Lazytown Classroom

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..Or learn about Mexico, Greenland, in 1:30 with no sponsors and with Bill Wurtz.

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History/Civilization

The Entire History of New York City

(Skip 4:17 to 6:19 sponsor ad)

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More Biology:

"Surprise Evidence That Gut Microbes Directly Cause Humans to Age"

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"Unsettling New Types of Bacteria Found on the ISS"

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Astrophysics

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17 minute podcast from Science Friday on NPR

Investigating Fraud At The Heart Of Alzheimer’s Research

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Archeology.

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Astronomy

Finally got a nice crisp sky for the planet alignments
Left Jupiter, middle Moon and right Venus. Uranus is there
but too dim without optics. In the middle of those Jupiter and Venus.
I stitched two images together from this evening for a semi-panorama.

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Think this is somehow connected

https://www.discogs.com/release/2265...ects-Lifepulse

Also has images

https://www.discogs.com/release/2265...U6MTEwMzA2NDMx

Well yes it's a description of an album with some (not all) of the soundtrack from the Lifepulse VHS that I linked to. Startled Insects is the musical artist. That album is on Youtube as a list, here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JZc...Eb89sc&index=2


although the track lengths are different in some cases.

"In 1990, they were commissioned by the BBC to score a ground-breaking 90-minute documentary entitled Lifepulse – a Natural Thriller, which attempted to tell the story of evolution on Earth using nothing but BBC Wildlife footage and music."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startled_Insects

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Biology:

My Pet Eldritch Horror, Jerry the Slime

This one had me chuckling

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I had Lifepulse on VHS back in the day. I looked for years for a DVD but they never released it. Like Wild Palms, I guess IA gets away with it because it's essentially abandonware.

Think this is somehow connected

https://www.discogs.com/release/2265...ects-Lifepulse

Also has images

https://www.discogs.com/release/2265...U6MTEwMzA2NDMx


I'm sure someone has the copyright to it somewhere. Island Visual Arts is a subsidiary of Island Records. Island Records were bought up by Polygram in 1988.
Hence the Polygram logo in the very beginning. Parent company of Polygram is Universal Music Group. They are usually hard arses when it comes to copyright.
Every time I do dives into these companies, I always get this Cthulhu feeling in the back of neck with the amount of pervasive tentacles.
Disney is the ultimate Cthulhu when it comes that.

Anyway, nice tape. When I saw that HIFI logo, brought back so many VCR memories. Be sure to rewind tape is about as foreign as rotary dial phones to the new generations.

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I had Lifepulse on VHS back in the day. I looked for years for a DVD but they never released it. Like Wild Palms, I guess IA gets away with it because it's essentially abandonware.

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You know the Internet Archive has turned out to be a real treasure trove hasn't it.

Narrated by Richard Crenna. He goes way back in acting. Most notable was playing
the part of Rambo's former superior officer in Rambo.

Has one of my favs from the past

The Mechanical Universe and The Mechanical Universe and Beyond from Caltec

https://archive.org/details/the-mech...niverse_202208
https://archive.org/details/the-mech......-and-beyond

And Earth Revealed.
https://archive.org/details/earth-re...n+to+Earth.mp4

Still good stuff for beginners.

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I went down a mantis shrimp rabbit hole on YouTube last year. They're one of those creatures that are hard to believe exist, although I guess that goes for a lot of sea creatures. I'll save that for the weekend.