May 2025

Discussion Question: Do you believe intelligent extra-terrestrial life exists in our universe?

1. SETI Institute

2. Theatrical Trailer for the Movie, "Contact" (2.5 min)

3. "Contact" movie (1997) on IMDB

4. Michio Kaku

5. More movies / videos on "Mars Videos"

Discussion Question: What do you know about the US Space Force and it's global role?

1. US Space Force (WikiPedia)

2. US Space Force (official)

3. Anti-satellite Weapons (WikiPedia)

4. CyberWarfare (WikiPedia)

5. Videos

   1. US Space Force - America's Invisible Front Line (Documentary) Trailer (1.5 min)

   2. The US Space Force - America's Invisible Front Line (A Documentary Film) (21 min)

April 2025

1. Video: AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton says world is not prepared for what's coming (CBS Sunday Morning, 8 min)

2. Lateral Reading - PowToon (3.5 min)

3. birdsarentreal.com

4. AudioMass: - About - Podcast Deep Dive (via NotebookLM)

March 2025

5. "Extracurricular empowerment: Scott McLeod at TEDxDesMoines"

6. SAGA Space Architects

   1. BBC TechLife Episode (11 March 2025)

   2. Saga Space Architects YouTube

   3. Video: LUNARK - A Journey to the Moon (3 min)

7. Why We Need Pi

8. February 2025 Veritisium video "The Most Useful Thing AI Has Ever Done" (25 min)

9. Minecraft Movie Trailer

10. Science Journal (PDS Upper School Newspaper)

11. Intuitive Machines faces another setback as moon lander tips over (Straight Arrow News, 8 March 2025, 3 min)

12. Intuitive Machines: Athena lunar landing mission over (KHOU, 7 March 2025, 30 sec)

13. Article: Intuitive Machine’s lunar landing goes sideways again (Verge, 6 March 2025)

14. Intuitive Machines

15. Lunar Lander Games

16. Texas company pulls off first fully successful commercial moon landing (CBS News, 2 March 2025)

17. FireFly Aerospace

February 2025

18. 4 Small Habits by Dr. Rangan Chatterjee (ChatGPT)

19. Oasis

20. What the News Should've Told You About China's Space Program

21. Nathaniel's Scratch Project, "Life of a Theater Kid" 

22. Apple debuts iPhone 16e: A powerful new member of the iPhone 16 family

23. Scrollytelling

24. CarsonClough.com

25. Becoming Your Family's Digital Witness: Wes Fryer at TEDxOU

26. Adobe Animate Your Voice for Free

27. Drone locates missing hiker at Crowders Mountain State Park (WBTV Charlotte, NC: 3 Feb 2025)

28. AeroVironment

29. Drones are now launching drones to attack other drones in Ukraine (ArsTechnica, 4 Feb 2025) 

January 2025

30. What is Web Accessibility in 60 seconds! (2 min)

31. What DeepSeek means for America's AI ambitions (CBS News, 28 Jan 2025 - 5 min)

32. Drones at School

33. Drones (peaceful uses)

    1. Drone Wedding Proposal (via Aitan)

    2. 1000 Drones Made This Dragon

    3. 1,000 drones create terrifying dragon on sky, realise childhood imaginations (Indian Express, 4 Oct 2022)

    4. GeoScan - Drone Light Show

    5. Light show of 2,198 Russian drones sets a world record (3 min, 14 sec)

34. Kansas City Chiefs (official homepage)

35. Can we REALLY build on Mars? [SPACE ARCHITECTURE] (18 min)

36. AICentrist.com (created with Canva.com)

37. Mars and Space Exploration

    1. Our Minecraft Mars Unit

    2. President Trump says the US will “plant stars and stripes on planet Mars” (1 min)

    3. (Ghost) Riders In the Sky

    4. NASA And Japan Moon Landing Update! (The Space Race, 17 Jan 2025)

38. Minecraft Creative Build Demo by Edgar (4th Grade)

39. The beauty of data visualization

40. Website design example: Ollivere

    1. Work Section - Behance Portfolio - FlyRibbit.com

41. Websites Need More Mario UI (HyperPlexed, 2 min)

42. Packet Defender 1.0

December 2024

1. This Video is AI Generated! SORA Review (Marques Brownlee, 17 min)

2. When the U.S. recruited Nazis for 'Operation Paperclip' (6 min)

   1. WikiPedia article: "The Diary of Anne Frank"

   2. Annie Jacobsen's book, "Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America" (2015)

3. Disneyland 1955 - Man in Space - Wernher von Braun (4 min) - WikiPedia page

4. Birds Aren't Real: The conspiracy theory that satirizes conspiracy theories (60 Minutes, 13.5 min)

5. Graphic Design for Beginners

6. * Introducing Gamma: Presentations, Websites, and More, powered by AI (2.5 min)

7. A Gamma Refresher (1 min)

* Remember the only authorized and approved AI tool for you to use as a PDS student / for PDS assignments is FlintAI.

November 2024

8. "What Exactly Happened On SpaceX's SIXTH Starship Test Flight!" (The Space Race, 20 Nov 2024)

9. Web Accessibility Perspectives - Compilation of 10 Topics/Videos

10. Minecraft Strip Mining Tutorial (starting at 1:45)

11. OffWorld.ai - Our Mission and Vision - Fall 2023 (3.5 min)

12. Official Website: OffWorld.AI

13. Tales from a Teen Minecraft YouTuber - Rachel Fryer

    1. Application Video (1 min)

    2. TEDx Talk (8 min)

    3. Rachel's YouTube

14. Sort Fact from Fiction Online with Lateral Reading (4 min)

15. Siteimprove Accessibility Checker extension (via Harvard's "Automated Tools for Testing Accessibility" and "Write helpful Alt Text to describe images" webpage

16. How to make your agent mine (2.5 min)

17. Astronaut Eugene Cernan runs and jumps on the Moon

18. Alan Shepard Hits A Golf Ball on the Moon

19. Minecraft Education Challenge Simple Farming

20. TEDxEast - Nancy Duarte uncovers common structure of greatest communicators

21. Meet a puppeteer with a gift for pulling strings (4 min)

October 2024

22. The Ultimate Minecraft 1.20 Crop Farming Guide - Tips and Tricks to Efficiently Grow Food

23. This Is How We Get To Mars (13.5 min)

24. How to Understand Power - Eric Liu (TEDed lesson - via The Kid Should See This)

25. Presentation Zen

    1. Book

    2. Website

    3. Why storytelling matters | Garr Reynolds | TEDxKyoto

26. Lateral Reading (PowToon)

27. Example: Big Food gets kids ADDICTED to food laced with ingredients banned by other countries - Natural News on WikiPedia

28. DataViz Map

29. The beauty of data visualization

30. Scratch "Spooky Stories" (Fall 2023)

31. Behind the scenes of Dyson Farming with James Dyson (6 min)

32. Apple’s Craig Federighi Explains Apple Intelligence Delays, Siri’s Future and More (WSJ, 22 Oct 2024, 11 min)

33. Claude | Computer use for automating operations (Anthropic, 2 min) - more info

34. Scratch Tournament Awards: Star Wars IV: A new hope - Final Scene (The Throne Room) and End Title (2 min)

35. Scratch Tournament Final! Rocky Balboa - Theme Song (4.5 min)

36. What Exactly Happened On SpaceX's FIFTH Starship Test Flight! (16 min)

37. Scratch Maze Hall of Fame

38. Get Creative!

39. Where is ‘David After Dentist’ nearly 15 years after going viral? - David After Dentist (original)

40. A Fair(y) Use Tale (captioned)

41. Becoming Your Family's Digital Witness: Wes Fryer at TEDxOU

42. Mallory saw SPOT (from Boston Dynamics!)

43. Excerpt of "Getting a New Haircut" by Rachel on VoiceThread

44. Should "Happy Birthday" be Protected by Copyright? (7.5 min) via "Understanding Copyright and Fair Use."

September 2024

43. Interview with Mr Venable: "A Custom Hemi and Lots of Motorcycles."

44. Astronaut Christina Koch (from North Carolina!)

    1. NASA Humans in Space page - NASA Bio - WikiPedia Bio

    2. Meet Artemis Team Member Christina Koch (2.5 min)

    3. A Space Journey with NASA Astronaut Christina H. Koch (starting at 4:43)

45. Websites Need More Mario UI (HyperPlexed, 2 min)

46. "Shannon Deegan: How Google's 20 Percent Time Fosters Innovation"  (2.5 min)

47. "The Hidden Genius of Google’s 20% Time - Masters of Scale" (3 min)

48. A Space Journey with NASA Astronaut Christina H. Koch (Jan 2023)

49. Dr F's Fall 2024 Web Design Projects

    1. Church Stewardship: - 2024 site - 2025 site

    2. Mint Hill Historical Society: Old Website - New Version - Oral History Example

50. Elon Musk Reveals NEW Mars Timeline (The Space Race, 11 Sept 2024, 11.5 min)

51. How to create STUNNING web pages in minutes - Adobe Express Tutorial

52. Exemplary Scratch Mazes & Code Talks

53. The Infinite

    1. Official Website

    2. Dr. Fryer's Photos

    3. "We are Going" (3 min, NASA)

54. 2024 Behind the Scenes with Zipline (12 min)

55. Web Design Tutorials

    1. 30 Web Design Tips in 11 Minutes (Brad Hussey)

    2. YouTube Playlist

56. Scratch Tutorials by mrGcoding

57. Spot by Boston Dynamics

    1. Meet Sparkles (1 min)

    2. Dope Tech: Boston Dynamics Robot Dog! (15 min - Marques Brownlee)

    3. New Boston Dynamics Robot (17 April 2024 - 60 sec - Marques Brownlee)

58. Spooky Scratch Stories

59. Drones at School

60. McLaren Speedtail vs F35 Fighter Jet | Top Gear (7 min)

61. Netflix UI Redesign (Hyper Plexed)

62. Mosasaurs 101 | National Geographic - 3 min

    1. Giant sea lizards: fossils in Morocco reveal the astounding diversity of marine life 66 million years ago, just before the asteroid hit (The Conversation)

    2. Mosasaurus Feeding Show Scene - Jurassic World (2015) - 1.5 min

    3. Prehistoric Planet 2 — How Fast Was A Mosasaur? | Apple TV+ - 8 min

63. CRISPR

    1. CRISPR - WikiPedia - Simple English WikiPedia

    2. What is CRISPR? (Wonderopolis)

    3. CRISPR Scratch Animation

    4. CRISPR's Next Advance Is Bigger Than You Think (7.5 min)

    5. Metagenomics (National Human Genome Research Institute)

64. Apple Event - 9 Sept 2024 (1 hour, 38 min)

65. Apple Intelligence on iPhone in 5 minutes

66. Social Media Text Prepper (blog post)

    1. On GitHub

    2. On Dr. F's AI Coding Experiments page

67. How to Make an "About Me" Project in Scratch | Tutorial (8 min)

68. What is Scratch? (4 min)

69. The Internet: IP Addresses & DNS (7 min, Code.org - part of "How the Internet Works" playlist)

70. The Internet: HTTP & HTML (7 min, Code.org - part of "How the Internet Works" playlist)

71. Charlie Brown Teacher Speaking (15 sec)

72. Robot Made Out of Living Cells (45 sec, CleoAbram)

August 2024

1. Artemis Missions - Official Minecraft Trailer (1 min)

2. How SpaceX Will Land On Mars (16 min)

3. Pablo Escobar's Hippos

   1. WikiPedia Articles: Pablo Escobar - Pablo Escobar's Hippos

   2. Video: Pablo Escobar's hippos keep multiplying and Colombia doesn't know how to stop it (CBS Sunday Morning, Feb 2019)

   3. Google News: "Hippos in Columbia"

4. Uluru (Ayer's Rock)

   1. Rain on Uluru (Into the Wild Films, July 2024)

   2. Uluru on WikiPedia

   3. Ayer's Rock Resort

5. Minecraft: Education Edition Camera, Portfolio, and Book & Quill Tutorial (6 min)

6. Flint AI

7. Crowdstrike Incident (July 2024)

   1. What was the Crowdstrike Incident? (38 sec, YouTube short, AI generated, 26 July 2024, "CyBrief?")

   2. Delta hires law firm following software outage, seeking compensation from Microsoft, CrowdStrike (CNBC, 29 July 2024, 2 min)

   3. Remediation and Guidance Hub: Channel File 291 Incident (Crowdstrike)

8. The Internet: Packets, Routing & Reliability  ("How the Internet Works" Part 3 of 8)

9. Lunar Lantern: SEArch+ for ICON's Project Olympus (1.5 min)

10. Plate Tectonics!

    1. WikiPedia - National Geographic

    2. Continental Drift: Alfred Wegener Song by The Amoeba People (3 min)

    3. Science Friday Podcast: Evidence For Liquid Water On Mars | Making Campsite Booking Fairer (16 Aug 2024)

    4. Science Friday (official site)

    5. Plate Tectonics as animated GIFs

11. Building Landing Pads on Mars in Minecraft Education

12. Minecraft Screencast Tours from 2023-24

13. Our Website Designs from Fall 2023

May 2024

14. Fediverse?!

    1. Fediverse (English WikiPedia)

    2. Fediverse Shorts for Beginners: Pt 1: The Free Interconected Social Media (2 min)

    3. Dr. Fryer's social media channels

15. Star Wars 1978 Remix (6 min)

16. Why Is The World Rushing Back To The Moon? (15.5 min)

17. Valles Marineris (English WikiPedia)

18. This Is Where NASA Will Build The First MARS Colony! (10 min)

19. Auroras / Northern Lights over NC!

    1. Northern Lights seen in central NC skies Friday night (2 min)

    2. Millions dazzled over the weekend by Northern Lights (2 min)

    3. Solar storm triggers light show (2 min)

    4. Dr Fryer's 11 May 2024 Aurora over NC Photos

20. An ‘Anti-Communist’ Movement Emerges in Roblox Computer Game Popular Among American Tweens

21. My First EVER Bloxburg House VS NOW! Looking At All My Bloxburg Plots (Roblox) - 15 min

22. The FBI's Most Wanted $100,000,000 Casino Hackers (12 min)

23. AI Music (Example: "Oh AI")

    1. Udio

    2. Suno

24. Getting Started with Microsoft MakeCode Arcade (7 min)

25. Our Amazing Sun

    1. English WikiPedia: Solar Flare - Solar Wind - Aurora Borealis - Carrington Event

    2. Are Star Wars-like Planets Really Out There? (NASA, Dec 2016)

    3. Video: Aurora From Space | Best space videos from NASA and the ISS (2 min)

    4. Article: Spacecraft captures absolutely incredible video of plasma swirling on the sun (Space.com, 6 May 2024)

    5. Article: Sun unleashes X-class solar flare, radio blackouts reported (Space.com, 6 May 2024)

    6. Video: Sun erupts with powerful X1.6 and M4 solar flares, spacecraft sees it (1 min)

    7. Video: Sun's corona seen in 'exquisite detail' in new Solar Orbiter view (45 sec)

    8. Interactive visualization of all current (artificial) satellites in LEO

26. Minecraft Map: Mars Protocol 1 - WE LIVE HERE NOW!

April 2024

27. 5 BEST Farms for a New World! [Minecraft] (10.5 min)

28. Minecraft: Compact Farm Tutorial (7 min)

29. NASA Artemis Lunar Terrain Vehicle (Official NASA Trailer) 1.5 min

30. Lunar Lantern: SEArch+ for ICON's Project Olympus (1.5 min)

31. Behind the scenes of Dyson Farming with James Dyson (6 min)

32. OffWorld.ai - Our Mission and Vision - Fall 2023 (3.5 min)

33. Official Website: OffWorld.AI

34. McLaren Speedtail vs F35 Fighter Jet | Top Gear (7 min)

35. May 11-12, 2024: MCAS Cherry Point Air Show

36. Moon rush: the launch of a lunar economy (27 min)

37. All New Atlas | Boston Dynamics (40 sec)

38. New Electric Atlas Robot Revealed by Boston Dynamics (4 min)

39. EASY Pinewood Derby Car WINS using Science!!! (16 min)

40. Why the Moon Landing COULDN'T Have Been Faked (5 min)

41. Egg Drop Design Trials

42. Starliner / Apollo 1

    1. Apollo 1 and Starliner (WikiPedia)

    2. Starliner to Launch on NASA's Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (1 min, May 2022, NASA)

    3. Boeing's Starliner capsule heads to launch pad for May certification mission (16 April 2024)

    4. Apollo 1 fire rocked NASA, U.S., world 50 years ago: 60-Second Know-It-All

    5. Boeing Starliner is about to launch its first crew. (4 March 2024)

43. What to know about the trillions of cicadas about to swarm the U.S. (CBS News, 4 min)

44. Cicada (English WikiPedia)

45. Habitats on the Moon and Mars

    1. Interstellar Lab | Trailer (1.5 min)

    2. Interstellar Lab - Growing life anywhere ǀ Dassault Systèmes (2.5 min)

    3. BioPod | Concept (4 min)

    4. Bonus: Moon rush: the launch of a lunar economy (30 min)

46. Alice in Wonderland Trailer (2.5 min)

47. RANSOMWARESecond Ransomware Group Extorting Change Healthcare

48. Egg Drop Challenge Videos (Playlist)

49. Birds Aren't Real: The conspiracy theory that satirizes conspiracy theories (60 Minutes, 13.5 min)

50. Dr Fryer's Eclipse Photo from 2017

51. Sycamore School / Middle School Egg Drop Challenge (2 min)

52. DIY Kids Egg Drop Parachute Project (3.5 min)

53. GeoEngineering / "Climate Engineering?" (WikiPedia)

    1. Terraform Mars?

    2. Warming Is Getting Worse. So They Just Tested a Way to Deflect the Sun. (NYTimes, 2 April 2024) #GiftLink

    3. Cloud brightening: First-in-nation tech aims to cool our warming planet (2 min, April 2024)

    4. Marine Cloud Brightening Project (6 min, Dec 2021)

54. Andres Freund saves the day!

    1. Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack? (NYTimes, 3 April 2024)

    2. Open Source Software (WikiPedia)

    3. Linux (WikiPedia)

    4. XZ Utils backdoor (WikiPedia)

    5. The Microsoft Engineer We Should All Be Thanking (TWit)

55. Birds Aren’t Real? How a Conspiracy Takes Flight | Peter McIndoe (13.5 min) - Official Website

56. What is DNA?

57. CRISPR's Next Advance Is Bigger Than You Think (7.5 min)

58. These Crashes Show the Difference 20 Years Has Made to Car Safety | WIRED

59. Lateral Reading (by UofL Research Assistance)

60. Most INSANE Football Laterals (NFL & College)

61. Neil Harbisson (1st human cyborg)

62. Introducing Google Translate for Animals (2 min) - Google Archive

63. 1st place Egg Drop project ideas- using SCIENCE

64. Egg Drop from Space

March 2024

65. ICON at SXSW 2024

    1. Highlights from ICON's Technology Showcase | DOMUS EX MACHINA at SXSW 2024 (3 min)

    2. ICON's Technology Showcase | DOMUS EX MACHINA at SXSW 2024 (1.5 hours)

66. Neuralink's Rival Tests Brain Chip in Race to Bring Implants to Market | WSJ (6.5 min)

67. Catastrophic collision: Cargo ship causes bridge collapse (1.5 min)

    1. AP: Cargo ship hits Baltimore’s Key Bridge, bringing it down. Rescuers are looking for people in water

68. The Universe is Calling: Apply to Be a NASA Astronaut (1.5 min)

69. NASA posts job for full-time astronauts: Here are the requirements (3 min)

70. Meet Jessica Watkins, Crew-4 Mission Specialist (3 min)

    1. Jessica Watkins - NASA Bio

    2. Jessica Watkins - Astronaut (WikiPedia)

71. Meet a puppeteer with a gift for pulling strings (4 min)

    1. Bonus: Scrooge Puppet (1 min)

72. Games and AI

    1. Article: "Google’s Genie game maker is what happens when AI watches 30K hrs of video game" (ArsTechnica, 5 March 2024)

    2. VIDEO: Google Introducing GENIE - First Ever IMAGE-TO-GAME AI (5 min)

    3. Play SCRATCH MAZE GAMES created by Spring 2024 PDS Middle School Coding Students!

    4. Games and Animation Resources (ShowWithMedia.com)

73. Cyberattacks?

    1. WikiPedia: DDoS - BotNet - Ransomware

    2. The Strange Story of the Teens Behind the Mirai Botnet: Their DDos Malware Threatened the Entire Internet (IEEE, 23 May 2023)

    3. FCC opens formal investigation into massive AT&T outage (Washington Post, 7 March 2024)

    4. “Disabling cyberattacks” are hitting critical US water systems, White House warns (ArsTechnica, 19 March 2024)

    5. Four big questions for DC following massive health care hack (Politico, 18 March 2024)

    6. VIDEO: DDos Attack Explained

74. Veritasium

    1. Veritasium on YouTube

    2. Derek Muller (WikiPedia)

75. OpenAI and Figure AI develop humanoid robot (BBC News - Start at 2:00)

76. What will happen to TikTok if the U.S. bans the app? (Today Program)

February 2024

77. Iron Man, Iron Boy: New Arm Prosthetic From Robert Downey Jr.

78. Glitter Bomb 3.0 (Mark Rober)

79. Roblox Sued for 'Child Labor" - Speed Gfx (Axios article)

80. How bridges are built over water?

81. Easy Popsicle Bridge

82. Minecraft Education Edition: How to make a farm agent 9x9

83. Farming with the agent! - MakeCode for Minecraft Code Builder (More on "Minecraft Farming!")

84. Dr Fryer's 34 Second Minecraft Education House Tour Demo

85. Panama Canal - WikiPedia

86. Panama Canal suffering major disruption (BBC, 3.5 min)

87. How the Brain Changes in Childhood and Adolescence (40 sec, Child Mind Institute)

88. The Child’s Developing Brain (NYT interactive animation, 15 Sept 2008)

89. One of the most epic engineering feats in history - Alex Gendler (5 min)

90. Sora AI Video Generation

    1. Sora by OpenAI (official)

    2. Marques Brownlee (WikiPedia)

    3. AI Generated Videos Just Changed Forever (Marques Brownlee)

    4. Introducing Sora — OpenAI’s text-to-video model (10.5 min)

91. Mac versus PC Ads

92. Building the impossible: Golden Gate Bridge - Alex Gendler

93. Golden Gate Bridge | The CRAZY Engineering behind it

94. How To Make A Thumbnail In Scratch 3.0!

95. Good Night Oppy Trailer

96. 5 Bridges That Suddenly Collapsed

97. List of bridge failures (WikiPedia)

98. Middle School Computer Programming Course (2 min)

99. The AI revolution: Google's developers on the future of artificial intelligence | 60 Minutes (27 min)

100. Can Palmer Luckey Reinvent the U.S. Defense Industry? (7.5 min)

101. 3D printing homes on Earth, someday the moon - Minecraft Mars

102. Cyber Attack Threat?

     1. What Really Happened with the Substation Attack in North Carolina? (12 min)

     2. China Hacking Threat: FBI director warns that Chinese hackers are preparing to ‘wreak havoc’ on US critical infrastructure (CNN 31 Jan 2024)

103. Engineering Videos are updated!

     1. Why our new Niners picked ⛏️ Charlotte (44 sec)

     2. Civil Engineering at UNC Charlotte (3 min)

     3. Digital Twin Research Project Announcement (1.5 min)

     4. UNC Charlotte's BATT CAVE drawing national interest (2.5 min)

104. BeBop Stopmotion Animation (YouTube - Legos!) via Addie & "The Kid Should See This!:

January 2024

1. “Spot Me Up” | The Rolling Stones & Boston Dynamics 

2. Map Videos by Domain of Science

3. The Map of Engineering

4. Cyberattack Defense / Offense

   1. DARPA (official site)

   2. The Darpa Experience (60 sec)

   3. DARPA - robots and technologies for the future management of advanced US research | PRO Robots (11.5 min)

   4. Bill Casebeer: Photo - Podcast

   5. How Does the Power Grid Work? (Practical Engineering, 10.5 min)

   6. Voices from DARPA Podcast: Episode 73: The AI Cyber Challenge - CTF, Code, and Critical Infrastructure

   7. US Space Force (official site) - Space Delta 6: Cyberspace Operations, 2.5 min)

   8. Booz Allen Hamilton - CyberSecurity (Alex Fryer)

5. Claude's Music

6. Healed Through AI (10 min) Age of AI Playlist

7. Blues Hog (Original) Pork Ribs (5 min)

8. 3D Printing Houses

   1. ICON 3D Prints the First Simulated Mars Surface Habitat for NASA (60 sec)

   2. 3D printing homes on Earth, someday the moon | 60 Minutes (22.5 min)

   3. ICON - 3D Technology (Austin, Texas)

9. Have I Been Pwned

10. NASA’s robotic, self-assembling structures could be the next phase of space construction (article, 17 Jan 2024)

11. AI Powed Avatars?

    1. Talk with Digital Mark Tuan, Soul Machines first GPT enabled celebrity - soulmachines.com

    2. AI-Generated ‘George Carlin’ Comedy Special Blasted by Comedian’s Daughter (Rolling Stone, 11 Jan 2024)

    3. A New Kind of AI Copy Can Fully Replicate Famous People. The Law Is Powerless. (Politico,  30 Dec 2023)

12. Burj Khalifa Pinnacle BASE Jump - 4K

13. Burj Khalifa | All the Engineering Secrets of the Mega structure

14. Dance Party: AI Edition - Intro to Events - "Code a Dance Party" from Code.org - More Code.org YouTube videos

15. Boston Dynamics: Official website - YouTube videos - Atlas Gets a Grip

16. Age of AI Video 1: "How Far Is Too Far?" - YouTube Playlist

17. What is Engineering?: Crash Course Engineering #1

18. What Most Schools Don't Teach

    1. Code.org

    2. Khan Academy Hour of Code

    3. Scratch Coding Challenges

19. Middle School Coding Class Simulates Mars Colony

20. Padlet "I Can't Draw" - Fall 2022 - Fall 2023 - Spring 2024

21. Google — 25 Years in Search: The Most Searched (YouTube, 4 min)

22. AI Images by Dr Fryer: Flickr album or Google Drive folder

December 2023

23. What Most Schools Don't Teach

    1. Code.org

    2. Khan Academy Hour of Code

    3. Scratch Coding Challenges

24. Ignite Talks

    1. Ignite Talks (WikiPedia)

    2. Dr. Fryer's PDS Ignite Talks

25. Birds Aren't Real

    1. Birds Aren't Real: The conspiracy theory that satirizes conspiracy theories (60 minutes, May 2022)

    2. Birds Aren't Real (official website)

    3. Birds Aren't Real (WikiPedia)

26. AI Games

    1. Semantris

    2. Verse by Verse

27. Fediverse (WikiPedia) - Why does social matter?

    1. Finding Good Ideas

    2. PocketCasts (podxcatcher)

    3. EdTechSR 2023 Holiday Gift Guide

    4. Dot Social Podcast

    5. Morning Epiphany

28. The new GitHub Copilot helps people code 55% faster, says Shuyin Zhao, of GitHub

29. Social Media Text Prepper (blog post)

    1. On GitHub

    2. On Dr. F's AI Coding Experiments page

30. NASA / Mars / Coding

    1. I Was SCARED To Say This To NASA... (But I said it anyway) - Smarter Every Day 293 (Destin Sandlin - WikiPedia)

    2. Welcome to the Minecraft Artemis Missions 

    3. Artemis Missions - Official Minecraft Trailer

    4. Careers in Coding: with NASA and Minecraft Experts (Dr. Fryer's submitted question!)

31. Captain Sully's Minute-by-Minute Description of The Miracle On The Hudson | Inc.

November 2023

32. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982 - IMDB) - Henry Jackson Thomas Jr.

33. Extended Cut | E.T. Came Home For Christmas 🎄☝️ | Sky Christmas Ad 2019

34. Apollo 11 Moon Landing Site Seen in Unprecedented Detail (Space.com)

35. PDS in Minecraft Education

36. Fuzzy Feelings (Apple Ad - 22 Nov 2023) - Added to "Brain Hacking InfoPics"

37. Mars Needs Insects (NYTimes, 27 Nov 2023) #GiftLink

38. AI Bionic Writing (Medium cross-post)

39. Emergency Keychain Car Escape Tool

40. Car Wreck - Emergency Keychain Car Escape Tool

41. Sample Narrated Sketchnote Video (JP Sears - Moon Hoax?)

42. Spherical Architecture

    1. An inside look at the brand new Las Vegas Sphere (NBC, Oct 2023)

    2. Inside the One-of-a-Kind Camera Behind the Sphere’s Immersive Visuals (WSJ, 15 Nov 2023)

    3. Minecraft Mars Colony Protective Dome Update (More Project Info)

    4. ChatGPT 4 Trig calculation for sphere radius (more AI tips)

43. Crispy Clouds in the City by Owen Digital (on Claude's Music page too!)

44. Snopes Fact Check: Is Disney Shutting Down Disney+ in December 2023?

45. The Martian | "The Greatest Botanist" TV Commercial

46. Bit.ly website example

    1. URL Shortening (WikiPedia)

    2. www.bitly.com

    3. yourls.org

    4. Yourls example: wfryer.me/tips and wfryer.me/ideas

47. Falcon Heavy Animation (3.5 min)

48. Where is Elon's Roadster now?

49. Mysterious Lumps in Earth’s Mantle May Be Remains of the Crash That Formed the Moon (Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Nov 2023)

50. A Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled (NY Times, 16 Feb 2023) #GiftLink

51. North Face Videos

    1. Summit Series - by The North Face (30 sec)

    2. The North Face Presents: Earthside (33 min)

52. NFL Most INSANE Lateral Plays (5 min)

53. Privacy and Surveillance

    1. Digital Citizenship in the Surveillance State - TEDx (2017) - Related resources

    2. EFF on Privacy - Biometrics

    3. GDPR - English WikiPedia - Google News

    4. "Big Tech" Regulation (Google News)

54. "Visualizing Our Mars Colony" (created with the new Adobe Express)

55. An EdTechSR Backup Story

56. Behind the scenes: An Apple Event shot on iPhone (2 min video from Apple)

October 2023

57. Activist Hackers Are Racing Into the Israel-Hamas War (Wired, 9 Oct 2023)

58. Video Star iPad App

    1. "I Want It That Way" Fan Video

    2. "Naturally" Fan Video

59. Social Media Text Prepper  (Dr. Fryer's 2nd AI app experiment)

60. "AI Tips and Tricks" by Dr. Fryer

61. ChatGPT4 DAL-E 3 Image Generation

62. Civil War Soldiers - Media Kit Webpage Examples

    1. Created with Google Sites

    2. Created with Adobe Express

63. OSIRIS-REx mission (NASA)

    1. NASA Unable To Remove Remaining Asteroid Sample From Container, Working On New Ways

64. Streambeats (and Storychasers Resources)

65. Daily Create: "Website in 5 Minutes with AI"

    1. Dr. Fryer created this website using just these words using this website (Gamma AI app)

    2. Background of this AI Test

    3. Generative AI and Media Tips (Oct 2023)

    4. The official DS106 "Daily Create"

    5. Google Form for Students: "Submit Your Website AI Prompt!"

    6. VIEW our (student) Gamma.app Generated Websites

66. Creative Commons: Wanna Work Together? (3 min)

67. CreativeCommons.org

68. How Opportunity Shocked NASA Scientists (Astrum)

69. MaKey MaKey - An Invention Kit for Everyone (official website)

70. Content Management Systems

    1. What is a Content Management System? (Optimizely)

    2. What is a CMS Content Management System - 2022

    3. List of Content Management Systems (English WikiPedia)

    4. Drupal

    5. WordPress

71. 3D Printing Buildings

    1. Space Architects of Mars (18:34)

    2. ICON - 3D Technology (Austin, Texas)

    3. 3D printing homes on Earth, someday the moon | 60 Minutes

72. Dr Fryer's recent creations

    1. Heal Our Culture (Thanks Zoe for inspiration to add Black History resources)

    2. Sprites for Scratch

73. "Godfather of AI" Geoffrey Hinton: The 60 Minutes Interview (13 min)

74. Why NASA Chose WordPress for Revamping Its Flagship Website

    1. For All Userkind: NASA Web Modernization and WordPress (VIDEO, 47 min)

75. Meta Smart Glasses

    1. [VIDEO] Meta's Big News: Tech Giant Launches Quest 3, AI Chatbot & Ray-Ban Smart Glasses (CNBC)

    2. [VIDEO] The Ray-Ban Meta are a pair of smart glasses you'll actually want to wear (CNN)

    3. [VIDEO] Ray-Ban and Meta Team up to Develop the Best Smart Glasses Yet (Interesting Engineering)

    4. Google Glass (English WikiPedia)

    5. Meta: Introducing the Next-Generation Ray-Ban | Meta Smart Glasses Collection

76. Scratch Animations! Mars and Space!

    1. Starship Explosion Video: Watch Elon Musk's Rocket Explode After Launch | WSJ

    2. About Starshop - by SpaceX

    3. Starship Mission to Mars

77. Create a website with ChatGPT from a Whiteboard Drawing

78. MakerSpace War

79. Google News: Mars

    1. List of Missions to Mars (English WikiPedia)

    2. Apollo 13 - Rocket Launch Scene

80. Podcast: Food Science: Stories about things we eat

    1. The Story Collider

    2. Dr. Murphy's "Real Time Science" (on TikTok)

81. PBS Newshour Classroom (Daily News Lessons)

82. Global Voices Project

September 2023

83. Minecraft Farming Videos!

84. Stephen Fry ‘Shocked’ to Discover AI Stole His Voice From ‘Harry Potter’ Audiobooks and Replicated It Without Consent, Says His Agents ‘Went Ballistic’ (Variety, 19 Sept 2023)

85. Eleven Labs

86. Bing AI Chat

87. ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak (OpenAI blog, 25 Sept 2023)

88. Minecraft Education Challenge Simple BOT Farming

89. Giant sea lizards: fossils in Morocco reveal the astounding diversity of marine life 66 million years ago, just before the asteroid hit (The Conversation)

    1. Mosasaurs 101 | National Geographic - 3 min

    2. Mosasaurus Feeding Show Scene - Jurassic World (2015) - 1.5 min

    3. Prehistoric Planet 2 — How Fast Was A Mosasaur? | Apple TV+ - 8 min

90. ChatGPT and Tokens

    1. How ChatGPT Works Technically | ChatGPT Architecture

    2. Tokenizer from ChatGPT / OpenAI

91. Using the Clone blocks in Scratch

92. Self Driving Cars!

    1. Tesla Self Driving vs Everyday Roads! (Marques Brownlee)

    2. Why Self Driving Cars Matter (screencast version)

93. Robots on Mars?!

    1. "We Are Going" (NASA)

    2. The 'Space Architects' of Mars ( from YouTube series "The Age of A.I.")

94. Minecraft Creative Build Demo by Edgar (4th Grade)

95. Minecraft Education Edition Coding: Flower Trail

96. What Most Schools Don't Teach (Code.org, 10 years ago)

97. Apple Event - September 12, 2023 (first 4 minutes)

98. Introduction to Code Builder and Chicken Rain in Minecraft: Education Edition

99. Welcome to Minecraft Education (72 sec) and Could these robots build a base on Mars? (CNN, 2 min)

100. IMDb (IMDB in English WikiPedia)

101. Ghost Shark Drone Submarines

     1. The Hunt for Red October (1990, PG, via IMDB)

     2. In U.S.-China AI contest, the race is on to deploy killer robots (Reuters, 8 Sept 2023)

     3. Anduril Systems - Underwater Vehicles

     4. Anduril Industries, Inc

102. Hurricane Lee

     1. National Hurricane Center updates on Lee

     2. Google News "Full Coverage" on "Hurricane, storm"

103. Japan launches 'moon sniper' lunar lander SLIM into space (Reuters)

104. List of Missions to the Moon (English WikiPedia)

105. The Internet: Packets, Routing & Reliability  ("How the Internet Works" Part 3 of 8)

106. The Chandrayaan-3 Moon Lander Has Been Seen From Space (IFL Science)

107. Russia's Crashed Luna-25 Mission Made A New Crater On The Moon (IFL Science)

108. The 'Biology' of Horizon Zero Dawn (WikiPedia entry)

August 2023

109. Scratch Trail Effect Tutorial - via The Effects Studio

110. Champion-level Drone Racing using Deep Reinforcement Learning (Nature, 2023)

111. Generative AI Art Demo

     1. Google Slides AI Images ("Help Me Visualize")

     2. Ideogram

     3. Padlet "I Can't Draw" - Fall 2022 - Fall 2023

112. A.I. Brings the Robot Wingman to Aerial Combat (NY Times, #GiftLink)

     1. Star Wars Ep 1 - Phantom Menace (IMDB)

     2. Trade Federation invade Naboo (53 sec)

     3. XQ-58A Valkyrie: English WikiPedia - AF Research Lab

113. Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek (NY Times)

114. Examplary Scratch Mazes

115. Responsive Web Design (in 90 seconds)

116. Welcome to Minecraft Education (72 sec)

117. "Influencer School in Asia?"

118. Why India’s Chandrayaan-3 Moon Landing Isn’t Just About Science | WSJ

119. Russia's unmanned Luna-25 spacecraft smashes into the moon (Reuters)

120. Student YouTubers (a page by Dr. Fryer)

121. 12 People Who Blur The Line Between Science And Art (via Charlie D)

122. How The Internet Works (Playlist from code.org)

123. Google News: news.google.com

124. Popular Scratch Studios

125. Google Earth (for the web - Check out "I Feel Lucky" and "Voyager" stories!) - "The Geometry of Castles" - Watch this 3.5 minute video tutorial!

126. Day 1 Vote Videos

     1. Golden Retrievers versus Beef Rib Bone

     2. Unforgettable Encounter: Majestic Black Bear Takes a Dip at Grandfather Mountain

     3. Hike to Linville Falls Overlook (Blue Ridge Parkway)

     4. Sweet Pulled Pork: Smoked Perfection on my RecTeq Wood Pellet Smoker!

Class Color Codes (Spring 2023): Media Literacy - Robotics - Engineering Design

May 2023

127. The Martian (2015)

128. The A.I Dilemma [VIDEO]

129. Landroid Robot Mower

     1. The Worx Landroid- 3 Models, So Many Features (72 sec)

     2. Save Time with WORX Landroid (1 min, 37 sec)

     3. Landroid by Worx ($1000 model)

130. Space Stuff

     1. What are the odds of a successful space launch? (BBC News, 19 May 2023)

     2. “China is unusually secretive about its space programme” (Economist, 18 May 2023)

     3. NASA, Rocket Lab Announce Coverage for Second TROPICS Launch (16 May 2023)

     4. [VIDEO] The Rocket Lab Story (3 min)

     5. Rocket Lab USA (official website)

     6. [VIDEO] Rocket Lab 'Rocket Like a Hurricane' Launch

     7. US Space Force

     8. Goodnight Oppy (Amazon Prime)

131. 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)

     1. Remember "Voice Synthesis" in the "Age of AI - Ep 2?)

     2. AI Tools (Wakelet by Dr Fryer)

132. 'Godfather of AI' discusses dangers the developing technologies pose to society

133. How NASA Reinvented The Wheel (2010 Shanghai World Expo: Day 1 - Day 2 - Video

134. Mouse Versus Cookie

135. How to easily win any Egg Drop Challenge (Ryan Kung)

136. NASA Artemis 2 Astronauts

137. The Spacewalk That Almost Killed Him (Smithsonian Magazine, May 2014)

138. Navy SEAL Astronaut on Space Station Interview

April 2023

139. NASA Artemis Videos

     1. Artemis II: Mission Overview

     2. Artemis II: Meet the Astronauts Who will Fly Around the Moon (Official NASA Video)

140. Birds Aren't Real

     1. Birds Aren't Real: The conspiracy theory that satirizes conspiracy theories (60 minutes, May 2022)

     2. Birds Aren't Real (official website)

141. MOLTEN GLASS VS Prince Rupert's Drop - Smarter Every Day 285

142. The AIM-9 Sidewinder Missile - Smarter Every Day 282 (8 min)

143. Chip War?

     1. Survey: Chance of War with China?

     2. Book by Chris Miller: Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

     3. Semiconductor (English WikiPedia)

     4. Taiwan (English WikiPedia)

     5. Huawei (English WikiPedia)

     6. Huawei Ban (Google News)

     7.  The Most Amazing — and Dangerous — Technology in the World - Ezra Klein interview with Chris Miller - 4 April 2023 (thread)

     8. [VIDEO] Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio (start at 7:47)

144. AI Danger

     1. Erik Hoel on the Threat to Humanity from AI

     2. You and the Atomic Bomb (George Orwell, 1945)

     3. Meta’s powerful AI language model has leaked online — what happens now? (Verge, 8 March 2023)

145. The AI revolution: Google's developers on the future of artificial intelligence | 60 Minutes

146. Burj Khalifa Pinnacle BASE Jump - 4K

147. Burj Khalifa | All the Engineering Secrets of the Mega structure

148. Robots in NYC

     1. [VIDEO] RoboCop? No, RoboDog: Robotic dog rejoins New York police

     2. NYPD robocops: Hulking, 400-lb robots will start patrolling New York City

     3. [VIDEO] Robot security downtown getting lots of attention

149. Sharing Middle School Dance Media

150. Farms of the Future

     1. The Futuristic Farms That Will Feed the World | Freethink | Future of Food

     2. Tour an AQUAPONICS FARM in Texas 🐟 + 🌿= 🤠 Sustainable Harvesters

151. Meet a puppeteer with a gift for pulling strings

152. Water-related Construction Projects & Budgeting

     1. Why Construction Projects Always Go Over Budget (18.5 min)

     2. Why New York City Still Uses Wooden Water Towers - Cheddar Explains (6 min)

     3. Time Lapse Video of Water Tank Construction in Spring Hill, TN (6 min)

     4. Mini Hydroelectricity With 4 Extremely Powerful Water Outlets (14 min)

153. Inspirit Scholars (AI Summer Program from Stanford)

154. 60 Minutes [VIDEO]: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope | 60 Minutes Archive (from Dec 2021)

155. 60 Minutes [VIDEO]: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope: Stunning new images captured of the universe (13 min)

156. Building Water Towers

     1. How Water Towers Work (Practical Engineering)

     2. Don't Get Neil Tyson Started on Water Towers

     3. #53 Building our Water Tower Part #1

     4. Building a Water Tower with Tim Berry

     5. HABU \\ Building A Water Tower In Africa/Benin

     6. On Mission Installing Water Tower 2016

157. Surviving Dachau, Liberating Mauthausen (following April 4th assembly presentation on Auschwitz)

158. Chernobyl

     1. Introducing CHIMP (Dr. Fryer's Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy photos) - Chernobyl robot

     2. Chernobyl disaster (edited video clip)

     3. The Real Story Behind ‘Chernobyl’s Joker Robot Is Even Sadder Than on the Show

     4. Chernobyl - What It's Like Today

159. Golden Texas BBQ

March 2023

1. Age of AI (playlist)

2. Did We Just Change Animation Forever?

3. Ender's Game Trailer

4. The Greatest haka EVER?

5. MidJourney

   1. MidJourney - English WikiPedia

   2. The swagged-out pope is an AI fake

   3. Midjourney v5 vs v4: Crisp Visual Comparison Of A Massive Leap In Cinematic Photorealism

   4. AI and the American Smile

6. Autonomous Animation

   1. Soul Machines Human OS 2.0

   2. Podcast: Encore: AI births digital humans

   3. Soul Machines

   4. Five Levels of Autonomous Animation: Updated Framework to Improve Human-Machine Collaboration

   5. How AI is helping birth digital humans that look and sound just like us

   6. Capitol Records drops ‘offensive’ AI rapper FN Meka after outcry over racial stereotyping

   7. How Far is Too Far? | The Age of A.I.

7. Bill Gates on AI and the rapidly evolving future of computing (Microsoft "Behind the Tech")

8. I’ve Got a HUGE Secret Hiding Behind This Fake Office (Mark Rober)

9. Social Media Laws / Proposed Laws

   1. Utah governor signs law to restrict social media access for kids and teens (NBC News)

   2. Will TikTok Actually Be Banned in the U.S.? (Now This News)

10. The Art of Smart Brevity - Write Less, Say More | Jim VandeHei (blog post)

11. ChatGPT Stuff

    1. Sam Altman (English WikiPedia)

    2. OpenAI CEO, CTO on risks and how AI will reshape society

    3. Transcending Political Polarization

12. Drones

    1. Amazing Invention- This Drone Will Change Everything (Mark Rober)

    2. FlyZipLine

    3. Drones Above Ukraine (Angry Planet)

13. Pinewood Derby - Part One - SOLIDWORKS - Solidworks software

14. Factory Robots! See inside Tesla, Amazon and Audi's operations (supercut)

15. World champions of pinewood derby racing (2017)

16. Five tips for fastest pinewood derby car - THE ORIGINAL (2014)

17. Mini-Drones

    1. Black Hornet Nano (military drone)

    2. September 11th Attacks on the United States

    3. Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan (2010)

    4. Doug Stanton discusses "Horse Soldiers" (video - 3 min)

    5. What can a Black Hornet drone do?

    6. U.S. Withdrawl from Afghanistan 2020-2021

18. Egg Drop from Space (via Tyler)

19. ChatGPT

    1. Bing’s A.I. Chat: ‘I Want to Be Alive. (NYTimes) 

    2. The Bing Who Loved Me, and Elon Rewrites the Algorithm (Hard Fork podcast)

    3. Inside the Minds of Spiders, Octopuses and Artificial Intelligence (podcast)

February 2023

160. Kid CHANGES His GRADES By HACKING, He Lives To Regret It | Dhar Mann (via Kris)

161. Durable AI website generator

162. Pictionary Generator

163. Recommended Chrome Extensions (including Earth View)

164. GeoMaps!

165. LEGO EV3 & Scratch 3.0 - Pairing Devices

166. EASY Pinewood Derby Car WINS using Science!!! (Mark Rober)

167. Teen Social Media Influencers

     1. "TikTok's teens want to be famous. But at what cost?" by CBS Reports (April 2022)

     2. Tales from a Teen Minecraft YouTuber (2017)

168. Web Tracking by CodeHS

169. Minecraft PC - How to Build Kawaii/Cute Animals in Minecraft (Rachel Fryer)

170. AI Games: Go

     1. Go Game (English WikiPedia)

     2. AI vs. Human: The Greatest Go Tournament Ever (2017)

     3. Man beats machine at Go in human victory over AI (19 Feb 2023)

171. NASA: We Are American Ingenuity (4 min)

172. The Science of Measurement | Metrology Matters

173. Adam Savage on the Science of Measurement (starts at 7:15)

174. Why The Moon? (NASA)

175. The Map of Engineering 

176. Meet Jessica Watkins, Crew-4 Mission Specialist

177. Biomimicry

178. Engineering In Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment (Practical Engineering)

179. What Really Happened with the Substation Attack in North Carolina? (background Wakelet) - by Grady Hillhouse

180. Types of Engineering

181. Built for Mars: The Perseverance Rover (IMDB - Disney Plus)

182. Drones (peaceful uses)

     1. Drone Wedding Proposal (via Aitan)

     2. 1000 Drones Made This Dragon

     3. 1,000 drones create terrifying dragon on sky, realise childhood imaginations (Indian Express, 4 Oct 2022)

     4. GeoScan - Drone Light Show

     5. Light show of 2,198 Russian drones sets a world record (3 min, 14 sec)

183. Veratisium - Derek Muller

184. ChatGPT

     1. Dr. Fryer used ChatGPT to created a summarized version of the longer obituary he wrote for his mom

     2. ChatGPT: Grading artificial intelligence's writing (CBS Sunday Morning)

     3. Why OpenAI’s ChatGPT Is Such A Big Deal (CNBC)

185. Promo: Intro to Robotics!

186. Car Thieves vs the Final GlitterBomb 5.0

187. Chinese Balloon Shut Down

     1. What’s inside China’s spy balloon? Former CIA director explains

     2. Lawmakers react to US shooting down suspected Chinese spy balloon (Scripts News)

     3. Solving the mystery of the Chinese spy balloon (CBS Sunday Morning)

     4. Sputnik 1 (1957)

     5. Gary Powers / 1960 U-2 Incident

     6. USAF F-22

     7. Podcast with Andy Kim: Worried about War with China?

188. Glitterbomb 3.0 vs. Porch Pirates

189. PDS MS Student Scratch Mazes (Spring 2023)

190. 1,000 Blind People See For The First Time (Mr Beast)

191. Top Gun: Maverick - Official Trailer IN LEGO

January 2023

192. Pranks Destroy Scam Callers- GlitterBomb Payback

193. Why Boston Dynamics is Building a Super Robot Army (7.5 min)

194. New Podcast: "Wes and Shelly Share"

195. Picnic on the Blue Ridge Parkway with CapCut!

196. Glitter Bomb 2.0 vs Porch Pirates (Mark Rober video)

197. Super Soaker

     1. Wonderopolis: "Who Invented the Super Soaker?"

     2. [VIDEO] The NASA Scientist Who Invented the Super Soaker (2.5 min)

     3. Lonnie Johnson (inventor)

198. Interested in Flying / Aerospace?

     1. Young Eagle's Program / Eagle Flights

     2. Rachel and Sarah Go Flying (photo album)

199. Why The Moon?

200. Goodnight Oppy (2022) IMDB - Amazon Prime

201. First of its kind rocket launch set for Wallops Flight Facility

202. Rocket Lab

203. ChatGPT Javascript Challenge with IFTTT

204. Why the Moon Landing COULDN'T Have Been Faked | Adam Ruins Everything

205. Mark Rober Videos

206. Why Boston Dynamics is Building a Super Robot Army

207. Boston Dynamics

     1. Atlas Gets a Grip (1:20)

     2. Inside the Lab: Taking Atlas From Sim to Scaffold (9:46)

208. Age of AI: Episode 1 (last 10 minutes)

209. Self-Uprighting Balancing LEGO SUMO-Bots

210. Animated Animal Face Preview

     1. Biomimickry Robots

     2. Roxie the Greeting Robot (CS2N)

211. Rube Goldberg Videos

     1. Audri's Rube Goldberg Monster Trap

     2. GoldieBlox & Rube Goldberg "Princess Machine"

     3. OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - Rube Goldberg Machine

212. Age of AI

     1. The Age of A.I. | Official Trailer

     2. YouTube Playlist: The Age of A.I.

213. Engineering Design Videos

214. We Are Going (NASA, 2020)

215. NASA in 2023: A Look Ahead (NASA, 1 Jan 2023)

216. Fusion Power Explained – Future or Failure (Kurzgesagt)

217. NASA Considers SpaceX as Emergency Return Option for Stranded ISS Crew (Video)

218. Live Space Station Tracking Map (ISS)

219. Current position of Tiangong (Chinese Space Station)

220. Winter Storm Elliot Visualization

221. Top Gun Maverick Trailer

222. Top Gun: Maverick (2022) - The Bombing Run Scene | Movieclips

223. Finding the bombing mission from Top Gun and flying it in Google Earth

224. Space Force

225. US Air Force Academy

226. Christmas with the Villagers (Minecraft Animation)

227. ChatGPT from Open AI

228. Padlet Generative AI Shared collection

December 2022

229. Splashdown! NASA’s Orion capsule lands in the Pacific Ocean (NY Times, 11 Dec 2022)

230. How To Terraform Mars - WITH LASERS (Kurgestat, 11 Dec 2022)

231. Fusion energy breakthrough by US scientists boosts clean power hopes (Financial Times, 11 Dec 2022)

232. Visualizing a Future of Fusion (TAE Technologies, 2017)

233. Lensa AI Slideshow - Lensa AI app

234. Birds Aren't Real: The conspiracy theory that satirizes conspiracy theories (60 minutes, May 2022)

235. Birds Aren't Real (official website)

236. Artemis 1 mission overview (Orbital Velocity)

237. NASA’s historic Artemis I mission is coming to a close (CNN, 5 Dec 2022)

238. This artist is dominating AI-generated art. And he’s not happy about it. (MIT Tech Review, 16 Sept 2022)

239. Generative AI is Here. Who Should Control It? (The Fork podcast, 21 Oct 2022)

240. BattleBots World Championship VII  (trailer)

241. Egg Drop from Space (Mark Rober)

242. 1,000km Cable to the Stars - The Skyhook (via Daniel M)

     1. USAF MC-130

     2. Human Pick-up Tests At Wright Field, 1943 (source article)

     3. Skyhook Stock Footage - The Film Gate (source article)

     4. How to Throw an Atlatl (National Geographic) - WikiPedia

November 2022

243. NASA Future Engineers Challenge (via Saanvi) - Video

244. Youth Voices: Digital Stories (Levine Museum of the New South) - Roseland Cemetary article / video

245. Padlet AI Drawing! (via Wyatt) - Our shared collection (please contribute!)

246. Love Boxes! (Christmas gift for a distant relative?)

     1. Pix-Star Digital Picture Frame (Amazon, $220)

     2. Ambient Mode for Chromecast (use with Nest Hub Smart Displays too!)

247. China Rocket to Space Station TODAY (AP, 28 Nov 2022)

248. Why landing a spaceship on the moon is still so challenging (Mashable, 24 Nov 2022)

249. Human Face on a Wave (DIY Photography, 27 Nov 2022)

250. Midjourney (another AI-powered text to image platform) - Examples!

251. Artemis 1 Updates (nasa.gov)

     1. Slow Motion Liftoff of Artemis 1

     2. Artemis All Access – Updates on Orion's Journey in Space - 11/23/2022 (3 min, 44 sec)

     3. Track Artemis

252. Baby Elephant Meets Journalist (Flipboard, 15 Nov 2022)

253. Why Championship Chess Sets Are So Expensive (via Vihaan)

254. Sample Wonder Links Portfolio Page

255. Robot Vacuums and Dogs

     1. Roomba Robotic Vacuum (official)

     2. Wyze Robotic Vacuum Review (The Net Guy)

     3. Boston Dynamics sues rival Ghost Robotics for allegedly copying its robot dog (Engadget, 15 Nov 2022)

     4. Ghost Robotics (YouTube)

     5. State-of-the-art Legged Robots at the 4th ICRA 2020 Workshop in Paris (Teaser) - 2020

256. NASA launches Artemis 1 moon mission on its most powerful rocket ever (Space.com, 16 Nov 2022)

     1. Artemis Program (English WikiPedia)

     2. Artemis 1: The first step in returning astronauts to the moon (Space.com, 16 Nov 2022)

257. Boeing-built X-37B space plane lands after completing record 908-day orbital mission (Geek Wire, 14 Nov 2022)

     1. Boeing X-37 (English WikiPedia)

     2. Bell X-1: Breaking the Sound Barrier - Documentary (1997)

     3. Virgin Galactic

     4. Space Shuttle (English Wikipedia)

     5. SR-71 (Google Images)

258. Artemis 1 Launch Nov 16th (Space,com, 8 Nov 2022)

259. Why the Moon Landing COULDN'T Have Been Faked | Adam Ruins Everything - video.link

260. Artemis I Launch on November 14th? (Space.com, 7 Nov 2022)

261. I turned my C64 into a Theremin (with a spoon, a clamp, and six more components) by Linus Åkesson - video.link

     1. Theremin (English WikiPedia)

262. Evidence of Ancient Mars Ocean (Space.com, 1 Nov 2022)

263. The Martian (IMDB, 2015)

264. US Army digs deeper to develop robotic breachers (Defense News, 3 Nov 2022)

265. Time Lapse in Google Earth

     1. Demo of PDS Construction Time Lapse in Google Earth Pro

     2. Learn more!

266. Plate Tectonics

     1. Mars Earthquake

     2. Avatar Movie (2009)

     3. Pangaea (WikiPedia)

     4. Continental Drift Video

267. The 'Space Architects' of Mars | The Age of A.I. (Episode 5) - video.link

268. Forging a KATANA out of Rusted Iron CHAIN (via Aitan) - video.link

269. Play Spent Game (via Olivia)

October 2022

270. Factory Robots! See inside Tesla, Amazon and Audi's operations (supercut)

271. Mr Beast Valuation

272. Max Owens '22 Builds a Flying Manned Vehicle

273. 4 Ocean Project - YouTube - Video Link version

274. Diver and Whale Shark

275. Fact Check-Child shouting profanity at Jill Biden during Diwali speech is from altered video clip (Reuters, 26 Oct 2022)

276. UAP News - Today Show (21 Oct 2022)

277. Darth Vader - Best Moments (Video.link)

278. Darth Vader’s voice will be AI-generated from now on (26 Sept 2022, ArsTechnica)

279. Rice unveils new ‘Artemis 1’ space-themed uniforms for Week 2 (7 Sept 2022)

280. OneKitProjects (Robotics Class Survey!)

281. Rescue and Restore (YouTube channel via Myles)

282. Drone Wedding Proposal (via Aitan)

283. Fact Check-Video does not capture Oct. 8 explosion on bridge linking Russia to Crimea

284. Awesome Archer by Max

285. Switchblade kamikaze drone production to ramp up following Ukraine use

286. 1000 Drones Made This Dragon

     1. 1,000 drones create terrifying dragon on sky, realise childhood imaginations (Indian Express, 4 Oct 2022)

     2. GeoScan - Drone Light Show

     3. Light show of 2,198 Russian drones sets a world record (3 min, 14 sec)

287. Using A.I. to build a better human (30:00 to 44:26 - the end)

288. How A.I. is searching for Aliens (first 10 minutes)

289. This robot broke a Guinness World Record for the 100-meter dash (Popular Science, 30 Sept 2022) - VIDEO LINK

290. The Ice Bucket Challenge wasn't just for social media. It helped fund a new ALS drug (NPR, 1 Oct 2022)

291. Hurricane Ian: Fact-checking images and videos claiming to show scenes from storm (VerifyThis.com, 29 Sept 2022) - VIDEO LINK

September 2022

1. Using A.I. to build a better human (20:00 to 30:00)

2. XTURISMO at North American International Auto Show 2022 in Detroit via Twitter (AERWINS)

3. NASA calls off Artemis 1 moon rocket launch on due to Tropical Storm Ian

4. NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover Finds Intriguing Organic Matter in Rock (CNET, 18 Sep 2022) - NASA Mars Perseverance Rover

5. Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum 

6. Wonderopolis

7. LEGO Great Ball Contraption

8. Failure to launch: A look at the delays and possible fixes to NASA’s Artemis I mission 

9. NASA performs vital test ahead of next Artemis I moon rocket launch attempt (ClickOrlando, 21 Sep 2022)

10. Smooth McGroove (Acapella Youtuber)

11. Using A.I. to build a better human (first 10 minutes)

12. Rat Snake Removal with Snake Tongs

13. Drones on the Battlefield

14. Deflect an Asteroid by Ramming It - DART

15. Akinator  (AI-powered game) - English WikiPedia

16. Age of AI - Ep 2 (starting at 10:00)

17. Project Euphonia (Google)

18. Age of AI - Episode 2 - Tim Shaw (English WikiPedia)

19. NASA Artemis Wallpaper

20. More Major Updates From James Webb Telescope and Cool Discoveries

21. Alike, an animated short film

22. How do you make churros at home?

23. What’s it like to fly a 1902 Wright Brothers Glider in Kitty Hawk?

24. 3D Periodic Table (via Daniel)

25. The Kid Should See This!

26. Introducing Google Translate for Animals

27. Clip from Pixar Movie "Up" (2009)

28. Age of AI - Part 1 "How Much is Too Much" (starting at 9:47 - Will.i.Am - in English WikiPedia)

29. Mixed Reality

    1. Microsoft Hololens (English WikiPedia)

    2. [VIDEO] Introducing Microsoft HoloLens 2 (Feb 2019)

    3. The US Army could soon be equipped with Microsoft Hololens (TechRadar, 5 Sep 2022)

August 2022

30. Virgin Galactic Spaceflight System  - Virgin Galactic (Richard Branson's space company)

31. NASA plans to launch Artemis this Saturday (Sept 3)

32. Age of AI

    1. The Age of A.I. | Official Trailer

    2. YouTube Playlist: The Age of A.I.

33. Blue Origin / Wally Funk

    1. StoryCorps: “I Never Let Anything Stop Me”: One Woman Recalls Her Determination To Go To Space

    2. Blue Origin: Official website - English WikiPedia

    3. Video: Blue Origin New Shepherd Launch with Jeff Bezos and Wally Funk

34. Artemis I: We Are Ready

35. NASA Artemis Website

36. Charles Moore: I Fight With My Camera

37. Jon G's BBQ (Peachland, NC)

    1. Dr. Fryer's Birthday Video

    2. Jon G's Official Website

38. Drones: Many Uses

    1. Drone Through a Bowling Alley

    2. Teaching drone swarms to assist in search and rescue efforts

    3. Quadrocopter Fire Drone

    4. Trabajos con drones | Aerocamaras Especialistas en Drones

    5. The Switchblade "kamikaze" drone (CBS Sunday Morning)

    6. Ukrainian Soldiers show Switchblade suicide drone in action

    7. The Stop Killer Robots campaign

    8. stopkillerrobots.org

39. Spot by Boston Dynamics

    1. Avatar (2009)

    2. Introducing Wildcat (2 min - Oct 2013)

    3. Do You Love Me? (2 min - Dec 2020)

    4. “Spot Me Up” | The Rolling Stones & Boston Dynamics (29 Oct 2021 - via The Sun)

40. Artemis! NASA Returns to the Moon!

    1. Why the Moon? (4.5 min)

    2. The Future of NASA (1 min)

    3. Priming NASA's Artemis I for Launch to the Moon (3 min)

41. DALLE: AI Made This Thumbnail! (Marques Brownlee)

42. OpenAI: Dall-e-2

43. ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com

44. Top 5 Amazing Space X Landings (Top Fives)

45. Here's Elon Musk's favorite SpaceX explosions

46. Space X