August 9, 2013

Geekify This Big Think Video

If you’ve been following YouTube Geek Week, you may have noticed that YouTube has been releasing one Easter egg per day this week.

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If you’ve been following YouTube Geek Week, you may have noticed that YouTube has been releasing one Easter egg per day this week.

For instance, one command lets you defend the video you are watching by playing Missile Command, the 1980s Atari game, in your browser. If you’re as bad as the Big Think editor who attempted to defend the Lee Smolin video below, it will look like the image above. Type “1980” on any white space on the video page and you can play. The game is compatible with Chrome, Safari and Firefox browsers.

Here a few you can try on the video below.

-Type “1337” on a video watch page and check out the comments

-Click “Pow” button on the player bar

a computer generated image of a human brain.

Thinking

The great free will debate featuring Michio Kaku and Steven Pinker

Who — or what — really controls your mind?

Building destroyed by the Halifax Explosion. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

The Past

The largest accidental explosion of all time

More than a century ago, Halifax suffered an accidental blast one-fifth the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

a collage of photos of a man with a hat and a book.

High Culture

6 great books with wildly unreliable narrators

Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature’s most unreliable narrators.

a group of five matches on a pink background.

The Well

Signs you’re burned out — and how to bounce back

If you don’t feel better after the weekend, the “burnout paradox” could explain why.

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Laurie Santos

Starts With A Bang

The trick to instantly identifying JWST images

If you can identify a foreground star, the spike patterns are a dead giveaway as to whether it’s a JWST image or any other observatory.

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