Fun Stuff

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Links to the lecture and course related videos.

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Other fun things related to the course:

• Lots of great quotes from Richard Feynman, one of my favorite (and amusing physicists)

• Lawrence Krass explains how the Universe could come from nothing on the Colbert Report

Pictures

• Mass in the Universe from Hubble

• Images from the James Webb Space Telescope 

Humor

Videos:

• Monty Python and The Galaxy Song

• Will Ferrell as Harey Carey on SNL "Space in the Infinite Universe" another Harry Carey Impersonation can be found here

• Epic Rap Battles of History (warning... Not politically correct): Einstein vs. Hawking and Tesla vs. Edison

• Ma and Pa Kettle explain "The new math"

• The front of the ship "Fell Off"

• Snickers: CHEFS  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSAXLayoMKI

• Snickers: Batman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPRscxQZs8E

• MelodySheep Funny Autotune: 

  • "We Are Star Dust" - Symphony of Science (youtube.com) 

  • SYMPHONY OF SCIENCE - WAVES OF LIGHT (youtube.com) 

  • MONSTERS OF THE COSMOS - Symphony of Science (youtube.com) 

  • Symphony of Science - The Quantum World! (youtube.com) 

Written:

• The Onion: "Astronomers Just Going To Go Ahead And Say Dark Matter Nitrogen"

• The Onion: "Bush finds Error in Fermilab Calculations"

• The Onion: "Christian Right Lobbies to Overturn Second Law of Thermodynamics"

• The Crackpot index to debunk people with a "new theory" 

• The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster