you counted each number for one second.

  • Countonemillion.com is currently counting up to 1 million. It started a few days ago.

  • It will continue for a few more days. If you're anxious to see it hit 1 million you can pay money to

  • fast-forward it. That's right the rich get everything

  • But you can have these for free these are fewer than a million DONGs things you can do online now guys.

  • The International Space Station is constantly whizzing around the earth sometimes right above your head other times

  • directly between you and the Sun or moon

  • ISS

  • Transit Finder allows you to put in your latitude and longitude to find out when that will occur. Now smarter every day has a fantastic

  • video documenting what it looks like when the International Space Station passes in front of not just the Sun

  • but the Sun and

  • the moon

  • during an eclipse.

  • I highly recommend watching it because to see a still image is one thing but to see it happen in real

  • Time really gives you a sense of how small the ISS is and how quickly it's orbiting Earth. Of course it is

  • Quiet up there in space, so let's stay down here on earth and listen

  • to a gif?

  • You heard me right. This has been around for years

  • and it recently became viral again. People believe that they hear a sound from this skip that of course isn't really there

  • It's only in their own minds. We don't exactly know what's going on, but it could be due to

  • cross-modal

  • correspondences That's when different modes different methods of receiving information about the world sort of

  • interact. For instance if you ask people to describe a

  • Lemon and a potato as either fast or slow people will tend to say that lemons are fast and potatoes are slow

  • But of course they don't have natural speeds

  • It's just that we associate bright colors and stringent acidity with speed and potatoes

  • They're kind of bland beigeness with

  • Slowness. That's a cross modal correspondence. This gif has such a wonderful

  • Vibration that our brains feel like there must be some noise there even though that mode of receiving information

  • Sound isn't really there

  • We just link the two so closely through experience that we hear something

  • But now let's look at some aquatic macroinvertebrates

  • Now an invertebrate has no backbone, an aquatic one lives in the water and macro means large enough to see without a

  • Microscope. You can get really up-close with these lovely beauties and learn all about them

  • Have fun

  • But if you want more of life than just aquatic macroinvertebrates

  • Try one zoom. You can zoom through billions of years of history with one zoom tree of life.

  • Start at well the beginning and go all the way to

  • animals and even to humans. Once you reach the end of a branch or find a leaf that looks interesting click on it to go

  • to that creatures Wikipedia page

  • We are clearly a planet rich in diversity

  • But you may need a few more branches to fill up your piggy bank

  • Because the rich is a bit of a pun. In break the bank

  • the pigs take control, fight against the invading piggy banks to save your bank from crippling debt. To activate click on the pink one and

  • use the green squares to move them. Select any Red Square to hit your opponent and earn money

  • But if you get hit you'll go into debt, and once you're a hundred grand in debt

  • You lose

  • Spend money on stronger hammers and more durable piggies if you're wondering where wild pigs live well this map will tell you and the next

  • natural thing to wonder is what YouTube videos are geotagged to those same areas so use YouTube geo finder

  • Just move the green point anywhere on the map adjust these factors to your liking and click search. A list of YouTube videos will appear

  • It's a great way to fulfill your YouTube watching needs without having a video in mind already

  • once you're done scanning the globe for videos scan and

  • Sequence. This website uses your webcam to play well pretty unpleasant

  • music. When it sees you start moving your fingers to play the strings. It may not sound perfect

  • But you can definitely tell that it is responding to your specific movements check this out

  • Okay, that's not good. Let me try again

  • Still bad, but at least I'm making progress

  • This page is covered in progress bars showing how long it will be before the next minute, hour, year, Saint

  • Patrick's Day Halloween end of the page oh

  • Or the end of the universe or at least the end of useful energy being around.

  • That progress bar by the way is the slowest filling progress bar

  • Anyone could ever witness.

  • So sit back relax and watch it fill up, but don't hold your breath

  • That said you can live the entire rest of your life without breathing and as always

  • Thanks for watching

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