Lauren Panepinto of Orbit Books condensed all her hard work on a Victorian/Steampunk novel cover into a fascinating two-minute clip. Found at YouTube from orbitbooks.

What if every human being on earth disappeared? This isn’t the story of how we might vanish–it is the story of what happens to the world we leave behind. Found at Hulu.

HBO debuted Temple Grandin, a biopic of the pioneering animal scientist who has autism and lectures widely on how the autistic mind works. She’s brilliant and fascinating. Found at YouTube from UCTelevision. This is another lecture. Found at YouTube from AMPCENTER.

The remains of an extraordinary fossil unearthed in 67-million-year-old sediments from Gujarat, western India reveal that snakes preyed on hatchling dinosaurs. The snake was coiled around a recently hatched egg adjacent to a hatchling sauropod. The discovery was made by in international team of scientists led by the University of Michigan’s Jeff Wilson and the [...]

This is a compilation of the 11 clips from the “Pinball Number Count” segments that began appearing on Sesame Street in 1976. The music was composed by Walt Kraemer with vocals by the Pointer Sisters. Animation was directed by Jeff Hale. Found at YouTube from pantspayroll.

Scientific American contributing editor Christie Nicholson takes you inside the sport, to explore the physics behind a figure skater’s spectacular moves. Found at Scientific American.

An introduction to undergraduate life at Yale College. The project was an independent collaboration between Yale undergraduates and recent alumni working in the admissions office. Found at YouTube from YaleCampus via Julio Ojeda-Zapata.

This is a Honda assembly plant that is run nearly completely by robots. Found at YouTube from wwwleandesignhu.

A professor goes to elaborate lengths to make his point that he doesn’t like students using their laptops during class by smashing one soaked in liquid nitrogen. Found at YouTube from sidewalksurfer9.

A group of University of Kansas researchers working with Chinese colleagues have discovered a venomous, birdlike raptor that thrived some 128 million years ago in China. This is the first report of venom in the lineage that leads to modern birds. Found at YouTube from KU.