Links

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0me3guauqOU Jpeg’s are images you see all the time on computers, this is an interesting deep dive as to what really makes them up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWZGSwdy2BA Well not much to say about this one, pretty awesome though to take a picture of a rubix cube, figure out the solution and then spin it all about to solve it in 1/10th of a second.
https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html Space is big, like really big. This is a great illustration of just how big it is.
https://research.noaa.gov/hail-camera-invention-will-help-improve-hail-forecasts/ This is a cool system designed to capture hail as it falls, pretty cool although also that’s alot of data, about 10GB/s per camera, with two cameras they can get caulate how far the hail is from their camera and therefor it’s size.
https://youtu.be/3ZTGwcHQfLY?si=Xw6Q2OQOYgn2ArPz This is a neat example of how making something in America is difficult these days and Destin highlights some of the things he ran into trying to do so, but also explains why it’s important.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH6VUs5u8k This is an interesting project, it covers alot of cool physics concepts from Helmholtz reciprocity, fourier transform, and others but does so in a way that’s actually engaging to watch/learn.

Cool historical fact

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania In the 1630’s the Dutch became obsessed with tulip bulbs, to the point of making TY beanie babies feel like a sound way to round out your 401k. Sometime a single bulb would sell for 10x the annual income of a worker.