March Video-- Science Museums
Added 2025-02-27 22:29:37 +0000 UTCBoston Museum of Science Electricity show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-hNiFyi2hQ
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I would actually like that kind of museum experience with someone who behaves like you at good museums! But this is not unrelated to me also being that kind of guy. And you said you can't stand the same behaviour if someone else does it. Well there's an ocean in the way anyway. But I think you shouldn't feel bad about it! Being excited about something is one of the most amazing qualities in a person.
Schmor Braten
2025-04-13 00:40:39 +0000 UTCEveryone in the Boston area grew up with the lightning show, that looks just how I remember it 20 years ago! Other museums I'd recommend in the area are the Isabella Stewart Gardner art museum (site of the worlds most expensive art theft I think) and the Harvard Museum of Natural History since you like display case stuff so much
Brando
2025-03-31 00:26:17 +0000 UTCI saw the Lightning exhibit at the Boston Museum of Science a couple of times... the first was probably 34 years ago. The musical tesla coil is new, but otherwise unchanged all these years!
Jim Carroll
2025-03-28 13:26:54 +0000 UTCthere's only like one decent museum in my country :( it has cool dinosaur fossils though.
dreamfyre
2025-03-15 15:32:54 +0000 UTCthis video was so fun, even if the museum was half closed.
Cras
2025-03-13 02:14:39 +0000 UTCDon’t knock robot dog. My company uses one for remote substation inspections. It’s a tool.
Alientech310
2025-03-11 17:55:28 +0000 UTCYay science museum! They opened a "kid science museum" here recently that I haven't made it to yet; they do adult night every Thursday though so one of these weeks I need to get over there
Nick A
2025-03-11 01:11:24 +0000 UTCMy favorite bit of personal museum trivia was the DDR museum in Berlin. There's a small section about agriculture in East Germany and one of the drawers has a note that says: "The forced collectivization of farmland was intended to increase productivity by improving efficiency. The state also promoted the use of pesticides and artificial fertilizers and introduced chemicals and drugs in factory farming. this resulted in cruelty to animals and a continuing legacy of rural pollution" And I can't stop thinking about how badly that's aged ever since.
Demiurge
2025-03-08 12:15:58 +0000 UTCoh btw, if i was too critical and mean, and it wasn't clear. I liked the video good video.
Benjamin Fuller
2025-03-04 00:43:16 +0000 UTCYep, bees will push out dead ones and leave the corpses near the entrance. In Autumn, the drones will die off, there'll be hundreds of them piled up.
Paul Warren
2025-03-03 22:07:40 +0000 UTCThe BSM electricity show was one of my favorite things growing up. I've seen it 5+ times. I need to go back someday.
sampled tms
2025-03-03 10:21:48 +0000 UTCA good chunk of my career was building interactive (media) museum exhibits. Think Disney Imagineer but for Museums (and other stuff). It was definitely one of my favorite parts of that job. They can be very difficult from a job/business perspective but the outcome was almost always something enjoyable. Kids museums and education centers were by far the coolest to design for because the curators were so much more creative and were so happy when you made their whacky ideas into a real thing.
Timonsku
2025-03-03 03:24:10 +0000 UTCCool visit to the museum. "Dead bee corpses" is the name of my band.
T. G.
2025-03-02 19:24:58 +0000 UTCIf you ever find yourself in western Massachusetts, Mass MoCA is amazing and the drive there is stunning. Way up in the mountains and the featured exhibit is always crazy. Another good one out that way is the Eric Carle picture book museum. I was lucky enough to see a lecture by the author and illustrator of phantom tollbooth there. Man, what a pair of characters haha
Julian Jocque
2025-03-02 05:58:44 +0000 UTCI volunteered at the Field Museum in Chicago for about 10 years, starting in the genetics lab, moving into the Department Of Fishes where I even got credited for contributing to the Creatures Of Light exhibit about bioluminescence, and I finally wound up in Paleontology where I cleaned dinosaur (and synapsid) fossils. Only about 5% of what the museum has is on display, and you'd be amazed by their vast collections.
Eric Ahlgren
2025-03-01 15:34:19 +0000 UTCOne thing that I always get when I go to museums is: Going alone is way better than going with company. I like to see everything, to read every card, to stay and stare, to go back... when you go with someone, especially if they are not as interested as you, they just walk from room to room and you feel bad by dragging them down so you just skip most of it and go along... If you like museums, go by yourself. Or find someone who is in tune with you.
Dark Matter what is it Do we need it Do we need it
2025-03-01 10:02:14 +0000 UTCI went to my local art museum here in Mobile. Really loved it. It had four galleries. One called inspiration which was a curation of local Alabamian artists which I thought was absolutely lovely. The second one was an Asian gallery which was mostly figures and statues. The third was abstract art which didn't really do anything for me. And the fourth was European art from 17th-19th century. The best part is that it was free on Thursdays.
Andrew Gaither
2025-03-01 06:45:57 +0000 UTCLunch place overlooks the... Boston harbor? Do they have tea parties? ;) Also in Vegas, Discovery Children's Museum.
Alex Badea
2025-03-01 06:19:31 +0000 UTCI want to say as a kid I loved the las vegas museum and the rah rah patriotism mixed with banality shown by the horror got to me as a man interested in the military to see the nation I loved and the day to day death I was willing to be a part of next to the consequence of it was impactful.
Civil War Week By Week
2025-03-01 01:19:24 +0000 UTCThank you for putting your joy out in the world! You clearly really love museums (same) and it shows. Loved seeing the Museum of Science, Boston.
Ina Norton
2025-03-01 00:42:59 +0000 UTCDo some sort of joke vid please! 😀
Jeff
2025-02-28 22:19:47 +0000 UTCWe did it! Finally, everything that makes life great is in one teeny-tiny video. Thanks to the voters we reached perfection, the universe can end now. The sweater also looks great! I find the idea of Greeks vs. feminism quite strange, not because this isn't an interesting match, but because the ancient Greeks were weird folks. They saw life and also afterlife as an endless grind and torture, their myths were savage, their gods were mad, their customs were brutal (think about pankration), their societies were fragile and built upon slave labor and military heroism. And God knows why, they had a very strong drive for excellence above all, not for ruling or owning but for being the best of the best. Life was hard and nasty back then and if I recall correctly, saying they objectified women is probably a strong understatement, they rather viewed them as subhuman creatures. Pulling off this video without a rant doesn't seem like an easy task.
Vaskó Richárd
2025-02-28 20:33:18 +0000 UTCI don't have the Patreon app, so I enjoyed getting the notification when this dropped!
The Family Barlev
2025-02-28 19:41:29 +0000 UTCThe Vancouver maritime museum is very good! It has a giant ship in it that traversed the northwest passage. It has some cool Narwhal tusks. It has some stuff about canoeing featuring some indigenous history/local culture iirc. It has a lot of tiny ship models. It has a exhibit about like, tugboats. That's the stuff I remember at least.
Benjamin Fuller
2025-02-28 17:59:31 +0000 UTCDidn't vote for this, but it was actually fascinating. So thanks Angela and everyone who voted for it. Really excited for the greek drama / feminism video. Feels like it would be quite fitting to the channel while still being somewhat different from your usual content.
Niklas Birwe
2025-02-28 12:50:42 +0000 UTCYou could go to Union Oyster House then down to the marina. But save that for after the click bait video. Clam chowder is better with a bit of Spring in the cool air.
Liam Whalen
2025-02-28 12:17:43 +0000 UTCGood video. I'm mixed on science museums. I like the science museums that have interactive exhibits. I grew up in Calgary and the science museum had a thing to test your grip strength vs monkeys, a weird simulation/diorama-thing that let you see 'desertification' happening in Alberta (Alberta is becoming a desert, presumably because of the mountains, because mountains create deserts? I cant remember actually). Also the science museum in Ottawa had a giant hamster wheel you could run on to generate power and it showed you the power generated in watts, which I really liked. also a big room full of trains. Im more of a ship guy than a train guy though. Best museum for me as a kid though was the Tyrell museum in drumheller alberta. its the best dino museum in the world in my very biased opinion. hammered home my love of dinos as a kid, by the time I was 6 I could name like 100 of them by their latin name (this was in the 90s before they started discovering new dinosaurs every 6 hours or whatever), and I could name whether they were found in the upper jurassic, lower jurassic, upper triassiac, lower cretaceous etc. and what region they were found in. Museum had a huge impact on me. I almost went into paleontology probably just because of the museum. but when I was 17 I attended a talk from a paleo professor and all he talked about was how 90% of the job is begging for grants and hoping you get chosen to go on a excavation because there's no money. so.... I opted out of that life lol. My personal favorite museum though has got to be the MET in new york. its uh... the only thing I liked about new york tbh. (dont pitchfork me.) it was phenomenal. I know a lot of it is stolen, which makes it morally hazy to me and lowers my score. but man, the stuff they have in that museum. I also want to go to the history museum in london but I also have moral ambiguity inner qualms about that one as well. --- Oh also you said you dont like zoos. I get it. yea, animals suffer in zoos. we had polar bears at the zoo in calgary when I was a kid. and even in calgary, in the summer, its just too hot for the polar bears. so they suffer, literally suffer heat and pain, so the zoo just put drugs in the watermelons they gave them so the bears were permanently high and drugged out and walking around in confusion. it was awful. thankfully the zoo was forced to move them somewhere else. :/ when I went to japan I purposefully avoided the zoos because the conditions for animals in japan is usually not great. I also didnt go to any owl cafes even though I really wanted to. that said, I still want to go to berlin just to see the zoo. from what I understand its the best zoo in the world and they have the most species. I love animals and the study of animals. I got my education in aerospace engineering, I love space, but the wildlife on earth is, so far as we've seen, completely unique in the universe. even to all the things humans have made, I dont think any of it comes to the sheer marvel and complexity of life on earth. I worked with a woman who scoffed at me once and said 'arent zoos for kids?' and I never liked her very much after that. Is the beauty and complexity and wonder of life on earth for kids? is the sistine chapel for kids too? the pyramid at cholula, did they build that for kids?? Now, to be fair, are zoos immoral? Yes. Yea. the conservation and breeding efforts are usually vastly overstated to try and justify themselves. then youve got stuff like seaworld where they keep dolphins and orcas. that stuff is unacceptable. I refuse to give any money to most aquariums. I actually live in Victoria where Tilikum was captured and brought to. its a real blight and shame for us that most people dont acknowledge. Sorry I just went on a train of thought. way too much writing. I wish I was this good at writing things that matter like my screenplay or my still in production youtube videos.
Nate Robertson
2025-02-28 11:33:59 +0000 UTCwhats the best museum in mexico if I dont care about anything modern or european or spanish? like I just wanna see olmec/zapotec/mixtec/toltec/aztec / maya stuff?
Nate Robertson
2025-02-28 11:15:43 +0000 UTCwow youve seen a lot of museums. I didnt know we had a maritime museum in vancouver. is it good? at this point Ive spent more time in seattle than in vancouver and Im Canadian lol
Nate Robertson
2025-02-28 11:13:38 +0000 UTCthe real difference engine was the journey we made along the way. this actually feels like some kinda indie movie script though. like "all we get are snippets of someone trying to see the difference engine for 20 years, and through those snippets we see their life and the real journey they went on." idk. seems like it could be a movie.
Nate Robertson
2025-02-28 11:10:18 +0000 UTCI know this is unrelated, kinda, but I would lke to talk for just a second about The Difference Engine. This is a big mechanical computer that can do calculus. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine It was designed by Charles Babbage and in the early 2000s, Paul Allen of Microsoft paid to build the thing the Crown wouldn't fund in the 1800s. I have been trying to see this fucking thing for 20 years. After it was built, it went to the Computer History Museum in Boston. I went to see it there *twice*. The first time the museum was just closed for no obvious reason. I went back a couple years later and the museum was closed because it moved to San Jose. In 2006, I tried to go see it in San Jose, but it was out for repair. In 2010 I tried to go see it, but the museum was closed for some reason. I tried again in 2016, but the DE had been moved to the Museum of Science in London. In 2019, I was in Amsterdam for a conference, and I intentionally made a 36 hour layover in London to go to this museum, and the computation wing was closed off.. I swear to fuck, I have been trying to see this one thing since 2002 or something, and I just can't make it happen.
Robert Cooper
2025-02-28 07:55:29 +0000 UTCSo interesting how different museums work in the anglosphere compared to here in Vienna. I should go to our nat history and tech museum again.
Stephan Wimmer
2025-02-28 06:46:31 +0000 UTCLots of fun - I have only known one museum that gave a discount because they were cutting over a few exabits, and that was in Vancouver BC. But I have to say the vlog did give me the bug to go to a museum soon. - Thanks for the March video early!! - cheers
mikeymad
2025-02-28 06:18:57 +0000 UTCAn April Fools video would be fun! Also, be as angry as you want in the feminism video. For me personally the last few months have had me shifting wildly between absolutely furious and incredibly depressed any time I think about the world and one of those moods at least makes me productive.
Brock English
2025-02-28 04:16:48 +0000 UTCI enjoyed watching this on Nebula.
Bryn
2025-02-28 03:38:10 +0000 UTCAn April Fool's Day video would be cool, as long as it doesn't try to convince me to do something dangerous, like vote republican.
Curtis Blake
2025-02-28 03:01:33 +0000 UTCOne person's conservation of momentum demo is another person's conversational desktop toy :)
Curtis Blake
2025-02-28 02:54:30 +0000 UTCSo great to see! I've seen more museums since I first suggested this (The UN standard tour has a good nuclear proliferation section imo). When a museum feels like a cohesive story and not like "a bunch of stuff in a room"(ie imo the vatican museum was mostly this way) it's great! I expected more talk of how museums fit into educational systems (not blaming or anything I don't think I mentioned it too much because like, You deciding what to talk about makes videos good to a large degree and also it felt rude imo). Having seen more museums lately, it's been a bit disappointing, but also interesting from a different perspective to learn that a lot of museums are basically the same thing (there's the human body exhibit, there's the dinosaur exhibit, there's the here's a bunch of taxidermy or model animals living in dioramas). In some sense I sometimes have wondered lately about how I just take it for granted, growing up mostly in the denver metro area that I just have access to these kind of places(a large science museum). I absolutely loved them growing up. Going to a "standard science museum" doesn't have the same spark as they used to but they can still be cool. oh, also shoutout to tiny models. Love tiny models so much! Tiny dioramas and stuff so cool. Any time someone can take a big thing and make it a little thing in a case you can look at, so cool. Edit: As an aside: Shoutout to The met. The Tenement museum. The intrepid museum all in nyc. the Kröller-Müller Museum. Museum Flehite in Amersfoort. Het loo palace. muiderslot castle. and The maritime museum in Vancouver. The colorado American Museum of Western Art. Children's Museum of Denver and Denver Museum of Nature & Science which I enjoyed so much as a child.
Benjamin Fuller
2025-02-28 02:47:49 +0000 UTCThe skin color assessment might just be wrong, or, forgivingly, it might use a Bayesian model the skews the result toward what they expect.
Curtis Blake
2025-02-28 02:44:42 +0000 UTCWow. Such an extreme case of "He ain't heavy, he's my brother".
Curtis Blake
2025-02-28 02:01:56 +0000 UTCUsually Rich People museums have terrible curation. They tend to just be lots of famous art in a room without any context at all. However if you are ever in Mexico City, i highly recommend going to the Soumaya because despite being a rich person museum, its really well curated and you learn a lot about art styles in Mexico as compared to Europe.
jovialjar
2025-02-28 00:52:18 +0000 UTCThe vlog was fun! Cinematography was good! I've lived basically my whole life in the DC Area, and your video makes me realize how absolutely spoiled I am for high-quality (and free!) museums. Next time you're in town, though, I have a feeling you'd vibe with the National Building Museum, which is paid, but it's also highly curated and high quality (plus it has one of the best gift shops in town).
The Family Barlev
2025-02-28 00:27:10 +0000 UTCI should create a dis-ubiquitizer app so that I don't get the same content from multiple sources. It's fine. It's fine. There is no problem. I just think it would be a cool thing to have. Youtube, Substack, sometimes replicated through email and text messages.
Curtis Blake
2025-02-28 00:04:22 +0000 UTCYou might like getting in touch with fellow Emily Gralie if you haven't already.
William Wallace
2025-02-27 23:29:13 +0000 UTCGlad this won over my suggestion. I wish I had better museums near me. I sail. For the figurehead, sailors call that part of the ship the bowsprit where there is a spar extension from the bow. If a ship has a figurehead, that ship will likely require a bowsprit above it for rigging. If the ship doesn’t have a bowsprit but just an ornate piece that curves at the bow it’s called a Billet Head. Also, the Ferrofluid brings back memories of when my family found my sample of it not knowing what it was and it spilled and I had to clean it up with a neodymium magnet wrapped in paper towels. Not good!
Tony Peluso
2025-02-27 23:27:29 +0000 UTCThat photo ruined my day
Eli Santana
2025-02-27 22:41:48 +0000 UTCThis isn't really the video for it, but I've been slowly watching through your videos and I just wanted to say thank you for your courage in speaking truth to power. Keep fighting the good fight 💪🏼🧑🏼🔬 💜
l.h. riley
2025-02-27 22:40:26 +0000 UTCSo excited for this topic!! Thank you!
Alex Ludy
2025-02-27 22:31:51 +0000 UTC
