Video of the Day: I Hope This Gets to You

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I present to you a wonderful music video.  The song is called “I Hope This Gets to You” by the band “Daylights“.  This trio’s music is already amazing, but to have such a beautiful video accompany the song, it makes for a truly delightful experience.  I kid you not, I started watching the video with…

Video of the Day: What Tau Sounds Like

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What happens when you take a mathematical constant, in this case, tau (two times pi), and apply it musically? Musician and YouTuber Michael Blake assigned each note and chord on the major scale a number from 1-9. After doing so, he took the first 126 digits of tau, and played them using the scale he…

Video of the Day: Stampede Flash Mob

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[youtube LNkq9t-gRdA] The Calgary Stampede officially starts today, and kicking off the festivities is the parade of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, followed by the Calgary Stampede parade, led by the “Man in Motion” Rick Hansen. I’m pretty stoked about Stampede, as it is always a blast (money spent notwithstanding). However, I know that…

Video of the Day: The City that Never Was

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[youtube NsEdOSYf9x8] I recently came across this video while browsing around on Yahoo! What’s happening is truly remarkable – a mirage of a city is being seen across the Xin’an river from the city of Huanshan, in China. So while we may be seeing reflections of the sky as puddles of water on the ground,…

Video of the Day: Northern Lights

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I was stumbling online the other day when I came across this awesome video of the fabled Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) in Norway. If you’re like me, you enjoy finding out how things like the Aurora Borealis work. Pretty much what happens is the sun releases streams of charged particles known as solar winds. These…