Class Color Codes (Fall 2023): Media Literacy - Web Design - Computer Programming - Everyone!
September 2023
Self Driving Cars!
Tesla Self Driving vs Everyday Roads! (Marques Brownlee)
Robots on Mars?!
The 'Space Architects' of Mars ( from YouTube series "The Age of A.I.")
What Most Schools Don't Teach (Code.org, 10 years ago)
Apple Event - September 12, 2023 (first 4 minutes)
Introduction to Code Builder and Chicken Rain in Minecraft: Education Edition
Welcome to Minecraft Education (72 sec) and Could these robots build a base on Mars? (CNN, 2 min)
IMDb (IMDB in English WikiPedia)
Ghost Shark Drone Submarines
The Hunt for Red October (1990, PG, via IMDB)
In U.S.-China AI contest, the race is on to deploy killer robots (Reuters, 8 Sept 2023)
Hurricane Lee
Japan launches 'moon sniper' lunar lander SLIM into space (Reuters)
List of Missions to the Moon (English WikiPedia)
The Internet: Packets, Routing & Reliability ("How the Internet Works" Part 3 of 8)
The Chandrayaan-3 Moon Lander Has Been Seen From Space (IFL Science)
Russia's Crashed Luna-25 Mission Made A New Crater On The Moon (IFL Science)
August 2023
Champion-level Drone Racing using Deep Reinforcement Learning (Nature, 2023)
Generative AI Art Demo
A.I. Brings the Robot Wingman to Aerial Combat (NY Times, #GiftLink)
Trade Federation invade Naboo (53 sec)
XQ-58A Valkyrie: English WikiPedia - AF Research Lab
Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek (NY Times)
Why India’s Chandrayaan-3 Moon Landing Isn’t Just About Science | WSJ
Russia's unmanned Luna-25 spacecraft smashes into the moon (Reuters)
12 People Who Blur The Line Between Science And Art (via Charlie D)
Google Earth (for the web - Check out "I Feel Lucky" and "Voyager" stories!) - "The Geometry of Castles" - Watch this 3.5 minute video tutorial!
Day 1 Vote Videos
Class Color Codes (Spring 2023): Media Literacy - Robotics - Engineering Design
May 2023
Landroid Robot Mower
Save Time with WORX Landroid (1 min, 37 sec)
Space Stuff
What are the odds of a successful space launch? (BBC News, 19 May 2023)
“China is unusually secretive about its space programme” (Economist, 18 May 2023)
NASA, Rocket Lab Announce Coverage for Second TROPICS Launch (16 May 2023)
[VIDEO] The Rocket Lab Story (3 min)
Rocket Lab USA (official website)
Goodnight Oppy (Amazon Prime)
Apple’s new ‘Personal Voice’ feature can create a voice that sounds like you or a loved one in just 15 minutes (9to5Mac, 16 May 2023)
AI Tools (Wakelet by Dr Fryer)
'Godfather of AI' discusses dangers the developing technologies pose to society
How NASA Reinvented The Wheel (2010 Shanghai World Expo: Day 1 - Day 2 - Video
The Spacewalk That Almost Killed Him (Smithsonian Magazine, May 2014)
April 2023
NASA Artemis Videos
Birds Aren't Real
Birds Aren't Real: The conspiracy theory that satirizes conspiracy theories (60 minutes, May 2022)
Birds Aren't Real (official website)
MOLTEN GLASS VS Prince Rupert's Drop - Smarter Every Day 285
The AIM-9 Sidewinder Missile - Smarter Every Day 282 (8 min)
Chip War?
AI Danger
You and the Atomic Bomb (George Orwell, 1945)
Meta’s powerful AI language model has leaked online — what happens now? (Verge, 8 March 2023)
The AI revolution: Google's developers on the future of artificial intelligence | 60 Minutes
Burj Khalifa | All the Engineering Secrets of the Mega structure
Robots in NYC
Farms of the Future
Water-related Construction Projects & Budgeting
Inspirit Scholars (AI Summer Program from Stanford)
60 Minutes [VIDEO]: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope | 60 Minutes Archive (from Dec 2021)
Building Water Towers
Surviving Dachau, Liberating Mauthausen (following April 4th assembly presentation on Auschwitz)
Chernobyl
March 2023
MidJourney
Autonomous Animation
Bill Gates on AI and the rapidly evolving future of computing (Microsoft "Behind the Tech")
I’ve Got a HUGE Secret Hiding Behind This Fake Office (Mark Rober)
Social Media Laws / Proposed Laws
The Art of Smart Brevity - Write Less, Say More | Jim VandeHei (blog post)
ChatGPT Stuff
Drones
Amazing Invention- This Drone Will Change Everything (Mark Rober)
Drones Above Ukraine (Angry Planet)
Pinewood Derby - Part One - SOLIDWORKS - Solidworks software
Factory Robots! See inside Tesla, Amazon and Audi's operations (supercut)
Five tips for fastest pinewood derby car - THE ORIGINAL (2014)
Mini-Drones
Black Hornet Nano (military drone)
Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan (2010)
Doug Stanton discusses "Horse Soldiers" (video - 3 min)
Egg Drop from Space (via Tyler)
ChatGPT
Bing’s A.I. Chat: ‘I Want to Be Alive. (NYTimes)
The Bing Who Loved Me, and Elon Rewrites the Algorithm (Hard Fork podcast)
Inside the Minds of Spiders, Octopuses and Artificial Intelligence (podcast)
February 2023
Kid CHANGES His GRADES By HACKING, He Lives To Regret It | Dhar Mann (via Kris)
Recommended Chrome Extensions (including Earth View)
EASY Pinewood Derby Car WINS using Science!!! (Mark Rober)
Teen Social Media Influencers
Minecraft PC - How to Build Kawaii/Cute Animals in Minecraft (Rachel Fryer)
AI Games: Go
NASA: We Are American Ingenuity (4 min)
Adam Savage on the Science of Measurement (starts at 7:15)
Engineering In Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment (Practical Engineering)
What Really Happened with the Substation Attack in North Carolina? (background Wakelet) - by Grady Hillhouse
Built for Mars: The Perseverance Rover (IMDB - Disney Plus)
Drones (peaceful uses)
Drone Wedding Proposal (via Aitan)
1,000 drones create terrifying dragon on sky, realise childhood imaginations (Indian Express, 4 Oct 2022)
Light show of 2,198 Russian drones sets a world record (3 min, 14 sec)
Dr. Fryer used ChatGPT to created a summarized version of the longer obituary he wrote for his mom
ChatGPT: Grading artificial intelligence's writing (CBS Sunday Morning)
Chinese Balloon Shut Down
1,000 Blind People See For The First Time (Mr Beast)
January 2023
Why Boston Dynamics is Building a Super Robot Army (7.5 min)
Glitter Bomb 2.0 vs Porch Pirates (Mark Rober video)
Super Soaker
Interested in Flying / Aerospace?
Goodnight Oppy (2022) IMDB - Amazon Prime
First of its kind rocket launch set for Wallops Flight Facility
Why the Moon Landing COULDN'T Have Been Faked | Adam Ruins Everything
Animated Animal Face Preview
Rube Goldberg Videos
Age of AI
We Are Going (NASA, 2020)
NASA in 2023: A Look Ahead (NASA, 1 Jan 2023)
Fusion Power Explained – Future or Failure (Kurzgesagt)
NASA Considers SpaceX as Emergency Return Option for Stranded ISS Crew (Video)
Current position of Tiangong (Chinese Space Station)
Top Gun: Maverick (2022) - The Bombing Run Scene | Movieclips
Finding the bombing mission from Top Gun and flying it in Google Earth
December 2022
Splashdown! NASA’s Orion capsule lands in the Pacific Ocean (NY Times, 11 Dec 2022)
How To Terraform Mars - WITH LASERS (Kurgestat, 11 Dec 2022)
Fusion energy breakthrough by US scientists boosts clean power hopes (Financial Times, 11 Dec 2022)
Visualizing a Future of Fusion (TAE Technologies, 2017)
Birds Aren't Real: The conspiracy theory that satirizes conspiracy theories (60 minutes, May 2022)
Birds Aren't Real (official website)
Artemis 1 mission overview (Orbital Velocity)
NASA’s historic Artemis I mission is coming to a close (CNN, 5 Dec 2022)
This artist is dominating AI-generated art. And he’s not happy about it. (MIT Tech Review, 16 Sept 2022)
Generative AI is Here. Who Should Control It? (The Fork podcast, 21 Oct 2022)
BattleBots World Championship VII (trailer)
Egg Drop from Space (Mark Rober)
1,000km Cable to the Stars - The Skyhook (via Daniel M)
Skyhook Stock Footage - The Film Gate (source article)
How to Throw an Atlatl (National Geographic) - WikiPedia
November 2022
NASA Future Engineers Challenge (via Saanvi) - Video
Youth Voices: Digital Stories (Levine Museum of the New South) - Roseland Cemetary article / video
Padlet AI Drawing! (via Wyatt) - Our shared collection (please contribute!)
Love Boxes! (Christmas gift for a distant relative?)
Pix-Star Digital Picture Frame (Amazon, $220)
Ambient Mode for Chromecast (use with Nest Hub Smart Displays too!)
China Rocket to Space Station TODAY (AP, 28 Nov 2022)
Why landing a spaceship on the moon is still so challenging (Mashable, 24 Nov 2022)
Human Face on a Wave (DIY Photography, 27 Nov 2022)
Midjourney (another AI-powered text to image platform) - Examples!
Artemis 1 Updates (nasa.gov)
Baby Elephant Meets Journalist (Flipboard, 15 Nov 2022)
Why Championship Chess Sets Are So Expensive (via Vihaan)
Robot Vacuums and Dogs
Roomba Robotic Vacuum (official)
Wyze Robotic Vacuum Review (The Net Guy)
Boston Dynamics sues rival Ghost Robotics for allegedly copying its robot dog (Engadget, 15 Nov 2022)
Ghost Robotics (YouTube)
State-of-the-art Legged Robots at the 4th ICRA 2020 Workshop in Paris (Teaser) - 2020
NASA launches Artemis 1 moon mission on its most powerful rocket ever (Space.com, 16 Nov 2022)
Artemis Program (English WikiPedia)
Artemis 1: The first step in returning astronauts to the moon (Space.com, 16 Nov 2022)
Boeing-built X-37B space plane lands after completing record 908-day orbital mission (Geek Wire, 14 Nov 2022)
Boeing X-37 (English WikiPedia)
Space Shuttle (English Wikipedia)
SR-71 (Google Images)
Artemis 1 Launch Nov 16th (Space,com, 8 Nov 2022)
Why the Moon Landing COULDN'T Have Been Faked | Adam Ruins Everything - video.link
Artemis I Launch on November 14th? (Space.com, 7 Nov 2022)
I turned my C64 into a Theremin (with a spoon, a clamp, and six more components) by Linus Åkesson - video.link
Theremin (English WikiPedia)
Evidence of Ancient Mars Ocean (Space.com, 1 Nov 2022)
The Martian (IMDB, 2015)
US Army digs deeper to develop robotic breachers (Defense News, 3 Nov 2022)
Demo of PDS Construction Time Lapse in Google Earth Pro
Plate Tectonics
Avatar Movie (2009)
Pangaea (WikiPedia)
The 'Space Architects' of Mars | The Age of A.I. (Episode 5) - video.link
Forging a KATANA out of Rusted Iron CHAIN (via Aitan) - video.link
Play Spent Game (via Olivia)
October 2022
Factory Robots! See inside Tesla, Amazon and Audi's operations (supercut)
Fact Check-Child shouting profanity at Jill Biden during Diwali speech is from altered video clip (Reuters, 26 Oct 2022)
UAP News - Today Show (21 Oct 2022)
Darth Vader’s voice will be AI-generated from now on (26 Sept 2022, ArsTechnica)
Rice unveils new ‘Artemis 1’ space-themed uniforms for Week 2 (7 Sept 2022)
Rescue and Restore (YouTube channel via Myles)
Drone Wedding Proposal (via Aitan)
Fact Check-Video does not capture Oct. 8 explosion on bridge linking Russia to Crimea
Switchblade kamikaze drone production to ramp up following Ukraine use
1,000 drones create terrifying dragon on sky, realise childhood imaginations (Indian Express, 4 Oct 2022)
Light show of 2,198 Russian drones sets a world record (3 min, 14 sec)
Using A.I. to build a better human (30:00 to 44:26 - the end)
How A.I. is searching for Aliens (first 10 minutes)
This robot broke a Guinness World Record for the 100-meter dash (Popular Science, 30 Sept 2022) - VIDEO LINK
The Ice Bucket Challenge wasn't just for social media. It helped fund a new ALS drug (NPR, 1 Oct 2022)
Hurricane Ian: Fact-checking images and videos claiming to show scenes from storm (VerifyThis.com, 29 Sept 2022) - VIDEO LINK
September 2022
Using A.I. to build a better human (20:00 to 30:00)
XTURISMO at North American International Auto Show 2022 in Detroit via Twitter (AERWINS)
NASA calls off Artemis 1 moon rocket launch on due to Tropical Storm Ian
NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover Finds Intriguing Organic Matter in Rock (CNET, 18 Sep 2022) - NASA Mars Perseverance Rover
Failure to launch: A look at the delays and possible fixes to NASA’s Artemis I mission
NASA performs vital test ahead of next Artemis I moon rocket launch attempt (ClickOrlando, 21 Sep 2022)
Smooth McGroove (Acapella Youtuber)
Using A.I. to build a better human (first 10 minutes)
Akinator (AI-powered game) - English WikiPedia
Age of AI - Ep 2 (starting at 10:00)
Project Euphonia (Google)
Age of AI - Episode 2 - Tim Shaw (English WikiPedia)
More Major Updates From James Webb Telescope and Cool Discoveries
What’s it like to fly a 1902 Wright Brothers Glider in Kitty Hawk?
3D Periodic Table (via Daniel)
Age of AI - Part 1 "How Much is Too Much" (starting at 9:47 - Will.i.Am - in English WikiPedia)
Mixed Reality
[VIDEO] Introducing Microsoft HoloLens 2 (Feb 2019)
The US Army could soon be equipped with Microsoft Hololens (TechRadar, 5 Sep 2022)
August 2022
Virgin Galactic Spaceflight System - Virgin Galactic (Richard Branson's space company)
Age of AI
Blue Origin / Wally Funk
Jon G's BBQ (Peachland, NC)
Drones: Many Uses
Spot by Boston Dynamics
Avatar (2009)
Introducing Wildcat (2 min - Oct 2013)
Do You Love Me? (2 min - Dec 2020)
“Spot Me Up” | The Rolling Stones & Boston Dynamics (29 Oct 2021 - via The Sun)
Artemis! NASA Returns to the Moon!
Why the Moon? (4.5 min)
The Future of NASA (1 min)
DALLE: AI Made This Thumbnail! (Marques Brownlee)
Top 5 Amazing Space X Landings (Top Fives)
PDS Library Sites
PDS Middle School Library Resources - PDS Thompson-Jones Library
Websites for Cool (family-friendly) Videos:
When Dr. Fryer (@wfryer) and Mrs. Fryer (@sfryer) share a link on Twitter with the hashtag #WonderLink, it's auto-posted to ourwonderlinks.blogspot.com via IFTTT. These are the latest posts! (via Power.io)