Class Color Codes (2024-25): Media Literacy - Web Design - Computer Programming - Everyone!
Class Color Codes (2023-24): Media Literacy - Web Design - Computer Programming - Engineering - Everyone!
Also see: "Wonder Link" YouTube Playlist - "Web Design" YouTube Playlist
December 2024
Disneyland 1955 - Man in Space - Wernher von Braun (4 min) - WikiPedia page
Birds Aren't Real: The conspiracy theory that satirizes conspiracy theories (60 Minutes, 13.5 min)
* Introducing Gamma: Presentations, Websites, and More, powered by AI (2.5 min)
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
"What Exactly Happened On SpaceX's SIXTH Starship Test Flight!" (The Space Race, 20 Nov 2024)
Web Accessibility Perspectives - Compilation of 10 Topics/Videos
Minecraft Strip Mining Tutorial (starting at 1:45)
Tales from a Teen Minecraft YouTuber - Rachel Fryer
Application Video (1 min)
TEDx Talk (8 min)
Siteimprove Accessibility Checker extension (via Harvard's "Automated Tools for Testing Accessibility" and "Write helpful Alt Text to describe images" webpage
How to make your agent mine (2.5 min)
TEDxEast - Nancy Duarte uncovers common structure of greatest communicators
October 2024
The Ultimate Minecraft 1.20 Crop Farming Guide - Tips and Tricks to Efficiently Grow Food
This Is How We Get To Mars (13.5 min)
How to Understand Power - Eric Liu (TEDed lesson - via The Kid Should See This)
Presentation Zen
Lateral Reading (PowToon)
Example: Big Food gets kids ADDICTED to food laced with ingredients banned by other countries - Natural News on WikiPedia
Apple’s Craig Federighi Explains Apple Intelligence Delays, Siri’s Future and More (WSJ, 22 Oct 2024, 11 min)
Claude | Computer use for automating operations (Anthropic, 2 min) - more info
Scratch Tournament Awards: Star Wars IV: A new hope - Final Scene (The Throne Room) and End Title (2 min)
Scratch Tournament Final! Rocky Balboa - Theme Song (4.5 min)
What Exactly Happened On SpaceX's FIFTH Starship Test Flight! (16 min)
Where is ‘David After Dentist’ nearly 15 years after going viral? - David After Dentist (original)
Mallory saw SPOT (from Boston Dynamics!)
Should "Happy Birthday" be Protected by Copyright? (7.5 min) via "Understanding Copyright and Fair Use."
September 2024
Interview with Mr Venable: "A Custom Hemi and Lots of Motorcycles."
Astronaut Christina Koch (from North Carolina!)
Meet Artemis Team Member Christina Koch (2.5 min)
A Space Journey with NASA Astronaut Christina H. Koch (starting at 4:43)
Websites Need More Mario UI (HyperPlexed, 2 min)
"Shannon Deegan: How Google's 20 Percent Time Fosters Innovation" (2.5 min)
"The Hidden Genius of Google’s 20% Time - Masters of Scale" (3 min)
A Space Journey with NASA Astronaut Christina H. Koch (Jan 2023)
Dr F's Fall 2024 Web Design Projects
Mint Hill Historical Society: Old Website - New Version - Oral History Example
Elon Musk Reveals NEW Mars Timeline (The Space Race, 11 Sept 2024, 11.5 min)
How to create STUNNING web pages in minutes - Adobe Express Tutorial
The Infinite
"We are Going" (3 min, NASA)
2024 Behind the Scenes with Zipline (12 min)
Web Design Tutorials
Spot by Boston Dynamics
Meet Sparkles (1 min)
Dope Tech: Boston Dynamics Robot Dog! (15 min - Marques Brownlee)
New Boston Dynamics Robot (17 April 2024 - 60 sec - Marques Brownlee)
McLaren Speedtail vs F35 Fighter Jet | Top Gear (7 min)
Mosasaurs 101 | National Geographic - 3 min
Giant sea lizards: fossils in Morocco reveal the astounding diversity of marine life 66 million years ago, just before the asteroid hit (The Conversation)
Mosasaurus Feeding Show Scene - Jurassic World (2015) - 1.5 min
Prehistoric Planet 2 — How Fast Was A Mosasaur? | Apple TV+ - 8 min
CRISPR
Metagenomics (National Human Genome Research Institute)
Apple Event - 9 Sept 2024 (1 hour, 38 min)
Social Media Text Prepper (blog post)
How to Make an "About Me" Project in Scratch | Tutorial (8 min)
What is Scratch? (4 min)
The Internet: IP Addresses & DNS (7 min, Code.org - part of "How the Internet Works" playlist)
The Internet: HTTP & HTML (7 min, Code.org - part of "How the Internet Works" playlist)
Charlie Brown Teacher Speaking (15 sec)
Robot Made Out of Living Cells (45 sec, CleoAbram)
August 2024
How SpaceX Will Land On Mars (16 min)
Pablo Escobar's Hippos
WikiPedia Articles: Pablo Escobar - Pablo Escobar's Hippos
Video: Pablo Escobar's hippos keep multiplying and Colombia doesn't know how to stop it (CBS Sunday Morning, Feb 2019)
Uluru (Ayer's Rock)
Rain on Uluru (Into the Wild Films, July 2024)
Minecraft: Education Edition Camera, Portfolio, and Book & Quill Tutorial (6 min)
Crowdstrike Incident (July 2024)
What was the Crowdstrike Incident? (38 sec, YouTube short, AI generated, 26 July 2024, "CyBrief?")
Delta hires law firm following software outage, seeking compensation from Microsoft, CrowdStrike (CNBC, 29 July 2024, 2 min)
Remediation and Guidance Hub: Channel File 291 Incident (Crowdstrike)
The Internet: Packets, Routing & Reliability ("How the Internet Works" Part 3 of 8)
Plate Tectonics!
May 2024
Fediverse?!
Star Wars 1978 Remix (6 min)
Why Is The World Rushing Back To The Moon? (15.5 min)
Valles Marineris (English WikiPedia)
This Is Where NASA Will Build The First MARS Colony! (10 min)
Auroras / Northern Lights over NC!
An ‘Anti-Communist’ Movement Emerges in Roblox Computer Game Popular Among American Tweens
My First EVER Bloxburg House VS NOW! Looking At All My Bloxburg Plots (Roblox) - 15 min
AI Music (Example: "Oh AI")
Our Amazing Sun
English WikiPedia: Solar Flare - Solar Wind - Aurora Borealis - Carrington Event
Are Star Wars-like Planets Really Out There? (NASA, Dec 2016)
Video: Aurora From Space | Best space videos from NASA and the ISS (2 min)
Article: Spacecraft captures absolutely incredible video of plasma swirling on the sun (Space.com, 6 May 2024)
Article: Sun unleashes X-class solar flare, radio blackouts reported (Space.com, 6 May 2024)
Video: Sun erupts with powerful X1.6 and M4 solar flares, spacecraft sees it (1 min)
Video: Sun's corona seen in 'exquisite detail' in new Solar Orbiter view (45 sec)
Interactive visualization of all current (artificial) satellites in LEO
April 2024
5 BEST Farms for a New World! [Minecraft] (10.5 min)
Minecraft: Compact Farm Tutorial (7 min)
NASA Artemis Lunar Terrain Vehicle (Official NASA Trailer) 1.5 min
McLaren Speedtail vs F35 Fighter Jet | Top Gear (7 min)
All New Atlas | Boston Dynamics (40 sec)
New Electric Atlas Robot Revealed by Boston Dynamics (4 min)
Starliner / Apollo 1
Starliner to Launch on NASA's Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (1 min, May 2022, NASA)
Boeing's Starliner capsule heads to launch pad for May certification mission (16 April 2024)
Apollo 1 fire rocked NASA, U.S., world 50 years ago: 60-Second Know-It-All
Boeing Starliner is about to launch its first crew. (4 March 2024)
What to know about the trillions of cicadas about to swarm the U.S. (CBS News, 4 min)
Cicada (English WikiPedia)
Habitats on the Moon and Mars
Alice in Wonderland Trailer (2.5 min)
RANSOMWARESecond Ransomware Group Extorting Change Healthcare
Birds Aren't Real: The conspiracy theory that satirizes conspiracy theories (60 Minutes, 13.5 min)
DIY Kids Egg Drop Parachute Project (3.5 min)
GeoEngineering / "Climate Engineering?" (WikiPedia)
Warming Is Getting Worse. So They Just Tested a Way to Deflect the Sun. (NYTimes, 2 April 2024) #GiftLink
Cloud brightening: First-in-nation tech aims to cool our warming planet (2 min, April 2024)
Marine Cloud Brightening Project (6 min, Dec 2021)
Andres Freund saves the day!
Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack? (NYTimes, 3 April 2024)
Open Source Software (WikiPedia)
Linux (WikiPedia)
XZ Utils backdoor (WikiPedia)
Birds Aren’t Real? How a Conspiracy Takes Flight | Peter McIndoe (13.5 min) - Official Website
These Crashes Show the Difference 20 Years Has Made to Car Safety | WIRED
Introducing Google Translate for Animals (2 min) - Google Archive
March 2024
ICON at SXSW 2024
Neuralink's Rival Tests Brain Chip in Race to Bring Implants to Market | WSJ (6.5 min)
Catastrophic collision: Cargo ship causes bridge collapse (1.5 min)
The Universe is Calling: Apply to Be a NASA Astronaut (1.5 min)
NASA posts job for full-time astronauts: Here are the requirements (3 min)
Meet a puppeteer with a gift for pulling strings (4 min)
Bonus: Scrooge Puppet (1 min)
Games and AI
Cyberattacks?
WikiPedia: DDoS - BotNet - Ransomware
The Strange Story of the Teens Behind the Mirai Botnet: Their DDos Malware Threatened the Entire Internet (IEEE, 23 May 2023)
FCC opens formal investigation into massive AT&T outage (Washington Post, 7 March 2024)
“Disabling cyberattacks” are hitting critical US water systems, White House warns (ArsTechnica, 19 March 2024)
Four big questions for DC following massive health care hack (Politico, 18 March 2024)
VIDEO: DDos Attack Explained
Veritasium
OpenAI and Figure AI develop humanoid robot (BBC News - Start at 2:00)
What will happen to TikTok if the U.S. bans the app? (Today Program)
February 2024
Iron Man, Iron Boy: New Arm Prosthetic From Robert Downey Jr.
Farming with the agent! - MakeCode for Minecraft Code Builder (More on "Minecraft Farming!")
Panama Canal suffering major disruption (BBC, 3.5 min)
How the Brain Changes in Childhood and Adolescence (40 sec, Child Mind Institute)
The Child’s Developing Brain (NYT interactive animation, 15 Sept 2008)
One of the most epic engineering feats in history - Alex Gendler (5 min)
Sora AI Video Generation
Sora by OpenAI (official)
Marques Brownlee (WikiPedia)
AI Generated Videos Just Changed Forever (Marques Brownlee)
The AI revolution: Google's developers on the future of artificial intelligence | 60 Minutes (27 min)
Can Palmer Luckey Reinvent the U.S. Defense Industry? (7.5 min)
3D printing homes on Earth, someday the moon - Minecraft Mars
Cyber Attack Threat?
What Really Happened with the Substation Attack in North Carolina? (12 min)
China Hacking Threat: FBI director warns that Chinese hackers are preparing to ‘wreak havoc’ on US critical infrastructure (CNN 31 Jan 2024)
BeBop Stopmotion Animation (YouTube - Legos!) via Addie & "The Kid Should See This!:
January 2024
Cyberattack Defense / Offense
DARPA (official site)
The Darpa Experience (60 sec)
DARPA - robots and technologies for the future management of advanced US research | PRO Robots (11.5 min)
How Does the Power Grid Work? (Practical Engineering, 10.5 min)
US Space Force (official site) - Space Delta 6: Cyberspace Operations, 2.5 min)
Healed Through AI (10 min) Age of AI Playlist
Blues Hog (Original) Pork Ribs (5 min)
3D Printing Houses
ICON 3D Prints the First Simulated Mars Surface Habitat for NASA (60 sec)
3D printing homes on Earth, someday the moon | 60 Minutes (22.5 min)
ICON - 3D Technology (Austin, Texas)
NASA’s robotic, self-assembling structures could be the next phase of space construction (article, 17 Jan 2024)
AI Powed Avatars?
Burj Khalifa | All the Engineering Secrets of the Mega structure
Dance Party: AI Edition - Intro to Events - "Code a Dance Party" from Code.org - More Code.org YouTube videos
Boston Dynamics: Official website - YouTube videos - Atlas Gets a Grip
Padlet "I Can't Draw" - Fall 2022 - Fall 2023 - Spring 2024
Google — 25 Years in Search: The Most Searched (YouTube, 4 min)
AI Images by Dr Fryer: Flickr album or Google Drive folder
December 2023
Ignite Talks
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)
Birds Aren't Real (WikiPedia)
AI Games
Fediverse (WikiPedia) - Why does social matter?
The new GitHub Copilot helps people code 55% faster, says Shuyin Zhao, of GitHub
Social Media Text Prepper (blog post)
NASA / Mars / Coding
Captain Sully's Minute-by-Minute Description of The Miracle On The Hudson | Inc.
November 2023
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982 - IMDB) - Henry Jackson Thomas Jr.
Extended Cut | E.T. Came Home For Christmas 🎄☝️ | Sky Christmas Ad 2019
Apollo 11 Moon Landing Site Seen in Unprecedented Detail (Space.com)
Fuzzy Feelings (Apple Ad - 22 Nov 2023) - Added to "Brain Hacking InfoPics"
Mars Needs Insects (NYTimes, 27 Nov 2023) #GiftLink
Spherical Architecture
Crispy Clouds in the City by Owen Digital (on Claude's Music page too!)
Snopes Fact Check: Is Disney Shutting Down Disney+ in December 2023?
URL Shortening (WikiPedia)
Yourls example: wfryer.me/tips and wfryer.me/ideas
Falcon Heavy Animation (3.5 min)
Mysterious Lumps in Earth’s Mantle May Be Remains of the Crash That Formed the Moon (Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Nov 2023)
A Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled (NY Times, 16 Feb 2023) #GiftLink
North Face Videos
Summit Series - by The North Face (30 sec)
The North Face Presents: Earthside (33 min)
NFL Most INSANE Lateral Plays (5 min)
Privacy and Surveillance
"Visualizing Our Mars Colony" (created with the new Adobe Express)
Behind the scenes: An Apple Event shot on iPhone (2 min video from Apple)
October 2023
Activist Hackers Are Racing Into the Israel-Hamas War (Wired, 9 Oct 2023)
Social Media Text Prepper (Dr. Fryer's 2nd AI app experiment)
Civil War Soldiers - Media Kit Webpage Examples
OSIRIS-REx mission (NASA)
Daily Create: "Website in 5 Minutes with AI"
MaKey MaKey - An Invention Kit for Everyone (official website)
Content Management Systems
What is a Content Management System? (Optimizely)
List of Content Management Systems (English WikiPedia)
3D Printing Buildings
Dr Fryer's recent creations
Heal Our Culture (Thanks Zoe for inspiration to add Black History resources)
"Godfather of AI" Geoffrey Hinton: The 60 Minutes Interview (13 min)
Why NASA Chose WordPress for Revamping Its Flagship Website
For All Userkind: NASA Web Modernization and WordPress (VIDEO, 47 min)
Meta Smart Glasses
[VIDEO] Meta's Big News: Tech Giant Launches Quest 3, AI Chatbot & Ray-Ban Smart Glasses (CNBC)
[VIDEO] The Ray-Ban Meta are a pair of smart glasses you'll actually want to wear (CNN)
[VIDEO] Ray-Ban and Meta Team up to Develop the Best Smart Glasses Yet (Interesting Engineering)
Google Glass (English WikiPedia)
Meta: Introducing the Next-Generation Ray-Ban | Meta Smart Glasses Collection
List of Missions to Mars (English WikiPedia)
September 2023
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)
ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak (OpenAI blog, 25 Sept 2023)
Giant sea lizards: fossils in Morocco reveal the astounding diversity of marine life 66 million years ago, just before the asteroid hit (The Conversation)
ChatGPT and Tokens
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